By Ron Hottes
Wednesday 6 September:
Stroke & M. McGrann “Bag qualifier” – in contrast to last week’s midweek weather, our members enjoyed sunny, warm, although very windy conditions.
This has given the course a chance to dry out, resulting in some “run” on a few fairways.
This then improved scoring to the extent that our two best Nett results matched the par of the course – this also meant that a countback was required, and I believe it was a “tight” one!
Ross-Machar is one of our “early-birds”, which clearly suits him and his regular foursome.
His Nett 69 had a better back nine than our R/up, Ian-Garside.
Ironically, the Junior Garside is also an early-bird, which suggests that I need to make a 7.30 booking next week.
Well done to both Ross & Garsy for those results, because the ball rundown got to Nett 75, meaning there were plenty of 74’s and 75’s that deserved a ball –but were well off target in comparison to Nett 69’s.
The other daily winners were, of course, from the NTP list, and they were as follows:
Peter-Whitehead, (3rd), Glenn-Forbes, (5th), Hatty, (12th) and Steuart-Hawke, ( 15th).
I have left the 9th NTP winner to last.
Allan “Old Man River” Hubbard, has once again defied age and health issues to show that he “still has it”, which is a good sign for my Master’s-Pennant team, in the upcoming 2023 season.
Keep up the good form, Allan.
Saturday 9 September Stableford:
Although the weather was quite reasonable for our smaller than usual Saturday field, the course was fairly damp underfoot due to a couple of days of rain previously.
This resulted in some lower-than-average scores overall, two results stood out like a beacon.
Peter-Whitehead, our newly-minted Master’s-Pennant captain and Joshua-Hin, arguably the in-form player in our Club, both posted excellent 39 pointers, to force the Match-Committee to go to a countback.
This time it favoured Peter, allowing him to take home the top voucher!
Well done, Peter and commiserations, Josh.
The rundown of balls went to 33 in the small field, due to the fact that, after Peter & Josh, the next best score were a bunch of 35’s.
NTP’s went home with P.K. (3rd), Darryl-Ward, (5th), Tex Van Der Kooi, (9th), Josh-Hin, (12th) and to Peter-Whitehead, (15th).
