{"id":2047,"date":"2013-07-20T17:16:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T07:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivanhoegc.wordpress.com\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2013-07-20T17:16:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T07:16:48","slug":"results-for-saturday-13-july-2013-fred-howe-winter-cup-round-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivanhoegc.org\/?p=2047","title":{"rendered":"Results for Saturday 20 July 2013 – Fred Howe Winter Cup – Round 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Triple<\/a>
Right, left or centre?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You didn’t have to be mad to be out playing golf today but it might have helped.\u00a0 The course started out a bit wet under foot after the recent spate of wet weather.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Before long the casual water on the greens went close to making them unplayable.\u00a0 Some thought they were and some resorted to chipping rather than putting to try to avoid the sudden stop that greeted many a putt.<\/p>\n

Despite the conditions, there were some fairly respectable scores posted with a triple headed monster leading the field.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 That’s what we like to see.<\/p>\n

As usual there were the nearest the pin competitions and Sharpie managed to snag the ball on the 4th.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Still not worth getting with only one ball in the Eagles Nest.\u00a0 Birdies were thin on the ground today with as few as six plodded.<\/p>\n

Ben reckons he set another club record today for the number of trees that he managed to hit.\u00a0 However, it seems that most of them redirected the ball back to the fairway so he isn’t too unhappy about it.\u00a0 Tony is working on the bohemian look by sporting what looks like the start of side-burns and a goatee.\u00a0 Next it will be cloth cap and flares.<\/p>\n

Brendon has been spreading his wings and branching out into other sports, in particular mixed net-ball.\u00a0 Unfortunately it looks like putting the mockers on his golfing career for a while with a seriously torn Achilles.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 Small consolation but at least they stayed off the greens this time.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 Reportedly it took ten minutes to find it.\u00a0 Wonder what the rules say about that, after all you are only allowed five to look for a ball.\u00a0 In another rules question, do worms crawling on the green count under the definition of loose impediments?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You didn’t have to be mad to be out playing golf today but it might have helped.\u00a0 The course started out a bit wet under foot after the recent spate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p81fbi-x1","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivanhoegc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivanhoegc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivanhoegc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivanhoegc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivanhoegc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivanhoegc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivanhoegc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivanhoegc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivanhoegc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}