Autumn Meeting & Monthly Medal
Another day in paradise
A chilly start turned into a glorious day for our Autumn Meeting on the Kings today. With weather like this and the course in fantastic condition surely some good scores would appear, and appear they did…..
Playing in the first group out were Logie, Watson and Lambert aka the 3 blind mice. David shot 76 to win the gross monthly medal prize and according to the leaderboard Eric was playing even better than his 41 points in last weeks Captains Prize. He was 4 under at the turn and 9 under after 16. Everyone was baffled, no-one else was under par, was Eric really this much better than everyone else? The mystery was solved shortly after they finished and saw 16 pink blobs on the card. Andrew had been putting David’s scores into Erics card……. Eric finished on a very respectable 3 over.
Back in the real world I went out in 37 gross and despite making 5’s at both the pars 3’s on the way back managed to shoot 78, nett 71 to set a more sensible target. Bill Sexton matched Eric’s nett 73 but only Frank Johnson looked like he might mount a challenge. He was 2 over after 13 so needed to play the last 5 holes in level par to post a nett 70. He came close, playing them in one over to also post nett 71. Off to a card playoff we went and the winner of the Autumn Meeting and the August Monthly Medal with a better back 9 is…… Frank!
This of course was not the Main event. It was the final round of three meetings held over the Kings during the year with two prestigious trophies up for grabs. The club’s original trophy, The Championship Cup (newly refurbished courtesy of last year’s winner George Watterson) is awarded to the player with the best two (from a possible 3) Nett scores and the Duncrub Scratch Cup goes to the player with the best two Gross scores. 45 players played at least one event but only 18 managed to complete at least two scores. These can be seen below:
It won’t surprise anyone to find out that The Winner of this year’s Duncrub Scratch Cup is David Logie with a total of 146. Second was Rory Bain with 150 with Frank and Ken tied for third on 160. Congratulations again to David.
The Championship Cup battle was a bit closer, Ken and David tied for third on 146, Mark Higham managed one better with 145 but the deserved winner with a score of 143 is our Club Secretary, Vice Captain and Seniors Champion Frank Johnson. Well done Frank!
Next Saturday we have our Medal Winners Final, also on the Kings. Anyone can play in this but only people who have won something already this year (anything, it doesn’t need to be a medal) can compete for the main prizes.
Following that we have two events on the queens, the DF Darroch stableford on October 8th and The McKelvie 4BBB on the 15th. You can enter both of these and the two end of season stablefords on the app.