PSC Golf from The Growling Swan
Monday, Sept. 3 Treasure Hill G.C. – Stableford
Twenty three yet again saddled up to take on the Crocodile Rock at Treasure Hill. Two buses and a few cars! Yet another great course that we play, tight fairways longer than normal Par 3s. A very good course that management seem to read the play and price it that way!
The course was in fantastic condition, and you would expect nothing other than that from this venue. Fairways were in great shape, the greens played true, bunkers were clean and raked, and the rough – well it was the rough! We went from the Yellow tees and with the weather being on our side we were set for a good day out (not counting ability).
Numbers gave us the opportunity to play two Flights with 3 placing’s and with all novelties in play.
A Flight saw Big Alan Nolan finally put his game together, he returned with the score of the day 37 points. Coming second was Mashi Kaneta, three shots behind. Third on the Podium was (becoming very reliable) Rudy Regenass.
B Flight had newcomer Greg Hutchinson take the lollies with a good score of 35 points. Second went to a three way countback, this being unfortunate as only two spots were left to fill. The three were Lorraine Percy, Yarnni and Brad Todd.
A-Flight 0 to 21
1st Alan Nolan (21) 37 pts.
2nd Mashi Kaneta (14) 34 pts.
3rd Rudy Regenass (15) 33 pts.
B-Flight 22 plus
1st Greg Hutchinson (26) 35 pts.
2nd Lorraine Percy (34) 32 pts.
3rd Brad Todd (22) 32 pts.
Near the pin: 2 Yarnni, 6 Alan Nolan, 13 Gordon Clegg, 17 Chris Stewart.
Longest first putt: 9 Dave Neal, 18 Graeme Laurie (Patch)
Thursday, Sept. 6
Greenwood GC – Stableford
A quick reminder to all golfers, your handicap is your responsibility and not that of the person preparing the start sheets. PSC issue sheets (up to date) every Sunday and that is what is used for the week. Please check the start sheet and if you do not agree, the sheets are on hand to be checked.
Well we hit the road with twenty-two golfers, two buses and a small fleet of cars. Our destination is Greenwood GC a short distance up the highway north.
As per normal this course was in good shape. I would normally say great shape but the back 9, as we played today, had a lot of G.U.R. around the greens making approach shots a little difficult. We played C & A in that order and hit from the yellow tees, other than the 3 ladies that joined us today (they went from the red tees). Let’s hope next month the G.U.R. has been repaired.
Weather was not in our favor, as we had the sun all day with very little or no breeze to mention. Patch was looking to park himself under a tree and watch the world go by. And that was after 5 holes! It was a hot day.
We had two flights with three placing’s in each and all novelties were in play. Game on.
A Flight saw Buffalo Bill Steinmann play a game like no other. I had the pleasure of marking his card and it was something else. (I am sure Bill is the saying the same about the marking of my card.) Just to say that Bill won the day easily and I was last on the day easily. (See Crossy I did not give you up.) Second past the post was Stu “Casa” Rifkin continuing with some good form. He beat Steve Younger via the count back system. Steve is also having a bit of a purple patch as well!
B Flight saw The Jock Shane Young take the lollies in his last game before heading back to Oz. He also got there via the countback system keeping John Anderson at bay. Third went to Bruce Walters!
A-Flight 0 to 24.
1st Bill Steinmann (13) 43 points
2nd Stu Rifkin (19) 38 points
3rd Steve Younger (16) 38 points
B-Flight 25 plus.
1st Shane Young (25) 36 points
2nd John Anderson (27) 36 points
3rd Bruce Walters ( ) 33 points
NTPs: C3 D-For, C6 Phil Moore, A2 Bill Steinmann, A6 Bill Steinmann.
LFPs: C9 John Anderson, A9 Bill Steinmann.
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