The Tara Court Golf Society
Sunday, Oct. 14, Green Valley – Medal
A Flight
1st Stuart Brown (7) net 68
2nd Craig Hitchens (13) net 72
3rd Jerry Sweetnam (10) net 74
B Flight
1st Ian Corica (27) net 75
2nd Terry Mangan (22) net 77
3rd Joe McArdle (17) net 77
It was monthly medal time again here at Green Valley today where we had our largest group for a long while and two flights. Although we were lucky again with the weather, the course was wet and playing very long, which is probably why with one or two exceptions the scoring wasn’t great.
I suppose if you want to win the gold medal in January, which is the one everyone wants to win, the best way to do it is to keep the competition down. This is exactly what Stuart Brown did today as he won his second monthly medal for this year, thereby making sure there would be one less to play for the gold. Not only did Stuart win it but he did it in style with a net sixty-eight, four shots clear of his nearest rival. Craig Hitchens played to his handicap to come second in the A flight with a net seventy two and Jerry Sweetnam came third with a net seventy four.
The scoring in the B flight was a lot worse and here Ian Corica won with a net seventy-five and we then had two players with a net seventy seven and here Terry Mangan won the countback. We had two ‘2’s today, coming from Craig Robson and Stuart Brown.
Tuesday, Oct. 16, Chee Chan G.C. – Medal
1st Paddy Naughton (15) net 72
2nd Pat Carty (20) net 76
3rd Craig Robson (9) net 81
4th Glen Eldershaw (15) net 81
We decided to give the new course at Chee Chan a try today while they are still giving a fairly reasonable price to see what it is like and we were all very impressed with it. It is a long course with the shortest tees being over 6,500 yards and with many of the tees being well back on the tee boxes it was even longer than that. For a course which has just opened it is in magnificent condition, with both the fairways and the greens being excellent.
Because the score card doesn’t have any indexes on it yet we had to play a medal competition and most of our group found that very difficult. We only had one player play to his handicap and that was Paddy Naughton who won with a net seventy two. Pat Carty was four shots adrift but he still came second with a net seventy six and after that we had two players with a net eighty one and here Craig Robson won the count back to come third and to make it better he had the only ‘2’ of the day.
Thursday, Oct. 18, Burapha – Stableford
A Flight
1st Kevyn Wright (10) 35pts
2nd Jerry Sweetnam (10) 33pts
3rd Craig Robson (9) 32pts
B Flight
1st Ted Morris (20) 35pts
2nd Joe Peters (23) 28pts
3rd Pat Carty (20) 27pts
We are now coming near the end of the Sport Days here at Burapha for this year so we had a larger group out today to take advantage of playing this beautiful course at a very reasonable price.
We had two flights with the cut coming in at fifteen. The scoring wasn’t great, with no one managing to play to their handicaps but we had one of our friends do something which was a first for our group. I won’t embarrass him by naming him as he is a very steady golfer and features in the prizes very often but today he managed to score only one point on the B course for a total of eleven points, something which I don’t think anyone ever did before.
Kevyn Wright was the winner of the A flight with thirty five points, Jerry Sweetnam came second with thirty three and Craig Robson won the count back to come third with thirty two.
Ted Morris won the B flight with thirty five points and Joe Peters was surprised to hear that he came second with twenty eight. Pat Carty got the third and last place with twenty seven.
We had two ‘2’s today, from Phelim Moran and Kevyn Wright.
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