More great October golfing weather yesterday, and as it was the last Thursday of the month (being the 31st!), we are now a third of the way to finding out the 4th quarter league champion. League leader Chris Nickel only achieved 1 point by halfing his match, so the rest of us still have a chance.
We were honoured with the company of the "Chris Price ensemble" yesterday, albeit mainly as the other game they had booked did not happen! Anyway, that helped us to 16 players and we were able to have 4 "MMMsomes" matches (e.g. pairs betterball matchplay with preferred drive). Results as follows and league table at the end.
Ray & Groves & Stuart Deans beat Ken Shelton & Bob Coe - 3 &2
Dave Tweed & Malcolm Ealand beat Stu McGill & Don Forrester - 1up
John Penn & Chris Nickel halved with Steve Edwards & David Quinlan - A/S
Chris Price & Geoff Cox beat Charles Bradshaw & Bernard guest - 3 & 2
As regulars know, we currently use 75% of the lowest handicap player as a benchmark, and are considering reducing that to 50%. That would penalise the higher handicap players, but the are not exactly setting the league table on fire this quarter, so we will leave things as they are for now. Here is the up to date league table -
Played won 2nd/halfed points
Chris Nickels 4 2 2 6
Dave Tweed 4 2 1 5
Stuart Deans 3 2 0 4
Geoff Cox 2 2 0 4
Malcom Ealand 3 1 2 4
Ian Chapman 2 1 1 3
Larry Pratt 2 1 1 3
Wim Hofmann 2 1 1 3
According to my records the following all have 2 points so far, but feel free to moan if wrong! Steve Edwards, Chris Price, Charles Bradshaw, Don Forrester, Ray Groves, Martin Brand