Three in a row for Lovgreen

Golf from Cafe Kronborg

Monday, Jan. 23, Pattavia – Stableford

A Flight (0-21)

1^st Ronnie Ratte (18) 40pts

2^nd Brian Gabe (17) 38pts

3^rd David Johl (17) 34pts

4^th Michele Sancillo (8) 32pts

B Flight (22+)

1^st Jan Lovgreen (22) 32pts

2^nd Kai Aabling (23) 29pts

3^rd Jan Badura (26) 28pts

4^th Gordon Clegg (33) 28pts

Near Pins: No.4 Henning Olsen, No.7 Sam Pahal, No.13 Svend Gaard, No.17 Jan Badura.

Long Putts: No.9 Michele Sancillo, No.18 Kurt Sandgaard.

Cafe Kronborg played at Pattavia on Monday and we found the course in great condition with the usual fast greens, meaning 3-putts were inevitable.

The players got around the first 9 in good time only to be confronted by another group who had been told to go half off the front & half off the back.  So after a 20 minute wait we were on our way again, but in spite of this not a bad round.

Despite his handicap being cut and being restricted for the next 20 rounds, Jan Lovgreen still managed to beat the rest of the B flight field, although only with 32 points.  Jan was followed by Kai Aabling with 29 points and third place went to a count back with Jan Badura winning that with 15 on the back 9, edging out Gordon Clegg whose inward 9 score will remain a secret forever!

The A Flight winner was Ronnie Ratte with a great score of 40 points, second was Brian Gabe with 38 and third was a newcomer to our group, David Johl with 34 points.  In fourth place was Michele Sancillo with 32.

Thursday, Jan. 26, Pleasant Valley – Stableford

A Flight (0-22)

1^st Ronnie Ratte (18) 43pts

2^nd Jan Lovgreen (22) 39pts

3^rd Kenneth Madsen (16) 38pts

4^th Henry Wong (21) 34pts

B Flight (23+)

1^st Kai Aabling (23) 43pts

2^nd Fred Tam (26) 36pts

3^rd Torben Sorensen (25) 33pts

4^th Gordon Clegg (33) 33pts

Near Pins: No.5 Kjeld Ravn, No.8 Richard Kubicki, No.13 Kai Aabling, No.17 Ulla Ravn.

Long Putts: No.9 Henry Wong, No.18 Henry Wong.

Cafe Kronborg played Pleasant Valley, one of their more popular venues, on Thursday.  The course management were perhaps expecting some wind as the greens were pretty long and hairy, causing great rafts of grain to appear and threaten putts in all directions.  As it happened if you hit the putt hard enough to get to the hole it pretty much went through all the grain unaffected.

With these conditions we didn’t know what scores to expect today and early on they didn’t look all that good, but once again the latter groups raised the standards.

The A flight winner was Ronnie Ratte with another fine score of 43 points, equalling the best score of the day.  Jan Lovgreen, having his first showing in the A flight for a while, took second place with a solid 39 points, even with his lower restricted handicap.  Kenneth Madsen came third with 38 points and Henry Wong was fourth with 34.

In B flight, Kai Aabling took the spoils matching the best score of the day with 43 points and was 7 points clear of his nearest rival.  Fred Tam had a very respectable 36 points to claim second spot while third and fourth place were decided on countback with two players having 33 points, Torben Sorensen beating Gordon Clegg with 14 points on the last 6 as opposed to Gordons 13 points.

It has to be said that none of us are getting any younger and we are all prone to the odd senior moment, but Torben took the biscuit today.  We arrived at the course and Torben’s clubs did not arrive, this kind of thing is always a worry to us golfers.  Torben said he handed the clubs to the driver, but they were nowhere to be seen.  Had the driver left his clubs at the Kronborg?  Never happened before!  No, it turns out Torben had picked up the wrong set.  Torben, get yourself a pink bag so you won’t make the same mistake again!