Venue: Bonalba
Golf & Spa, 14 February 2018
Today, on Valentines Day, we had the first Monthly Medal competition organised
by our new Captain Greta who duly handed out the cards – that is, the score
cards but no Valentine Cards! We had a
good turn-out of 34 members and 2 guests on this pleasantly warm February
morning. Unfortunately, the wind got up
later on making scoring slightly more difficult, especially on certain holes on
the back 9. Maybe that contributed to
the relatively high number of 6 “no returns”.
However, there were also a number of very good scores at the top of the
leaderboard. Gay had an excellent round
and beat the men to the top.
There was a slight “hick-up” when processing the cards, as the computer
program for the Master Scoreboard was not working correctly and the cards had
to be checked manually. Keith was
declared the winner and Gay was awarded 2nd place. However, when we were able to enter the
results into the Master Scoreboard later that day, it turned out that earlier there
had been a slight miscalculation and Gay came out the winner. What would the world do without computers?! Congratulations to Gay and commiserations, but
also contratulations to Keith for an excellent second place and being again in
the prizes. Congratulations also to
Nino, John Garnett and Edi for making it on to the winners’ board.
At the prize giving Greta announced that this year there would be three
new prizes:
- The best 6 scores over the year for Ladies only- An Eclectic Score competition for cat. 1-18 and 19-36 hcp,
all sponsored by Jeff Murten.
- An Encouragement prize 6 times a year (details to follow), sponsored by Jean-Paul and Pascale Leroux.
Our thanks and appreciation goes to all sponsors, new and old, for their generous support of our Society.
Summarising the results as follows:
Nearest the pin: Hole 4 Nino Andres Aloras
Hole 8 Guy Letort
Hole 11 Nino Andres Aloras
Hole 14 Greta, our Captain, Biersteker
There
were no twos today, so Bob, no need to rush out to stock up the supply of golf
balls.
The
main competition results were:
5th
place with a net 72 off 17 hcp – Edi Rogers4th place with a net 71 off 13 hcp – John Garnett
3rd place with a net 71 off 8 hcp – Nino Andres Aloras, beating John on the back 9
2nd place with a net 71 off 30 hcp – Keith Preston, again with a better back 9
1st place with a net 70 off 20 hcp – Gay Brooks
