While the cat’s away the mice will play – well, one mouse anyway! Out of a field of 17 (16 members and one guest) there were only two who went anywhere near taking the course apart and one of them was Mr Perseverance himself, Trevor. Trevor has been bragging about the good that his new equipment has done him and it certainly seems to have kept him on the straight and narrow this week, particularly with the flat stick. No less than 7 (yes seven) one putt greens but other than that he only played average (according to Trev at any rate). As they say in the classics – you drive for show but you putt for dough and Trevor did his standing in the Championship tables no harm with today’s performance.
Mehmet probably thought he had a chance with his +4 but he was destined to be the bridesmaid once more but with a few Championship points to go along with his new handicap. At least he can console himself that he can be back to his old handicap a lot sooner than Trev can.
Another sliver of daylight then to a bit of a cluster with Chrispy, who seems to be putting together a bit of a run of form, Targe and Bill. Of the nine birdies today, Bill totted up three of them and in the process took a giant leap up the eclectic table. Following close behind with square cards (and hardly a square amongst them) were Snags, Brendon, Gordo and SOS. Last in the points gatherers, but by no means least were Noodles and Oliver who is hanging in there ever so quietly gathering points.
Will Ghidetti was our guest again after a bit of a break and he has now submitted his third card and will be eligible for competition. In the process, he managed to score the Nearest the Pin on the Ball Hole. Well done Will and welcome to our happy little clan. Everybody must be flush after the silly season and didn’t try hard enough on the ProPin hole and that will Jackpot to next week. What’s the bet that there are some hungry sharks about next time? Although there were a sprinkling of Birdies scored on the day, the poor old Eagle is absolutely devastated and it now seems almost certain that Damo will not be giving back that loaner that he has been using the last few weeks. A drive from the 14th tee finished about 2m off the green and from there he calmly chipped it in to score enough balls to keep him out of the Pro-shop for quite a while. Ah well, back to square one for the big bird.
There should have been a lot of ‘fours’ (or should that be ‘fores’) on the cards as it seems that there were a number of close calls. Try to keep your abilities and course etiquette in mind when you are out there, we would hate to have something nasty happen and we want everybody to have a good time not hospital time.
Results for Saturday, 11 January 2014
1st Trevor Jackson(+6) 2nd Mehmet Akdag(+4) 3rd Bill Eastoe(+1) 3rd Targe Mifsud(+1) 3rd Chris Priems(+1) 4th Gordon Hill(□) 4th Brendon Mitchell(□) 4th Craig Sharp(□) 4th Stephen O’Sullivan(□) 5th Stephen Butterfield(-1) 5th Oliver Gross(-1)