By Ron Hottes
Wednesday 5 April, Stroke and Mick McGrann Bag Day:
Under sunny skies, a very healthy field of 49 set forth to tackle the course and the conditions. Two of those players were the Garside brothers, Phil and Ian. Now, Ian is the younger of the two and also plays off a single-figure handicap. Older brother, Phil, plays off 18, a true B-grader’s handicap. But Phil can pull one out of the bag quite frequently, and wow did he do that this week. Phil now qualifies to play off for the bag at the end of the year. He did it by shooting an impossible-to-beat Nett 60. To put that effort in context, Phil, off an 18 handicap, shot a 78 off-the-stick. Clearly, this score left everyone else lagging way behind including your Loyal Scribe, who was lucky enough to grab the B-grade runner-up voucher, with a half-decent Nett 68. In A-Grade, there was another superb score from the Mr Consistent of the Patrick clan, that being Luke who had a very impressive Nett 64, easily good enough to take home the top A-Grade prize. The runner-up to Luke was none other than a talented cousin, Adam Patrick (Well, he’s clearly more talented than his father) who posted a Nett 67. The rundown of balls reached 72. NTPs were won by Trevor Porter (3rd), Your Loyal Scribe (5th), Noel Cross (9th), Maxwell Carvill (12th) and Superintendent Mason (15th).
Saturday 8 April:
No competition due to inclement conditions.
