It must have been the heat addling peoples brains. Three marked their card off the incorrect handicap, a couple more couldn’t add up their points straight and Targe tried to put scores down for ten holes on the back nine. One way to increase your points tally even if a little unconventional.
Despite all that and despite the fact that he was one of the miscreants, today’s winner by a good margin with 41 points was none other than Brendon whose Achilles seems to have snapped right back into place so there should be no holding him now though he does have a new handicap to play with so he will need to check it twice next week just to be sure.
Next was the man who isn’t sure whether it is better to be long and soft or short and hard or even the other way around. Though Noodles was a little way behind Brendon, he was well in front of next place with 38 points and he will also suffer a little at the handicappers hands.
Blighty is back from swanning around the Continent and wasted no time in getting himself onto the podium alongside Chrispy with 35 of the best, a couple in front of the Beast and Targe both of whom left a couple of scratchies on otherwise good cards.
Mehmet, Mostyn Eddie and Gordon managed to stick together to gather the last of the points on offer today. Given that there were only 14 starters, that didn’t leave too many out of the points – no names, no packdrill.
The Nearest the Pin for a ball on the 12th went to Chrispy who wasn’t too far from the elusive HIO according to all reports. Interestingly, he only plodded a par for the hole so his legendary putting skills must have abandoned him temporarily. Speaking of birdies, the count for the day was 11 which is a fair swag given the number of players. Bill didn’t manage any today though he did try hard to get an eagle on the 17th after his screamer off the tee was variously called as ‘the middle of the green’ or ‘maybe OOB over the back’. The reality was between the two – on the green back edge.
Guess who was in charge of putting out the ProPin marker on the 15th and ‘forgot’ so opted to put it on the 18th where it just so happened that his ball was in play and he ended up collecting the money. Just a clue, his name starts with MalF.
There were two Matchplay matches contested today. Noodles got up over Mostyn 4 and 3 and, after being 7 down and dormie at one stage, Harry lost to Targe also 4 and 3.
It’s a good thing Chrispy is ambidextrous after getting himself into an awkward little spot on the 8th. It would have been a tough spot even for a left-hander but not for Chris. Not sure whether he used the face or the back of the club but, which-ever, it was a rescue that rescued him though he did have to settle for a bogey.
Despite the passage of time, Brendon is still whingeing about the broken control knob on his buggy though it doesn’t seem to have affected his game if today’s result is any guide. Of course, if he had bought some proper Aussie gear he wouldn’t have had to send off to Pommie-land for spare parts and it would probably have been fixed by now.
Mostyn has booked into a flash hotel for a dirty (cool) weekend, ostensibly to escape the heat. Mehm was suggesting livening proceedings by sending in a dwarf stripper. Luckily, Targe wasn’t around when his name was mentioned as a contender for the role.
The experiment for getting a system of on-line registration last week seems to have caused a bit of confusion and maybe it could have been explained a bit better. One of the problems of filling out the sheet after the game is knowing/remembering the intentions of those that are not present. So, the idea is to get people to register on-line so that the numbers of players can be confirmed more accurately.
After some feed-back, a new form has been prepared and is available under the Registration Tab on the Menu bar at the top of the page. If you click on that, you will be taken to a page where you can fill out your name and indicate Yes/No for playing next week. The form will be open until Wednesday. If everybody does it whether you are playing or not we should be able to confirm our bookings more accurately and keep the Course management on side. They do look after us, particularly in that we do not have to pay in advance and so forth and we would hate to lose that privilege.
Results for Saturday, 08 February 2014
1st Brendon Mitchell(41) 2nd Stephen Butterfield(38) 3rd Andrew Blight(35) 3rd Chris Priems(35) 4th Bill Eastoe(33) 4th Targe Mifsud(33) 5th Mehmet Akdag(32) 5th Mostyn Gregg(32) 5th Gordon Hill(32) 5th Ed Kloprogge(32)