By Ron Hottes
The V.V.V’s:
When eight Ladies went out to tackle the front nine, under sunny skies, and with perfect conditions to deal with, the top scorer was Your Loyal Scribe’s very excited ‘better-half’ Vicki-Hottes who hit her straps this day and collected 19 points to win the top prize by 3 shots, well done (Grr, bragging rights). The runner-up voucher was taken home by the ultra-consistent Suzanne Barratt, because she posted a 16-point score. There were no NTPs this time, so we wait another week to see that (hopefully) occur.
Wednesday 4 December, Stroke and M. McGrann Bag playoff:
Although it was just another Bag-day qualifier for most of the healthy field, there were nine 2024 qualifiers playing off for the ultimate prize, a topline Titleist bag. These nine qualifiers included Your Loyal Scribe, who somehow fluked it to win. But the big story of the day was that the daily winner, and first qualifier for next year’s bag, was none other than Peter Whitehead, with a stunning Nett 67. And when congratulated, his comment was ‘About bloody time’. Yes, it has been a bit up-and-down for Mr. Whitehead recently, but this was a stark return to form. Well done, Pete. The daily runner-up was another who showed good form leading up to this excellent round, and a Nett 68 was nearly good enough to take home the chokkies for Mick Eldridge. Well done, Father Michael. The balls extended all the way down to Nett 75 so you scraped in for a ball, Angus. The NTP winners were: Mr. Hendy (3rd), Steuart Hawke (5th), Angus Hall (9th), Neil Leckenby (12th) and Barry Maltman (15th).
Twilight:
Under cloudless skies, but with hot and steamy conditions the order of the day, those who could cope with that would always shoot great scores. And the greatest result this day, with a superb 20 points, was Rod Kempton. Well done, Rod (I so hope that big brother Shaggy is reading this). But, little brother only just won, after a tight countback, because it needs to be noted that Matt Maloney also posted a 20-point result. A pleasing result, M.M. Balls reached 18 only. In an unusual occurrence, there was only one NTP recorded, that coming from the talented hands of Sean ‘Bruno’ Kennedy, who hit a superb tee shot on the 9th.
Saturday 7 December, Stroke and Medal of Medallist’s playoff:
To win a Monthly Medal is pretty special to any golfer to win the yearly M.M. playoff is special enough to be a Club board event. This year, the achievement has been won by Tim Jones, with a stunning Nett 66. and added to his haul is the top B-Grade prize. Congrats to you, Tim. But, the actual winner of the December Medal, and winner overall on the day, was Sean Kennedy, who followed on from his consistent Twilight form, to post a superb Nett 65. Bruno won the A-Grade voucher easily because Joel Coombs grabbed the runner-up voucher with a solid Nett 69. Balls went down to 71. In B-Grade, the runner-up to Tim was Darryl Ward, with a very solid Nett 67. Good work, Dazza. Balls reached 72 here. The 5 NTPs went home with Neil ‘Mr. Scotland’ Leckenby (3rd), Roger Mataele (5th), Dave Hatt (9th), Danny Fox (12th) and Matt Wappett (15th).
