GOLFWEEKLY

... the results

Wednesday April 24:

Sibuya Game Reserve/Arabella Wine Individual Stableford, with 34 players. Results:

1st: Gavin Yeats – 43, 2nd: Russell Gardner – 40, 3rd: Ian Moncur – 38, 4th: Russel Broom – 36

Two Clubs:

6th: G Bladen

8th: V Jordan, A Morey, R van Zyl

Best gross: 71 – Ian Moncur

Best nett: 65 – Gavin Yeats

Nearest the pins: Debonairs – 6th: Geoff Bladen

Thymes 2 Catering – 8th: Rick van Zyl

The Wharf Street Brew Pub – 11th: Dennis White Trellidor – 13th: Russell Broom

Wimpy longest drive #14th: Nick Fox Kingsley Beverages: Nearest the pin for two on the 1st: Chris Roberts

Saturday April 27: Inso Aluminium Better Ball Medal, with 72 players. Results:

1st: Marius Lombard, Les Wasdell - 61

2nd: Roger Acton, André Klopper - 62

3rd: Dave Painting, Roger Coates - 64 4th: Ian Moncur, Andries Small - 65 Two clubs:

6th: R Coates

8th: T Taylor, A Sap, F Kruger

11th: D White

13th: N Mbabela Best gross: 71 – Ian Moncur

Best nett: 66 – Roger Acton

Nearest The Pins: Mooifontein Quarry – 6th: Andy Barnes Auto Smart Body Shop – 8th: Trevor Taylor Sibuya Game Reserve – 11th: Alan Harty

The Whart Street Brew Pub – 13th: Nathi Mbabela

Wimpy longest drive #14th: Scotty Jackson Royal St. Andrews: Nearest the pin for two on the 1st: Roger Acton

1820s GOLF

Thursday April 25: 21 players in fine conditions. Winners on 41: Peter Rinaldi, Colin Wiggett, Juan Southey. Moosehead on 50: Roy Pople (triple moose), Rick Hill, Ted Baines, Albert Whitfield. Good scores: 49 - Louis van der Walt, Eugene Erasmus.

Two clubs: None.

LADIES’ RESULTS

Tuesday April 23: Cancelled due to heavy and persistent rain.

Thursday April 25: The new innovation of a better-ball Stableford for the Ladies’ Section every last Thursday of the month continued this past week with 16 players attending. Helen Lockyear and Elanor Thomson won the morning’s outing with a great 49 points easily ousting runners-up Shirley Heny and Jill Lake’s 42 by a massive 7 points.

Both Helen Lockyear (nett 67) and Shirley Heny (nett 68) seem to be peaking at the right time just before the annual six-day Mad Hatter tourney. Elanor Thomson holed the only two-club of the competition (8th).

PORT ALFRED MIXED

April 27: The recent welcome rains have turned the course into a beautifully verdant, first-class venue for golf, but with the consequence that it has also lengthened the play considerably with the ball not travelling as far as in the recent past. The result of this is that scores are not as good as they have been earlier this year. Twenty-three players turned out for the early morning draw into one mixed three-ball and five four-balls

The bachelor herd of Dave Stanley, Eric Segers, Tim and Greg Shanks reacted to the conditions the best and posted a winning 84 points. Runners-up Rosie Calmeyer-Leach, Barrie Brady and Fanie Smit’s 76 +5 = 81 points counted out Jenny Adair, Lynn West, Len Bohnen and Andy Manson into third place. Nothing went right for the” most golf” covey of Heather van Harmelen, Margie Reid, Martin Lambrechts and Terry Harris who could only manage to card a pitiful 75 points to come bottom of the list. Two-clubs were holed by Greg Shanks (6th), Angela Trollip, Dave Rose (8th) and Eric Segers (13th) The best nett score was posted by Greg Shanks (70). PAM golf donated R1,000 to Port Alfred and Ndlambe Districts SPCA during the course of the week.

KGB RESULTS

April 24: Rained off. April 26: The very welcome rains that had fallen earlier in the week softened the fairways considerably making them more yielding and lengthening the course. The 41 players drawn into three three-balls and eight four-balls found the course more difficult than to what they had become accustomed to over the past few months and this was reflected in the scores in the two-to-count Stableford alliance competition.

In fact it took just 83 points to win the morning’s proceedings, the very score recorded by Mark Warren, Tom Tagg, Paul Fryer and Johny Johnson. Two covies tied for second place on 81 points, namely (1) James Lobban, Derrick van Harmelen, Don Thomson and John Muggeridge and (2) Bob Shaw, Paul Parker, Russell Warren and Jan Immelman. The team of Andy Stembridge, Graham Findlay, Jimmy van Rensburg and Brian Reid found the going toughest of all managing only to card 71 points, the consequence of which was the temporary custody of the Hammer en Sukkel trophy at the 19th hole.

Neil Loundar, Tom Tagg and Mark Warren all managed to birdie the par three eighth, Tom repeating this on the 11th as well. There were no individual rounds worthy of mention.