Venue: Bonalba
Golf & Spa, 1st June 2016
Today we played the June Medal. According to the Provisional Calendar, we
should have played on an Away-Day at Alicante Golf but due to the change in
hollow tining at Bonalba, we will now have our Away-Day at Alicante Golf next
Wednesday, 8th June.
We had 41 members and 2 guests signing in for today’s
competition and, like last week, it was possible for 3 flights to start from
tee 10 which helped with the overall waiting time until prize giving. And again,
the early summer weather made play very pleasant and produced some very good scores. Places 5, 6, 7 and 8 all posted net 74 but as
there are only 5 prizes given, Nino Andres Aloras, John Webber and Chris van Bemmelen missed
out on a prize as Pierre had the best back 9 and therefore came 5th.
Nino, however, had the lowest gross score with 81 and with his name appearing on
each of the nearest-the-pin flags, he in the end claimed the prize on hole 14.
Congratulations to Angel, our winner today. He had an
excellent score of net 69. It seems that his lessons have well and truly paid
off.
Before the prize giving, Keith Preston told the
members that he would like to organise a musical evening including dinner at
the end of September for about €25 based on 30-35 people attending. The music
provided would be from the very popular duo “Intermezzo” who sing operatic and
songs from musicals. There was sufficient support from members for Keith to
continue with the project.
And finally, news on the goslings on hole 18. Under
the fierce protection of mother and father goose, they have been growing
steadily and are now nearly as big as their parents and grazing happily on the
banks of the pond giving some of us a time to reflect this idyllic picture before
attempting the final drive over the water ……
Summarising the results:
Tony Dewavrin, a former member playing this year as a
guest, won the guest prize with 39 Stableford points.
Nearest the pin:
Hole
4 Edi RogersHole 8 John Garnett, not being far away from a hole-in-one
Hole 11 Michael Davison
Hole 14 Nino Andres Aloras
There
were 3 twos today, Johnny G. and Edi on hole 8 and Nino on hole 14. They
receive the customary golf ball.
The main competition results were as
follows:
5th place with a net 74 off 29
hcp – Pierre Lesot4th place with a net 73 off 21 hcp – our Captain Jan Boultbee
3rd place with a net 72 off 9 hcp – Richard Davis
2nd place with a net 71 off 16 hcp – Edi Rogers
1st place with a net 69 off 23 hcp – Angel Centenera
