12 Aug 2016

2016: Indiv. Stableford (10.8.)

Venue: Bonalba Golf & Spa, 10 August 2016

Thunder and lightening in the early hours of the morning had brought us slightly lower temperatures and a cloud covering as we signed in for today’s Individual Stableford competition and qualifier for the Campbell Lamont League.  In fact, the odd rain shower accompanied us throughout our rounds.

We had one outstanding result today of 42 points.  It came from one of our French members, Pascale Leroux. She has been playing extremely well of late and her score came at the right time as this was a qualifying round for handicap adjustments.  Congratulations Pascale for a superb round of golf.  Well done also to John Coubrough, one of our longstanding members and a former Captain of our Society for his score of 37 points.
We welcomed back our Vice-Captain Gordon from his recent travels.  He nominated today’s competition for his Monthly Prize. This time the prize was for the best score on all par 4’s and who was the winner but Gordon himself with 25 points which meant an average score of 2.5 points on each hole.  Well played, Gordon. He generously passed the prize on to Michael Davison, the runner up with a good score of 20 points.  Gordon confirmed his good round by coming sixth overall and narrowly missed out on one of the main prizes to Eddie who beat him by 1 point on countback of the last six holes.

Summarising the results:
Nearest the pin:
Hole 4      Eddie Rogers
Hole 8      our Captain Jan Boultbee
Hole 11    the other Eddie (Fagg)
Hole 14    Richard Davis

There was one two today. Brian Hines, although not nearest to the pin, scored a birdie on hole 4.

The main competition results were as follows:
5th place with 34 points off 14 hcp – Eddie Fagg
4th place with 34 points off 10 hcp – Richard Davis with a better back 9
3rd place with 36 points off 23 hcp – Guy Letort
2nd place with 37 points off 14 hcp – John Coubrough
1st place with 42 points off 28 hcp – Pascale Leroux