For a while they were my “internet friends”. After Chit Show 3, they were my “online golf buddies”. After Chit Show 4, they were the “Lamb guys”. With each Chit Show, and each year of texting and messaging, I can honestly say, this is a special group of men and women, with a bond that’s hard to describe.
For the last three years, it’s a date on the calendar that I wait for with great anticipation. Two or three days of fun, focused around golf and friendships. Folks travel from around the country to celebrate Tyson Lamb and Lamb Crafted, the brand he’s created. With a running chat group to keep many of us connected, though we may not get to see each other’s faces as often as we’d like, for these few special days, we’re all able to pick up right where we left off the last time we were together.
Kyle White started Chit Show back in 2018, and it’s since blossomed with the help of guys like Tim Eaker, Mark Cabrera, and others. This year, they turned the keys over to Lamb Crafted, to be run by Tana, Addason and Tyson. It was the first year that we had two full days of golf, and the first year I crashed at the hotel with everyone, and it didn’t disappoint. The midnight Taco Bell run that started by myself, and ended with seven guys piled in the car before we made it out of the drive thru lane, was something I’ll never forget. I can still picture the look on the cashiers face when the “walking” party suddenly had a ride - “Oh, so you’re the guy that picked them up...”
For Chit Show 5, we were lucky enough to have an entire club close down a course for us, Morris Country Club, and their sister club Nettle Creek. Nettle hosted us last year, so adding Morris this year was an added bonus. To have a club close access to it’s membership on our behalf is something special. Big thanks goes out to all the MCC members that helped make that happen - Kyle, Tim, Matt Painter, Beau Kuipers and any others I missed.
I planned to limit the number of photos I was going to take, and really focus on golf, but do find it hard to put down sometimes. Though distracting, I do enjoy snapping photos and finding new angles.
We had a couple of great days of golf, and some amazing weather. I lucked out and had some amazing partners in Brent Paske, Chandler Blake, and Rob Thompson. We battled hard, but I failed to carry my weight, and my approach game was embarrassing. Brent, Chandler and Rob, did all the heavy lifting, and got us close, but not quite close enough.
One of the highlights of the event was definitely when our Captain, Chandler, sunk a curling putt to win a new Bridgeport - stamped Steel Wool. I’m confident that it’ll patina ever some beautifully. And I won a nice little prize in the F Bomb, given away for longest drive. As the saying goes, every blind squirrel is bound to find a nut on occasion.
I’ll spare you all the daily play by play, and allow the photos to tell the story.
For those of you that haven’t taken in a Lamb event, I can’t recommend it enough. Just a few years ago I felt like there was no way this group would ever accept me, and that it was a clique only a few select folks could be a part of. Looking back a few years later, and I’m so glad to have put off the anxiety of meeting new people, and worrying I wouldn’t be accepted. This group is about the people, and we are truly family. To watch each other celebrate milestones in life, congratulate each other on small accomplishments, or even bust the balls of those of us without a Hole in One. These guys are the brothers I never had, and the fraternity I never knew I needed to belong to.
Tana, Addason, Tyson, Shelby, Kyle, Tim, and all the Morris CC staff - ya’ll rock, and I’m already getting pumped up for Chit Show 6. See you guys next year!
