Well, the greens were a bit sandy and if you believe some people they were deemed to be fast. Or maybe , we were just hitting the ball too hard. Whatever the reason, the field was divided into two camps – those that tore the course apart and those that didn’t. The one who really did star was Mr Shipping, MalA. A pretty speccy 41 points will do his handicap no good but the points in both the main Championship and the Seniors will do his position in the table no harm. Apparently all he had to do was hit the ball up the middle and sink a few putts and that was that. Simple really.
His spell on the turf at Rosanna, obviously hasn’t done Ken any harm as he racked up 39 points to take second spot and gave Gordo a bit of a hiding in their Matchplay as well. The deed in that event was done at the 16th with a 4 & 2 result. This was the first match of the second round which only has a month to complete so better jump to it lads. The last match in the first round was also played today and Noodles got up over Sharpie 3 & 1. Craig can’t blame his injury as he was heard to say that it was all good after the round.
Next cab off the rank was Bill the Beast(oe) with a (just) handicap breaking 37 points. The score could have been somewhat less except for a very favourable bounce on the 13th that converted a potential swim in the hazard into an ‘easy’ up and down for the birdie. Speaking of birdies, we only carded seven today so there must have been something happening on and around the greens.
Speaking of happenings on the greens, Craig was so cheesed off at dropping his Matchplay, he gave Gordo a hurry-up on the 18th to get it all over. Gordo, stepped up, didn’t take his usual practice swing and very nicely, thank you very much, didn’t get overly excited when Craig called it as likely in the hole. Good call Craig – better than you seemed to be doing on the neddies at presentation time! The ball was one that Gordon pulled out of his bag after going astray on the 17th and it was only the third time he had hit the thing on the day. And he never uses that brand normally. Everyone appreciated the generous tab that Gordon provided and certainly hope he can do it again sometime soon. He was even heard to offer to take the missus out to dinner. Maybe he is hoping to get lucky twice in one day! The score of 1 for 5 points made a nice symmetry with his marker Ken, who had a 5 for 1 point on the same hole.
Anyway, the eagle is a bit bitter about losing her little nest egg so it is back to only one on offer next week.
Further down the list in the results table were Damo and Noodles on 34 points and Oliver, Ben and Targe on 33 points. It seems that Bill can’t add up and Targe can’t read. The addition was correct on the card that Targe marked but he didn’t pick up the difference on his own. But the scores were correct and that is all that is required – but, do try to be careful and check that you agree with your marker in all aspects if only to save embarrassment.
MalA obviously had command of all aspects of his game today by getting his name on the Nearest the Pin on the 7th as well as on the ProPin on the 12th. So now Mal has both balls and money! And a new handicap.
It was good to see Gilbert Demiri in the field today to put in his third card so he now has a Club handicap and will be eligible in future for trophies and points. Perhaps he should have held off for a week before putting in a 41 pointer from his nominal 17 handicap.
Ben knows who you are and where you live, so those who haven’t paid their deposit for the Annual Challenge Weekend had better ante up soon or he will be making calls to his friend Terry Wrist to ‘take care of business’.
Results for Saturday, 11 May 2013
1st Malcolm Adey(41) 2nd Ken Grist(39) 3rd Bill Eastoe(37) 4th Stephen Butterfield(34) 4th Damien Lee(34) 5th Ben Akdag(33) 5th Oliver Gross(33) 5th Targe Mifsud(33)