10 Jan 2015

2015: Monthly Medal (7.1.)

Venue: Bonalba Golf & Spa, 7 January  2015
 
After the Christmas holiday season, we were ready to start the new year with our Monthly Medal competition.  There was a good turn out of 32 members and 2 guests.  We were all wrapped up well as we started the round in “near artic” conditions, or so it seemed, especially when coming round the corner of the first hole where there is always a wind blowing.  Luckily it warmed up later on.  Congratulations go to all the winners who came in with very good results considering the conditoions.  There were also some good results for nearest to pin, four birdies, and three of them were achieved by players who were in fact not the nearest.  It was good to see two of our newer members in the prizes.  Luc Verhaegen coming third in the medal and his wife Marleen getting nearest to the pin on hole 4.

We welcomed back our guests John and  Ann Brook who finished the round on equal scores and now doubt  will share the guest prize of a bottle of wine..

Nearest the pins:
Hole 4            Marleen van Dort
Hole 8            Guy Letort
Hole 11          Clive Dresner
Hole 14          John Garnett

The four  twos today were from Stephen Grey and Edi Rogers on the 4th and Dennis Pyman and Guy Letort on the 8th. They all receive the customary golf ball.

As for the main competition results:
5th place with a net 76 off 8 hcp, Richard Davis
4th place with a net 75 off 6 hcp, Dennis Pyman
3rd place with a net 75 off 29 hcp, Luc Verhaegen, beating Dennis on the back 9
2nd place with a net 74 off 11 hcp, John Garnett
1st place with a net 72 off 19 hcp, James Burnett