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Results for Saturday 20 July 2013 – Fred Howe Winter Cup – Round 1

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You didn’t have to be mad to be out playing golf today but it might have helped.  The course started out a bit wet under foot after the recent spate of wet weather.  There were a couple of showers early on but it looked as if it might hold off long enough for the round to finish but then the heavens opened up and the serious wet weather gear had to come out.  Before long the casual water on the greens went close to making them unplayable.  Some thought they were and some resorted to chipping rather than putting to try to avoid the sudden stop that greeted many a putt.

Despite the conditions, there were some fairly respectable scores posted with a triple headed monster leading the field.

Craig Sharp 78 37, Damien Lee 75 37 , Kazim Akdag 75 37, Oliver Gross 76 36, Harry Boughen 88 35, Stefan Belevski 77 35, Stephen O’Sullivan 81 34, Chris Priems 80 34, Gordon Hill 82 34, Targe Mifsud 89 32, Mo Sabih 90 29 , Mike Mann 93 29, Stephen Butterfield 85 29, Mehmet Akdag 86 29, Ben Akdag 94 28, Tony Mifsud 92 27, Rod White 95 23.

From this position, nobody has the event sewn up and there are eight or so with a good chance and still the opportunity for a dark horse to come from the back of the field and pip everybody at the post.  That’s what we like to see.

As usual there were the nearest the pin competitions and Sharpie managed to snag the ball on the 4th.  At the money hole on the 12th, Gordon was bemoaning the fact that his ball finished 5.025. out from the hole and so he didn’t get to put his name on the marker.  As it turned out Pepsi beat him by almost exactly 5 metres and if it hadn’t been for the head wind and the water on the green it could easily have been the elusive HIO.  Still not worth getting with only one ball in the Eagles Nest.  Birdies were thin on the ground today with as few as six plodded.

Ben reckons he set another club record today for the number of trees that he managed to hit.  However, it seems that most of them redirected the ball back to the fairway so he isn’t too unhappy about it.  Tony is working on the bohemian look by sporting what looks like the start of side-burns and a goatee.  Next it will be cloth cap and flares.

Brendon has been spreading his wings and branching out into other sports, in particular mixed net-ball.  Unfortunately it looks like putting the mockers on his golfing career for a while with a seriously torn Achilles.  Looks like surgery will be in the offing – hope it all goes well and you are back on the track sooner rather than later, Brendon.

Even though it is not his area, SOS is threatening to patrol the course to try to catch the hoons that persist in doing wheelies around the course.  Small consolation but at least they stayed off the greens this time.

The wet conditions did little for the stickiness of the grips and after one shot from the edge of a hazard, Stefan was not so much concerned about where his ball went, but where his club went.  Reportedly it took ten minutes to find it.  Wonder what the rules say about that, after all you are only allowed five to look for a ball.  In another rules question, do worms crawling on the green count under the definition of loose impediments?