SAN JAVIER GOLF SOCIETY LO ROMERO

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Contributor / 2010-03-07 11:17:14

Frank Broadhurst. Ken Hunt. Roy Herbert. Mick Hardy. Barry Beale. Chris Tudor and Paul Matthews

Lo Romero. Individual Stableford 1st March ... It was nice to be back at Lo Romero and on such a nice day as well. We seem to have quite late tee times lately and at 10.30am it was already warm.

I had gotten a weather forecast which said that it was to get windy during the afternoon and go cool, wrong, it stayed warm and if anything the early breeze died away. Definitely a day for playing in shorts and half our players were obviously more comfortable in them. Again we were split into 2 categories with handicap 13 being the highest in Cat1.

The course was in very good condition with the greens playing slower than the practice green which caught a few players out, however the gross 2´s pot was shared by 2 players Frank Broadhurst and Ken Hunt who both chipped in on the par 3 12th hole without even having to putt. Frank has now been named the man with the golden putter (which he has had for 25 years) but still doesn’t know how to use it,. He even said that his chipping was rubbish today shortly before chipping in for 2 winning 18.5€ as his share of the pot.

Barry Beale, winner of our last game with 39 points didn’t repeat his achievement unfortunately and on the 10th tee amazed his playing partners with a tee shot that went straight up in the air and landed back on the tee box, I understand he is thinking of wearing a crash helmet for his tee shots from now on. Barry did fair better on the 18th though when his second to the island green looked like it was in the water when it hit a rock and bounced up and back onto the fairway, it never happens that way for me.

There were many tales of the days play being told back at the clubhouse and I took the opportunity to take a few notes of the amusing ones. John Hillier our highest handicap player mentioned that he had scored 12 points on the 4 par 3´s and 14 points on the remaining 14 holes. His playing partners were getting fed up with him saying 4 Nett 3 for 3.

Jimmy Trevaskiss whom I was playing with had a putting day to forget. I’m sure for most of the round he 3 putted every green and then made us laugh when only a foot away from the hole said ”I’ll just get this out of your way” meaning to knock it in the hole and ended up 2 feet away and definitely in no ones way.

Roy Herbert survived the treacherous 18th when his 3rd shot was heading for disaster and hit the only raised sleeper on the far edge of the green and bounced back towards the flag.

In the absence of the handicap secretary Paul Matthews volunteered to check the cards and there were only a few mistakes but the most amusing was that of the card marked by David Williams, the points total read 15 + 4=20 and when questioned said “I used to teach maths”, what he didn’t say was that he taught maths badly.
The results of the day were:-

Cat 1 winner David Williams with 35 points second place on count back was Barry Beale with 32 points.

Cat 2 winner was Capt Mick Hardy also with 35 points and in second again on count back was Roy Herbert with 33 points.
The nearest the pin prizes were won by, Hole 5 Chris Tudor, Holes 12 and 15 by Roy Herbert and Hole 9 which was second shot by Paul Matthews. The gross 2´s was shared by Frank Broadhurst and Ken Hunt.

An excellent days golf in perfect conditions, roll on March 24th which is our next game at Corvera Golf. The format for this game will be a 2 ball Texas scramble. Payday is Saturday 20th at the campsite San Javier.
For more details about the Society go to. www.sanjaviergolfsociety,.co.uk

Report by Bob Gallard.

Photo L to R. Frank Broadhurst. Ken Hunt. Roy Herbert. Mick Hardy. Barry Beale. Chris Tudor and Paul Matthews.