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

The Saturday competition was for the Watson Cup a Four-ball Par match and last week I suggested to be competitive the pairing would need to be in the +8 or +9 realm. Basking once again in glorious conditions the results were slightly better than even I had predicted.

Playing at the end of the field afternoon starter Alan Scott and his partner Brian Nixey recorded +10 but it required a countback from the Glass brothers of Warren and Jim to establish them as the winners. In third place were the morning players of Takahiro Koyama and Yoshi Tamaki on +9. I understand that Brian Nixey had an outstanding front nine scoring even par (26 stableford points not that in a par competition that it mattered).

The two's pool reached $260 but the payout was only $13.65 as there were 17 winners and two of those, Alan Day & Grahame Buist, also took the jackpot of $85 namely $42.50 each.The nearest to the pins on the par 3's were Ray Barakauskas on 3 & Stuart Kemp on 11 for $45 each. Closest to the pin on 2 for 2 sponsored by Linden Leaves was Wayne Tucker while on 18 the Benjarong Thai Cuisine voucher was again won by Mitchell Vincent. The nett eagles pool grew to $170 but was not struck with hole 8 being drawn.

In a Top Dog semi-final Dean Palmer and I were successful after a hard tussle with Andrew Sloane & Dean Cory 2/1. We were aided by the fact that Dean Corry had been suffering from the flu all week and actually played in a cart as unfortunately they were going to be unavailable later in the month. The other match to determine our opponents in the final is between Niven Boyle & Ian Currie and David Robinson & David Blair scheduled for this coming Saturday - the outcome in due course.