Everybody reckoned getting married would settle Craig down. Added to that is the little announcement that he made that he was going to have a baby – well not him exactly – though there were a couple of disparaging comments about his bay-window. Craig’s response was that he was the ideal weight if he happened to be nine foot four tall. Obviously he hasn’t embraced the metric system yet either.
Regardless, he had a good day out on the course and carded a pretty fine 76 off the beater to come in to collect the medal by the narrowest of margins with a nett 63. Three birdies, including two in a row on the 4th and 5th, certainly helped the cause. Not sure what use of his 9 iron he made today but he is reported to sleep with it because he needs a bit of loft though if the earlier news is any guide he doesn’t need too much help.
Another birdie double on the 13th and 14th by Harry put him into second place along with Mo just one stroke behind Craig on nett 64. As Clubhouse leaders before Craig came in, Mo and Harry tried not to get too carried away with the possibilities but had done a count-back, just in case.
Damien is trying to rack up as many points as he can over the next couple of weeks as his lad is starting cricket for the summer and Damo is committed to be there and won’t be as regular in attendance as in the past. Mehm, MalF and Tony filled the fourth spot and Oliver’s jaunt back to the States for his son’s wedding didn’t do his game much harm and he garnered another point in both species of Championship table.
One of the Matchplay finals was completed today between Targe and Ken for 3rd and 4th place. In the end it was Ken who prevailed finishing 4 up with 3 to play. A reasonably conclusive result. The Championship round between Stefan and Eddie is scheduled for 21 September.
The Nearest the Pin for a ball on the 15th went to Harry who finished about a metre short of the hole. Another of the seniors, MalF, picked up the ProPin on the 18th. Both Mal and Harry managed the birdies to bring the total for the day to 13.
The tale of Noodles is something that we all should take to heart. He managed to hit the incorrect ball on three occasions and there did seem to be a lot of stray balls about on the course. Admittedly the cut was not set particularly low and the balls could be difficult to find and to see when you did find them. However, you are allowed to move the ball to identify it as long as you don’t move it more than necessary to do so and it is replaced exactly and the ball is not cleaned in any way or the lie improved. It also helps to have identifying marks to assist with identification. And maybe, go see your optometrist.
Dennis was another who had some problems with the long grass and lost a ball that was deemed to be on the fairway but could not be found. Whitey (aka Wally) managed to pull off a spectacular draughtie on the 17th with the ball appearing to contact the ground behind the tee peg. He then decided to try his putter following on from his success with it in the three club event and managed to lose the ball as a result.
Mostyn is so pleased with his new light-weight golf shoes that he took one of them off after the game and was passing it around for people to admire. What wasn’t so impressive was the fact that it was rather on the nose. Speaking about on the nose, Chrispy had to reach for his gas mask when somebody opened yesterdays lunch by the registration desk.
Although the resurrected Eclectic event will not start until next golfing year, the software development is in progress and for interest the current state of this years results (except for a few sets of cards) has been posted on a link under the competition heading. The nett score is based on half of your current exact handicap which should help to reduce the number of ties. Any discussion of the system to be used should be made to the handicapper.
Results for Saturday, 07 September 2013
1st Craig Sharp(63) 2nd Harry Boughen(64) 2nd Mo Sabih(64) 3rd Damien Lee(69) 4th Mehmet Akdag(70) 4th Malcolm Fleming(70) 4th Tony Mifsud(70) 5th Oliver Gross(71)