What a way to finish out Stuart’s Memorial. The front runners from Week 1 kept their heads down (well most of them) and finished still out in front. Damo absolutely blitzed the front nine to finish three under the card and 26 points. He then suffered a relapse (or did he take his foot off?) on the back with a string of one pointers but managed to do enough to head off Mehm and Pepsi to score the major trophy. Mehm had his chances to challenge with a couple of holes to go when a putt hit a ball marker and deflected from a certain sinker. He was offered the option to have the marker moved but declined.
Mike also tore the front nine apart to finish with a very creditable 40 points to catapult himself into third place. No silverware this time Mike, but a new angle on the handicap front with the downward trend continuing. The rest of the field protected their handicap with Noodles, Mo, Dennis and Bill receiving the rest of the points.
There was obviously a big move on the table with the sixteen points falling into Damo’s lap and this catapulted him into the lead of the Club Championship. The big question is, can he do it again in a couple of weeks time for the Autumn Cup? Mike has the lead in the Seniors but there are a few contenders snapping at his heels so there is no place for complacency.
The Nearest the Pin on the 4th went begging this week and for the first time in a long time the ball hole has jackpotted. The money for the ProPin was not so lucky and fell into the grasping hands of Mo who managed to get within about a metre and a half of the pin on the 15th. Despite the inaccuracy of everybody on the 4th, the team managed to put together 13 birdies which seems to be pretty close to normal. Despite a number of people commenting on the speed of the greens and the number of missed putts, they must have been falling in for some. Noodles put his hand out for the contents of the Eagle’s Nest from last week’s ‘flukey’ (to use Noodle’s terminology) shot and collected five of the best.
Rodger suffered an attack of first tee nerves and barely managed to get past the Ladies markers. He continued to struggle on the front nine but managed to pull himself together on the back to show some of his old form. Perhaps it was the emotion of the day and the sprinkling of Hawaiian shirts that clouded his vision. There was certainly some emotion in the responses at the announcement of the results.
Apologies too, to Mal F for the typo in last weeks post that showed him with only 17 points – it was actually 27 – and the error has been fixed.
Next week will be the April Monthly Medal. The two weeks following that will be the David Ford Autumn Cup event which will be Par competition and more double points and silverware up for grabs. After that there will be only three more weeks (and that includes another Monthly Medal) before the second round of the Matchplay and there aren’t all that many matches in the first round completed yet.
Results for Saturday, 30 March 2013
1st Damien Lee(37/39/76) 2nd Mehmet Akdag(36/37/73) 2nd Andrew Petricola(37/36/73) 3rd Mike Mann(28/40/68) 4th Stephen Butterfield(33/34/67) 4th Mo Sabih(32/35/67) 4th Dennis Tiernan(31/36/67) 5th Bill Eastoe(31/34/65)