(Mequon)  7 members of the two-time defending champion MKE Express ventured to the Mee-kwon golf course for their summer outing on Sunday.   While the initial foursome of Miller, Pogorelc, and Wunderlich may had a mostly uneventful round, an alarming interruption in the space-time continuum hit the foursome of Kent, Ravanelli, Hall and Sutliffe. 

"I knew something had to be amiss when a guy on the first hole asked us to speed up the pace of play." said Eric Kent.  "Hey, we were slow getting off tee but the first hole … even the biggest d-bag in the world wouldn't ask you to speed up on the first hole.  They were obviously confused and thought they were on the 6th hole."  Sutliffe and crew looked confused while Eric immediately decided to throw the previous threesome under the bus and blaming the group in front.  It turned out to be a  difficult start to the day that would only get more bizarre.

Things got a little weird for the first group after a Pogorelc tee shot hit a tree on the right side, and then bounced another 100 feet back into the middle of the fairway, and up a bit too.

"I've been practicing that shot," Pogorelc joked, although all three of them were a little uncomfortable with what the laws of physics were doing -- they were waiting for the other golf shoe to proverbally drop.

Later in the round, Eric Kent was commenting to a particularly disinterested party that he had to purchase new golf shoes for the event.  Kent indicated that his entire spiked surface of his previous set of shoes had completely delaminated from the shoe body leaving him with a slick shoe and no grip.  Interestingly enough, Sutliffe's shoe suffered the exact same failure mode one hole later. 

Sutliffe recalled, "I thought, whatever, dufus.  How could you do that to a shoe?  Then my shoe falls apart - who's the dufus now?" 

Later, Kent was lamenting the fact that he did not have a super-villain in his life -- a single figure in which he could direct his focus and thoughts on defeating.  Strangely, at the next hole, it appeared that the arch-enemy/supervillain was going to be the Mee-Kwon golf Ranger.  The battle would rage on for the next two hours. 

Matt Hall commented, "We were at one and half hours with two holes to go on the first 9."  That's pretty much right on time.  However, the Ranger, living up to his arch-enemy status, harassed the group on holes 10 thru 13.  Kent confronted his nemesis by saying, "Why don't you follow us around and see where we can speed up?" 

While teeing off on 12, two errant shots sent Ravanelli and Hall into the woods.  The ranger stopped his cart to sit there dumbfounded while the two went in search of the balls.  Sutliffe joined in the battle "Why don't you f*#Qing help him find the ball?!?" 

Having satisfied the Ranger and banishing him back to Ranger hell, the foursome went on to enjoy the remainder of the round. 

Kent summarized, "Listen, nobody wants to play like that.  But like all Express teams, we just found our rallying cry … I don't think we can reveal it until needed.  Let's just say it's a call to regroup and battle."

Apparently, the anomaly wasn't done with messing with the foursome.  Eric Kent smashed his best drive of the day right down the fairway.  Thinking it would be easily found, Kent and Sutliffe headed to find Jim's errant drive.  Upon locating Jim's ball, the twosome both saw Kent's drive in the middle of the fairway.  When turning back, Jim's ball had vanished.  "I can't explain it," said Sutliffe, "Yeah we had a few beers but it wasn't like we were drinking like Will Tinsley." 

"Of course you're not drinking like Will, because then you'd be stealing beer out of someone else's cart", remarked Ravanelli. 

The "slow" round, which again brought MKE Express together under their new rally cry, was just shy of 4.5 hours - which is about a normal round on a weekend. 

"I can't explain it either," said Hall.  "One thing I do know -- we're not messing with Mee-kwon anymore.  Too many otherworldly occurrences.  We'll go to Fire Ridge next time.  Or maybe Baehmann's Golf Center or Putt-Putt.... somewhere where the intergalactic universe is a bit more stable."