Wednesday 7th October 2020
2 from 3 Discard
An excellent golfing day as far as the weather was
concerned with 39 seniors enjoying their day at the part some more than others.
John Evans was insistent that I put something on this report about slow play by
his friend Danny Dowell as apparently his team was more than 2 holes behind the
3B ahead of them. With a friend like Jonny, you don’t need enemies Danny LOL.
We had problem with one of the cards and everyone was pushing for
disqualification maybe they wanted revenge for years of being punished for the
sort of error farmer Bob had made on his card. The second member of his team
(Gordon Brent) with no handicap specified on the card. It was either a
disqualification outright or be lenient and have Gordon play as scratch golfer
and reduce their scores accordingly. To avoid additional work and make the
outcome sound better, DQ was chosen. Bob & Co would have finished 2nd
on count back had it not been for the error.
There were two 2’s paying £3.25 to each team members
Here are today’s scores
|
Player 1 |
Player 2 |
Player 3 |
Score |
2's |
Each £ |
2's £ |
Total |
|
|
1st |
David Mugridge |
Robert Rees |
John Pearce |
74 |
|
£6.50 |
|
£6.50 |
|
2nd |
Mark Cording |
Derek Gardener |
Ken Trott |
73 |
|
£4.00 |
|
£4.00 |
|
3rd |
John Evans |
Ian Thomas |
Bryan Frost |
72 |
|
£2.50 |
|
£2.50 |
|
4th |
Martin Leigh |
Richard Agar |
Paul England |
72 |
|
|
|
|
|
5th |
Roger Davis |
Mike Dawson |
Norman Markby |
72 |
1 |
|
£3.25 |
£3.25 |
|
6th |
Roger Stone |
Peter Spencer-Farr |
Andrew Beale |
71 |
|
|
|
|
|
7th |
James Siabi |
Nobby Hodder |
Rod Young |
69 |
|
|
|
|
|
8th |
David Asquith |
Barrie Heath |
Colin Ireland |
68 |
|
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|
|
|
9th |
Nicholas Hill |
Richard Dines |
Michael Hone |
68 |
|
|
|
|
|
10th |
Albie Benaim |
Martyn Putland |
Terence Hackling |
66 |
|
|
|
|
|
11th |
Jeremy Blackburn |
Edmondo Paoloni |
Dickie Hall |
64 |
|
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|
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|
12th |
Danny Dowell |
Tom Downey |
Michael Miles |
60 |
|
|
|
|
|
DQ |
Robert Barrow |
Mark Sanders |
Gordon Brent |
74 |
1 |
|
£3.25 |
£3.25 |
James Siabi Ⓒ
The Winners were fortunate in that they were able to discard some low scores, such as 1 Point on the Par 5 4th Hole. Pearce was in trouble from the tee, Bob diddled his way up the Fairway, but landing on the bank on the right cost him heavily and also fell out, good drive from Dave . but modest 2nd ( we called it a topped shot, but Dave had a much more elaborate description) - scrambled a 6 but with no shot, merely a single point Oops...
Dave murdered the 'Par 5' 15th, with a great 2nd shot right at the Pin. His effective 'Eagle 3' - gave us 5 Points, coupled with 3 points from his Partners edged them ahead.
2nd Place would have won if it was not a 'Discard' as they had to discard 4 & 5 point holes - They had to spend some time on the Card at the end as they had robbed themselves by not scoring 10 & 15 as par 5's.
Well done to everyone for such a slick day, with the course busy with a team from Wheathill. JW had published the Draw nice and early and we had 100 % turn up on time - makes it all run nicely and good separation in these tricky times as the number of Covid cases in South Somerset rises steeply from 9 to 23 in the past week..It's out there Gents, so let's keep it up and keep it out.
He's trying so hard to do everything right...
