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Mayes hole in one not enough to roll Don Bell

Damon Mayes is certainly on a roll at the moment with a hole in one at Strathalbyn last Saturday but it was not enough to win the Stroke round, that privilege going to Don Bell on a countback.

It certainly was a tight finish for the day with 44 starters, as three players finished with a nett 69, they being Don Bell, Damon Mayes and Randall Pitt.

As the overall winner for the day was B-grade player Don Bell, the top prize in B-grade went to Damon but he was more excited and celebrating his hole in one on the eighth, not able to see from the tee block if the ball had rolled off the back off the green or dropped in the hole.

His effort was a bit confusing when another group on the first nine arrived at the green, taking out the flag and after wondering how the nearest the pin marker was lying on the green after they completed their putts.

As the hole marker was stuck in the top of the flag it had dropped off in taking the flag out, so the marker was then placed near the hole, luckily Damon’s group were next up on their back nine and quickly rectified the situation, putting the marker back on top of the flag.

Randall Pitt, one of the last to finish, took out the A-grade and must have thought he was in with a chance in a nett 69 but it was not too be he beating Graeme Noble in that grade on 70 who had some big hits on the day, one enough to win the longest drive.

Gordon Robson found a bit of form in B-grade to finish on 73, no shanks reported and getting nearest the pin on the 17th.

It was new-comer Dan Adams taking out the C-grade with 70, 14 players in this grade getting into the 70’s.

Andrew Smith had the expertise to somehow hit the creek bank off the 5th tee and see his ball bounce and lob on the fairway and then having watched that effort, John Williams in the next group, thought he could do something better so his tee shot lobbed before the creek and bounced just enough to be left sitting on the edge of the other side of the bank and just able to then squeeze his second shot out towards the green.

Andrew must have thought that the holes were not big enough for him so he shot through after nine holes to go and make some bigger holes for himself, actually he stopped playing to help supervise the drilling of some footing holes for the new golf cart shed.

Phil Perrin and Andrew Hentschke were off to a party after golf and started in the dark and they complained a bit about the hold ups on their second nine as they had to bide their time to be allowed through and even running up the fairways to get their round finished early.

They were also complaining when trying to putt on the last hole, as the bobcat used to drill the holes made a din when going past them at the time, saying “it put them off”.

Apparently Michael Clarke also had a bit of trouble on the last unable to finish the hole when bitten by some golf bug.
Just because Kingsley Handke and his wife Shelly played golf together on Saturday their playing partners Gordon Robson and Brenton Welk also looked an item on and off during the round.

Gordy teed off on the first and landed alongside the big tree on the left at the corner of the dog-leg, so Welky followed suit.

Then on the third tee, Welky’s drive ended up on the 2nd fairway while Gordon saw his shot land on the 9th fairway but they were back together again when Brenton’s shot finished  behind the second tee block in the trees and Gordon’s second shot went across the third fairway and finished just a metre from Brenton’s ball.

Gordon went on for a 73 while Welky, who won the competition the following Saturday, got the NAGA Award in the B-grade with 89.

Gordon did have a bit of trouble on the 11th tee after seeing Kingsley hit his drive straight up the middle, Gordon then managing to hit the third pine tree on the left and going backwards down the 12th fairway towards the drain.

Kingsley nearly rolled around on the ground in laughter, as it was so funny and after Kingsley had stopped his antics Gordon came up with this quote, “I am not a rock, I do have feelings you know”.

Des Kelly didn’t perform all that well on the day with 80 but he did pick up the meat tray prize and will be out there again this Saturday to improve in the Par competition.

27/2/2021 - Stroke
Winner of the Day
69 - Don Bell
Grade Winners
A Grade	B Grade	C Grade
69 - Randall Pitt 70 - Graeme Noble	69 - Damon Mayes 73 - Gordon Robson	70 - Dan Adams 71 - Peter Drury
Results
A Grade	B Grade	C Grade
71 - Andrew Hentscke 71 - Lachlan Williams 73 - Derek Keane 77 - Mark Condon 76 - Phil Perrin 79 - Red Sorrell 81 - Ryan Carpenter 86 - Chris Barker	75 - Michael Beasley 75 - Brian Simpson 76 - David Wright 77 - Peter Potbury 78 - Gary Beasley 78 - Tim Formby 80 - Des Kelly 82 - Michael Semple 88 - Jamie McPhee 89 - Brenton Welk	72 - Erik Heyns 72 - Paul Hughes 74 - Peter McNulty 75 - Kingsley Handke 75 - Max Schebella 75 - Kim Wittwer 77 - Perry Jones 78 - David Bell 78 - Tony Cash 78 - Ian Schroeter 79 - Simon Goulding 79 - John Williams 82 - Ken Ponting 82 - Luke Redwood 87 - Ashley Gibson 110 - Kooka
Nearest the Pins
6th - Gary Beasley 8th - Damon Mayes 15th - Erik Heyns 17th - Gordon Robson
Longest Drive
Graeme Noble
Nearest Second
N/A
Hole in One
Damon Mayes - 8th Hole

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