THE warm, dry weather brought out a good field of golfers this week.
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There was a good roll-up for the Thursday afternoon 12-hole competition. Alan Cairney showed his skills to outrun the rest of the field. Balls went to Bill Wilcox, Peter Dale, Doug Collins, Bill Grady, Don Miller and Brian Balaam.
There was a strong field on Saturday to play the monthly medal and medal of medal event. John McKinnon finished with 72/66 to win A grade and the monthly medal. He won the A grade scratch ball as well.
Brian Roberts was the runner-up with 82/67 and was also the winner of the A grade medal of medals. B grade was won by Lenore Zamparini with 87/65.
Luke Christie-Johnston was the runner-up on 89/66. Barry Stubbs won the B grade scratch ball with a solid round of 85.
Welcome back to Brett Crichton, who had a good round and won the A grade putting with just 26 putts. Dick O'Donnell won the B grade putting with 30 putts.
Tom McKinnon was closest to the pin on the first, Peter Dale on the seventh, Hamish Anderson was not very close at eight metres on the ninth (he got the put, though) and Brian Roberts was closest on the 17th.
Balls for ability went to Eric Whalan, Roger Arrow, Brett Crichton, Terry Robinson, Barry Stubbs and Peter Dale.
Golf next Saturday is the first round of the Jack Robinson Memorial 4BBB Par Championships. It would be a great idea to get your partners lined up for the next two weeks and see if you can get your name on the trophy.
Now that there is plenty of water in the dam alongside the fourth and fifth fairways, some attention needs to be given to the rules regarding the water hazards.
The lake is a lateral water hazard and a player must be absolutely certain his ball is in the hazard. You need to see the ball go into the hazard, not just think it is in the hazard because it is lost.
You have several options: the player may play another ball from the spot where he last played the original ball; the player may drop a ball behind the water hazard, keeping the point at which the original ball last crossed the margin of the hazard between the hole and the spot on which the ball is dropped. There is no limit on how far back the player can go to drop.
As an additional option, only with a lateral water hazard, the player may drop a ball within two club lengths of where the ball last crossed the margin of the water hazard.
