By Ron Hottes
Wednesday 6 July, Stroke and M.McGrann Bag-day:
This event is sponsored by Your Loyal Scribe! As you may gather, I don’t like missing these days, ( 1st Wednesday of every month). I had no choice this month as I tested positive for Covid on Wednesday morning! So, you may also suspect that, whilst sitting at home—isolating—I was waiting to see the results of a rare “bag-day” when I was absent! So, here they are. Our Club Manager, David Murch, won the day with a Nett 70. But he only grabbed the first prize voucher on a countback, from the in-form Steuart Hawke, also recording a 70. Not surprisingly, balls got all the way down to 75. NTP winners for the day were Noel Cross (3rd), Barry Maltman (9th) Dave Murch (12th) and to Alan Johnson who in recent times appears to “own” the 15th!
Saturday 9 July:
On a Saturday when the weather and the conditions continue to make good golf challenging, there were some better-than-average results posted. The best of these went to my master’s pennant link man, Barry Maltman, who is starting to challenge Steuey as the “form player” at the Club. Barry recorded a solid 37 points to take home the day’s best prize. But he did not have it all his own way, as that score only allowed him to win on a countback! Our daily runner-up, Michael Pinkster, also posted a 37, but his second nine could not match Barry’s! Congrats to both men! The ball rundown only extended to 34, meaning there were plenty of results in the mid-30’s. NTP’s were won by Rod Kempton (3rd), P.K. (5th), Alan Johnston, who’s transferred his NTP ownership to the 9th, Pat O’Regan (12th) and to Clint Toohey (15th).
