Venue: Alicante
Golf, 9 November 2016
This Wednesday we played away from home at Alicante
Golf. Yes, this is the course with the
Roman ruins on the par 5 hole 14, an interesting hazard to have to negogiate to
reach the green and at the same time avoiding the water on the left. Thankfully, you have a free drop if your ball
gets caught in the ruins.
We had an excellent turn-out of 31 members and 6
guests playing Individual Stableford, the members competing for the Bill
Williams Away Day Trophy and the guests competing among themselves for the
guest prize.
As this was not our home course, it was more difficult
to play the course to par. The computer buffer adjustment was -1 which meant
that the difficulty of the course was one shot above par.Congratulations to all the winners and especially to Stephen who, with 35 points, came the closest to achieving a par round. There were 5 players eligible for 5th place, all with 31 points but Greta had the best back nine and she seemed surprised when her name was read out to collect her prize.
We took the opportunity to applaud our Captain Jan who
last Friday during the Monthly Bonalba Seniors Competition had a Hole-in-one on
hole 4 and some of us who also took part in that competition had stayed behind to
celebrate the occasion and were treated to a drink of champagne kindly provided
by her partner John.
Summarising the results:
Guest prize Individual Stableford: Michel with 30
points off 13 hcp
Nearest the pin:
Hole
3 Gordon BurtonHole 6 Nino Andres
Hole 8 Jan Boultbee
Hole 12 David Payne
Hole 15 James Burnet
Hole 17 Doris Shearman-Earp
There were two twos today, on hole 8 and
12 both from Nino. He was so disappointed that he missed the birdie putt on
hole 6 where he was nearest that he made extra sure to get those putts right.
Never mind Nino, you still received two golf balls for that.
The main competition results were as
follows:
5th place with 31 points off 8
hcp – Greta Biersteker4th place with 32 points off 15 hcp – Roger Hunger
3rd place with 32 points off 10 hcp – Michael Davison, beating Roger on the back 9
2nd place with 33 points off 6 hcp – Nino Andres Aloras
1st place with 35 points off 24 hcp – Stephen Grey
