What can we put it down to – enthusiasm, foolhardiness or merely a hunger for Championship Points? Despite the over-night downpours and the less than promising forecast and the biting wind, thirteen members turned out to start the round. Damo was adamant that he was going to play come Hell or high water – well he got the high water bit – not so sure about the Hell. Only one person drowned so that twelve made it to the end. Needless to say, it was rather wet underfoot and we also had the course pretty much to ourselves. The weather and no inside comp seems to have turned off anybody else that ventured from under their doona. As for last week we played tee-up rules. This allowed Harry to use his driver to lob one onto the 13th from 130m out with a chance for a rare par for this hole. Unfortunately, the putt came up a bit short so no four pointer.
The conditions spread the field out a bit but there were still some respectable scores returned. The clear winner was Rod White, one of our new members, with an impressive 41 points. Tony Mifsud had his moments and scored second overall as well as picking up the three points for the seniors.
Brendon, Oliver and Noodles filled out the remaining podium positions. It was a complete reversal from last week when everybody got points with only five people improving their Championship position.
The pro-pin was on the 4th and everybody scoffed when Harry nominated it, but, in the event, Harry was the only one who got inside 5m and collected the money. The ball hole on the 18th was almost a jackpot until Oliver managed to hit the pin and kept himself on the green. SOS scored himself another eagle on the 17th with a spectacular chip shot that bounced and ran through numerous puddles of water before dropping into the water filled (and surrounded) hole. Any other day it would probably have been on the 18th tee. Bill Eastoe didn’t really drown on the course, he just decided that after nine holes he had better things to do plus I think he was on a promise for tonight or something.
I’m not sure what the go is with the Melbourne Cup Trip. Today was supposed to be the deadline but Rodger didn’t make it. So if you haven’t made up with Rodger yet, you had better not muck about.
The calendar shows next week as an Ambrose event. Not sure how this is going to be organised but it might pay to be on deck a bit earlier to give the tee-marshall/committee some time to arrange groups etc.
Results for Saturday, 18 August 2012
1st Rodney White(41) 2nd Tony Mifsud(36) 3rd Brendon Mitchell(35) 4th Oliver Gross(33) 5th S Butterfield(32)