There were eight in the bed and the middle one said…….Well, if we had had a bed then we could have played that game instead of the one that at least some of us did. No excuse though, it was a beautiful day and we were finished before the heat really kicked in. The course was is good condition and the greens, particularly the damaged ones are improving in leaps and bounds. A slight heavy handedness with the watering by the ground staff meant that a couple were a little saturated early in the round but I guess they can’t be blamed with a hot dry wind in the offing.
With no points in the offing and the handicapper hog-tied a few of the lads decided to pull out the stoppers and have a red hot go. Though he is determined not to let his new role as Club Captain go to his head again, Chrispy was the one to catch and he rattled off a 75 off the stick to tally up 41 points from his Club handicap. Nothing less than a two pointer the whole round.
Damo was so impressed by the announcement of the biggest turn-around Claytons Trophy that he decided to get himself in the running (except that social rounds don’t count for that either). He didn’t keep a club score but tallied up 40 points inside so could easily have been up there with Chris. He was test driving a demo driver and was absolutely creaming it, going close to reaching the green on the 16th. So impressed, he wants the demo and not the new club.
Dennis Tiernan was back on deck for the first time for a while after putting in the hard yards at the Darklands and showed that he has not lost a lot of touch as a result and put together a very creditable 39 points. He was a bit cheesed that Chris had pipped him in the inside grade as well but he should pick up a ball.
Targe was another one who did reasonably well although he also did not keep a club card but he reported that he choked on the last two holes so we will have to take his word for it.
There was a ProPin (no distance requirement) run on the 12th and when the first group went through, they wondered whether it should have been closest with the second shot. The second group fared little better and although Chris and Damo were closer to the pin they weren’t on the green and so SOS took the money from Targe by a fairly narrow margin. It obviously wasn’t all that close to the hole as SOS ended up with a four.
Harry might have made a score were it not for four consecutive scratches in the middle of the round including one four putt green though it is debatable whether it counts or not as he was out of strokes after the first two. To add insult to injury, on the next hole his ball finished at the butt of a tree with the green out of shot to the left of picture.
MalF is well known for being a consistent two putt man but a few times today he did it in one including a monster on the 17th for a birdie. Never looked like missing from the moment it left the club. Dennis would have helped his eclectic no end on a competition day when he racked up three birdies. And it looks like there might have only been four for the day.
MalA must have terrific reflexes because on one tee shot, his club struck the ground at least 300mm behind the ball but still managed to make contact and end up with an acceptable result. At least that’s what we would like to think and it wasn’t the other thing that beats class.
Dennis has developed into a bit of a rock concert groupie, particularly one last week when the majority of the audience were 14 to 18 year old females – and some of the mums weren’t bad either he reckons.
Well that’s all the fun for the time being. Next week it’s back to Club Events with the first medal for the year up for grabs along with lots of Championship points. Be there or miss out.