Nutt, Quat, T-Ster and the newest member of the golf circle, Rew Nuttall made a treck to Poland, OH for a early morning round. Rew played pretty well and carded 4 par’s in his Ohio debut. Quat and T-Ster each had a birdie, but the story was Nuttall and his score. On the 18th hole, Nuttall was left with an 18 foot putt for birdie. He left it about 6 feet short and buried the par putt for what turned out to be an even par 70 round. A highlight is below on the 12th hole when Nuttall drove the 307 yard par 4 hole protected by water. 2 putts later, he had a bird.
Nutt and Quat booked the 1st tee time at Tom’s Run after a 2 year hiatus. The 2 met at Sheetz at 5:45 and were teeing off by 6:55. The 2 flew through the round and had a pair of clowns tailing them who constantly attempted to press them. A few years back, Nutt attempted to hit the driver on his 2nd shot on the 9th hole, a par 5. The duo constantly referenced this and the former YaMooWho driver and the round became know as YaMooWhoo Off the Deck. On 18, the clowns behind hit into us a final time. The round was over at 9:50 and Nutt and Quat were worried that we had finished too quick and would miss out on Clem’s. After the round, we found that Clem’s opened at 10 AM and Nuttall was eating ribs at 10:15 AM for one of the all-time great breakfasts.
May turned to be one of the wettest May’s in Pittsburgh history. Nutt and Maz played on 5-22 at Birdsfoot and snuck a round in before a rain storm hit.
Quat ended up playing what may have turned out to the worst conditions of all time at Shelridge, NY. Record rain hit the Buffalo area and Quat mudded through a round as the streak pushed to 87 for both.
Quat and Nutt headed to Ohio on 4/30 after a wet and cold April for the most part. The 2 were the 1st tee time and actually ran into a frost delay of a ½ hour. After they started, the 2 played the round as brisk as the morning air. Nuttall had an eagle putt on the 5th hole after he drove the green. After the round, Nutt dropped Quat off at a rest stop since Jill was picking him up at like 11. The round became known as Breakfast at Tiffany’s since next to the rest stop, was a gentleman’s club called Tiffany’s and there was an effort to snare some breakfast there prior to Jill’s arrival.
Nutt and Quat missed out on some great weather in the middle of the month. On a Tuesday morning, they met at Cranberry Highlands for another cold round. The two teed off at 10:55 am and finished at 1:10 for a fast round. On the 18h hole, snow started to fall as he winter was finally ending as April approached.
February started out as cold as January ended, but the week of 2/14, the weather broke. With temperatures hitting the mid 60's on Thursday and Friday, Quat and Nutt naturally waited until the balmy 40 degree day on Saturday. The clubhouse worker at Grand View said "If your stupid enough to play, I am stupid enough to let you" and just like that, the streak was about to turn 7. As he brought the cart out he said, "it's wet out there so use your best judgement.. well, if you're playing today, you know the drill." Winds reached up to 40 MPH but that was hardly a deterrent as we broke through for the streak. Fittingly, we played Grand View for this monumental round and the streak had hit the 7 year mark and even more fittingly was the cart number we had was, well, 7 of course.
As the streak has gone on, there has been some close calls, but none as much as the January 2011 round. Weather was awful again all month in Pittsburgh and the Northeast also got snow so Baltimore was not an option. The final weekend of the month, Quat had 2 birthday parties and to top it off he got sick. The 2 decided that the best option would be to leave late on 1/30 and drive to Baltimore, stay in a hotel and get up early and drive south. The duo left at 9:45 and as they drove on the turnpike, cops started to drive by and then Quat's phone rang. A frantic call from his mom to advise that an accident had occured on the turnpike and involved a fatality. She was relived that we answered and moments later, Billy Nuttall text Nutt the same thing. Stuck in a 3 hour dead stop in New Stanton, the trip to Baltimore was not realistic so they decided to forge ahead after the police directed them to turn around on the pike (see picture). After driving through the Laurel Highlands, West Virginia, Maryland and Virgina, they arrived in Frederickburg, VA at 6 AM. They headed south to Richmond and went to Providence Golf Club only to find that it was closed since it was too cold. Nutt and Quat started to google all local course and found one open, Glenwood Golf Club. They headed over to this course and after a GPS error that took them through the projects, the 2 were ready to tee off. Quat was getting work calls and they sped through the round and were done by 11:15 AM. They headed back, stopped in Fredericksbug, VA to hit up a Waffle House and back to Pittsburgh. Quat dropped off Nutt at 5:30 and we were home and safe with zero sleep and the streak moves on... RIP to the man on the Turnpike, Doug Roberts
Snow hit Pittsburgh on 12/1 and never stopped. Pittsburgh set a record of consecutive days under 30 degrees to start the month and the travel for golf seemed imminent. On Christmas Day, Grand View posted a picture (1st picture shown) of a nearly melted course. Quat made a trip out on Tuesday 12/28 (next pictures shown) to scout the course and decided after 2 days of melt, we could play there. After waiting as long as possible, Nutt and Quat embarked on a great round. The snow was mostly gone except for the few ares that get no sun. Regardless, the deal was sealed and the round was complete.
