Venue: Bonalba
Golf & Spa, 29th June 2016
Today our Vice-Captain Gordon Burton was in charge and
he welcomed 30 members and 1 guest who turned up to play Individual Stableford,
all of us hoping to add a few points to the Consistency Chart and try and catch
Richard who is well ahead at the moment.
With temperatures rising, Golf in Spain is now in the
low season and, if higher temperatures do not bother you too much, there are
some good green fee bargains to be had. The hot weather is also reflecting on the
availability of tee-times which means that we are able to split them and start
from both tee 1 and 10 and reducing the waiting time to prize giving.There was also one singles match between Michael Davison and Chris van Bemmelen. It was a hard fought affair and finally Chris came out the winner. Well played both and congratulations to Chris who was obviously playing well as he also came third in the Stableford competition.
The main field posted some very good scores. Commiserations go to John Webber who narrowly missed out on the prizes despite scoring 36 points. Congratulations to Eddie Fagg, our newest member, for an excellent first win with the Society.
And how are our goslings on hole 18 doing? As you can
see from the photo taken by Stephen, they are going strong and have grown into
young adults. Are there any second thoughts regarding Christmas by some of our
players who feed them the left-overs of their sandwiches?
Summarising the results:
Our guest Alex, the son of Moe Farouky duly won the
guest prize.
Nearest the pin:
Hole
4 Eddie FaggHole 8 Nino Andres Aloras
Hole 11 Nino Andres Aloras
Hole 14 Dennis Pyman
There
were 3 twos today, on hole 8 it was Nino and Gordon and Gordon wanted us to know that
his putt was much longer than Nino's. And on hole 14 Kate Hurley had a birdie
two and again, she was not nearest to the pin. They all received the customary
golf ball.
The main competition results were as
follows:
5th place with 36 points off 21
hcp – Brian Hines4th place with 36 points off 29 hcp – Gordon Burton, beating Brian on the back 9
3rd place with 36 points off 21 hcp – Chris van Bemmelen, beating Gordon on the back 9
2nd place with 37 points off 24 hcp – Stephen Grey
1st place with 39 points off 17 hcp – Eddie Fagg
