PSC Golf from The Growling Swan
Monday, Jan. 21, The Emerald – Stableford
A Flight
1st Martin Kempton (10) 34pts
2nd Denis Steele (15) 34 pts
3rd Steve Younger (13) 33 pts
4th Dave Maw (19) 33 pts
B Flight
1st Colm Mullen (28) 34pts
2nd Shane Young (25) 32 pts
3rd Glenn Rosbrook (36) 30 pts
4th Peter Brown (26) 30 pts
Near Pins: Martin Kempton, Mark Stapleton, Steve Younger.
Long Putts: Dave Maw, JC Lhoste.
Twenty-eight golfers took the journey out to Emerald and apart from some problems with our booking and having no caddies available at the specified time, the course itself was in great nick and a pleasure to play on. The weather was good, not too hot and with a nice breeze from time to time kept things good for all concerned.
Two flights were the order of the day and the A Flight saw two lots of countbacks in the first four positions. Martin Kempton returned with 34 points to beat his playing partner Denis Steele in a countback for top spot. Third and fourth also went to the countback with Steve Younger taking the lollies from Dave Maw.
B Flight saw Colm Mullen with thirty four points take first position from Shane Young a further two points in arrears. Third past the post was one of our visitors Glenn Rosbrook, with Peter Brown (another visitor) finishing in fourth.
Thursday, Jan. 24, Crystal Bay – Stableford
1st Takeshi Hakozaki (12) 36pts
2nd Colm Lawlor (14) 36pts
3rd Dave Maw (19) 35pts
4th Alex Field (15) 35pts
Near Pins: Bill Steinmann, Frank Waterhouse, JJ Harney, Bill Steinmann.
Long Putts: Lorraine Percy, Tony Cook.
Well we mustered 15 golfers for today’s hit-out at one of our favorite courses – Crystal Bay. A few complaints came in regarding of the condition of the course, most saying that it wasn’t up to the usual standard. It was a little dry in places as when the ball would bounce on the fairway a puff of dirt would come up, telling us that things were a little dry. The greens played the way they always do at Crystal.
Playing from the white tees the day’s numbers allowed us to play just the one flight, again with all the novelties in play.
It was Takeshi, playing on his ‘home course’ that returned with 36 points, as did Colm Lawlor, but the countback system gave Takeshi the edge over Colm in second. Again it was to the countback to sort out the minor places and here Dave Maw got the nod for third past Alex Field in fourth and Paco being the unfortunate one to miss out.
