Monday’s ‘Bowmaker’ (Don’t forget that’s the best three scores out of four to count) was won by Nigel Price, Reg Akehurst, Yvonne Phipps and Dave Pulling. With a very impressive 122 points they were just six short of the record set back in 2018.
With all eyes looking forward to Wednesday’s ‘Pairs Club Championship’ it was pure coincidence that Lindsay Forbes and I were drawn out once again to partner each other, having only just recently won the ‘Pairs Matchplay Trophy’. Starting as firm favourites it was rumoured that Ladbrookes were refusing to accept any more bets on our winning this time out!
Alas it was not to be. With a total of 40 points we didn’t even make it into the top three places. A good outside bet though would have been on Alan Douglas and Mike Mahony as they took the title with a sparkling 47 points. Behind them were Olga Douglas and Dave Pulling on 45 and in third place, with 43 points, it was Nigel Price and Nora Betts.
Friday and it was 2 from 4 to count with all on the par 5’s. I certainly had a game of 2 halves; 23 points going out and only 7 coming back! Winning, with 99 points were Bryen Neal, John Shervell, Petina Murray and Nick Campbell. Just one point behind them were Lindsay Forbes, Mike Mahony, Andrea Martin and (making his first appearance on the leader board) John Halliday.
Apparently Heinz Lei said to his caddy, ‘I’m going to drown myself in the lake’. To which the reply was, ‘Think you can keep your head down that long?
Pues hasta la semana que viene
Peter Reffell
