Won the Calcutta in '88 for that. I drew a partner that was a perfect fit. He had a short game in golf and was a support player in dominoes. I taught him how to shoot skeet the morning of the shoot. We went 2nd in golf and dominoes and first in skeet.

Wow Frenchy and Brandy I had almost forgotten about. Great guys and characters! Always enjoyed you and your little bro too! Ahh the memories, some I can't/won't share

Both Billybob and Hotard passed a few years ago, like 19-ish.

EliteElectric said:

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Wow Frenchy and Brandy I had almost forgotten about. Great guys and characters! Always enjoyed you and your little bro too! Ahh the memories, some I can't/won't share

Both Billybob and Hotard passed a few years ago, like 19-ish.

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My brother and I still talk about some of those memories! Oilmen's, API, Bud League, man oh man.

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Bob Hotard, that's a name I hadn't heard in a while. That guy was a trip. I remember playing with him around '99-03.

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Now that I remember your user name! Yes, Hotard was "something." Genuinely nice guy though who would give you the shirt off his back.

Another certain friend of ours desperately wants to get as much of the group back together as possible to make one more run at Brackettville before we all die! I am sure you are down.

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Definitely! Is that tournament still around? Those were some great weekends.

I remember Hotard blazin it up at Bryan Muni.

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Yes sir. We get invited every year. Yeah, Bob worked that one hitter hard during a round. Guy never weighed over 120lbs in his life and was about 6'2" if I remember correctly. So many characters at that course. Travis Bryan and I had a good relationship also, he always carried a huge wad of cash in a rubber band to pay with. He taught me how a "man" liked to get his change!

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Worked maintenance out there 10+ years ago. Nearly sunk a tee mower into the small pond behind the senior tees on 6. We all had designated nights we'd have to water the tees and greens. Each green had a key that would turn the pop up sprinklers on, hopefully. Everything else was plugging single sprinklers in couplers. Often times they'd explode in your face because everything was so old. We did our part to control the nutria population while we waiting on a green or tee to finish. You could only run a few at a time because the pressure wasn't that great. Sometimes you could get away with running multiple on opposite ends of the course. During the summer when we'd have to run each tee/green for close to an hour it wasn't uncommon to be out there until 2-3am but you got the next day off.

Being on that side of town it wasn't uncommon to be driving in the pitch black on the toro only to turn a corner and shine the lights on a crackhead walking the course. Talk about scaring the **** out of you. I bought my first Glock because of that job and it ride in the glovebox with me. Before I left it got to the point we developed a relationship with Bryan PD because they'd often have to come sit in the parking lot because we'd hear gunshots.

Threw my girlfriend (now wife) out of the toro once chasing a fox. A member ended up killing it with a 9 iron one morning. Word was it had rabies but idk if they sent it off or if it was just suspected since it came close to people.

Heading to The Masters with my brother and good friend tomorrow. All 3 of us went from working at the old A&M course to Muni when A&M closed for the remodel.

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I started in maintenance in 1993 and moved to the pro shop. I would still water at night to make extra $$$. Same exact experience. I alternated between a pistol and a shotgun for protection. Dennis W, hired me and was there for a long time. Did you work for Dennis?

Good friend of mine posts on here also and worked maintenance. He ran the reel mower off into #3 water while mowing slopes. Good times.

My wife and I were talking about the damn insane hook ups for free stuff I had in town due to bartering free rounds of golf. Do you remember the guy's name that had the Taco truck that would come to the course? Was it Richard? I was tournament director and I negotiated with him to provide the food for tournaments. He was kicking me back a $1 per head. Those were some damn good tacos though.

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My wife and I were talking about the damn insane hook ups for free stuff I had in town due to bartering free rounds of golf. Do you remember the guy's name that had the Taco truck that would come to the course? Was it Richard? I was tournament director and I negotiated with him to provide the food for tournaments. He was kicking me back a $1 per head. Those were some damn good tacos though.

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Taco Tommy, played many rounds with him.

I remember him Now. Long Blond Hair.

Where was that course? Is that where the Top Golf is now?

Yes and legends event center

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Yep, Dennis was the head man. Drove a little red standard tin can in from Franklin every morning. Some mornings he'd have a pig in the trunk from trapping he'd cook up for us for lunch.

I always enjoyed working for him.

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I bet he still has it.

100%

EliteElectric said:

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I created a public Facebook group to share old pics. AgDotCom would love for you to share that yardage book there. Feel free to share pics or sketches or anything else on that page.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/4102087046783113

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Thank you, EE.....but I'm not much of a Facebook person. The triathlon was held from 1985 until about 2000 or so, I'd guess there are between 100-200 "alumni", about half of them local...I'm sure there's a few that will post the yardage book on FB when they see it.

I'll post the entire yardage book a few holes at a time here. I've enjoyed the recollections I've seen so far from everyone, including yours, and look forward to the others to come. I can feel the essence of Muni coming alive through these stories. And I'm especially grateful you started this thread.

I knew Billy Bob Lane well. He worked in B/CS for a civil engineering / land surveying outfit called MDG for quite a few years before he went to work at Muni. I've met a few folks as genuine as him, but never anyone more genuine. You always got the real Billy Bob, every time. I miss him.

Do you mind me posting these to the fb page?

No sir, not at all....feel free to.

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EliteElectric said:

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I created a public Facebook group to share old pics. AgDotCom would love for you to share that yardage book there. Feel free to share pics or sketches or anything else on that page.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/4102087046783113

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Thank you, EE.....but I'm not much of a Facebook person. The triathlon was held from 1985 until about 2000 or so, I'd guess there are between 100-200 "alumni", about half of them local...I'm sure there's a few that will post the yardage book on FB when they see it.

