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Kevyn Wright.
Kevyn Wright.

The Tara Court Golf Society

Sunday, May 13, Green Valley – Medal

1st Kevyn Wright (15) net 67

2nd Stuart Brown (8) net 71

3rd Mikael Andersson (13) net 72

4th Peter Henshaw (26) net 73

5th Ian Corica (28) net 73

Another very hot and humid day here for what was our fifth monthly medal this year here at Green Valley. Despite having to stop for thirty minutes for some heavy rain we still got round in under four hours.

We had one very good score today as Kevyn Wright won his first medal with us with an excellent net sixty-seven, which was four shots ahead of Stuart Brown in second. Mikael Andersson played to his handicap to come third while Peter Henshaw came fourth with a net seventy-three, beating Ian Corica on count-back.

For the past three weeks we had no ‘2’s and today there was a large pot to be shared out.  Three people managed to share it, the happy recipients being Craig Hitchens, Kevyn Wright and Ash Sood.

Tuesday, May 15, Pleasant  Valley – Stableford

We had 16 players today for trip to Pleasant Valley and as the course was damp it was ‘lift clean & place’ in effect.  The course played well but with little or no run on the fairways and chip & run shot near the green were hard to judge.

The sky threatened to open up on the back nine but all got to the clubhouse dry except the last group who caught the start of the rain while putting on the 18th green.

The scoring was very good today and even playing better than your handicap did not mean getting a place.  Top spot was decided on a C/B with Craig Hitchens (14) 42 points (19-23) beating Donal McGuigan (19) on the same score (20-22). Third went to Pat Carty (21) with 41 points while fourth and fifth went to a 3-way C/B were Russell Gilroy (17) 38 points (15-23) pipped Bernie Stafford (18-20) and Tony Dire (27) (23-15).

The ‘2’s were shared between Craig Hitchens & Daryl Burkett.

Thursday, May 17, Burapha – Stableford

By the time we arrived here at Burapha the skies had opened and it was looking very bad for golf.  When we went to check-in they told us we would have to wait at least an hour for the flooding to clear after it stopped, however we got off after a wait of about forty minutes to play on a very wet course.

We played the A and B nines off the white tees as with the course being so wet it was going to be playing long with absolutely no run on the ball.  As we had only a three-ball in front of us we got round very quickly with our first four-ball going round in less than an three and a half hours.

Both Pat Carty and Kevin Blake were burning it up on the front nine, with Pat having twenty one points and Kevin nineteen.  Both of them let it slip a bit on the back nine and they both finished with thirty five, with Kevin having the better back nine to edge Pat into second.  Stuart Brown got the third and last place with thirty two and we had no ‘2’s today.