Barossa Valley and Wednesday Comp

Wednesday 24/08/16:    North Adelaide

Five starters, including the welcome return of Bob Batty (9 holes), on a nice day for golf.

The very ordinary run of scores throughout this winter continued, with 30 points never threatened.    Milde triumphed, but it was a bit like watching the Power beat Gold Coast.  


Sunday 28/08/16:   Barossa Valley (Nuriootpa)   - Report from the Meister

Sunny with a cold breeze to start with, but eventually everyone had their jumpers off.  Glorious day indeed.

NTPs                  Kenny Freestone, Paul Crathern, Slugger, Jenny Wellman, and the Meister
Long Drives      Helen Cooper and Kenny Freestone
5 point holes   Helen Cooper – par 4 sixteenth (Geez!  Parred it with three handicap shots!)
4 point holes   
-     Kerri Oreo - Par 4 eighth and Par 4 eighteenth
-    Jenny Wellman - Par 3 fifteenth
-    Helen Cooper – Par 5 second and par 5 fourteenth
-    Kenny Freestone – par 5 second, par 5 fifth, par 4 eighth (then fell away badly after 23 points on the front nine)
-     Meister – par 5 second

Winner on the day
The Meister with 38 points!

Second – daylight, closely followed by Kenny Freestone on 33, Helen Cooper 32, Don Boyle 32, and Dave Oreo on 30 big ones were all the ball-winners.

Comments:

-      Good to see the women improving, even if a little  inconsistent still, but dominating the four point hole leaderboard.    Just need to eliminate a couple of scrubs per round.

 -      We are all eagerly anticipating the day that Jenny Wellman has a lower handicap than the Vice President.  It is getting closer!

Wednesday Competition

17/08/16:   North Adelaide

A clear, sunny, calm, day for golf (20C) with the course recently mown (finally dry enough), but the greens cored.

Five starters, but Damien didn't finish.   Phil produced the highest score for the winter - a very creditable 35 points.  Those '8 for 3 points' holes really help !!!

Money to Phil overall, Peter front nine, Greg back nine.

Ecelectic Holes:
Don:      4 on fourth, four on forteenth

Four point holes:

Don:     par 4 forteenth

Next week:   Wednesday 10.30 am North Adelaide

Wednesday Competition

There have been few reports in recent weeks due to a combination of rain, a very wet course, colds/flu, gender re-assignments and travel.  The scores of those few who have played during the past month generally ranged from poor to appalling.   Despite this, there have been improvements in most people's eclectic scores during the past month, including

Pring:                 4 on 11th and 18th
Mensforth:          4 on 4th, 5 on 13th
Whicker:             4 on 7th
Crathern:            4 on 14th
Methofer:            4 on 14th.
(If I have missed any, just send details with the Lagavulin).

03/08/16:  North Adelaide.     Pring report:

One drizzly shower for 3-4 minutes, with splashes of sunlight, a lot of cloud and a cold easterly breeze

Phil sizzled in the muddy conditions with 30 points, hitting his drives mostly straight and long (who would have thought !!!)   

Damo got anything up to 3 inches of run on the fairway centres.  Respectable score. 

Meister hit maybe 4 fairways and struggled to get past Damo.  Non respectable score.

11/08/16:   North Adelaide.  

Played in perfect conditions on the Thursday to avoid the wet Wednesday.   Still crap scores all round.

The Pring/Methofer combination proved far too good for Milde/Whicker.

Next Wednesday (17/08/16)  - North Adelaide, 10.19 & 10.25 am