By Ron Hottes
Wednesday 17 May PAR:
As with all golf clubs, Warburton Golf Club has some regular early-birds, who love to be out ahead of the field. If you speak to them, they will give you a whole list of reasons why they have an advantage over the rest. Clearly, on this comp day, they took advantage of those benefits to place 1 and 2 in the results. Of course, I’m referring to Ross Machar and John Haynes, both of whom play in the same group most weeks. On this occasion, Ross pipped his mate for the top voucher posting an excellent +4. John’s +3 was too good for everyone else in the field. Not surprisingly, the balls extended to -2. The NTP winners on this day were James Campion (3rd), Alan McDonald (9th), Neil “Mr. Scotland” Leckenby (12th) and Max Carvill (15th).
Saturday 20 May: Stroke and Foursomes Championships:
This event, loyal readers, is one that most members of any Club would love to win. It is the ultimate team event. Pairs who win this title have Club bragging rights in so many ways. And so it is no surprise that our Open Gross Champions for 2023 are the Fox boys. Peter and Danny are cousins, but they could be brothers for the affinity they have with each other’s games. They very much played the demanding 27-hole journey with very few hiccups, to finally record an impressive 120 off-the-stick. Well done, Fox team. Although, it needs to be noted they only just snuck in beating Paul Kennedy and Lance “Gator” Atwell by just 1 stroke. That folks is just 1 shot difference over 27 holes. The Nett winners were a new pairing of Peter Whitehead and Paul Osbourne. Their gross 125 then converted into a Nett 101.75—a really impressive result. The Nett runner-ups were Darryl Ward and Rob Ferguson, who recorded a Nett 104. Hearty congratulations to all winners. NTPs were taken out by Paul Osbourne (5th and 15th— making for a very good day for Ossie) and to Robert Ferguson (9th).
