Beautiful fine weather. Hard fairways. Soft (and freshly blown) greens. High scoring in recent weeks. Eleven keen members. Our old mate, Snags. Guest (and potential new member) Marc Phillips. There was every promise of a day to remember on the scoring front. And the reality?
SOS owned up to the fact that he has had a couple of lessons with Chris (Moore, that is, not the other one(s)), and he reckons that he can put his Bradbury like performance down to that. Watch out everyone, because he is lining up for more, and recommending it to anyone who will listen. Do I smell ‘commission’? So, by doing a bit of a blitz job on the back, he was able to thread his way through the tumbling ten-pins to finish on top with everybody’s favourite, sixty-nine to collect the Medal, and a place in the David Primrose.
CJ made good use of the trees today, and was saved, on a number of occasions, by appeals to the tree gods, who promptly answered his supplications. His final score was just a stroke behind the winner thanks to the numerous interventions. It was thought that, maybe, Marc also had a direct line to aforesaid tree gods when a number of stray shots turned fortuitous.
Craig was his usual sure and steady self, and could easily have been better than seventy-one, except for a couple of strayings from the straight and narrow. The pars proved elusive for Stan, who joined Craig in third place. Appearing a little more regularly in recent times seems to be paying off for Ken, who featured in the points again to take a couple for fourth place. Rounding out the podium, we had Ryan, who also tried for a Bradbury, by polishing off the back nine just one stroke over the card. Just a pity he couldn’t have been a bit higher up the table to mark the occasion of his 400th game with the Club.
There was a thought that the BallPin on the 7th was a chance to Jackpot again, but Old Reliable had other ideas, and put it on and close enough to add another pair of balls to his collection. Nobody was so lucky on the 18th, and there will be a Double Jackpot next week, with three balls to be won. The ProPin was set on the 4th, and the 5m circle almost proved to be too small, but Gordo saved the day by getting his ball to 2.97m. The birdie eluded him, which was not atypical, as we could only card three for the day.
Raj gave his ankle a good work out today, as he was seen to be taking the ‘scenic route’, on a few occasions. He also admitted donating three balls to the collection at the bottom of the pond on the 17th. Not quite a record, but getting up there. Snags didn’t have any coins with him today because it all goes into his ‘swear box’ at home. Or, should that be, ‘swear 200l drum’. The Birthday Birdie was remiss and missed Rob’s big day a couple of weeks ago, and there is a big shout out due to Josh in the coming week.
Results for Saturday, 01 Feb 2025
1st Stephen O’Sullivan (69) 2nd Chris Priems (70) 3rd Stan Blackshaw (71) 3rd Craig Cameron (71) 4th Ken Watson (73) 5th Dan Marie (74) 5th Ryan Porker (74)
Seniors Results: 1st Chris Priems (70) 2nd Craig Cameron (71) 2nd Stan Blackshaw (71) 3rd Ken Watson (73)
Nearest the Pin Results: ProPin – 4th Gordon Hill BallPin No 1 – 7th Craig Cameron BallPin No 2 – 18th Jackpot