By Ron Hottes
Wednesday 13 July, Stableford: A small, but keen field went out to tackle the course, on a cold, and at times, wet course! And, once again, the member with the “golden touch” at the moment, dominated the scoring. That’s right, readers, Steuart Hawke once again beat the course, and his ever-shrinking handicap, with a very impressive 38 points. Putting this into context, the daily runner-up, John Haynes, snared that prize with 32 points on a countback! There were clearly plenty of scores at 31/32 because the ball count only went to 31! Only 3 NTP winners on the day to report. David Murch grabbed one at the 3rd, Steuart Hawke took the honours on the 9th and Noel Cross hit a solid tee shot on the 12th.
Saturday 16 July, PAR: With the weather conditions offering up a very gusty, and freezing gale, but with little or no rain until most of the field was “in”, we had NO better-than-average results. But the best average result posted was recorded by Club Skipper, Ray Gilmore, with a -1. This held up well when you consider that Darren Wyatt grabbed the runner-up voucher with a -3. There was a stack of scores at -3 because that’s where the balls finished. Clearly, the course is winning at this stage of Winter! Even the list of NTP winners is “light-on” at the moment, with no one grabbing one on the challenging Par 3 15th! The other Par 3’s gave up prizes to Darren Wyatt (3rd), “Gator” Atwell,(5th), Barry Maltman, (9th) and P.K. on the equally-challenging 12th!
