Marsh strides ahead

By Dennis Fuller
AFTER a successful pennant win, it was a walk in the park for Emerald golfers trying to win the June monthly VGL medal.
President Jeff Marsh (26) strode across the grass like a golfing colossus and won easily with a nett score of 59 points.
Naturally that put him at the top of the C Graders and should draw considerable interest from the handicapper when his abacus is attacked during the week.
Captain Ross Martin (8) hit the ground running and would have felt quietly confident with his nett 65, but found it was only good enough for the A Grade gong.
Ben Balfour (16) aided by just 26 putts, found his nett 65 was good enough to win B Grade but that’s all.
Young Riley Stevens came in with 66, Wayne Degering scored 67, Peter Clowes 68 and Allan Ecclestone and Geoff Isherwood both managed a creditable 69 each.
Degering reckoned on a good score when he was nearest the pins on the 4th, the 7th and the 12th.
Dean Solomon was nearest on the 13th and John Carvill took away the loot for the pro pin on the 18th. Martin Yeats was nearest the pin after two shots on the 17th.
The ladies’ comp was won by Peta Jones in a tight finish from Joan Fisher who fell at the last hurdle to let Jones triumph.
Wednesday’s Ornamentally Felicitous Golf (OFG) using OFG handicaps was a stroke event where the second and third holes were joined as one long hole as was the eighth and ninth.
When the counting was done at the clubhouse it was found that Mick Petrie (32) and Ron Wilson (26) both had nett 64s.
Various ways of separating them were considered but neither fancied the 100m sprints so they putted off for the cash.
Petrie stood up to the test and pocketed the cash and swallowed the notion that his handicap would receive a fair flogging for his success.
Next week is a stableford event and the scores are expected to go through the roof as usual.