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Rad was a late withdrawal owing to a reoccurrence of diverticulitis and a short spell in hospital. Best wishes for a quick recovery, Rad.

The Waterford course was in very good condition – the fairways were in excellent shape, and the greens were rolling well, with some subtle breaks. Bunkers were a bit ordinary, but a local rule allowed players to take a preferred lie in the bunkers. I thought the course played long, even though we played off the shorter white tees.

Group 1 – Rick, Nick, Brendan

Fair to say, most highlights for this trio occurred on the front nine. Nick hit the first two greens in regulation, with a two putt on the second green resulting in three points. Both Rick and Brendan made up and down for three point pars on the third. Rick continued on consistently with an easy two putt par on the difficult par 5 sixth hole for a three pointer. After playing the eighth hole Rick had amassed a solid 17 points. Unfortunately, the wheels fell off after that for Rick.

The back nine was a bit of a write off for all three players! In fact, more than a bit! Looking back through the card the only highlight was a terrific birdie from Nick on the 15th hole where a very good chip found the bottom of the cup. A reflection of the ordinary play was on display on 18 where all three players failed to score and, in fact, not one of the three needed the putter!!

Next game is scheduled for Monday July 30 at Eastwood (note this was changed from the scheduled Settlers Run).

Bren

Group 2 – Geoff, Peter, Phil, Ian

Phil got off to a good start on the first when he nailed his fairway wood from 170m onto the green to set up a regulation par. We were very thankful to the ground staff who moved the tees forward. Phil’s shot may otherwise have been in the bunker.

Geoff was reminiscing about Ricky’s last visit to this hole where his tee shot drowned. No guesses what happened to Geoff. Meanwhile Ian made a great up and down for 3/3.

Geoff’s tee shot left into the water on hole 3. That’s 2 lost balls in the space of 4 shots.

Three very good tee shots to Peter, Phil and Ian on the short 5th. Only Peter able to convert for birdie and 4 points.

On the long 6th hole, we only just made the ladies tee. Well, most of us. Phil was wayward to the right but still managed 6/2. Geoff’s good approach saw him with 5/3.

Phil was playing really well and easily parred holes 7 and 8, scoring 3 points on each.

Ian and Peter both parred hole 9 for 3 pointers.

Phil played very solid golf with 18 points for the front 9.

We were finding that the course was playing very long with little run on the fairways. This presented a challenge on hole 10 when we could not go for the green as we were not far enough up the fairway to get past the dogleg.  Ian was the only player to take on the shot over the water. Fortune favours the brave as he snivelled his shot and called it in the water. Luckily it stuck in the rough and wasn’t wet!

On hole 11 Ian was the best player with 6/2 (par 5 of 509m).

Hole 12 and index 18, this should be a pushover. Our group walked off with an aggregate of 2 points.

Geoff played a nice approach to 300mm on the par 3 13th. Phil had been conceding short putts all day but played funny buggers on this occasion and made Geoff hole it for 3/3.

Ian, Peter and Geoff all made par 5’s on 14.  Peter’s was a 3 pointer.

We played 15 with the ground staff renovating the green. Geoff’s ball in flight to the green when the roller came zooming onto the green. Came to a screeching halt just before my ball. Par 4’s to Ian, Peter (3 points) and Geoff.

Hole 17 and only Peter was not in a bunker. Unfortunately for Phil his ball was plugged.

Hole 18 is index 1 and very tough. Geoff decided to employ a new game plan. Fairway wood, layup and then a short shot onto the green. I’ll have to think of some other way to play this hole!

Looking at the scores, the back 9 plays very much harder than the front. The golf course won.  Nobody could manage 30 points!

Geoff

Sorry for the delay in getting this report published and thanks very much to Brendan and Geoff for providing their reports in the usual timely manner! Congratulations to Peter on his 100^th Nagahs game at Waterford Valley!

Al

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