By Ron Hottes
Wednesday 14 September, Stableford:
With the weather kinder to us than in recent weeks and months, it was predictable that the scores posted would be on the improve, too. And so it was! Robert Ferguson posted the best score we midweek golfers have seen for some time, as he took home the main prize with a very commendable 39 points. A relatively new member, James Campion, was the daily runner-up with a more than acceptable 35 points. Balls crept all the way down to 27 points! There were 3 NTP winners, but one was clever enough to be a dual winner! Ron Wilson snared the prizes on BOTH the 9th and the 12th. Good shooting, Ron! Clint Toohey hit a superb tee-shot to grab the NTP on the 3rd, and Darryl Ward took home the one on offer for the 15th.
Saturday 17 September, PAR: I have a theory, dear readers; in golf, PAR is made for high handicappers and a curse for those who play off low handicaps. But, have a look at the following results for this daily comp! Michael Pinkster, ( a reasonably low handicapper) won the day with a creditable +2. Clint Toohey, (an even lower handicapper) took home the runner-up prize, with a +1. Thanks boys, just blew my theory out of the water! ( But, I put it down to the continuing difficult conditions; wet underfoot, some slippery areas, no “run” on your drives!) Anyway, I still think that, given reasonably good conditions, high-handicappers dominate in PAR events! By the way, balls got down to -3, and only 2 of those were genuine C-Graders! NTP winners were Roger Mataele (3rd), Lee Creedy (5th), Darryl Ward (9th) and our daily winner, Michael Pinkster (15th).
