My Life: Lionsgate skins game......

The Links at Lionsgate is a Jack Nicklaus designed golf course about a half mile from where we live. Once a year, the Senior PGA tour comes to play here the week before the U.S Senior Open. This year, the U.S. Senior Open is in nearby Hutchinson, KS, so most of the golfers have come out to play at Lionsgate to get ready for the major tourney. One thing that the nearby course allows is that the players can get used to the wind that often blows throughout Kansas and reeks havoc on a golf course.

The skins game was a match for various charities. The teams were as follows:

-George Brett and Dana Quigley
-Tom Watson and Kansas head coach Bill Self
-Jim Colbert and Kansas State head coach Bob Huggins

Needless to say, the golf out of the two basketball coaches was not very good. Bob Huggins and Bill Self had a ton of bad shots with one or two good ones mixed in. But they are paid to be basketball coaches, so I suppose that's excusable. Both of them were also a bit overweight, which I'm sure didn't help all that much.

I was privy to an amusing exchange between Tom Watson and Bill Self. Bill, for one reason or another, was running late and only showed up at the golf course 25 minutes before the match was to begin. Bill apologized to Tom for showing up late. Tom gave the standard 'no big deal' response. After exchanging a couple of questions, Bill turned to Tom and asked who was playing in the skins game. Tom went ahead and told him, but I'm thinking to myself, if you are playing in a game like this, wouldn't you take the time to figure out who will be playing in the game with you? Just seemed a bit odd that Coach Self would be so unprepared to the point of showing up late and not know who was even participating in the match.

On the other hand, George Brett is a very good golfer. He was regularly hitting drives over 300 yards and was hitting some excellent pitch shots as well. His team won the match handily.

Here's some pictures of the golf course. It was unbelievable how good the course was conditioned......

Here's a picture of the luxury boxes around the 18th green. They actually air-condition the tents! No expense spared for the corporate sponsors I suppose.

Bob Huggins on the first green......

Tom Watson in the red shirt and Bill Self in the yellow shirt......

Jim Colbert sizing up a putt......

A couple of possible retirement homes for Mrs. Lime and I.......

This young lady asked her parents if she could put on some suntan lotion. They said yes and turned to watch the golfers, but I was still watching her. As you see, it appears that she has just enough lotion to cover her entire body 3 times over, but she applied all of it to just one arm........

George Brett in the white shirt and Dana Quigley in the dark shirt. It would appear that George Brett would still not have any problems stepping onto the field at Kauffman Stadium. He is still in very good shape.......