By Ron Hottes
The V.V.V’s:
Once again, we had more than six playing this week, they being Sally-Ann, Deborah, Annaliese, Vicki, Georgie and Maureen with the best score recorded under sunny skies and perfect conditions by Annaliese, with a superb 21 points over the front nine. This Lady, when on her game, can blow the rest of the field away and did so today. Although, with an equally impressive 19 points, Georgie would not have been too disappointed with just the runner-up prize. Both those results were well ahead of the rest of the field. There were no NTPs today, but they are coming soon, as the course dries out.
Wednesday 16 October, Stableford:
With showers staying away, making conditions ideal for great scoring, David Waterman proved that in no uncertain terms, posting a very pleasing 44 stunning points. This was David’s best result for many months, so well done to him. The runner-up was my regular playing partner Rob Hendy. RJH snared that prize with his best score for some time also, an impressive 41 points. The third prize was taken by another old mate of Your Loyal Scribe, Darryl Ward. Dazza posted a 40-point result. With these scores being recorded, it was no wonder that the balls only ran down to 36. NTP winners were: Wardy (3rd), Glenn Forbes (9th), Rob Hendy (12th), John Haynes (15th) and Mario De Vincentis for a superb approach shot on the 17th.
Twilight:
On an afternoon when storm clouds were brewing and the groups hitting off late copped it, Scott Atkinson timed his game to perfection, coming in just before that storm with a superb result posted of 23 points. But, unbelievably, he only won on a countback, because young tyro Jack Sheehan matched that great score but could not match the last three of Scott’s holes. Still a great effort from both boys. Ash Hall showed his son who is boss, when the chips are down, by grabbing the third prize with a fine 22-point result (Good work, Dad). As expected, the balls only went down to 18. NTP winners were: Sean ‘Bruno’ Kennedy (10th), Troy Veenker (12th) and Ash Hall (15th).
Saturday 19 October, 4-Person Ambrose:
On this big day for the Club, with a ‘Back-to-Warby’ theme, it was pleasing to see many faces of previous members, plus numerous guests who were visiting the beautiful W.G.C, some for the first time. But with a result that surprised no one, four of the well-known locals teamed up to win the prizes by the narrowest of margins. Led by Darryl Ward, Geoff Sharp, Rob Ferguson and Joshua Hin combined brilliantly to post a Nett 52.5 result. They won this day by a quarter of a stroke because Peter Whitehead, Ken White, Paul Osbourne and Matt Maloney recorded a gross 61 also, coming up with a Nett 52.75. Another old mate, ‘Shaggy’ and his team posted the best gross result on the day, a superb 60 off-the-stick. There were plenty of NTPs taken home: by guest Jason Knight (3rd), President Nursey (5th), guest Gary Veale (9th), Josh Hin (12th), Michael Pinkster (15th), Panda Lever (2nd shot 17th) and finally to straight-shooter Ken Barratt for his ‘gun-barrel’ drive on the 16th.
