2020 Corner King Classic officially postponed.

I called ESPN. They didn’t seem to care. They’re too busy finding ways to help the Big Ten hose the Indiana Hoosiers Football team. The Indiana Hosers. That has a ring to it.

It is with great sadness that I report the postponement of this year’s Corner King Classic. Given we won’t be playing this year, I suppose we could use the cancel word. Maybe we’ll play 2 next year to make up for it.

The original flyer for the Corner King Classic which began in 2000 as a tribute to our dear friend Malcolm Todd “Corner King” Lincoln, Sr. I look at a picture of the two us every day I am at home. That has been a great many days in 2020.

Corner King passed away suddenly in August of 1997. August 26th. I remember it all too well. Twenty-three years ago. There is something to be said about things we never get over and have to get through. I could be here days telling you stories of the fun we had and then how the Corner King, who never heard a song I ever recorded, is the one, with the help of my dear wife, Carrie, and the Good Lord, who drove me to pull a guitar strap over my head for the first time a month and a half after he died. I was searching for the sound of music again and found it was inside my head and heart and always has been. I found out when I was thirty that I can take a guitar and piece of paper and in a few minutes chances are I will find something that was not there a few minutes ago and it is not a difficult thing for me to find. It is a gift I am delighted I discovered, no matter how late in life I did so.

So my Colonel Reb head cover will be lonesome this year. For the past twenty years me, Gus Stephenson, Pete Rutherford, and Samonhead Samons have played some lousy golf, laughed more than we deserve, and came back to our house to eat Carrie’s fine vittles and take in a college football game and or a game of euchre.

It has been a good time. 2020 will be the first year we have not played this annual fiasco. Since New Salisbury Golf Course is now closed, we play at English.