After three rounds of Par in a row, you would reckon that people would have worked out where they get strokes and where they don’t. There were a couple of errors showed up today. Just a bit more care please chaps.
Anyway, a damn fine round by Oliver put him in as a clear winner with a corrected score of +6 from a three over par 71 off the beater. All this and playing with Eddie as well. Oliver claims that he played just as well as last week except that he wasn’t three putting. It is amazing what a difference such a little thing will make to your score. I wonder has anybody noticed this effect before?
Mo and Dennis were Club-house leaders for quite a long stretch and Dennis seemed to be hoping desperately for someone to come in better than him as he reckons getting one less ball for second is far better than losing an extra stroke for winning. Zimmer moved up to second spot with his corrected score.
The two Andrews and Mike didn’t do their handicaps too much harm while Bill, Tony and Chris will maintain the status quo with their fourth place result. Harry scored the last of the points up for grabs today.
The pin markers got swapped about today from the nominated holes and so Pepsi scored the ball for the Nearest the Pin while the ProPin went to Jan with quite a fine shot. Seems he didn’t convert it into a birdie but there were 18 of our feathered friends between the lot of us. Richard went close to getting an eagle on the 17th after leaving his 7 iron from the tee a bit short of the green. He reckons his 5 iron is too long and he claims he can’t hit a 6.
There was one Matchplay contest this week but unfortunately Trevor had to retire hurt and Richard goes through to the second round on a forfeit. Give that back a good rest Trevor and we’ll see you back sometime soon. Still a few matches to be decided in the first round and only a couple of weeks to go. If second round pairs wish to play, they don’t have to wait (unless you are sweating on getting some strokes back – not that anyone would do that!).
There have been reports of rats on the course, and not in the context of the morals of the players. Noodles had a close call with something that looked like a rat and there was a ball lying on the 11th tee that had been chewed through the cover. Perhaps it thought the ball was an egg. Certainly didn’t make it far into the ‘yolk’.
Tony seems to be very much in love with the putter that he bought recently from Mike. It seems it took quite a while to consummate the deal and there was talk that Tony had tried the putter during a round. He claims that it was for a practice putt and not for a competition putt so not the subject of a retrospective disqualification. With all the talk of performance enhancing substances in other sports there were also claims that the sweets that some players handed around during the game contained variously performance enhancing or performance deteriorating substances. Or maybe it is just our natural inconsistency showing through.
The field was awash with Akdags this week with all three on deck though they are abandoning ship next week to play an away match.
Ben will be looking for the deposits for the Club Challenge weekend in the next couple of weeks as there are only a few outstanding. He raised the question of running a prize pool with a lottery draw for golfing equipment with a $50 ante from each player attending. If people can indicate their willingness or otherwise to participate in such a lottery, Ben would much appreciate it.
We will also begin a trial of making a random draw to make up the groups. When you register hand in a named and handicapped card to the Tee Marshall. At 0715, a random draw from the cards will be made to determine the first group and so on. If you have a valid reason for being the first group, please advise the Tee Marshall and he will place you in that group before the draw. Matchplay pairs should also advise so that they can be paired. No other exceptions will be made except for guest players on request. The first drawn player will be the captain for that group and will be responsible for getting the group to the tee on time and for keeping up with the group in front.
Results for Saturday, 27 April 2013
1st Oliver Gross(+6) 2nd Kazim Akdag(+2) 2nd Mo Sabih(+2) 2nd Dennis Tiernan(+2) 3rd Andrew Blight(+1) 3rd Mike Mann(+1) 3rd Andrew Petricola(+1) 4th Bill Eastoe(□) 4th Tony Mifsud(□) 4th Chris Priems(□) 5th Harry Boughen(-1)