This was the day that promised much and in true style of a Melbourne Spring day, it delivered. Cool and overcast but no rain and a week or so without much of the wet stuff has seen the condition of the course improve. A bit like our winner really, a great round by Jan for 42 points with two gashes looked like streeting the field until Brendon lobbed in just one behind. No gashes for him but a solitary single pointer blotted a pretty fine copy-book. Brendon’s marker, Pepsi, came in third. Suspicions of collusion are believed to be completely unfounded.
Oliver, Andrew B and Allan were the point scorers in the Seniors Competition.
The other big event of the day was the Matchplay Finals and the competition was, as expected, pretty fierce. Damien and SOS faced off for the major trophy and Damo was the ultimate winner 4 and 3. It seems that Damo put the mockers on SOS by slamming monster drives using only his three wood causing SOS to ask for a ruling to limit his usage to six times in the round. Unfortunately for SOS there were no members of the Rules Committee to consider his appeal. There was also a story that Damo was incentivised (if that is a word) by offers from Noodles if he kept SOS out of the big championship points.
The play off for third and fourth in the Matchplay between Gordon and Bill was a much closer run affair with Gordon pipping Bill at the post 2 and 1. By all accounts, this match was contested in a much more gentlemanly manner.
In other event news, the Ball Hole at the 12th was picked up by Dennis Tiernan who should be with us more often now that the footie season is over. After next week, Dennis will have his Club handicap and though it is late in the year he says he has ambitions to rack up some points before the year is out. The ProPin on the 15th went to Oliver with a shot close enough to snag him the birdie. Not that that particular form of wildlife was particularly rare with eleven being plodded all told with Brendon and Pepsi scoring three each. The big bird did not settle today so the number of balls in the nest is growing.
Craig and Noodles were involved in some serious sledging during the round and maybe Craig got the better of it, as Nood’s round was not one of his best – or maybe the handicap cuts and the pressure of front running are beginning to take its toll. It was also suggested that the golf gods were looking after Chris after some fine examples of his power fade and favourable ricochets but Chris reckons that can’t be right because he is a Scientologist??
Rodger, unfortunately, had to take another break with a sore shoulder. Look after it Rodger and you’ll soon be back into your usual form. On the topic of Rodger, he reports that there are still a couple of places left for the Annual Trip so speak up quick if you fancy a weekend away for some serious (or not so serious perhaps) golf.
The other thing that has come to my attention is that there are occasional errors in calculating points (stableford and par). The rules of golf say that you are responsible only for the record of strokes taken and that the committee is responsible for checking competition scores and declaring the result. So just try to be a bit more careful so that the committee isn’t faced with the possibility of having to change results particularly if point scorers are involved.
Results for Saturday, 15 September 2012
1st Jan Siemon(42) 2nd Brendon Mitchell(41) 3rd Andrew Petricola(37) 4th Oliver Gross(36) 5th Chris Priems(35)