18 Nov 2016

2016: Indiv. Stableford (16.11.)

Don't the new Shirts look attractive ....
Venue: Bonalba Golf & Spa, 16 November 2016

Another pleasantly calm and sunny late autumn day awaited us this morning as we were getting ready to play our competition.  It was an Individual Stableford which also qualified for the CL League.  We had 38 members playing Stableford which included 4 members who were also playing their Singles k/o matches.  Both the Hurleys were  involved in the matches, Kate against Chris and Jim against Angel.  Congratulations to the winners Jim and Chris, both seemed to have had the extra motivation as they also ended up in first and second place in the individual competition. Brian Hines had equal points with Chris but on the back 9 Chris had 4 pars compared to Brian’s 3 pars and that helped him with scoring a better back 9.

This was also the day of the Vice-Captain’s Monthly Prize.  As usual, the actual prize was not revealed until the prize giving.  This month it was based on the best front nine of anyone who was not in the first five. The winner was Brian Wakeley who in fact had the best front nine of everybody including the first five.

Summarising the results:
The Guest Prize was won by Young Nino with 28 points off 1 hcp.
Vice-Captain’s Monthly Prize: Brian Wakeley with 21 points.

Nearest the pin:
Hole 4      Ricky Nelson
Hole 8      Brian Wakeley
Hole 11    Jim Hurley
Hole 14    Dennis Pyman

There were no twos today.

The main competition results were as follows:
5th place with 33 points off 12 hcp – John Garnett
4th place with 33 points off 10 hcp – Michael Davison, beating John on the back 9
3rd place with 36 points off 22 hcp – Brian Hines
2nd place with 36 points off 22 hcp – Chris van Bemmelen, beating Brian on the back 9
1st place with 39 points off 21 hcp – Jim Hurley