THE WINTER CUP - ROUND TWO

Round Two - The Winter Cup

Winter? Blue skies and a very balmy 20°.

Yes, that’s right – a typical Perth winter’s day.

New clubs, Earle?

The Round One leaders eyed each other cautiously.

Colin, Faye, Karl and Goochy all sitting on competitive scores.

Who would crack under pressure?

Who could hold their nerve?

No more warm ups for a while

Tee-off on the Tuart at a very reasonable 10:00 am - no need for the alarm clock.

Boris a late sign-up, having forgotten to book in on Wednesday,

Group one led the day off, with two big hitters in Hilly and Goochy, while Derek and Earle made sure the nearer regions of the fairway weren’t neglected.

Well that's a fine mess we've got ourselves into

There were claims of slow play, and counter-claims of being held up by members of the public ahead, but expect tension when a trophy of this magnitude is at stake.

Vickie was relaxed throughout, having won the trophy last year, and thus being assured of perpetual qualification for the Master’s trophy. (Or perhaps Mistresses’ trophy in her case?)

As holder of the trophy, Vickie has taken to
driving around with it on top of her car for the past year

Group two reported that they had plenty of laughs, while hooning around in their carts.

Hooning? Us?

Not a huge crop of birdies – Lynley and Derek on the third, Earle and Puggy on the tenth.

The novelties:

No luck on either of the Golden Holes.

Nearest in two on the fifth went to Mark Hill.

Men’s longest drive, had Derek, followed by Peter, but trumped by Roland,

And the ladies’ longest drive was collected by Frances.

Nearest the pin on the 18^th, had Dave Millar’s name written all over it.

At the afters, Andrea deputised for Gerry.

She noted that Karl is in the process of organising the Country Cup, which will take place on the Sunday after the Grand Final. (Which Grand Final, you ask? Come on!)

While Derek’s birthday was also acknowledged.  

Birthday this week

The results for the day were announced.

A steady round from Frances was enough to win today,

While Peter had the obvious excuse for his poor performance – he had had the misfortune to receive a lesson this week from a golf professional. Of course he was going to have a shocker - doesn’t that always happen?

Training for Match Play

However, he did dock himself two strokes for having struck his own buggy with the ball. As Lynley points out, there is no longer a penalty for that.

Not that it would have resulted in much of a climb up the leaderboard.

Which left only the calculation of the trophy winner.

Aggregate scores were as follows:

Gary 153

Faye 151

Andrea 150

Puggy 150

Colin 145

Which puts Colin five strokes clear, an overwhelming victory, and remarkably 37 years since the last time he won the same trophy. Clearly some sort of record.

Well clear of the field

Congratulations, Colin.

Next week, we have the quarter finals of the Match Play championship, with Stableford for everyone else.

Karl will be in charge, and Peter will do the blog. 

Now thought for the day: 

 
See you next week!