Venue: Villaitana Poniente Golf, 28 August
2019
Today
was our first official competition after the summer break and we would like to
thank Brian Hines for keeping the golf going during that time.
The
re-start of our official competitions took us to Poniente Golf, the shorter of
the two courses at Villaitana. The Poniente course is a par 62 with 8 par 4’s
and 10 par 3’s, so a good short game was required by the 24 players, 23 members
and 1 guest, who enrolled for today’s competition. The format was Individual Stableford and it was
a qualifying round for all competitions, including handicap adjustments.
After
heavy rain and thunderstorms the previous few days, we were relieved to see blue
skies again this morning and enjoyed the warm and sunny weather, maybe even a
bit too hot for some.
The
slope at Poniente is much lower than Bonalba, which gave us a very much reduced playing
handicap. Looking at the results, it
seems that the course today was favouring the male players, as the first eight
places went to the men. The best lady of the day was Marie-Jo with a very
respectable score of 33 points. Congratulations
goes to the player of the day, James who, with 40 points, was well ahead of the
field. The fifth place was hotly contested and had to be decided on countback
of the last 6 holes which gave Eric the lead over Tony and Michel.
Summarizing the results:
Nearest the pins:
Hole 4 Greta
Biersteker
Hole 8 Dave
Tomlins
Hole 12 Tony
Dewavrin
Hole 16 Luc
Verhaegen
Because of the many par 3’s on this course, there
was an abundance of twos today, 7 in total:
Hole 7 – Marie-Jo, Hole 9 + 11 – Eric Page, Hole 15
– Greta and Moe, Hole 16 – Greta and Luc.
Our thanks to Bob Crowe, who is sponsoring the golf
balls for this competition.
The results of the main
competition were:
5th place with 34
points off 5 hcp – Eric Pages
4th place with 35
points off 9 hcp – Dave Tomlins
3rd place
with 35 points off 11 hcp – Jean-Charles Colini with a better back 9
2nd place
with 36 points off 23 hcp – Moe
Farouky
1st place
with 40 points off 12 hcp – James Burnet
