Phoenix Members Golf Society
With a course in as near as perfect condition as you could wish for the scoring from our group on the July 19 outing was pretty poor. We had a nice turnout of players but all suffered with poor scores.
Our winner was predictable under the circumstances; when the scoring is so low then it is usually the lower handicapper who plays consistent that prevails. And so it proved as Mukesh Thakkar returned a score of only 34 points to win the day, with even worse scores to claim the other places: 31 points by Arthur Barrett came second and 30 points by John Clift took third. Doesn’t say a lot for the rest of us does it?
Tuesday winners pose with staff at The Relax Bar.
A near pin prize went to Mukesh Thakkar, and in line with the rest of the day no other near pin prize was claimed. This meant that three of them went into the lucky draw along with the other lucky draw prizes donated by our hosts The Relax Bar. So the recipients of the lucky draw were Mike Gerrard, John Clift & Peter Harris for the prizes of the unclaimed near pins and Mike Gerrard won the free massage and Joris Goetschalckx got the free drink.
On Tuesday, July 23, we were back at Phoenix and yes folks, you know when it is getting near football season again as you cannot keep that name Gerrard out of the news. Not that Steven Gerrard is a relative mind, but there are not many Gerrard’s in the UK – maybe my great, great grandad had a bike?
The scribe managed to collect a tally of 37 points today mainly helped by an eagle 3 at the Mountain 2 Par-5 hole: 6-iron from about 160 yards straight in the hole – not bad for a pensioner! (Nothing in the record books for that but as good as a hole in one – and I had one of those last year).
In second place with 36 points was Stuart Gordon and in joint third place were John Bartley & John Clift, both with 34 points with identical back nine scores.
The near pins were won by Tim ‘Chippy’ Mason, Heinz Roembell, Mike Gerrard & Stuart Gordon.
The lucky draw prizes were awarded to Peter Harris, John McCarthy & David Lusha.
Suffice to say the Phoenix course is in magnificent shape at the moment and with much work being carried out on the Ocean course it looks like being a great high season at here.
For information to join with our society for a day of golf, please call me (Mike) on 087 091 7565. Spaces will be very limited this year!
