Sixteen souls graced the green sward of Ivanhoe on Saturday though only six had taken the time to visit the web-site and indicate their intentions before the page closed. Still, the competition was obviously fierce and some pretty respectable scores were the result.
The time that Damo has spent coaching the kidlets on how to hit the big red ball doesn’t seem to have harmed his ability to hit the little white one and he hit the ground running to share the honours with Eddie with 39 points. Although Eddie complains bitterly every time his handicap gets cut he still seems to manage to play to his new one so he should be more than happy about his new mark.
Oliver got off a plane back from somewhere at 0600 and made it to the course in time to play, albeit without a set of clubs and so he had to hire a set. He claimed that, on the basis that he wasn’t playing with his own clubs, his 38 points should have been enough to win the event. Quite possibly a fair point, but perhaps AndrewB, who also carded a 38 would have demanded equal treatment so unfortunately for Oliver, the appeal was turned down and both he and Andrew will have to be happy with second place.
If Craig is still short of sleep, it doesn’t seem to be doing the golf any harm with yet another ascent of the podium, right along-side Noodles who is also having a bit of a purple patch. Another man who has been there or there-abouts in recent times is Bill who came in fourth place though he didn’t improve his eclectic this week even though he did card a couple of the ten or so birdies that were on the cards. Rounding out the point-getters were Pepsi and Laurie who were just one stroke short of playing to their handicap.
The ProPin on the 12th which had Jackpotted last week went off to Craig who left it 1.73m shy of the mark which was just a bit too long for him the ‘snag’ the birdie. Nobody put their mark on the ball hole. There was mention of Jackpot but it is not clear whether that rule applies for the ball.
There were a couple of matchplay matches decided. Pepsi had to give MalF 19 strokes and it ended up being a reasonable competition with Pepsi eventually prevailing 4 and 2 after a bit of a melt-down by Mal in the 16th. The other match, between Mehm and SOS was the best match ever (or not) and went down to the wire for Mehm to come in victorious 2 and 1.
Not sure whether the Police ethics lectures have been sinking in or whether SOS has embraced Buddhist principles, but he rescued a dragon (not damsel) fly in distress and carefully placed it on his golf bag to dry out. Apparently, the dragon’s name was Darren (not Puff) and by the next hole Darren had recovered enough to take flight and rejoin his kin.
Targe has been known to lay off to allow for the curvature of the ball flight after it leaves the club but, on odd occasions, the ball has been known not to take its usual non-linear path. This might have been the case on the 7th where, it seems, that Targe had to play his second shot from behind where he started after the ball hit a tree. That would just about have to be double drinks, wouldn’t it?
Results for Saturday, 22 February 2014
1st Ed Kloprogge(39) 1st Damien Lee(39) 2nd Andrew Blight(38) 2nd Oliver Gross(38) 3rd Stephen Butterfield(37) 3rd Craig Sharp(37) 4th Bill Eastoe(36) 5th Laurie Mannix(35) 5th Andrew Petricola(35)