By DENNIS FULLER
IT was stableford at Emerald Golf Club last Saturday with the promise of showers, rain and a little bit of good stuff.
As it turns out, there was much more good stuff and the course was in the condition for scoring big numbers.
Cards were shoved through the human computers and it resulted in two members with 42 points so further computations had to be slapped across the numbers.
It emerged that Steve Town (14) having parred the back nine won the day from an unlucky Travis Gerbes (10) on the same score.
B Grade was won, also on a countback, with captain Dean Shannon (17) just getting the nod from Phillip Crossley (20) also on 38 points.
Others to do themselves and their forefathers proud were Ken Hill (16) and Peter Glasscock (14) who both wandered in with 40 points to win a ball each.
Ben Balfour was nearest the pin on the 4th, Glasscock the 7th, Gerbes the 12th while a greedy Mike Litchfield was nearest on the 13th and also the pro pin 18th.
Gracie Gray ran away with the ladies’ comp when she easily accounted for her nearest rival Josephine Krummenacher by four points.
The last of the 4BBB games were played with Dave Aitken and Mark Starick accounting for Ben Balfour and Dennis Fuller 2/1.
The next round sees Aitken and Starick take on Ken Sumsion and Dean Shannon and in the other semi Broc Reynolds and Peter Clowes face off against Peter Glasscock and John Carvill for the right to play in the final.
On Wednesday, when the Overly Flat Golfers turned up to play the stroke event off the back markers and it was that long hitting Mick Petrie (31) who stole the show with a nett 66 to lead in Sepp Krummenacher (20) on 67 followed by Moss Fuller (24) and Peter Clowes (15) both on 69.
