The Tara Court Golf Society
Sunday, Feb. 24, Green Valley – Stableford
Although high season is coming to an end we still had our largest group out for this year and again three flights with the cut for the A flight coming in at fourteen, B at twenty one and C above that.
In the C flight John McGarry (H/cap 23) had twenty seven points and he got fourth place on a countback over Fred O’Connor. In third place was Pat Carty (24) with thirty five points while Gilbert Brosnan (24) who was playing his last game for this trip came second with thirty six points. Ted Murphy (27) had possibly his best score ever in Thailand and was the winner with an excellent forty two points.
In the B flight we had three players with thirty six points but both Ken Hole and Donal McGuigan lost out on the countback and didnt make the prizes. Paddy Naughton (17) won the countback and came fourth, Paul Butler (18) had thirty nine points but it was only good enough for third place and Terry Mangan (21) had an excellent forty one points for second. Russell Gilroy (16) really hit form today and he came out the winner with forty two points, a score which will also give him a sharp reduction on his handicap.
In the A flight Craig Hitchens (11) got third place on countback over Paul Pavloff (5) in fourth and Shaun Merrimanm who just missed out, all with thirty six points. Kevin Blake (8) came second with thirty nine and lost out on a countback to Michael Williams (12) who was the winner today.
We had five 2s from Paul Butler, Kevyn Wright, Kevin Blake, Paul Pavloff and Neville Duncan.
Tuesday, Feb. 26, Treasure Hill – Stableford
We had two divisions today with the cut at 16. Treasure Hill have a new score card and have also put all the yellow tees forward one tee box making for a course now under 6000 yards.
In B division (17+) the scoring was very good and Ted Morris (17) took full advantage & scored a great 42 points to win by 4 over George Pearson (21) with 38. A 3 way-countback on 34 points was needed to decide 3 & 4 place with John McGarry(23) beating John Connolly(23) while Glenn Armitstead missed out.
A division scoring was not as good with Russell Gilroy (16) 34 points taking 1st place. In 2nd was Neville Duncan (10) with 32 points, 3rd place went to Joe McArdle (14) on 31 and a 3-way countback decided 4th place, that going to Jerry Sweetnam (11) on 30 points over Barney Sheedy & Teddy Lodge.
The 2’s went to Nick Caulfield, Jerry Sweetnam & Craig Hitchens.
Wednesday, Feb. 27, Laem Chabang – Stableford
We played the more difficult C nine first here and then moved on to the A nine. We had enough golfers out to play two flights with the cut for the A flight coming in at seventeen.
Paul Claffey (17) came out on top in the A flight with thirty five points and then three players had thirty two points and here on the countback Barney Sheedy (11) came second, Joe McArdle (14) third and Jerry McCarthy (17) fourth.
In the B flight, Fred O’Connor (30) had his second outright win for this trip with thirty points and with two players on twenty eight points Frank McGowan (25) won the countback to come second and Marie McGuigan (28) placed third. Sean Hallihan (28) came in fourth with twenty seven.]
Thursday, Feb. 28, Pattaya C.C. – Stableford
We had two flights today with the cut for the A flight coming in at seventeen. We got our best score today in the B flight where Serge Stratten (20) had an excellent thirty nine points to come out the winner. Alan Bishop (21) was only one shot behind Serge and came second with thirty eight while Sean Hallahan (28) had his second visit to the podium in two days and took third with thirty six. George Pearson (21) got the fourth and final place with thirty three points.
In the A flight Nick Caulfield (7) was the winner with thirty seven points, Paddy Naughton (17) came second with thirty six, Joe McArdle (14) was third on thirty one and Wayne Antlitz (13) fourth with thirty.
We had five 2s, from Nick Caulfield, Pat Culloty, Fred O’Connor, Peter Kelly and Paddy Naughton.
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