By Ron Hottes
The V.V.V’s:
No comp again this week but most of the Ladies who are away will return in the next couple of weeks. Of the handful who did play, it must be noted that the ever-improving Georgia Houniet returned a superb 20 points for her 9-hole round. Smooth as saffron, Georgie, keep up the good form.
Wednesday 14 August, Stableford:
A great week of weather has literally transformed the course from a tough, unyielding enemy of most golfers to a pleasant friend. At the top of the heap is long-standing member Noel Cross who played off 9 on this day. Noel’s 42 superb points meant that he shot 72 off the stick. Great shooting, Crossy. To demonstrate how impressive this effort was runner-up Joshua Hin claimed that voucher with a creditable 37 points but 5 behind Noel. With these scores posted, not surprisingly, the ball rundown only reached 34. NTPs went home this week with Andy Lockey (3rd), Steuart Hawke (9th) and Your Loyal Scribe who snared two on the 12th &andthe 15th.( A feat he has never achieved in 40+ years of Warburton G.C. Membership, had to be a fluke).
Saturday 17 August, Par:
With a dump of precipitation the day before, those conditions did not appear to alter the friendly state from the mid-week course. This was quite evident once again, in the winning scores posted on this day. An impressive +4 meant that Peter Fox had the equivalent of 40 Stableford points, to take home the top voucher. But, Peter’s win was not without a close countback, because our runner-up, Andrew McMath, also posted a fine +4, to consider himself unlucky not to be taking home the top prize. In an interesting aside, the ball countdown only reached square on this day. Another interesting fact to note was the NTP results. You would have noted that Your Loyal Scribe did some rare bragging about his two NTP wins on the same day last Wednesday, snf just to put that achievement in the shade, Troy Murphy achieved one better. Troy picked up three of them this day and they were for super tee-shots on the 3rd, the 5th and the 15th. That is truly a memorable achievement, Troy. There were two other NTPs on offer, and they were taken home by Clinton Toohey 9th) and Lee Creedy (12th).
