14th (and a Half)
Annual Coach and Friends Golf Tournament
The
Crawfish Classic
April
23rd, 2016
The
Wetlands
Lafayette,
LA
As all of you regulars know, last
year’s regularly scheduled tournament in Victoria, which would have been the
14th annual, unfortunately had to be canceled, which normally would
be the end of the story. Instead of accepting the setback, Lloyd, in typical
Coach fashion, saw an opportunity for something else. I don’t know if it was the
misalignment of the poles, the smoke signals, the gods taking pity on their
favorite son, or just plain luck, but he made a few phone calls, sent out the
vibe, and lo and behold, people showed up and a tournament took place in Calgary
last fall.
Even though it got off to a shaky
start (wait, there’s a tournament here today?), the Coach was unfazed, and,
flush with his success, decided to try and outdo himself.
As many of you already know,
Lloyd has been traveling to Louisiana every spring for quite a few years. The
reasons for this are many; get rid of the Canadian winter blues, golf where
there is no snow, let the warm spring sun heat up old bones, attend a festival,
eat some good food, and of course, spread the word according to Lloyd, recruit
some new friends, and accost and pester everyone he meets along the
way.
Sometime last year, an idea
started to form in Lloyd’s mind and he announced, at the quasi-regular
tournament in Calgary, an interim tournament to be held at The Wetlands Golf
Course in Lafayette to coincide with his regular trip south. He also announced
that I would be hosting, or at least arranging some of his ideas into some sort
of organized form, which, as we all know, is Lloyd’s Achilles heel, so
thankfully the bar is not too high.
As of now, it looks like we have
7 teams; 2 Calgary, 1 Florida, 3 Louisiana, and 1 B.C.
If you are interested in getting
any information on Coach’s latest caper, email me at ian.mcgill@mgmmedia.co and I’ll send it
to you. If you can’t make the trip but still want to see what’s going on, email
me and I’ll keep you in the loop.
Ian McGill
No comments:
Post a Comment