It was ‘Fiesta’ time this week (although for many it would become ‘Siesta’ time) as we played out the first knockout round of this year’s Individual Singles Match play. There were quite a few surprises in round one which included Reg Akehurst seeing off hot favourite Graham Murray 4&2 and Nigel Price coming out tops over Liz Robertson 6&5. To be fair to Liz though she did have to concede some eleven shots!
Reg came up against Paul Brown in round two and it didn’t go his way this time as Paul won 5&4. Lindsay Forbes sailed through with a 7&5 win over Hendrick Oldenziel whilst I just about managed to scrape through, winning by one hole against new member Dave Connolly. Nigel once again triumphed over one of our lady members. This time it was Benedicte Kruse who lost out 4&3.
Conceding 24 shots Terry Field still managed to ease his way through with a 4&3 win over Dave Pulling. The other players through to fight another day were Ken Robertson, Pete Dunn and Mark Western.
Friday and it was quarter finals day. Having got through to this stage by just the one hole in the last round I lost to Mark Western by the exact same margin. Nigel Price managed to take Terry Field (playing off scratch) to the 19th hole before losing out.
Lindsay Forbes kept his good run of form going with a 4&3 win over Pete Dunn whilst Paul Brown overcame Ken Robertson also with a 4&3 win. The semi-finals will take place next Friday so watch this space!
Por ultimo, in the words of Peter Dobereiner, ‘Half of golf is fun, the other half is putting.’
Pues hasta la semane que viene
Peter Reffell
