Although we are approaching the start of winter, conditions today must have been pretty benign despite a few threatening clouds and the faintest few spots of rain. The stars certainly aligned for Eddie who managed to match the card on the front nine and had only a minor fade-out on the back to come in with a 75 off the beater for a net 57. That’s right – 57. And all this on what used to be an eighteen handicap. Rumour has it that if he had played the inside comp, he would have had an even more devastating 51 net.
Gordon walked into the scorers tent with a fairly smug look on his face to hand in his 61 net only to be suitably downcast when he heard Eddies score. Even so, he was exhorting the handicapper to check the cards carefully but unfortunately for Gordo, it was all ship-shape and Bristol fashion. Tony, thought he could have played better (don’t we all?) but it is hard to see another six strokes. Ever steady Mo and Richard filled out the last two placings. There were even a couple of players who scored a handicap cut, but didn’t make the points table.
There were two Matchplay matches contested today with David beating Damo 4 and 2 and Jan beat RodW 2 and 1. There is only one match left in Round 1 and that will be between Craig and Noodles next week. Round 2 only has a month to complete so don’t take too long to arrange your matches.
We are now leading up to the half way mark in the playing year and the championship tables are stringing out a bit but there are still plenty of points up for grabs so the bunch of front runners at the moment are not in an unassailable position by any means.
The Nearest the Pin was on the 4th today and Eddie was the last one to put his name on the tag and so is the proud owner of a new ball. He made the birdie and managed a few others in his round. In fact, there were a few triple headers amongst the total of twenty that turned up today. The Eagle avoided any attention as well so the nest fills slowly.
Andrew B saved his only shot of the day until the 18th and put his tee shot to within 2 metres to take out our ProPin as well as holding out hope the the inside dividend as well. Noodles, who spent most of the round distracted by his mobile phone (I thought etiquette demanded that you turn them off), also pulled out one of his better shots to finish within spitting distance of matching Andrew’s shot for the money. Not sure who Noodles was sexting so assiduously, but he was heard discussing with SOS what was the age of consent in Victoria!
Harry had an indifferent start to the round but after five pars in seven holes he was getting to be known as the brides nighty – up and down. However at the eighteenth, he needed four pokes to find the hole. Jan’s matchplay was so full of tension, that when it went dormie at the fifteenth , Jan’s nerves almost got the better of him, particularly when he lost the sixteenth. He duffed his drive on the 17th and only just managed to snare the match with a halved hole at five strokes apiece.
Oliver and Eddie were having a bit of a shoot-out in the early stages of the round going blow for blow and birdie for birdie for the first six holes. However Oliver was on a hiding to nothing with the ten stroke difference in handicap. Craig was back this week after his achilles injury and soldiered on for about twelve holes before calling it quits. Hope it only needs some R&R and that it hasn’t been aggravated too much. In any case, Craig has promised to be back next week to take on Noodles in the Matchplay.
The draw for partners seems to have worked reasonably well this week and if we can keep up the good work by getting to the club well before the first tee time then the tee marshals job should be much easier. Everybody seemed to be aware of it so they read their e-mail if not the posting on the web. However, nobody seemed to notice that the date on the Next Week Details hadn’t been changed for about three weeks. Still, I guess you would all know not to turn up three weeks ago!
Ben will be looking for his deposit money next week so if you haven’t paid up, beware, or he will sool the Taliban onto you.
The players statistics have been updated so if you want to assess whether you are g.b. or g.w., click on the links. You can also ogle your mates as well.
Results for Saturday, 04 May 2013
1st Ed Kloprogge(57) 2nd Gordon Hill(61) 3rd Tony Mifsud(63) 4th Mo Sabih(65) 5th Richard Hall(66)