By Ron Hottes
The V.V.V’s:
Well, dear loyal readers, Merilyn Macdonald must absolutely love the Monday morning comp.
Not only does she score very consistently, but she wins just as consistently – and collects vouchers consistently.
Merilyn’s 18 points this week did just that – collecting another winning voucher to spend.
Tricia Eldridge took home the runners up prize with a well constructed 15 points.
Once again, there were no NTPs.
Wed. March 27th: Stableford:
The Senior part of the Garside brothers, Phil, had a day out on this day, to easily account for the rest of the large field, including junior Garside.
This eclipsed the field by 3 points, because our runner up was Neil “Mr. Scotland” Leckenby, who could also be proud of his score with 38 points.
Balls reached down to 33.
4 NTPs went home as follows: Glenn Forbes (3rd), Ross Machar (9th), Mario DeVincentis (12th) and to Clint Toohey for a terrific tee-shot on the demanding 15th.
TWILIGHT:
The Twilight Home & Away season is now done and dusted.
But firstly, to the 26th Twilight results:
The winner, with a strong 22 points, was Ric Downing; but ironically, Ric was NOT in the running for the Shootout.
But, Ossie, also known as Paul Osbourne, was runner up to Ric, and his 20 points clearly entrenched him in the Top 10 shootout list.
Three NTP winners on the night were David “Pup” Lever (10th), Luke Patrick (12th) and Shane “Bomber” Campbell (15th).
10 Shootout qualifiers:
Top Ten, in order of finishing were Angus Hall, Paul Osbourne, Manny Humphris, Troy Veenker, Luke Patrick, Matt Maloney, George Brown, Georgie Houniet, Clint Toohey and last qualifier, Deborah Hamment.
Three points that make this a unique Shootout group.
There are no less than 8 players, out of the 10, who are facing the starter for the first time.
Never before have we had 2 of our Lady members also facing the starter.
The last one facing the starter, who needs a mention, is 13-year-old Manny, the youngest ever qualifier in Shootout history.
Although the legendary Kim Kennedy was only 14 when she qualified many years ago.
A full report, listing results, photos and anecdotes from this iconic event, will be included in next week’s edition.
Sat. March 29th: Stableford:
After the Twilight excitement had died down a strong field of members played on Saturday for a Stableford round.
Keeping the interest going, Paul Kennedy won the A Grade voucher by posting a fine 43 point result.
This was Paul’s best result for a while.
The A Grade runner up was Geoff Fall, with 39 solid points.
Roger Mataele won the B-Grade prize with an equally impressive 43 points.
The runner up to Roger was young tyro, Dane Cerveri, with 41 points, which certainly showed up his father’s round.
Balls reached down to 37 in A Grade, and to 35 in B Grade.
We had only 4 NTP winners on the day, because Hatty grabbed two of them.
Noel Cross won one on the 1st, Simon Cameron grabbed one on the 3rd and finally, David Lever won the 15th.
Our B Grade Dick Leith Matchplay champion is Chris Leighton.
The C Grade Matchplay champion is Scott Atkinson, to go with his overall C-Grade title.
