By Ron Hottes
The V.V.V’s:
Once again, six hardy Vixens turned out on the course which allowed for a daily comp. These tough Ladies endured a fairly frosty morning with plenty of sunshine to warm them up as the day progressed. The two Vixens, who performed better than anyone else, were Georgie Houniet and Merrilyn McDonald. Although both these hardy souls accumulated 18 very impressive points (over 9 holes only), a countback was required to separate them. Georgie’s last 3 holes gave up more points than The Commissioner, therefore, Merilyn had to accept the runner-up voucher, but well done to both girls on a great result ( As an aside, it should be noted that Georgie has become our most consistent Lady golfer in recent times, and M.M. has improved her game out of sight. Watch out, Alan, she is likely to be the best player in that family sooner-rather-than-later) .
No NTPs were recorded.
Wednesday 19 June, Stableford:
On an even colder morning than The Vixens endured two days before, those who coped best with freezing hands were clearly to the fore in the end-of-day results. One member, who started very well, and kept the consistent scoring going, was Paul Kennedy, one of our legendary members, who on this day accrued a 35-point total, which bettered the rest of the small field by quite some margin. Great shooting, P.K. The runner-up, back on 31 points, was Ken Barratt. Clearly, K.B. was not comfortable with the compliments being piled onto Mrs. Barratt for her recent consistent form. Good work, Ken. Even though K.B. took out the runner-up prize with his 31 points, the ball rundown only snuck down to 30, meaning there were plenty of other 31 and 30 results. NTP winners on the day were as follows: Mario DeVincentis (3rd), Dave Waterman (12th) and Noel Cross completed a satisfactory day by snaring both the 9th and 15th NTPs, although he missed both birdie putts.
Saturday 22 June:
It was significant that the day after the Winter Solstice (the shortest day of the year), there were plenty of Stableford scores that were short of the mark when it comes to vouchers and prizes. One member, who was guaranteed a voucher, was Troy Murphy, with a score of 38 points, taking home the A-Grade prize. But, that was official only after a tight countback separated Troy from Geoff Fall. Geoff had to be content with the runner-up prize. Balls ran down to 35 only. A slightly different story in B-Grade, because the ball rundown reached 31 here. That didn’t concern Jordie Burge, as he racked up a 37-point round. Trev Porter’s 34-point result was enough to earn him the runner-up prize, again on a countback. There was a full compliment of NTP winners on this day and they were as follows: Liam Kay (3rd), Jack Sheehan (for a mighty tee shot on the hard 5th), Neil Leckenby ( who just about owns the 9th), my old mate Darryl Ward (12th) and finally to Paul Kennedy ( on the tough 15th for a typically accurate P.K. tee shot).
