By Alan Johnston
Warburton Golf’s competition on Wednesday 18 July was a four-ball better ball stableford – a strange name for an event played by a team of two.
The best score of the pair went on the card to be totalled at the end of the round.
The winners were Noel Hyndman and Alan Johnston, who combined to score 45 stableford points. Alan thanked Noel for “carrying” him for most of the day.
Noel claimed it was his first win in five years.
Runners-up were Stan Slusarek and Kevin Conway with 44 stableford points.
Players who scored 40 points or more won a ball in the ball run down.
Nearest the pin went to Kevin Conway on the 9th, Ray ‘Happy’ Gilmore on the 12th and Trevor ‘It’s only an Irish mist’ for his second shot on the 11th.
The Saturday 21 July event was stableford.
Tex Van der Kooi won on a countback from Dave Scott, who continued his hot streak but was pipped at the post.
Both players had 37 points.
Balls went down to 34.
Nearest the pins saw ‘Happy’ Gilmore have a good day again, winning both the third and the fifth. Andy McMath won on the ninth, Harry Baxter on the difficult 12th and Danny Fox on the 15th.
Bill Dunn made a long-awaited return on Sunday after recuperating from an illness.
The boys had missed Bill’s ‘burgers and bangers’ and, whilst they won’t be seeing any of them for a while, everyone was pleased that Bill was back on deck again.
