Venue: Bonalba
Golf & Spa, 7 February 2018
Today was the Drive-in of our new Captain Greta. To help us cope with the cold morning’s start,
she invited us for coffee and a “Krentenbol” which was, we discovered, a Dutch
current bun. This was gratefully consumed while we were contemplating where her
drive would land and taking a gamble accordingly. In the end, the ball had a draw and landed
near the bunker at the back. Apparently Greta
had been trying to draw the ball for a long time and never could do it until
today. Brian Hines was the lucky winner.
For this, her first competition, Greta had chosen a team game in which
teams of two were “chasing the Captains”,
i.e. the new and the former Captain Richard. All pairs took their better net
stroke score on each hole and compared it with the one from Greta and
Richard. We were counting a plus, a zero
or a minus on each hole according to whether our scores were better, equal or
worse than the score of the Captains. If this sounds a little bit complicated,
it actually wasn’t. We thoroughly
enjoyed this format which was a first for our Society. Thank you Greta, we look
forward to some more “firsts” during your year of Captaincy.
After prize giving, members and guests were sitting down to a pasta
lunch at the Club and and a good time was had by all.
Summarising the results as follows:
Nearest the pin: Hole 4 Men only hc >20 Jim Hurley
Hole 8 Ladies only Thea van Spellen, our new member
Hole 11 Men only hc <19 Richard Davis
Hole 14 All Richard Davis
There
were 4 twos today: on hole 8, from Ricky Nelson and Jan van Spellen, on hole 11
from Richard and on hole 14 from Jean-Paul Leroux. They all were awarded the
customary golf ball.
The
main competition results were:
3rd John Garnett/Jan van Spellen - + 32nd Eddy Fagg/Martine Bernois - +4
1st James Burnet/Gordon Burton - + 6
