IPGC Golf from The Tara Court Golf Group
Sunday, April 26, Green Valley – Stableford
Another early start today at Green Valley and the course was in even better condition than usual with very fast greens, probably because of the Singha Championship which was starting the following day. Many of the tees were also placed well back, some of them well behind the actual markers.
Lyle Blaw & Alec Hoare.
Maybe the early start or the long course suited some of our players as we had some very good scores today. Lyle Blaw, who was playing his first Sunday game with us for a while, had an excellent 40-point return and was a clear winner. William Bishop also had a fine score of 38 to come second, especially considering he had just returned from a week long Songkran trip and playing golf every day while he was away. Alec Hoare also beat his handicap to take third place and Pat Carty came in fourth with 35, edging Gerry Hannan on count back.
Russell Goldsworthy had two 2’s and Rod Torrie had one.
1st Lyle Blaw (11) 40pts
2nd William Bishop (17) 38pts
3rd Alec Hoare (17) 37pts
4th Pat Carty (25) 35pts
5th Gerry Hannan (13) 35pts
Thursday, April 30, Burapha – Stableford
Back again at Burapha and today for the first time the players all decided to try their luck off the long blue tees. There was no one in front of us when we teed off and we got around the first nine very quickly as we had a clear run, but just as our first group finished on the ninth the rain came down and we had to take a break. When the rain abated we got stuck behind three groups and had a much slower back nine.
Gerry Hannan was playing his last game with us before going home to a very wet and cold Ireland and he finished his holiday in style by winning with 39 points. Alec Hoare repeated his score of Sunday, which was good enough today to take second place and Kevin Blake came in third with 34 after beating Marty Rock on a count back.
Tony Campbell had two 2’s and Alec Hoare had one.
1st Gerry Hannan (13) 39pts
2nd Alec Hoare (17) 37pts
3rd Kevin Blake (8) 34pts
4th Marty Rock (9) 34pts
Note: The Tara Court Golf Group play every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, leaving O’Gara’s Bar and Restaurant in the Tara Court on Pratamnak Rd. around 10.00 a.m. Sign up in O’Gara’s or ring Joe on 089 249 1364.
