New Era For Metro.............

The tenure of Steve Ellis as Metro Manager started on a positive note with a hard fought victory at home over Windsor 4 1/2 to 3 1/2. Leading from the front at the competitive number eight position Steve blitzed his opposition on the back nine to secure a 2/1 victory.

In the 3 & 4 positions left handers Garry Forward and Paddy Helmore were making their Metro debuts and exercised their considerable match play experience to gain important points. Paddy was successful with a 3/2 victory while Garry result was a well deserved half after his opponent birdied 18 to get back to square. At number 1 the ever consistent Tony Park ensured we had an early victory with a 5/4 win.

Each having 3.5 in the hutch so to speak it now all relied on the number 2 game where Keith Love had drawn the Windsor "young gun". Reports throughout the round had indicated a close result and Steve now following the last match looked extremely nervous. The bush telegraph indicted that it was all square playing the last. Keith hit the middle of the fairway and played a solid second into the middle of the green to leave an uphill putt for birdie. The Windsor no.2 had strayed to the left and over hit his second to be just off the green behind the pin.

His chip down ran close to the hole but sneaked on past the hole leaving a knee knocker back. Keith's birdie lipped the cup but spun out leaving him with a par 4, trying to take the break out of the putt the youngster struck it firmly but unfortunately past the right hand each to concede a won up win to Keith.

A good start to the season only plighted by the fact that the 3 lawyers in the team all lost albeit by small margins. The next two rounds are also at home so with some application the team could have a flying start to the competition. The next outing is against the old foe Russley as the team looks to turn around the disaster that was last years result.