-2001 HackFest Golf Championship-
To tell this heartwarming story -- the decisive, last-hole victory captured by one William O. Marion in the first golf-focused HackFest in history after 11 years of excessively competitive "basketball;" and after the self-imposed one year transitional hiatus at Halfway Lake in Michigan's "You Pee," where the best we could do is play a cursory couple of games of two-on-two, kids included, on the sad little patch of concrete Dee and company bodaciously advertised as a "court" -- we need only to hit the rewind button and track back to the Summer of 2001. That year, you will remember, we gathered in Avalon, New Jersey, site of HackFest XIII. To relive those halcyon days in the summer sun, we shall refer to a hallowed and increasingly rare edition of The HackFester, and its account of that stunning upset. In its prime, The HackFester was the most widely regarded publication of its type, and at the same time, was one of a kind. Even today, it continues to be deeply respected throughout the Midwest; all along the East Coast; and oddly enough, in a tiny Polish village quite near the Czech border, but nobody knows why. Still, despite having ceased paper publication after its dramatic move to the Web, The HackFester to this day is admired and cherished by numberless readers for its unquestioned veracity and uncanny accuracy of reportage, even when it is absurdly biased and just plain wrong. Despite its move from hard copy to hard drive, The HackFester remains the perfect source for all of the details regarding that historic and powerfully memorable annual event, The HackFest...
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