Numbers were down at the old Worth Street course on both Saturday and Sunday of last weekend. The weather was reasonable with a touch of cooling wind – or to a northerner it could have been an outright cold wind.
Only enough swingers for two grades on the Saturday in the Stableford Comp with Robert Dickson winning A Grade and Damien Fairbrother B Grade.
‘Dicko’ has been in excellent form since spending extra time in close proximity to the fairways and his 40 points on Saturday was split evenly 20/20 for each nine. Six pars with bogies on 5, 7 and 8 for the front nine – followed by a birdie on 13, five pars and three bogies on the back nine is outright fine golf in most players’ minds.
Big hitting Damien Fairbrother is a golfer on the up and his 43pts was a winner by a country mile in B Grade. A Par, birdie, par start gave him 11pts after three holes and could have led to a much greater total. Two bogies and three double bogies had a reducing effect and 20pts was it for the first nine. After an equalling frustrating start to the back nine with bogies on 10 and 12 and a double on 11, it was gloves off stuff to finish. Damien birdied the 13th and 18th holes with pars recorded on 16 and 17. The bogies on 14 and 15 still had him with 23 whopping points to total 43 and be the grinning winner.
(Saturday stableford)
A Grade: Robert Dickson 40pts.
B Grade: Damien Fairbrother 43pts.
Nearest the pins: Graham Fleming 11th hole; John Watt 16th hole.
Ball Comp to 36pts: D Fairbrother, R Dickson, P Auld, M Holt, J Brady, D Douglas, T Smith, P Timmer, L Saltmere, C Swan, D Oldfield, P Anderson.
Number of Players: 41. CCR 67.
(Abbey on a Sunday)
Club stalwart and generous sponsor Brendan Abbey was back in form for the seldom conducted par event on the Sunday. His + 4 score card got him home on a countback from Chris Swan and Don Douglas in the only grade on offer.
Scoring is based on a plus for net birdie or better, a zero for net par and a minus for net bogey or worse. Brendan recorded a birdie on the third hole and eight pars in his winning performance. Other winnings were not disclosed to the scribe.
Ball Comp to 0: B Abbey, C Swan, D Douglas, A Wilson, L Saltmere, P Matthews, B Luff, M Holt.
Nearest the Pin: M Holt 16th hole.
Number of Players: 25. CCR: 65.
(Mid-week comp)
Forty-three players strode the fairways during the week for the nine hole competition and two grades were on offer. Winners receive $20 vouchers and runners up two balls each.
A Grade: Robert Dickson with 20pts made it two wins for the week on a countback from Edgar Mongan.
B Grade: Ian Bluett continues his winning ways with 23pts from Phil Strong 22pts.
Ball Comp to 18pts ocb: J Wales, L Foxon, S Pearce, W Whyte, D Oldfield.
(Dads Army)
Your scribe attended the Thursday shootout primarily to witness the Peter Anderson versus The Handicapper show. With Peter having won three weeks in a row and handicapper Jack Wales sharpening the already needle sharp handicapper’s pencil it was crunch time for one of them. Maybe it was the fear of loss, or the bigger stage or that he was just a mere mortal after all but Peter didn’t fire in week four. Nice run Peter and am sure you will feature again.
Had the pleasure of playing with this weeks winner in the form of octogenarian Lindsey Evans whose “up the middle” style amassed a winning 17pts. Edgar Mongan, Ken Reidy, Merv Wright on 16pts and Bruce Ryan 15pts ocb picked up the balls on offer.
(Coming Events)
Saturday 23 August – Pacific Golfer Club Challenge 4 Person Team Aggregate Stableford.
Sunday 24 August – Stoke for Men and 3BBB Peugeot Event Ladies.
Saturday 30 August – 4BBB Stableford.
Sunday 31 August – Stroke.
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