Round 6: February 11th @ Churchill Park: Format: Pairs
Churchill Park was the venue for the Round 6 pairs event, and with hot weather, doglegged tree lined fairways a testing day was expected. And this was exactly what was produced, with some very ordinary golf and no team shooting under par, and only the top 2 teams going close. Add in 9 drives each and it showed that some poor drive management had a drastic effect on final scoring.
Interestingly enough the 2 captains involved in the awards from our previous pairs round featured again. It was Team 1 of Red and Hubba taking out the win with a Nett score 64 narrowly beating out Team 4 featuring 2 captains Stork and Bob with Nett 65.75. This was all the more impressive as Hubba, having had a less than ideal prep and letting his phone go dead was a massive chance of missing tee off. Leading him to state that at 39 years old so should be able to wake himself up. Evidence may show otherwise.
The race for NAGA was a very different one. With the rest of the teams either struggling with drive management or just plain bad golf shooting close to par was out of the question, with the eventual NAGA going close to 100 off the stick. In the end it wasn’t even close with Team 5 of Baby Koala and Clayton scoring Nett 78, with panels to second last Team 3 of Scott and Koala carding Nett 74.25. This led to Baby Koala stating that perhaps captaincy isn’t for him and given 2 fresh airies and not making it off the men’s tee you can’t really argue with this.
It was also a “nice” surprise for the players going around to see the Poo Golfer make an appearance during the round.
NTP:
3rd: Bob, 6th: Bob, 11th: Red, 17th: Joe. It must be noted here that Billy Mac did have his name on the card for this hole. Surely a collector’s item and one to tell the grandkids about.
Cuts:
Red: 13 → 12, Hubba 23 → 22
Slides:
Baby Koala: 22 → 23, Clayton: 42 → 43
Event Management for the day was taken care of by Ryan and Koala. Mains of lasagne and chips was served up by Ryan, with Koala bringing it home with trifle, rhubarb crumble, ice cream and custard. Well done lads.
Team 1: Red (13), Hubba (23) Handicap 9
Team 2: Trav (7), Billy Mac (49) Handicap 14
Team 3: Scott (14), Koala (25) Handicap 9.75
Team 4: Stork (17), Bob (16) Handicap 8.25
Team 5: Baby Koala (22), Clayton Handicap 16
Team 6: Joe (13), Ryan (24) Handicap 9.25
Team 7: Girdy (6), Winker (29) Handicap 8.75
Team 8: Billy A (18), Mitch (23) Handicap 10.25