The Tara Court Golf Society
Sunday, Oct. 28, Green Valley – Stableford
We played the ball ‘as it lies’ today at Green Valley, which was maybe a mistake as we got many muddy balls on the fairways but we still got some very good scores.
We had two flights with the cut coming in at fifteen and the best scores came from the lower flight as usual. In the A flight we had two players with thirty eight points and here Kevyn Wright (11), who is playing very steady at the moment, won a countback which went down to the last six holes and he beat Craig Hitchens (13) into second place, but Craig had a ‘2’ which meant that he walked away with almost the same money. Craig Robson (9) got the third place with thirty six points.
In the B flight the scores weren’t quite as good and here Gerry Hughes (21) won with thirty four points, beating Pat Carty (21) on a countback. Paul Butler (18) got the third and last place with thirty three.
We had three ‘2’s, coming from Craig Hitchens, Yasou Suzuki and Neville Duncan.
Tuesday, Oct. 30, Treasure Hill – Stableford
We had a smaller group today at Treasure Hill with just 9 players. The course was in great conditions with the fairways, first cut of rough and the general rough having been freshly mown. The greens were a little slower than normal but in good shape.
Once again the course won with no one bettering their handicap. In 1st place was Craig Hitchens (13) with 35 points, second went to Russell Gilroy (16) on 33 and third to Ted Morris (19) with 32.
Three players had a 2 today and sharing the money were Russell Gilroy, Pat Carty and the birthday boy, Joe Peters.
Thursday, Nov. 1, Khao Kheow – Stableford
Now that November is here we decided to put Khao Kheow on our monthly schedule and we made our first here visit today. Although it is high season we had the course virtually to ourselves which meant that we got off thirty minutes early and got round very quickly.
We had nearly forgotten just how good this course is, especially when it is in the condition it was in today which was very good. We played the B and C nines and had two flights with the cut for the A flight coming in at eighteen.
We had a very strong wind today so with that and the fact that it is a difficult course we had only one player to play better than his handicap and one player to play to it. In the B flight Ted Morris (19) had what was the best score of the day and he was the winner with thirty seven points. Frank McGowan (22) came second with thirty five and then we had two players with thirty four points and here Pat Carty (21) won the countback to come third and Peter Henshaw lost out.
In the A flight Jason Barnett (5), who was playing his first ever game with us, was the winner with thirty six points, which was a very good score off his five handicap. Bernie Stafford (18) came second with thirty four and Vincent Gras (17), who was playing with us for the first time in a long time came third with thirty three.
We had two ‘2’s today, from Pat Carty and Marty Rock.
