Effectively the week built up to the crescendo that was to be the Club Championship finals (see separate report). For those of us not involved in the "play-offs" or preliminary top-dog rounds the match of the day was Pairs Aggregate Stableford.
The clear winners with 73 points, and matching outfits (bright green shirts and camel trousers) and hair styles (short & grey) were Brian Nixey & Alan Scott from in order Richard Blunt & Pater Davey, Frank Garthwaite & Grant Osborn, and Andrew Fergus & Richard Pearce all on 67 by countback.
Two's (subject to confirmation) were worth $18.00 each to the 10 winners. Marty Holman did it twice to win the jackpot of $74. Nearest the pin for 2 on 2 sponsored by Linden Leaves was David Lamb while Scotty Adams (a newer member) won the Benjarong Thai Cuisine prize on 18. Nearest the pin on 3 was Geoff Brodie & 11 Karl Kitchingham $45 each. Net eagles with a pool of $60 was struck by Chris Abbott on 10.
It was great to see a full compliment of the Saturday afternoon ladies out on the course with two groups of four and showing great perseverance in what was nearly a five hour round! It was perhaps as well that the weather was kind and Paul Needs was at hand in the drinks cart with at least one bottle of Dancing Water!!
A number of Top Dog matches took place with some interesting results. The Hick's boys (Brendan & Mathew) were too strong for Ben Frampton and Cran Bull who complained that "at their age they couldn't see far enough to ascertain where their opponents drives had finished". Making a return to Shirley after his knee operation Jeff Saunders and his partner John Parlane finally had the better of John Dickson and Stu Kemp although the match went down the 18th. A confident (as always) pairing of Joe Mullins and Karl Kitchingham saw off Chris Richmond & Brent Musgrove. Dean Palmer and myself had drawn Tracey Tatom and Dermot Martin; in a match of two nines we eventually held on to win two up after Dermot had parred 17 with a shot to keep the match alive and me proving 18 is only a problem on Sunday with a carefully constructed par to win the last.
There was a great gathering of people in the clubhouse on Saturday evening and its wonderful to see the facilities being used by the members. The addition by Amanda & Andrew of Sky TV is I am sure paying dividends - a quiet cup of coffee, a read of the paper and the US PGA in the background before tee-off is definitely the way to spend Saturday morning!
For one of the few times recently the car park was absolutely full with some cars having to be parked on the road. Unfortunately we did have an incident where a new member's car (Ted Rudge) in the car park was broken into and a cell phone taken. Hopefully we will have this on security camera but please just be aware of the situation and take care!
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