Scores for Saturday 1 August 2020

Thankfully today was not as hot as yesterday, the 3^rd hottest day on record apparently. Sunshine was promised and delivered but a good covering of cloud helped to keep the temperature to a more tolerable 20 something degrees.

 

The warm weather suited some more than others today with scoring generally better than last week, average today was 30.75 points.

 

Some new pin gadgets to contend with today and only one reported bounce off I think they’ll work ok once we got used to them. Roger Gibbs, normally a mild mannered type of chap, was provoked into uttering expletives on the 15^th as a result of this but he also confessed it was his worst round since coming out of lockdown.

 

The golf scoring app let me down today, seems I need to figure out how to make sure others can update the sheet. Hopefully we’ll get it back on track next week.

 

Birdies today for Paul Gardner (10) Duncan Miller (2 and 10) James Miller (12) and Roger Gibbs (18)

 

Our winner today, Duncan, started well with a par on 1 which is normally a bad omen. Today it looked like this trend would continue as despite a birdie on 2, he went on to blob 3, 4 and 9 to post 14 points on the front 9. It’s a game of two halves and Duncan bounced back with a gross score of 36, one over par, netting 23 points to bring his total to 37 points. Well done Duncan, a super back 9.

 

In second place is John James with 36 points. John’s golf has been in the doldrums of late but a solid net par score gives John the silver medal. Well done John.

 

The front 9 went to Steve Reynolds with 19 points. Steve, good to see you in the prizes but I’m getting concerned that you’ve fallen out of love with 2^nd place. Well done Steve.

 

The back 9 went to Peter Creighton today with another 19 points. Peter played some good golf today and was unlucky to miss out on second place. Peter’s club score was 38 points so hopefully he’ll be in with a shout of some club vouchers this week. Well done Peter.