By Ron Hottes
Wednesday 28 September, The Garside Challenge (2-Person Ambrose):
Every sporting club needs members who have full-time work but find ways to give back to their club without impacting on their working life. Phil and Ian are two such members! Senior and Junior, ( as I refer to them), put their hands in their pockets BIGTIME, to host the now much-anticipated Garside Challenge. The “challenge” originally started some years ago because one of them,( we won’t name names!) kept on bragging about how he, and his older brother, combined so well in this demanding form of the game, that they were unbeatable! And so a tradition began! It continued last week, where, for the 2nd year in a row, the Invincible Garside Brothers were beaten… again! This year it was Andy Lockey and Peter Bell, with a sensational Nett 61 “neat” who won the day, and took home the main voucher, ( kindly donated by the brothers, along with the runner-up prize, a heap of good wine and a ball rundown!) And, the Brothers Extraordinaire, were not even the runner-up this time! That honour went to P.K. and Trevor Porter, (61.7 Nett.) It should be noted that The Brothers were “just behind” that runner-up score!! P.K. won the wine for an NTP on the 3rd. Ms Nursey and Bagel took out the wine for the 5th, Andy Lockey won both the 9th and the 12th and Cam was closest on the 15th. The 2 Longest Drive winners were Meredith Nursey and Stuart Patrick. Although the Committee would want me to thank the Garside Boys for their wonderful sponsoring of this much-loved event, I can conclude by saying that ALL the members who participated would want me to thank Senior and Junior, too. Thank you, Boys!
Saturday 1 October, Stroke and Monthly-Medal:
On a glorious Spring day, with the course drying out fast, winning scores were always going to impress. The member who impressed all and sundry, and now has a much-valued Medal, was Peter Jeffrey, a new member of my Master’s Pennant team, who really hit some superb form with a sizzling Nett 65! But even that impressive result still only snuck in on a countback! Lee Creedy also posted a 65, and had to be content with the runner-up voucher! Both men deserve high praise for great rounds! The balls ran all the way down to Nett 74, though! And, for the first time in a month, or more, we had a full list of NTP winners! They were Danny Fox (3rd), Ryan Wilson (5th), Adrian McInnes (9th), Michael Pinkster (12th) and finally to Tim Blanche (15th).
