We think it's good the tournament is drawing from Charlotte and I'm sure Lancaster area golfers will be prepared to take back the title next year.

We appreciate their help with the meal and Al Barnes provided homemade cakes which were a real hit. This was our third event and each year it has grown. We're grateful for the support from the golf community.

It all came together well and we finished in four hours and 10 minutes which is probably a record for a captain's choice tournament. There was a lot of work involved, but it's for a good cause and that makes it very worthwhile.

We had difficulty with their zone, but we got some shots and they weren't going down for us. (The Tigers) play great defense. They get out into the passing lanes all the time, and we knew that but couldn't overcome it.

Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 To do for yourself the best that you have it in you to do -- to grit your teeth and clench your fists in order to survive the world at its harshest and worst -- is by that very act, to be unable to let something be done for you and in you that is more wonderful still. The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own.

We were hoping to get away early, but we were unpleasantly surprised.