By Ron Hottes
Wednesday 7 September, Stroke and M.McGrann “Bag-day”:
With the “big wet” not receding, heavy conditions continued to confront the field,( although carts, at least, were back on the course!) This change of conditions resulted in a bigger field of 34 tackling the course! With all of this taken into account, any Nett scores under Par were definitely worth praise. Clint Toohey and Robert Ferguson both recorded Nett 68’s. Unfortunately for Robert, Clinton’s back 9 was the superior score, thus gifting Clint the main prize. But well done to both boys as the next best Nett score was a 72! Balls extended to Nett 76! NTPs were presented to Max Carvill (3rd), John Hall (9th—welcome back, Ex-Presidente), David Murch (12th) and to Geoffrey Fall (15th).
Saturday 10 September, Stableford:
With the rain hanging around before and during this competition, course conditions were certainly no less demanding! The golfer in the field who handled those demands best was David Hatt, who posted a very healthy 36 points. Although Hatty won “outright” on the day, he only got there via a tight countback. A regular guest, Graeme Snell, visiting from the SGA group also recorded a 36-point game and went home with the runner-up voucher. I believe the ball rundown got to 32. Not surprisingly, there were only two NTP winners, they being Hatty on the 3rd, whilst Aaron Henderson claimed one on the 9th!
It should be mentioned that carts, which were off again on Saturday, may be allowed back for mid-week comp on Wednesday. We can only hope!
