Inspired by the fun times and meaningful conversations that occurred on the recent '83 Ski Weekend, an impromptu committee has formed to try and replicate some of those interactions...on a golf course or twenty...
Spence Brown and Pete Townsend and John Knight chatted recently and came up with two ideas. This post is to elicit feedback and opportunities. It's possible some of these early communications will also be emailed to make sure they are seen by as many classmates as possible.
MINI OUTINGS: Some of us have access to golf clubs that might allow a few foursomes of classmates to golf on a Friday, Saturday, Sunday or Monday and maybe even host a meal of some kind. We'd like to build a list of those classmates, the clubs and the rough parameters if known. Then we can just try a date and a club and see who is game... Costs would vary by course obviously.
VIRTUAL TOURNAMENT: By using the same golf app on the same weekend, it's actually easy for us to hold a Class of 83 Golf Tournament! The app we're considering was actually created by a fellow Deerfield golf addict (Eddie Lui '79) and is called 18Birdies. The free app can handle 100 classmates playing in the same tourney and each participating classmate would play a round on a course of their choosing on the same weekend. We could use full handicaps and give awards for all kinds of things. Entry fee would relatively small and would be used for Deerfield merch for the category winners...Would be fun to have a nationwide or worldwide tournament to our credit!
Tentative timing for a virtual tournament is August 4-7, 2022. You would join the tournament through a link and record one score on one of the days that weekend. Like golf itself, this is "on your honor" so you would be expected to post the score from the round you intended to be for the tournament and not see if you play better the next day.
What do you think? Send an email to JK (jgknight83 "AT" gmail.com) with your thoughts and any options for a mini-outing that you might have. Committee members welcome too!
