The Growling Swan Golf Society
Monday, Sept. 4, Bangpakong – Stableford
1st Steve Younger (13) 42pts
2nd Frank Riley (22) 41pts
3rd Jayson Schembri (19) 41pts
4th Glenn Smith (24) 39pts
Near Pins: #4 Steve Younger, #7 Takeshi, #13 Eric Black, #16 Takeshi
Long Putts: #9 Stu Rifkin, #18 Alex Field
A keen group of 14 golfers headed up Highway 7 to the marvelous Bangpakong Golf Course on Monday. The conditions were sunny with a gentle breeze about, and it seemed perfect for good scoring, which proved to be the case. The course was in great nick with spongey fairways and nicely paced and true greens.
Only one division today and it was the highly competitive Steve Younger who snuck home by one point from evergreen Frank Riley. Frank finished second by way of a count back from Jayson Schembri, who was seen staring up a palm tree on the 18th, wondering if his ball was going to drop out …which of course it never did, thus finishing his chances of victory.
Fourth place was filled by the improving Glenn Smith who motored home with an impressive 25 points on the back-nine.
Friday, Sept. 8,
Khao Kheow – Stableford
1st Bill Steinmann (14) 42pts
2nd Steve Younger (13) 39pts
3rd Mashi Kaneta (16) 37pts
Near Pins: C3 Frank Riley, C8 Bill Steinmann, B3 Bill Steinmann, B8 Shane Young
Long Putts: C9 Terry Dreier
With a smallish group of 14 golfers we headed up to the popular Khao Kheow Golf Course, where previous night rain left the course a little damp. White tees were selected and ‘lift, clean and place’ was evoked given the aforementioned conditions.
Only one division today and it was Bill Steinmann who forgot about his putting demons for the time being to record a very handy 42 points, which saw him home by a comfortable margin of 3 points. Bill was happy to drain a few lengthy putts to give him some much needed confidence with the flat stick going forward.
Regular podium finisher, Steve Younger ran second with 39 points after a sluggish start, which gave Jockey false hopes of finishing ahead of him with a scintillating 24 point back 9. Mashi Keneta was third place with a solid 37 on his card.
