[Victoria Golf Society] Spring Challenge Trophy

[VGS]

The season is upon us again, and what a glorious day to be playing golf. Our Spring Challenge Trophy event on 11^th April was held at Beacon Park Golf Club, and fantastic value it was too.  Bacon butties and coffee to start, curry and pud to finish, and oh, the little matter of 18 holes of golf in the middle.  The course consisted of unforgiving rough, fast and unreadable greens, and made for those with one leg longer than the other as most of the course was on the side of a hill.  However, defending champion Peter S Watson mastered the conditions perfectly, and retained the trophy with a score of 33 points, closely followed by Mark Starr on 31 points and Bob Whittle on 29 points.  Longest drive on the 13^th was won by the man who stood on the tee and declared that he was “only little, never long, and not a candidate for longest drive”: Bob Whittle.  Fred Valentine won nearest the pin on the tricky 3^rd.  Captain Charles graciously donated four miniature whiskies to the person that got the best combined stableford score on the 4 par 3s – and Bob Whittle won that too, with an impressive 10 points – plenty of golf balls and drinkies heading back to Bob’s house!  It was great to see 3 guests (Bill Walker, Graham Gorton and Peter Eccles) join us for the first time – from the discussion afterwards, all clearly enjoyed their day and will hopefully be back soon.

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Posted By VGS to Victoria Golf Society on 4/15/2014 11:30:00 am