Scores for Saturday 11 May 2024

 

Ball hunting was the game this week, at least for some of our number. The rough has thickened given the recent rain and sunshine combination and it's making it very hard to find balls that find their way in, not ideal for our standard of golf. This combined with the firming up of the course would make ideal conditions for our one and only metro-gnome and it looked like he was in the hunt on the front 9 until his groin gave out following the other side effect of good weather, gardening duty. I have a sign for you Paul, refer to it on Thursdays or Fridays....

Anyway rest up and we'll see you back to form in no time. 

The weather this week was stunning, summer having followed us back from Menorca, thankfully the wind hasn't followed us! The course is in fantastic shape but they have let the greens grow out a bit making putting pace a bit tricky to judge. I'm sure this resulted in a few shots left out there this week, it did in our group. 

Average scores this week reflected the benign conditions. Average gross score was 96.4, average stableford score was 31. All but three golfers who finished managed to break through the 30 point barrier. 

There were 4 birdies out there this week: Steve Reynolds (17) Jason Landau (9, 16) and Duncan Miller (16) Well done gents

Our winner this week was Steve Brewerton with 37 points on countback from Brian Geddes. Steve warmed up nicely on the front 9 with 17 points and closed with 20 points on the back 9. Text book there Steve, congratulations. 

In second place, yours truly. Steve Reynolds was of course snapping at my heals but managed to be second place for second place again. I'm still reliving the Tommy Fleetwood style (Wells Fargo day 3) missed tap-in on 17 which would've been enough for victory! Well done me. 

The front 9 went to Duncan Miller on countback from Paul Gardner. Duncan talked himself into front 9 as he was so focused on securing the "fall-back" prize on the turn he forgot to play the 9th and 10th holes. Well done Duncan. 

The back 9 went to Roger Small on count back frm Steve Reynolds. Roger was in with a solid chance of our lowest ever score after a front 9 of 6 points but a solid run of 12 points from 14 to 17 turned it around and secured the back 9 leaving Steve with nothing to celebrate. Well done Roger!

It's worth giving Martin Deery a mention this week as Duncan's running commentary highlighted his 3 points through 6 holes. We assumed there was something wrong with the scorecard but it seems that Andy's record was a real possibility until he turned it around with a bogey on 7 and a par on 9. Maybe we should count up the number of blobs in a round going forward - 7/18 maybe a contender. I'll leave that for statman D Miller for the 25 JJ Cup weekend! Well done for getting it together there Martin, we all (except Andy perhaps) want that record to stand.

Jason, one more round to go and you can start winning things and given the improvement since last time out you may be in contention off the bat.

Have a great week gents.