LAS RAMBLAS GOLF SOCIETY- REPORT FOR WE 26 FEB

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Contributor / 2010-03-07 12:25:43

There was no report for last week as we lost 2 days to rain which, in my memory, is the first time that we have lost two days in one week. What is happening to the Mediterranean climate.

The cancellations meant that our Walker Cup match between England & The Rest of the World had to be run over two weeks much to organiser Dee Biggerstaff's chagrin. Normally this three day format starts with Greensomes on a Monday but, because of the Monday cancellation, we started off last Wednesday with the Better Ball matches which ended up with honours shared 4-4.

There was a Twos Club for a double kitty which was shared by Hugh Whorriskey, Mike Chapman & Lindsay Forbes.

There was no golf on Friday because of the rain, so on Monday we played last week's postponed Greensomes which again resulted in a tight match with ROW winning 4-3 to take a meager one point advantage into Friday's singles.

Wednesday's competition was our Monthly Medal and this proved a difficult format with no golfer beating par. The best 2 rounds of the day were from Lindsay Forbes & Olga Haubner with nett 73s. John Wheeler had a nearly round coming in with a nett 74 with a 10 on his card at the 4th!. It was a profitable day in the 2s Club with only Barry Holtham & Reg Akehurst managing to sink a putt on the Par 3s. Full scores as follows;

Cat 1. 1. Lindsay Forbes 73, 2. John Wheeler 74, 3. Mick Brentnall 79.
Cat 2. 1. Olga Haubner 73, 2. Mike Chapman 77 (on back nine), 3. Linda Ottway 77.
2s Club. Barry Holtham & Reg Akehurst.

On Friday we finished off our Walker Cup competition with the singles match play between England & The Rest of the World. Twelve matches teed off & in another very tight series of games ROW triumphed by one point to come out overall winners over the 3 days by 15.5 to 13.5.

This was a great delight to ROW skipper Lindsay Forbes for whom this was the first time in several attempts he had captained a winning team. Well done Lindsay, the jinx is broken.

Doug Wright.