By Ron Hottes
Wednesday 20 September, Stableford:
With the weather gods now regularly playing their part, it only naturally follows that winning scores will be more impressive. On this day, there were two very impressive scores. As the course is drying out, providing more run and with the greens in cherry-ripe condition, the winning score of 39 well-earnt points is no surprise. Stuart Patrick was the player who achieved that. But he only receives the top gong after a countback was needed to separate Stuart from unlucky runner-up, Glenn Forbes. Glenn should also be proud of that result. If you posted a 35+ card, you can also claim a ball, and well done. This day’s NTPs went home with P.K. (3rd), David Waterman (9th), Alan McDonald (12th) and finally Laurie Doyle (15th).
Saturday 23 September, Stableford:
With continued perfect golfing weather, the outstanding results continue to be posted. A healthy field, numbers-wise, contested this day’s comp, with the member who stood out the most being Lee Creedy. This was the result of him accumulating an outstanding point total of 40, easily the best A-Grade result of the day. Darryl Ward collected the runner-up voucher with 36 points. Good result for both of you, Lee and Darryl. In B-Grade, a 35-point total was enough to get Matthew Maloney over the line- but only just. Matt won that top prize by squeezing out Trevor Porter after a fairly close countback. Clearly Matt’s back nine was the better of the two. In this grade, balls reached down to 32, yet in A-Grade they only extended to 34. NTP winners on this day were Jack Sheehan (3rd), Clinton Toohey (5th), Paul Osbourne (9th), Geoff Fall (12th) and Tom Barr (15th).
