Masters Contest Wrap up

I just wanted to take a quick moment to announce the winners of our Masters Pick'em contest and their fantastic prizes. Michelle and I were riding on the overnight train to Beijing the night before the tourney and with the prospect of missing the Masters for the first time hanging over me I knew I had to do something to stay interested. So an email went out to a couple dozen of my golf partners, and here we are. The contest involoved picking 4 golfers, and taking the 3 low scores, it was a back and forth battle, but in the end the best golfer (with all due respect Marshall) in the bunch proved to be the savviest predictor.

Congratulations to Matt Head of Greensboro, NC on his picks of Andres Romero, Phil Mickelson, Jim Furyk and Tiger Woods. Matt has chosen the famed "I climbed the Great Wall Tshirt" and we think he'll be very happy with it.



Runner up went to Dave Schoepske, also of Greensboro, NC. Dave is the world's foremost 3M tape expert and taught me everything I know. He made the very enlightened pick of revolutionary playing cards. We bought an extra deck for ourselves, so I like his style.



Rounding out the top three is an old time golf partner, Nolan VanNahmen, from Tampa, Florida. After contemplating a few choices he went with another revolutionary piece of kitsch, a classic Mao and friends poster.



Thanks to everyone who participated, Alan, Bill, Steve, Cliff, Reed, Ryan, Marshall, Country and Todd, and if you didn't and wish you did make sure you let me know before next year. You can see all the prizes on our Picasa page, some pretty nice parting gifts if you ask us.

And special thanks to Michelle for helping with the tabulations every morning before we hit the road in Beijing!

By the way, I finished Last!

EG