Texas Scramble
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Jan arranges the bottles, Peter thinks he's got one - and he's right! |
On another gloriously sunny day and a day when there was no pressure on guarding one's handicap, 34 members and 5 guests set out on a Texas Scramble. All teams comprised 4 players, except that on the day one member unfortunately called in sick and had to withdraw - so get well soon, Ricky.
Each team had to have a range of handicaps amongst its players, and their combined handicap rating would be deducted from their total gross score. Jan had therefore to work hard to achieve a good and fair balance across the groups - no easy task, so well done captain.
Decision-making can be tricky in this format - whose drive shall we take, bearing in mind each player has to provide a minimum of four? which ball has the better lie? can someone reach the green from here? is this a good time to try for the birdie?... Because there are plenty of chances to improve on shots at each stroke, not to mention possibly four attempted putts on every green, final scores are expected to be quite low. And so it proved today.
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Members of the top three teams clutching their bottles |
A look at the results will show how the top 5 teams (and probably others) all returned net scores well below par, and all their team members can be proud of these performances. It was suggested that Ninolito, who played off a handicap of 1, gave his team the clinching advantage; your correspondent, however, would beg to suggest that others in the team made some very timely contributions as well.😀
Bottles of cava (see photo) rewarded the top three teams, and more wine bottles were awarded as usual to those who got nearest to the flags with their tee-shots on the par 3s.
Here are the full results:
Nearest the pins:
Hole 4 Chris van Bemmelen
Hole 8 Luc Verhaegen
Hole 11 John Garnett
Hole 14 Greta Biersteker
Team Prizes:
5th place, net score 64,7
John Garnett, Angel Centenara, Ann Brook and David Payne
4th place, net score 64,2
Greta Biersteker, Chris v Bemmelen and Jim Reid
3rd place, net score 62,1
Richard Davis, James Burnet, Santi Hung and Luc Verhaegen
2nd place, net score 62,0
Nino Andres Alores, Peter van der Mee, Edi Rogers and John Brook
