Well, after the tropical downpour that we had yesterday, a lot of people were half expecting to need their goggles and flippers. In actual fact, the course was remarkably dry with only a few wet patches that some wussy types declared were casual water and took a drop on marginally dryer ground. At least one fly ball into a green left itself three parts buried where it landed. Other than that, the weather was actually quite nice and those that chose to stay at home missed their chance to get amongst the points.
One who didn’t miss his chance was Noodles who took out top points after a fairly erratic start with only nine points after six holes. From there on, a combination of skill, blind chance and deadly putting destroyed all contenders. Richard Hall managed to get into the hole on the 14th with only one strike of the ball after a tee shot – unfortunately it was his second shot off the tee after the first went well and truly out of bounds. Still, not a bad way to get par. Trevor Jackson also put in a good showing despite having some serious problems with pretty much all of the par 3s. Trevor is also sporting a somewhat rearranged front end on his car following some excitement with black ice in Tassie after the Barnbougle trip.
The pro-pin was obviously not worth winning today with the small numbers and so we kindly left it to jackpot to next week. The decision on the ball hole was a line-ball thing and they had to call in the third umpire to separate the contenders. Unfortunately (for Harry), Priemsy got the nod but there were only millimeters in it.
A vote was taken on the destination for the Melbourne Cup weekend Annual Tour and by a significant majority Bendigo got the nod. If you haven’t nominated yet, you should get in and do so as Rodger will undoubtedly be wanting to finalise numbers and bookings and will want deposits before too long. Speaking of Rodger, he turned up heavily bandaged and half shaven after his brush with the plastic surgeon. A bit early to tell before the bandages come off but the early betting is that the new face won’t be much of an improvement on the old one.
No matchplay contested today but with only four more Saturdays to complete the second round, there better not be too much more delay in arranging your match. If you don’t know who you are, check the draw from the link to the right of your screen.
Results for Saturday, 26 May 2012
1st S Butterfield(40) 2nd Richard Hall(38) 2nd Trevor Jackson(38) 3rd Ken Grist(36) 3rd Gordon Hill(36) 3rd Chris Priems(36) 4th Bill Eastoe(34) 5th Brendon Mitchell(33)