PSC Golf Pattaya Links Golf Society
Monday, Oct. 15, Bangpakong Riverside – Stableford
1st Bernie Stafford (18) 40pts
2nd Len Jones (30) 39pts
3rd Bill Copeland (16) 38pts
The golfers teed off today on a course in magnificent condition. Superlatives cannot do it justice and the fairways, which were immaculate, allowed some run whilst the greens were a joy to putt on with their consistency.
The single flight saw a tight battle ensue with two golfers going head-to-head on the back nine. Unfortunately, one poor drive on the fourteenth saw Mr Len’s challenge waver and the advantage went to marker Bernie Stafford, who eventually finished with forty points, one ahead of Len’s thirty-nine. In the following group Bill Copeland was drawing his current stay to a close with another fine round of thirty eight points.
Near pins went to Chris Barker (4), Masa Takano (7), Larry Slattery (13) and Colin Service (16), whilst the best front nine of 19 points went to John Mason, with Darren Beavers taking the back nine on 18 points.
Wednesday, Oct. 17, Greenwood A & C – Stableford
A Flight
1st Kevin Rogers (13) 38pts
2nd Livio Marrone (6) 34pts
3rd Chris Barker (13) 34pts
B Flight
1st Darren Beavers (20) 38pts
2nd Pierre Zbinden (21) 37pts
3rd Wayne Peppernell (16) 37pts
For the second time in three weeks the society visited Greenwood to play a stableford competition on the A and C nines. On the previous visit the course was very wet and played extremely long but this time carts were allowed full access, but just in case, the group played from the yellow tees.
The field was divided into two flights at fifteen and under and in the top flight Livio Marrone edged Chris Barker into third place on countback, his 34 points giving him second place. The flight winner was Kevin Rogers with 38 points.
In the second flight countback was used to decide the minor places with Pierre Zbinden’s 37 points taking preference over Wayne Peppernell’s fine efforts. The flight winner was Darren Beavers, winner here three weeks ago, with 38 points, and as a bonus his back nine was better than that of Kevin Rogers so he took the green jacket as well.
Near pins went to Kevin Rogers (A2), Tony Browne (A6), Ron Matthews (C3) and Tim Dale (C6.)
Masa Takano’s 19 points on the front nine was the best of the non winners as was Derek Phillips in a run of 20 points on the C nine.
Friday, Oct. 19, Eastern Star – Stableford
1st Wayne Peppernell (16) 36pts
2nd Mike Firkin (24) 35pts
3rd Dave Arataki (28) 34pts
4th Len Jones (30) 33pts
The society ended the week with a welcome visit to Eastern Star to play a stableford competition on the course which was relatively unaffected by the seasonal downpours, except there was little run on the fairways and bunkers were soft. The greens however were very consistent and running at a fair pace.
Nineteen golfers were kept in a single flight and as always good scores were at a premium on the testing course. The upside was that the white tees were well forward on most of the tee boxes.
A close encounter showed Len Jones taking fourth place with 33 points on countback from Tony Browne and Dave Arataki in third with 34. Mike Firkin again bullied the course with a bruising 35 points for second place, missing out on the closing holes with some unforced errors and bad luck. The winner was Wayne Peppernell with an excellent 36 points on his swansong round before returning to Australia.
Tony Browne’s diligence on the Links golf simulator paid dividends as he took the best front nine award with 21 points whilst Masa Takano took the best back nine award for his 16 points, an indication of the toughness of the course.
Near pins went to Wayne Peppernell (3), Derek Phillips (6), Dave Stockman (13) and Maurice Roberts (17).
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