21 Jul 2016

2016: Texas Scramble (20.7.)

The Winning Teams
Venue: Bonalba Golf & Spa, 20th July 2016
 
This was the last stint organised by the surrogate Captain Doris as Jan is returning from the UK and is resuming her Captaincy next Wednesday, 27 July.  So please remember to address any tee-time requests to her after today.  Gordon, our Vice-Captain has also returned from his holidays in Canada, so he is back to organising the Monday games.

Our competition today was a Texas Scramble.  Because of attendance numbers, we had three- and four-ball teams and consequently had one prize for each team format. Each player had to make 3 drives or 4 drives respectively.  The playing handicap for the 4-ball team was 10% of their combined handicaps and 15% for the 3-ball team.  The winners of the 3-ball team where nearly 10 shots ahead of the second place. The difference between winner and second place of the 4-ball teams was much closer.  There was only 0.1 dividing first and second place to the disappointment of Eddie, Graham, Pierre and Doris and the delight of Jeff, John and the family Leroux.  Congratulations to both winning teams.
As usual there were 4 prizes for nearest the pin but holes 4 and 14 were reserved for the higher handicap players only.  Unfortunately, neither of these two holes could be allocated as on hole 14 nobody reached the green and on hole 4 somebody did reach the green but was not eligible!  So these two prizes were raffled off along with our weekly raffle.

Before prize giving, the Vice-Captain directed some kind words of thanks to Brian and Doris who were holding the fort on Mondays and Wednesdays and presented them each with a bottle of wine. Thank you Gordon, your gesture was very much appreciated.

Summarising the results:

Nearest the pin:
Hole 4      (hcp 22+ only)        nobody
Hole 8      (all players)            Pierre Lesot
Hole 11    (all players)            Elwyn Price
Hole 14    (hcp 21+ only)        nobody

There were 2 two today. They came from Graham on hole 4 and Nino on hole 11. They both received the customary golf ball.

The Texas Scramble winners were as follows:
3-ball:  Michael Davison, Elwyn Price, Jim Reid with a net 62.6
4-ball:  Jeff Murten, John King, Jean-Paul and Pascale Leroux with a net 63.2