By Ron Hottes
Wednesday 11 October, Stroke and M. McGrann Bag-day qualifier:
Oh, what a difference a week makes in relation to Melbourne’s unpredictable weather patterns. This week, under glorious blue skies, and with not a breath of wind, you just knew that glorious scores would follow.
Luckily, for Matt Maloney, the golfing gods decided that he would be the one player, in a field of 45, who would return that glorious result, a Nett 64, which bettered the rest of the field by 4 clear shots. Great job, Matt, surely that handicap system will catch up with you shortly.
This day’s runner-up was none other than Merrilyn McDonald, with an impressive Nett 68. (Remind Alan that you have the bragging rights for now, M.M.) Balls only extended to Nett 71. NTP winners were as follows: Mario De Vincentis (3rd), Ron Wilson (5th), Junior Garside (9th) and David Hatt (15th).
Twilight:
As this Twilight season gets into full swing, scores should be impressive as each week passes by. But under wet skies, and turning quite cold in comparison to recent golf days, the scores were impressive, but not outstanding. The winner this time was Clinton Toohey, with a solid 20 points for the front-nine holes. But, as impressive as that result was, Clint only won on a countback from Simon Spenceley, who also recorded a 20-point round. The ball rundown reached 18 only. No NTPs were recorded on this day.
Saturday 14 October, 4-Person Ambrose and Back-to-Warby day:
Although a disappointing field of 60+ contested this annual event, the competition was still fierce for the great prizes on offer, (mainly Titleist products) and without a doubt the fiercest of the competing groups, consisted of Darryl Ward, Rob Ferguson, Geoff Sharp and Josh-Hin, who posted a very competitive Nett 52.87, to win the day easily.
The next best result, and earning them some handy runner-up prizes was Peter Whitehead, Paul Osbourne, Ken White and Matt Maloney, their score coming in at a Nett 55 flat. No ball rundown happened in this comp, but the host of NTP winners were as follows: Kevin Bargar (3rd), guest Ashley Crow (5th), Ryan Wilson (9th), ‘Bomber’ Campbell (12th) and Aaron Henderson (15th). There were 2 longest-drive prizes included, and these were taken home by Clinton Toohey (A-Grade) and to Shane Ford (B-Grade.)
