Monday 15th September 2008
Mountain Shadow

A Flight
1st Paul Smith               (hcp 2) 36 points
2nd John Graham         (hcp 10) 34 points
3rd David Day              (hcp 15) 32 points

B Flight
1st Lee Butler              (hcp 20) 36 points
2nd Eddie Martin         (hcp 18) 30 points
3rd PJ Redmond          (hcp 19) 30 points

Playing Stableford at Mountain Shadow proved to be popular as there was a big turn out and the field was split into two flights with the cut at Handicap 16.
The scores are never very great at Mountain Shadow because of the abundance of coconut trees and the lightning fast greens, however, today the greens weren’t their usual slick selves and gave everyone a reasonable chance to make putts.
Both flight winners racked up 36 points to win the A flight being a bit tighter than the B flight where we had John Graham only two points behind Paul Smith and only two points ahead of third placed newcomer David Day.
It took a count back to settle second and third places in the B flight PJ losing out to Eddie but Lee Butler was well ahead taking the kitty in the affectionately termed “Diadora League”.
Aussie Scotty Eaton won two of the near pin prizes, John Graham and Glen Cunningham taking the other two.

Wednesday 17th September 2008
Greenwood

A Flight
1st Alan Sullivan          (hcp 12) 67 nett
2nd Roger Privett       (hcp 15) 68 nett
3rd JJ Harney             (hcp 11) 69 nett

B Flight
1st Lee Butler              (hcp 20) 63 nett
2nd Jim Wooler           (hcp 22) 75 nett
3rd “Aussie” Ferdie     (hcp 23) 76 nett

For some reason Greenwood have been messing around with the tee box positions which has been causing a bit of confusion and frustration of late so in the Bunker Bar before setting out it was decided to play a Stableford comp off the back (blue) tees. However, upon arrival at the first tee it was noted that the blue tees were “miles” back, about 50 yards in some cases, so the plan changed again and we began playing a Medal round off the white tees (One position in front of the back tees). Now that seems simple enough until it transpired that the white tees were alongside the yellow tees on every tee box making the course a bit too short to some of the golfer’s liking!
Never mind, this is Thailand (TIT)! Well, another twist in the tail was the constant drizzle that persisted throughout the day which kind of cancelled out the shortness of the holes because there was hardly any run on the ball.
Play got under way and there was some cracking scores on the day with Lee Butler posting the best, his nine under par nett 63 stealing the show to win the B Flight, the nearest to him was Jim Wooler who was 12 shots behind and “Aussie Ferdie” nicked third place on a count back from Alex Kilcoyne one further shot back.
Very close in the A Flight with only one shot separating them, Alan Sullivan coming out on top with Roger and JJ coming in second and third respectively. JJ and Alan won one of the near pins along with David Day and Colin Stokes.

Friday 19th September 2008
Crystal Bay

1st “Aussie” Ferdi           (hcp 23) nett 67
2nd John Graham           (hcp 10) nett 71
3rd Tom Wilson              (hcp 10) nett 74

The regular visitors to The Bunker from “Down Under” don’t normally get on the winners podium usually blaming the amber nectar and members of the opposite sex but Ferdi came up trumps today winning with a great score of five under par. Two ten handicappers came next John Graham second and Tom Wilson third. Near pin prizes went to Mashi Kaneta, Bernie Seagrave, Gene Pleuger and John Graham.

Lee Butler