By Ron Hottes
Wednesday 22 June, Stableford:
On a day when the weather-gods treated us to better-than-recent conditions, the scores improved too, Our daily winner, Steuart Hawke, has been in a good vein of form lately, so this result did not surprise anyone! Steuart’s 39 points made him a clear winner, as our runner-up, Paul Kennedy, grabbed the second prize with 35 points!. Good shooting by both Steuart and P.K. It is no surprise, therefore, that balls extended to 32. NTP winners were Ian Garside, (3rd and 9th, good work, Junior) and to Ross Machar (15th).
Saturday 25 June, Stroke: The Match Committee in their wisdom, was encouraging much of this field to stay back afterwards, by creating a Shotgun start. This did have the desired consequence, with plenty enjoying the Presentation of the day’s winners. Alas not me, I’m afraid, nor Snorks!
With a stroke round, there tends to be some really impressive scores posted, but a few that are NOT memorable! Therefore, only focusing on those impressive results, the MOST impressive was recorded by Steuart Hawke, with a 67 Nett! Now Nett 67 is NOT necessarily that memorable, except for the following. This is Steuart’s third daily win in a row, a very rare feat. AND he shot his age! Steuart is one of our fittest “older members”, and at 81, shot an 81 “off-the-stick.” Again, memorable for sure! Well done, Hawkey, long may your “rare vein of form” continue! Barry Maltman was the day’s runner-up, with one of his better rounds recently, a Nett 68. The ball rundown reached 73. And, the NTP’s went to P.K. (3rd), Sam Dennis (5th), David Murch (9th) and to Max Parker (15th).
