Venue: Alicante Golf, 21
November 2018
This Wednesday we competed for the Bill Williams Away-Day Shield. The
venue was Alicante Golf, which is “just down the road” from our home course
Bonalba. It is a popular course with our members which also showed in the
attendance figure. There were 34 of us playing Individual Stableford.
There was some exceptional scoring today. The first three places had 40 points and
more, all scored by our male players.
This was not altogether surprising as all yellow tees, except for one,
were positioned on the red tee boxes thus making the course for the men much
shorter than normal. Therefore, this
round of golf became a non-qualifying round for handicap purposes.
At prize giving, our Captain Greta announced that to receive their
prizes, everyone would need to wear a skirt or drop their trousers. Richard, she was joking!
However, one of our lady players, Jan Boultbee, managed against all odds
to be in the top 5.
This course has 6 par three’s and our Captain decided to be generous and
award nearest to pin on all 6 of them. Hole 17 was reserved for Ladies only but
unfortunately none of us ladies were able to get on to the green.
Summarizing the results:
Nearest the Pin:
Hole 3
Pascal Guy
Hole 6 Chris van
Bemmelen
Hole 8 (in two hc
22+) Ricky Nelson
Hole 12 John Garnett
Hole 15 Richard Davis
Hole 17 (Ladies
only) nobody
There were also
an abundance of Two’s today.
Hole 6 – Chris
Hole 12 – James
Burnet, Stan Tarabula, Richard Davis
Hole17 – John
Garnett, Jean-Louis Moucheboeuf, Eric Pages
They all received
the customary golf ball. Thanks Bob for your generosity.
The main
competition results were:
5th
place with 34 points off 21 hcp – Jan Boultee
4th
place with 36 points off 10 hcp – Eric Pages
3rd
place with 40 points off 23 hcp – Chris
van Bemmelen
2nd place with 42 points off 19 hcp –
James Burnet
1st
place with 43 points off 22 hcp – Jean-Louis Moucheboeuf
