Mercury Bay Golf News

 Saturday Scramble 5^th November

 The fireworks came from Ian Millin on Saturday who celebrated Guy Fawkes with a scorching 46 Stableford points.  He sits proudly on the board for this months low net score and if you played on Wednesday and scored any less that 41 points then you can tell your story walking as you finished out of the money. 

 Yes- 40 points got nothing!!!… Brutal!

 Mens Results

Ian Millin                      46

Steve Tull                     44

Kelly Barson                43

Wayne Kearney           42

Grant Wedge                42

Keven Clark                 42

Tom Coysh                  41

Geoff Lowe                  41

Rod Stewart                 41

 Two’s               Noel Richardson, Nathan Wilson, Kelly Barson

 Long Drive                   Senior              Kevin Smith     

                                    Junior               Lee Hall

Nearest To Pin             Senior              Alan Henderson

                                    Junior               Lee Hall

 DUXFIELD TROPHY 2011

Duxfield Semi Finals this weekend and here is how it’s gone down so far.

W Malcolm & B McLean      vs      G Wheeler & Steve Tull

Winners Gary Wheeler & Steve Tull    1up

R Watson & Ash Strachan    vs      G Wedge & T Coysh

Winners: Grant Wedge & Tom Coysh on 19^th

 

Wheels and Steve are proving to be pretty strong and a net 62 from Wheels secured the victory on Wednesday.  They will go on to play Tom Coysh and Grant Wedge who have years of experience on their side… not to mention that both have been shooting awesome scores lately.

This will be a great game!

 

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R Anderson & R Stewart       vs      M Burcombe & G Butler

Winners: Ron Anderson & Rod Stewart on the 15^th

 

K Smith & A Havard              vs      C Ohlson & K Barson

Winners: Craig Ohlson and Kelly Barson on the 14th

 

 

Ron Anderson has been here all week and looks pretty fired up to take on Craig and Kelly who have been no doubt working and laying concrete and plastering and doing whatever they do during the week.  Rod Stewart has left Ron on his own for this match so this will be a very tall order if they want to make the final.  This will be the second match that Craig and Kelly will be taking on just 1 player.  They really have had a dream run to the finals, lets see if they can make it! 

 

In other news Kevin Smith had 74 the other day, which was just one round late if he wanted to make the semi finals. Nice score though!

 

 

 

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WomensGOLFNEWS

J & D TROPHY Men vs Women

 

It’s not easy being a man…  Not only do men have to deal with the fact that they don’t look as good as women, now all men have to accept the fact that women are better at golf too.  Wednesday’s J & D trophy was Golfs official battle of the sexes and once again the girls came out on top. 

 

Not only that but they completely obliterated us.  It was a very sad day for mankind…

 

Twenty-five men and 28 women played in excellent conditions on a course good enough to play the lie. In teams of two men and two women they played for Stableford points, and the ten randomly chosen cards from each group were added together to find the winning side.   

 

I was chosen to pick out the Womens cards while Jenny Layton chose the mens cards and it was pretty painful to watch as the women won by 49 points.  Yep, 49!  that means that the women outscored the men by 5 shots per card.  That is about as comprehensive as a victory can get.

 

In other news, Edith Thompson had the score of the year with 50 stableford points and to add insult to injury she added her 2 shots on to finish on 52 points.  A wonderful score and she sits proudly atop the yearly score leaderboard.

 

The Men didn’t have an eagles nest this time and of course Osman came in with a 3 up the 5^th.  He is notorious for firing up at the wrong time and today was no exception.  I also eagled the 3^rd on my way to 66 gross… (with a double up the 17^th too… meh)  The course record will have to wait…

 

Daryll Gilliland topped the Mens leaderboard with a magnificent 45 stablefords and don’t be surprised to see him playing off a lower handicap in the next few weeks!

 

Division 1 Women

Chris Wight                            44

Alma Kitchen                         42

Jill Raynes                              42

Judith King                             38

 

Division 2 Women

Edith Thompson                     50

Shirley Bowick                        45

Anne Bayliss                          44

Maria Duxfield                        43

 

Division 1 Men

 

Ash Strachan                          42

 

Jonny Stieller                          41

 

Osman Emer                          41

 

David Green                           40

 

Bruce Bell                               39

 

 

 

Division 2 Men:

 

 Daryll Gilliland                        45

 

Stuart King                              42

 

Bruce Muir                              38

 

 

 

Men nearest the Pin: Giorgio Allemano

 

 

 

Osman Emer, Daryll Gilliland, Jonny Stieller (2) Chrissie Smith and Edith Thompson had twos.

 

 

 

The  nearest the Pin on 4 was won by Vanessa Ford.

 

 

 

The  nearest the Pin on 10 in 2 was won by Edith Thompson.

 

TUTTI FRUITY RESULTS

 

1^st November 2011

 

 

 

Tom Coysh                 27

 

Keith Goldsbro           24

 

Ron Temple                24

 

Alan Barradale           23

 

Bill McLean               22

 

Jack Skinner              22

 

Keith Denney             22

 

Leon Courtenay         21

 

 

 

ALT                Tom Glendenning

 

 

 

 

 

Keith Foster and Ron Anderson won the Friday Vets with 27 points each. N ice one!