Well, if a week is a long time in politics, it can also be a long time in golf as well. Some of the high fliers from last week didn’t fly quite so high this week and some of the also-rans from last week put in sterling performances to come close to challenging (for points if not for the trophy).
Pepsi wasn’t exactly languishing after the first round but he certainly came back with a vengeance today with a 69 off the beater that included an 8 can you believe. However, offsetting that was an impressive total of 7 birdies out of a total of 17 for the day. In the end, Pepsi and Ed ended up equal on the nett scores so a countback was need to determine the winner of the Vin O’Meara Cup and on the back nine it turned out to be Pepsi by a mere half a stroke. Still, that was all that was needed and Pepsi was certainly very appreciative of getting his name on this prestigious trophy. It also got him off to a flying start in the Championship race for this year.
Edgar will have to console himself for what might have been. It was a bit of daylight to second place that was filled by young Zimmer who slipped just a couple of strokes to card a total of 138. Bill the Beastoe and Mosy had to settle for third place just a stroke behind Zim. Mostyn claims he was so intent on trying to counter Rodger that he lost the plot about the same time that Rodger did.
The President and the Chief Tee Marshall (Gordon and Chrispy in case you didn’t know) also had their chances to come in higher up the list but didn’t quite cut the mustard. David followed up on his country form to fill the final spot for the first points of the year.
Mehm would have been happy with his purchase and so would Pepsi both in the main Calcutta and the self purchase event. Zimmer might have broken even (if you ignore all the other purchases he made).
The ProPin on the 18th didn’t get a taker and so will Jackpot to next week. SOS managed to get close enough on the 12th to win himself a ball in the Nearest the Pin. First blood in the Seniors went to Eddie, Bill and Gordon.
This was also the final round of the Club Stroke Play Championship. After the three rounds, the clear winner was Pepsi (again) with a nett total of 201. Another bit of daylight to second place with Zimmer on 205. Yet another swatch of daylight to Oliver and Bill on 210. The full details are listed on the appropriate link.
SOS reckoned that if he hadn’t had a couple of sevens he’d have had a couple of sixes. I guess O’Sullivan is probably an Irish name. Craig birdied the first and as is often the case for at least some of us, this did not augur well for what was to follow. Mehm’s barber seems to have had some sort of a lapse in concentration leaving some sort of top-knot on top and Mehm was sporting a dressing covering a lesion. Rumour has it that it was some sort of surgical procedure – nothing serious we hope Mehm!
This one is a bit hard to believe but our resident certified rules adjudicator was reported to have taken advice to misinterpret the rules relating to relief from a lateral water hazard. And this after it had been so carefully explained on these pages in the recent past.
Oliver seems to have gotten over the yips that he displayed last week. People were beginning to wonder whether he really had been nobbled.
Next week will see the last official day for this calendar year when the various trophy Event winners from the past Competition Year will battle it out for the Stuart Clarke Champion of Champions. The rest of us will battle it out for a hunger for the Christmas Lunch that has been arranged. There will also be the Trophy presentations and the AGM so, all in all, a full day. No excuses will be accepted for sneaking off early, not even twenty-first birthdays (unless it is your own).
Results for Saturday, 14 December 2013
1st (cb) Andrew Petricola(69/64/133) 1st Ed Kloprogge(65/68/133) 2nd Kazim Akdag(68/70/138) 3rd Bill Eastoe(74/65/139) 3rd Mostyn Gregg(67/72/139) 4th Gordon Hill(73/67/140) 4th Chris Priems(70/70/140) 5th David Howard(74/68/142)