August 6, 2011 Golf Scramble
We had fun once again this year on a beautiful Puget Sound day.
Our annual PNW ASNT Golf Tournament was held at Madronna
Links Golf Course in Gig Harbor Washington again this year and we realized this is the 30th anniversary of the tournament here for the Pacific Northwest section.
It was a great chance for all the hard working NDT professionals to put aside their inspection work and have a day of just having fun and seeing old friends, although some of us are feeling a little older than others. The golf format was a scramble (or best ball) which takes
the pressure off the
golfer and allowed us to focus on just having a great time. The Pacific Northwest weather was good to us
and was just perfect for golf, which in the northwest means a little overcast
and a little cooler. There were 46 golfers this year and some great prizes and
cash awards for closest to the Pin and Longest Drive as well as some other
contests. The Hole in One prize of
$10,000 was safe again this year since nobody had an ace on hole
#2. We really want to say a big thank
you to all of our sponsors this year.
Your help makes it possible to have such a fun event each year. Thank you to the following sponsors... MPM Products and Met-L-Check Penetrants (thank you for
co-sponsoring the BBQ), Olympus-Innov-X (and for
sponsoring and supplying a digital camera and binoculars for our raffle)
Carestream (sponsoring the $10,000 Hole in One Contest) Mistras Services,
International Inspection, Exotic Metal Forming, Yxlon
Inspection Technologies, TED (Test Equipment Distributors) Adaptive Energies. Here is how the scoring went... 1st Place Team with a 54!!! was Gerry Grinnell
of Mistras Services, Doug Anderson and Dan O'Neal from Boeing 2nd Place Team had a 58 and was from Seacast:
Kevin McMickle, Ray Warlick,
Gerald Cruz, Ben Forler The Putting contest was won by Kevin McMickle
with Dean Schmidt and Dan O'neal tied for 2nd place
#2 Closest
to the Pin Phantom, Team 1 #6 Closest
to the Pin - Dan O'Neal (235) #8 Longest Drive -Dave Good, Peggy Reese #10 Longest
Drive - Ryan Ebert, Peggy Reese #12 Closest
to the Pin - 1st - Gerry Grennell (45) 2nd-Dan
O'Neal (54) 3rd - Chris Anderson (66)
#17 Closest
to the Pin - Dave Good (102) #18 Longest
Putt - Mike White (406 1/2) Some other accomplishments worth noting... Janet Swisher sank a shot from 187 yards out for an eagle
and was thrilled. She said it was the
best shot she has ever hit. ...and our Shortest Drive award this year went to Kevin McMickle of Seacast. Kevin won $50, however after buying drinks
for his golf partners and tipping the waitress, he netted out with about $17.50 Also a big thank you to the golf committee for their
volunteer efforts again this year (Bob Swisher, Matt Mead, Bill Meade, Jim
Peeler) 
Hole
Contests
#15 Shortest Drive - Kevin McMickle
(sorry to give you such a hard time Kevin)