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

The good scoring of a week ago was mirrored in the second round of the War Memorial Cup on Saturday no doubt helped by the clement weather conditions. In fact I was joined by Simon Yorke and Mark Dunn in baring my legs to the spring sunshine, here's hoping for a long hot summer. And yes along with a number of others I used the nor'west to good advantage and drove over the creek on 17.

Once again the leading score came from the ranks of the Juniors with Michael Kirkland ($50) crafting a round of 64 to be 8 shots ahead of his nearest grade rival, Rob Aitken ($30) 72 on countback from Jin Ho Neoh($10) with Grant Mitchell and John Sinclair on the same score. Peter Sim ($50) was first in the seniors with a 70 closely followed by Chris Richmond ($30) on 71 by countback from Tony Park ($10).

Club stalwart Ian Dobson ($50) was the winning Intermediate on 71 on countback from Ross Campbell with a plethora of players on 72 Mark Sanders ($10), Vaughan McMillan, Cowan Leckie, and Brian Adams. The two's pool was $220 and was well distributed with 17 winners each collecting $12.95. Making his return debut to Shirley after a European sojourn was Ray Vivian who collected the jackpot for 2x2 only $70 this week.

Nearest the pins were worth $40 and picked up by Bryan Andrews (no.3) and Brian Tyro (no.11). Nearest the pin on 18 for two sponsored by Linden Leaves was captured by Bruce Taylor. In what was a good weekend for Mike Kirkland he was fortunate enough to have 18 drawn for nett eagles and was the only candidate taking away $140.

Mike's good luck continued as he was the winner of the War Memorial Cup with a nett score of 138 over the two rounds. The top eight scores qualify for the Borthwick Vase - matchplay on handicap, the cut off point was 144 on countback (even par - not too bad) participants will be notified.