The Week That Was..................

Saturday was what can be termed a "raw" day with most of the players well rugged up against the biting cold and a rampant chill factor. Competition of the day was a teams Irish stableford where for the first 6 holes 1 score counts, for the next 5 holes 2 scores count, for the next 4 holes 3 scores count and for the last 3 holes all every body's score counts. Those with access to a calculator or a mathematical bent will have calculated that a score of even 2's gives a target of 80.

An early morning team carefully crafted by David Wallace to include Chris Barraclough, Peter Davey & Mike Stenhouse whizzed past that and compiled an impressive total of 94 points. This was enough to see off the "so-called " dream team of Struan Cain, Shane Gloury, Tony Park & Andrew Vincent who could only amass a mere 90 points from David Barley, Peter Hollister, Liam Cumberpatch & Peter Wardell with 89 in third from Brad Clark, Nathan Gilbert, Adian Millar & Mitchell Vincent in 4th with 88 points.

The two's pool stood at $220 and there were 16 winners each receiving $13.75, the 2x2 jackpot was new and opened at $65 to be won by Nathan Gilbert. Martin Toon was the winner of the Linden Leaves sponsored nearest on 2 for 2 while John Dickson and Brad Clark won $40 each for the nearest the pins on 3 & 11 respectively. Drew Butcher was the winner of the Benjarong Thai Cuisine prize on 18 (Drew also had 6 birdies on the back nine). For the first time in a few weeks the nett eagles pool ($75) jackpots after hole 11 was drawn.

The weather on Sunday was clement enough to tempt a number of competitors to advance their match play events. In the Top Dog competition my partner Dean Palmer and I were fortunate enough to see off the father and son combination of Michael and David Kerr 3/2 in what was a tightly contested battle. As the winners of Section A we move into the semi finals and await the outcome of the Maguire/Bond -v- Sloane/Corry game to determine the winners of Section B.

The Page Trophy also moved onwards with Alan & Karyn Scott being successful over Julie & Barry O'Neill. In a match scheduled later in the day Struan & Terry Cain were victorious over Paddy & Jane Helmore. Both days ended with a convivial crowd of members seated around the fire heating various parts of their anatomies that had been subjected to the bitter conditions outside.