Well, as it turned out, the three point buffer from week 1 was more than enough and Bill was only able to claw back one stroke on the first entrant in this years Champion of Champions, Ken Grist. Well done Ken on two fine rounds and welcome to your new handicap. Trevor will be pleased with his investment. Bill was philosophical about the result and spent some of his earnings by setting up a tab on the bar and then proceeded to twist people’s arms to have something on him. The rest of the point scorers came from the Senior ranks as well except for Noodles who would have had an extraordinary round if he had been able to putt. Mike Mann put in a blinder on the back nine with just four over the par including at least a double and a triple.
Ken also scored himself a ball on the 12th for the nearest the pin but the ProPin went begging on the 15th though there were a swag of birdies on the hole. Must have been some monster putts sunk. There was at least one memorable one that I can think of. Laurie saved himself for the Clubhouse ProPin on the 18th but he was quite pessimistic about his chances of holding on having only won it the time he got a hole-in-one. Or maybe it is just selective memory. Our ProPin will be definitely worth winning next week.
We are wondering whether Rodger has been pinged for using two spaces in the main car park or is he just easing himself out of the Club by parking further away. Tarcisio is a bit upset that he has been picked on in the blog over the last couple of weeks. David got himself into the first group on the grounds that he had to go to his daughters dance class concert however it was also noticed that he didn’t exactly rush off after the round finished.
Craig has been having his fair share of troubles over the last few rounds and apparently he played the 13th via the 10th green, then flirted with a water hazard and then a tree. Speaking of trees, Allan managed to collect three with the one shot after taking a drop off the 10th green from his tee shot on the 11th. As an aside, Harry was on the green as well a couple of feet away. Allan’s well struck blow ricocheted across the fairway to bounce off two more before finishing with not much of a back swing because of the third. SOS managed to score a birdie today, but not the sort you might think. A shot penetrated well into a tree and instead of the ball an unfortunate noisy miner fell to the ground. SOS decided that it should be put out of its misery but from what I saw it was less than a clinical despatch. Hopefully the Police Manual for dealing with the bad guys aims for a better outcome.
Next week is the final event for this calendar year, the Stuart Clarke Champion of Champions. The plan is to squad all of the qualifiers together at the tail of the field and the also-rans and casuals will go off in front. The groups of champions (in no particular order but Rodger’s group probably should be first of these and should be filled from casuals if there are vacancies) are:
- Noodles, Pepsi, Damo, Gordon
- Mike, Oliver, Chris, Bill
- Mo, Targe, Mehm, MalA
- Rodger, Emilio, Eddie, (Laurie to travel with Rodger)
I don’t beleve that I have missed anybody but if I have you can slot into any vacancies.
Results for Saturday, 01/08 December 2012
1st Ken Grist(128) 2nd Bill Eastoe(130) 3rd Mike Mann(137) 3rd Bob McDonald(137) 4th Stephen Butterfield(138) 5th Oliver Gross(139)