Yet more rain (12mm) on Friday resulted in another heavy track for Saturday’s September Medal round and scores on the day clearly reflected that with the conditions and the handicapper the overall winners on the day.
The most important winner on the day though was Brendon Cornwall who took out B grade and his first Monthly Medal shirt with a good round of 100-27-73.
As with most medal winning cards Brendon had a very consistent round with 8 bogeys and a par (on the par four 11th).
Brendon’s nearest challenger for the Medal was the A grade winner in Lawrie Casey who finished with 87-12-75. As with Brendon Lawrie had a solid rather than spectacular round with seven pars and seven bogeys. A long the way he picked up balls for A grade Nearest the Pin on the 3rd hole (the only NTP trophy paid out for the day) and best second shot on the 13th.
Steve Usher finished as the A grade runner up, one shot back, with a round of 86-10-76.
There was an appalling three-way countback to find the B grade runner up with Paul Dickens getting the voucher with 95-18-77 over Paul Kuiper (94-17-77) and Paul Pappin (102-25-77).
Ball comp winners were Alex Kydd, Wil Harrison and the aforementioned Paul Kuiper and Paul Pappin, all with scores of Nett 77.
Kydd and Kuiper also won the best Gross score balls with 86 and 94 off the stick respectively while Graeme Harrison won the best second shot ball on the 13th.
On Tuesday Valley View’s own golfing machine in Daryl Harrison shot 76 off the stick as he won A grade with 37 points from Parkland’s Billy Ryan who had 34 points.
Daryl’s card recorded two birdies (on the par three 9th and par give 14th holes) ten pars and six bogeys in another exceptionally consistent round.
Peter Blackmore had the day’s best score of 39 points as he took B grade by two shots from Peter Lyon with 37 points. The highlight of Blacker’s round was a birdie four on the eighth.
Ball winners were Brenton Sheppard (35 points), Greg Watkins (34), Paul Kuiper (34) and Peter Mangan (34).
Nearest the Pin winners were David Daws (A grade 3rd), Albert Adams (B grade 3rd), Paul Newman (A grade 12th), IQ Ryan (B grade 12th) and John Burrows (First Tea Voucher 15th).
Scott Robinson cleaned out the Eagles Nest with a three on the 8th while Graeme Harrison (9th) and David Gebbie (13th) won the second shot balls.
This week’s event is a 2-Man (“person” for the Wokes out there) Ambrose with Mixed, Men’s and Women’s events. Assembly is at the usual time of 1130am.
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