Costa Blanca Golf Society

Sponsored by Friends of the CBGS: Manolo Garay, Bill Williams, Bonalba Golf Club,

Edi Rent-a-Car, Bodega Seleccion (El Campello)

Venue: Bonalba Golf & Spa, October 23

This week we played the first round of the Singles Knock-out Matchplay competition. For this competition we were playing off the regulation tees, except for holes 9 and 16 where we used the tees of the day as on these two holes the regulation tees were not playable.

There were 11 matches in total and the results of most of them were decided on the last hole or so, and some even went to play-off on holes 10 and 18. The second round will have to be completed by mid-November.

Next week we will be playing the first round of the Doubles Knock-out. All details are on Master Scoreboard.

We thank Jan Boultbee, our Competition Secretary, for her excellent work in organising these two competitions.

There were 10 members and one guest who did not take part in the knock-outs. They were playing non-qualifying Individual Stableford and competed for the best three places.

Again, we were lucky with the weather, as there had been some more heavy rainfalls in the area. But, although the course was quite wet and no buggies were allowed on the fairways, we were able to hold our competition and as the morning went on, the sun came through the clouds giving us that extra bit of warmth.

Summarising the other results:

Nearest the pins:

Hole 4 Nick Carter

Hole 8 Pascal Guy Hole 11 John Garnett Hole 14 Eddy Fagg There were 2 twos, both on hole 8: from Pascale and Pascal. They received the customary golf ball.

The results of the Stableford competition were:

3rd place with 33 points – Jean-Paul Leroux, beating Mo to a prize with a better back 9

2nd place with 34 points – Ray Prudhoe

1st place with 35 points – Michael Davison