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Contributor / 2010-03-07 12:05:25

President’s Putter Competition at Roda on 1st March. ... We had an excellent turn out of 42 players for our annual President’s Putter Competition at our home course Roda on what proved to be a warm and sunny day.

The course as per usual was immaculately presented with the fairways in particular well manicured and it was a pleasure to play on green grass again after playing so many courses recently where the fairways have been in brown hibernation mode.
In addition to the main competition 4 players took the opportunity to play their semi final matches in the individual match play event and in these games Maurice Lea and Steve Powell came out victorious beating Peter Ferries and Dean Charles respectively to proceed to the final.

In the President’s Putter Competition one 4 ball took the Captain’s call for faster play to extremes by teeing off on the 9th hole when they had not played holes 6.7 or 8. The 4 ball in question Noel Connellan, John Casey, Dennis and Meg Clarke had all played the course before so Noel’s humorous suggestion that someone had turned the tee box number upside down was met with a fair degree of scepticism. Fortunately they had the use of a buggy to retrieve their drives so not much time was lost.

Two players also managed to break clubs during their rounds, Dennis Thomas on hole 11 when the head of his 6 iron came off when hitting his tee shot, he found the head but not the ball and George Kilminster who played the final 16 holes without a putter and still managed a very creditable 28 points.

The full list of prize winners on the day were: Category 1: 1st John Connolly with a superb 38 points. 2nd Steve Powell with 35 points. 3rd Ian McCormack with 33 points beating Stan Boyles who had the same score on count back by virtue of our lower handicap rule.

Category 2: 1st Georges Ottevaere with 32 points on count back. 2nd Roy Aston with 32 points. 3rd Sheila Aston with 31 points.
Best Guest was John Casey with 31 points.
Winner of the President’s Putter Trophy - John Connolly.

Nearest the Pin Prizes were won by Ian McCormack, John McArthur, Roy Welburn and Noel Connellan and the longest drive for ladies prize by Sheila Aston. The 2’s prize fund was shared by Ray Madeley, John McArthur, Ian McCormack, Roy Welburn, John Mitton and John Casey. The football card draw was won by Dennis Clarke.

Future Fixtures and Events:
Monday 15th March, Alenda, first tee time 10.32.
Monday 22nd March, Hacienda Riquelme, first tee time 11.40.
Wednesday 24th March Quiz Night , Lilley’s Restaurant, Torre de la Horadada see white book for details.

Contact: Geoff Walters, Secretary, Tel 966 763 369 or email geofwalt@telefonica.net