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Contributing Writer
H
arold Friedman has been
heavily involved with the
Detroit JCC Maccabi pro-
gram for more than 20 years, includ-
ing the past 15 as president or chair-
man.
The 59-year-old West Bloomfield
resident also has traveled across the
world as a representative of Maccabi
USA, which sends American athletes
to the Australian Maccabi Games,
European Maccabi Games, Pan Am
Maccabi Games and the Maccabiah
Games in Israel.
Friedman also is a heck of a golfer.
The 59-year-old retired dentist won
the club championship at Hunters Run
Golf and Racquet Club in Boynton
Beach, Fla., earlier this year, winning
three consecutive matches after a
qualifying medal-play round.
Interestingly, winning the club
championship wasn't No. 1 on
Friedman's sports agenda at the time.
"I was working hard on my tennis
game to get ready for the club tennis
tournament:' he said. "Could that have
relaxed me for the golf tournament?
You know, it's possible'
Friedman lost in the quarterfinals
of the tennis tournament.
Sixteen golfers played in the
qualifying round for the club cham-
pionship. Only eight made the cut.
Friedman shot 10-over-par 82 and
finished fourth.
He won his quarterfinal match
5 and 4, but his semifinal and title
matches were much closer. He won
2-up in the semifinals and 1-up in the
finals.
Tied with Canadian Barry Rockliff
going into the 18th hole of the cham-
pionship match, Friedman won it with
a birdie on the par-4 hole, capturing
the tournament title for the first time
in four tries.
The victory was a mild upset.
Rockliff was a 3 handicap and
Friedman an 8 handicap at the time.
Friedman wasn't done making
personal golf history. Two weeks after
winning the club championship, he
shot a lifetime-best 69 on the same
course, even with a bogey on the final
hole. Until that day, he'd never broken
70 in about 30 years of playing golf.
"It's been a great golf year for me,'
he said. "I still don't have my first
hole-in-one, though."
Perfectly Nervous
Learning from our mistakes is impor-
tant. So is learning from our successes.
Robert Essick is proof of the latter.
The West Bloomfield resident used
his past experience on Oct. 20 to roll
the second 300 game of his bowling
career, which spans about 30 years.
Like his first
perfect game, which
Essick bowled Sept.
25, 2008, the lat-
est gem took place
in the American
Legion League at
Country Lanes in
300-bowler
Farmington Hills.
Robert Essick
"For a long time,
I didn't know how
to bowl a 300 game. I'd get nervous
after eight strikes and that was it," said
Essick, 61, a probate attorney.
Then came the breakthrough in
2008.
"I decided that night it was OK to
be nervous. And it was OK to remain
nervous. It's natural;' he said.
Essick said nerves didn't set in dur-
ing his most recent 300 game until the
10th frame.
"At that point, you stop thinking and
your technique takes over:' he said.
While he didn't have any Brooklyn
(opposite side) strikes in his perfect
game last month, Essick didn't have
any power strikes either.
"I'm not a power bowler;' the right-
hander said. "I had a thin hit in the
10th frame and the guys on the other
team started giving me some grief. I
told them I was bowling in a hostile
environment. Luckily, my hits in the
11th and 12th frames were perfect.
There was no drama, thank God."
Essick said he never expected to
bowl another 300 game.
"It's amusing that I did it again',' he
said. PI
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