PSC Golf from The Billabong Bar
Monday, Jan. 14, Phoenix Gold – Stableford
Phoenix Ocean and Mountain loops today and they were in great condition. The scoring was absolutely unbelievable and when 39 points doesn’t get a mention in dispatches you know the players were tearing it up.
There was a countback for the minor places with Glenn Smith losing it and having to settle for fourth place behind Glyn Davies in third, both with 40 points. Jim Payne came second with 42 points and Dave Bramley had a day in the sunshine, scoring a great 43 points for the win.
There were four ‘2’s, coming from Glenn Smith, Dave Bramley, Jim Payne and Julie Battersby.
Wednesday, Jan. 16, Green Valley – Stableford
Tuesday’s rain certainly helped the conditions today and the course was looking really good. In the ladies competition there was some admirable performances with Miss Sasicha (H/cap 21) coming third with 40 points overall and 24 points on the front nine. The consistent Miss Nu (16) did the reverse with 23 points on the way home with four pars and one birdie but failed to overtake Miss Porn (22) on 41 points who had 7 pars in her round.
The men’s scores were not as impressive – with one exception – with Selwyn Wegner (15) occupying fourth place with 34 points, losing on a countback to John Locke (20) despite John having 6 double bogies. Wayne Cotterell (12) cannot avoid the limelight recently and featured yet again in second place, not only grabbing the headlines with 36 points but setting a record for the Billabong by having three 2s, each of them threatening the hole. Gareth Gill (8) recorded a very good 76 gross and 40 points to win the day and this included 5 birdies, 3 of them consecutively from the 12th.
There were seven ‘2’s, from Miss Nu, Gareth, George Zadora, Selwyn and 3 to Cottee.
Friday, Jan. 18, Burapha – Stableford
Burapha was heaving on Friday and some of the caddies faced a 45-hole day. Thanks go to the management and staff doing the marshaling as it turned out to be only a 4½ hour round of golf.
We had a young man from Italy playing with us today, a professional golfer with a set of borrowed clubs older than he was but he still shot only 3 over the card.
Paul Greenaway slam dunked a shot from 140 yards out for an eagle but the day today belonged to our visitor from New Zealand, Julie Battersby, who shot 83 off the stick from a 17 handicap to score 42 points. The nearest to the that was Slugger Bramley with 37 points while John Locke took third with 36 and Bob Lindborg got the last podium spot with 35.
We had 4 near pins today sponsored by Auke Engelkes to celebrate his wedding to his beautiful bride and they were won by Gerard Lambert, Glyn Davies, George Zadro and Paul Greenaway. A big toast to a very happy marriage!
