By DENNIS FULLER
AT Emerald Golf Club on Saturday 7 June, the members faced the annual joined holes round. In this format, some holes are joined together in pairs so that golfers play over or past the first encountered green.
There were five paired holes. Trees seemed to change their names when addressed by players exhibiting diminishing degrees of gruntle.
Before play there were many loudly proclaimed ways of playing each of these pairs, but it was a silent and determined Con Whitlock (17) who proved the master of the format.
With a par for the course at 65, Whitlock finished a seven-over-par for a net 55 – a truly astonishing effort.
He was the overall master and also the B-Grade champ.
A-Grade saw Ross Martin (10) the boss cocky, with a net 63.
The best of the stragglers were Peter Jones 59, Peter Clowes 61, Ian Cranston 63, Andrew Cutting 65 and Dennis Fuller 66.
The Stockdale and Leggo nearest the pins went to Mark Starick on the 4th, Dave Aitken the 7th, Paul Farmer the 12th, Wayne Degering the 13th and Travis Gerbes scooped the pool with the nearest on the pro pin 18th.
The ladies’ event saw a struggling field with Gracie O’Brien proving to be the top dog.
Wednesday 4 June’s Officially Fascile Golf (OFG) using OFG handicaps was a stableford event in which each player had to drive with an iron from all of the odd numbered tees.
This obviously suited Ken Hill (16) and, despite hitting his first drive half the distance he could have kicked it, he settled down to teach the mob a lesson.
He came in with 38 points to win the Henley Hill Cab Sav from Sepp Krummenacher (19) and Ian Scott (25) on 33 and Dennis Fuller (13) on 32.
Next Saturday, members compete for the June monthly medal.
