2017: 20/20 Team Game (22.3.)

The Pinks have it !

Venue: Bonalba Golf & Spa, 22 March 2017

For this Wednesday our Golf Calendar stipulated a Fun Game and our Captain decided to play a Team Game on a grand scale. He called it the 20/20 Team Game, suggested and designed by his Vice-Captain Greta.

Greta, a lady who does not do things by halves, suggested that instead of the usual 4-man teams, why not divide the total number of players into two teams, the “Blues” and the “Pinks” representing the colours of the old and new Society shirts and playing for the best total Stableford points with everyone in the winning team receiving a prize.  Thanks to an increased budget for weekly prizes and the Captain’s good housekeeping, it was possible on this occasion to be generous and go with it. In addition, there was also a prize for the best individual score of the day.
Congratulations for this goes to John Garnett for an excellent score of 38 points.  He seems to be unbeatable these days. He also helped the “Pinks” to their overall win.  Had this been a doubles match play competition, it would have been a draw with 5 matches going each way. However, this was Stableford and the Pinks won by a respectable 40 points off a combined handicap of 408 to the 400 handicap for the Blues, giving an average handicap per person of 20.
Well done the Pinks!
As this was classified a Fun Game, it was not used for handicap adjustments but it was taken into consideration for the Consistency Chart.
There was a certain disappointment for Helmut on hole 14 par 3 as he saw his ball go straight for the hole hoping for a hole-in-one, but alas, it ended up just inches away from it.

Summarising the results:

Best individual score: John Garnett 38 points

Nearest the pin:

Hole 4      Angel Centenera
Hole 8      Jan Boultbee
Hole 11    Chris van Bemmelen
Hole 14    Helmut Treiber

There were three twos today, on hole 8 from Jan Boultbee and on hole 14 from Helmut Treiber and Doris Shearman-Earp.  They received the customary golf ball.

The main competition results were as follows:

2^nd place with 546 points and hcp 400 – The Blues
1^st place with 586 points and hcp 408 – THE PINKS