I'll post the entire yardage book a few holes at a time here. I've enjoyed the recollections I've seen so far from everyone, including yours, and look forward to the others to come. I can feel the essence of Muni coming alive through these stories. And I'm especially grateful you started this thread.

I knew Billy Bob Lane well. He worked in B/CS for a civil engineering / land surveying outfit called MDG for quite a few years before he went to work at Muni. I've met a few folks as genuine as him, but never anyone more genuine. You always got the real Billy Bob, every time. I miss him.

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One of the finest men that I have ever had the pleasure of working with and calling a friend. My wife and I used to go eat with him and Dottie at the Chicken Oil. He loved his Miller High Life and Cliff at the Chicken Oil! I never got along with the person who was the GM prior to Billy. We had a major falling out during the Oilman's tournament. I was sitting in the Pro Shop really, really, pissed when Billy walked over. He told me, "If it was me, I would quit." He said, "JB!98, you have a lot to offer that would be wasted in the golf business, go graduate and take advantage of those skills." I quit that afternoon and never looked back.

I loved working with the Triathlon tournament. Always a great group of guys and a great concept for a tournament. Probably worked with you to book at one point.

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Thisguy1 said:

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Yep, Dennis was the head man. Drove a little red standard tin can in from Franklin every morning. Some mornings he'd have a pig in the trunk from trapping he'd cook up for us for lunch.

I always enjoyed working for him.

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I bet he still has it.

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Dennis, if that is you, reveal yourself! If it is you, I hope you still have the Mac-90 I sold you. I miss that gun.

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I gotta say, that's a pretty friendly ball drop on #2.

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Agreed. But with the players characters we had, if we didn't have that ball drop we'd be out there all day. Our "tournament" was actually one event of a triathlon, the other two being skeet shooting and 42 dominos. We had around 40 - 50 players, it was funny that each person was usually pretty good, some even elite at one of the three events, but sucked ass at another. Our calcuttas would go north of $40k sometimes, which were big bucks 30 years ago. What you sold for determined if you were an A or B player. We'd then draw teams, combining one A and one B together for a team.

One year on #1 tee, the day after my partner and I had won the 42 competition, my partner was nervous because we were in the hunt for the title and money. He was left handed, and after a few morning beers to try to calm his nerves, smoked / hooked his tee shot dead right, high over the practice green into the middle of the lake. Have never seen anything come close to that on #1 before or since. If you've ever teed off on #1, you know how hard it would be to hit it over the practice green left handed, it's almost like hitting it behind you.

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What year was this? The only really good left handed golfer that was a good 42 player was a guy named Trey D. He was also a good friend at the time. He went on some Brackettville adventures with us. A course marshal named Gary was a really good 42 player, but not so much on the golf. He was a lefty also. I seem to remember all the lefties that played out there during a certain time period.

oldflyer said:

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Won the Calcutta in '88 for that. I drew a partner that was a perfect fit. He had a short game in golf and was a support player in dominoes. I taught him how to shoot skeet the morning of the shoot. We went 2nd in golf and dominoes and first in skeet.

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2nd in golf and dominoes, and first in skeet might be the best scores in the Triathlon ever. You're right, the partner you drew could make all the difference.

It still cracks me up how some guys could be excellent at one or two sports but suck complete ass at a third. Dee Dee Leggett owned a skeet range in Anahuac, could shoot blindfolded and was a great 42 player. But he showed up at Muni his first year with a set of borrowed cavity back irons with a cocoon growing in the cavity of the 7 iron.

After we moved the Triathlon to The Falls in New Ulm, Dee Dee got us run off there when he pulled a .410 out of his bag and shot a squirrel out of a tree on #6.

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What year was this? The only really good left handed golfer that was a good 42 player was a guy named Trey D. He was also a good friend at the time. He went on some Brackettville adventures with us. A course marshal named Gary was a really good 42 player, but not so much on the golf. He was a lefty also. I seem to remember all the lefties that played out there during a certain time period.

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JB, first of all thank you for putting up with us, we could be a lot of fun but were a tough bunch to stomach sometimes....you're being a little too generous with your comments but thank you nonetheless.

The lefty mentioned above was Bill Friedrich, I can't remember which year but probably '91 or '92. Bill was such a unique character he might have been the only non-NFL player Mark Dennard invited to his tournament each year for free. Bill played in that tourney also and I'm not kidding about them comping him.

We always had the tournament the Friday before Father's Day so the guys in our group could remember the date each year and not schedule anything else if it came up. When the API took that weekend at Muni in 1997ish, we moved it to The Falls, which was nice. But many of the guys still preferred Muni, which was more fun because we could be ourselves and not worry about pissing off all the "beautiful people" at other places.

I grew up in Bryan - Viking 85! Go Blue!

My folks didn't play golf but my grandfather was an addict. Retired to NWArkansas and snowbirded to the valley. They'd come through every year at Thanksgiving and Easter (missing him right now) and he'd take me out to muni. I'd get my Mom's old 5 iron and that's it. Five swings max and then putt. I got so I could play most holes in bogie/double. I was awesome with a 5 for a long time (don't even have one now).

I get real nostalgic every time I go by that park now on game weekends. Such a goat ranch but so many treasured memories.

Thanks for the thread!

Please consider joining this group and sharing with any old buddies that you think would enjoy it. I have made the group public so anyone can join.

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1MaZov6eJP/

I have also uploaded the yardage book