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Venue: Bonalba
Golf & Spa, 4 October 2017
This was the first Wednesday of the month and we played our customary
Monthly Medal competition. The weather
forecast promised a calm, warm and sunny day and it did not disappoint. As we assembled for our competition, our
thoughts went to all our “swallow” members who had not yet made it to warmer
climes and have to endure the cold rain and winds. Our special sympathies went
to our Birmingham swallows, Elwyn and John who were all set to enjoy the good
weather but Monarch Airlines unfortunately spoilt their plans and they had to cancel
their game. So on the day we had an
attendance of 36 members and our “resident” guest Noel.
The results show that the top five places went to players with a good
cross section of handicaps. Our
octogenarian Keith was again in the frame beating Helmut for 5th
place with a better back 9. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th
places also had to be decided on the results of the back 9. Luckily there was a clear result for first
place. David came in with a 3 shot lead scoring 69 and is on course of steadily
reducing his handicap. Special congratulations to him for an excellent round of
golf.
Before prize giving, the Captain reminded us to play your round within
the time allocated by the Club and to avoid slow play. We are the first group to go out in the
morning and overstepping the time allocated means a delay of all subsequent
tee-times.
Summarising the results:
Nearest the pin:
Hole
4 Neville Woodfine
Hole
8 Michael Davison
Hole
11 Graham Sutton
Hole
14 Chris van Bemmelen
Michael
also got his 2 on hole 8 and received the customary golf ball.
The
main competition results were as follows:
5th
place with a net 74 off 29 hcp – Keith Preston
4th
place with a net 72 off 9 hcp and lowest gross score – Richard Davis
3rd
place with a net 72 off 10 hcp – Michael Davison beating Richard on the back 9
2nd place with a net 72 off 21 hcp
– Chris van Bemmelen again with a better back 9
1st place with a net 69 off 26 hcp – David Payne
