How low can he go? It looks as if all the practice at Rosanna is beginning to pay off for Ken as he managed to sneak in to take the Medal with 82 off the beater for a nett 64 and a very handy eight points in the Championship Table. Still a bit of a way to go to catch the front runners but with the Fred Howe coming up in a couple of weeks another double header would put him within striking distance.
The terrible twins, Stefan and Zimmer were only just out of it and avoided the need for a countback decision with a very creditable 65 nett. They managed to play in the same group, despite the draw for groupings but collusion is not suspected.
Chrispy could very easily have been a contender for the top spot, except for a couple of aberrations but he had to satisfy himself with third spot with nett 66. David continues to be thereabouts since his recent return to more regular playing and his 67 won’t do much harm to his handicap.
Bill is another who didn’t harm his handicap to collect the last point on offer with his 68.
Ken, BEast and Oliver collected the points for the Seniors and there are still at least half a dozen contenders in there with a chance.
The ProPin today was on the 15th and there weren’t too many names on the flash new marker because Stefan got the nod and he was in the first group. Nice little divvie there. The Nearest the Pin for a ball was on the 4th and SOS managed to top the pops for that. Regardless of the shortage of names on the markers, the birdies weren’t backward in coming forward and there were 21 plodded today. This must just about be a record though the numbers were slightly higher than in recent times. Noodles had a chance for an eagle on the 17th but missed the about one metre putt and only ‘just’ got the next one for the birdie.
At the other end of the scale, there were at least two five putt greens recorded by Harry on the 10th and by AndrewB on the 14th – and none of them were mis-hits. Another player had his armageddon on the 17th, putting five (yes five) into the hazard. Needless to say it was dennistating.
Gordon reckons he hit only one straight drive all day and that was into the river from the 17th. He’s planning to go down to Dight’s Falls to see if he can retrieve it. Chrispy thought he was playing on a private golf course, the group he was in was so controlled and polite though Oliver did break out and blaspheme when his dream run started to unravel. SOS was seen to be madly pressing buttons on his buggy remote to try to summon it from afar but little did he know that one of his so-called mates had turned it off while he was looking for his ball and SOS hadn’t noticed that it wasn’t following him. Be careful next time you pull into a booze-bus lane fellas.
In some of the after game discussion, the topic got around to playing on other courses and dealing with trees and bunkers and it was pointed out to Chrispy that he had less success in bunkers than Adolf Hitler.
The majority of regular members are now either transferred to our GolfLink register, newly registered with us or have been brought in as Non-Home members. The Ivanhoe Men’s handicapping system will continue as before. Those that play the inside competition will be entered into the GolfLink system by the clubhouse staff. Those that do not play the inside competition and who want to have their scores used for their official handicap should fill out a card with their GolfLInk number and handicap and have it marked and signed and hand to the club handicapper who will enter it to the GolfLink system for you. The new GolfLInk membership cards should be in the mail to you within the next few days. It seems to take about a week from when the registration/transfer is done.
Results for Saturday, 06 July 2013
1st Ken Grist(64) 2nd Kazim Akdag(65) 2nd Stefan Belevski(65) 3rd Chris Priems(66) 4th David Howard(67) 5th Bill Eastoe(68)