Blue skies and a light breeze greeted five NAGAHS at Bayviews GC for our second round of the year. Unfortunately, Chris was a late scratching due to an upset stomach, which he attributed to some dodgy Fosters cans that he had consumed over the weekend. Reminded me of the great Barry McKenzie and the wonderful “Watchunder” call! Great that Chris ventured out to the course for the last couple of holes, and we were able to wish him belated 80th birthday wishes. Happy birthday, mate. Editor’s note: Wow, that came out of nowhere!  It has been my pleasure to have known Chris for over 52 years as a mate, a workmate, a golfmate and just a down-to-earth good bloke. Glad to see you are still upending those Fosters, Chris. Happy birthday! Your old mate, Lurch.

We were able to mostly play as a five, and we made it around in about the four hours. The views are terrific from many parts of the course, and we all knew we had walked the course by the time we trudged to our final green.

Pete was our leading scorer today with a well-composed 38 points. A run of 3 pointers from holes 7 to 10 set up the base for his round. There were no wipes.

Phil’s round of 33 was highlighted by pars on two of the three most difficult holes. Excellent approaches on these holes set up good opportunities to make the par putts, which he duly did.

Rad had a mixed bag with a couple of wipes offset by three sound three-pointer pars. His urgent call of “Turn, turn, go in” was noted by the ball on the par 3 6th hole…and obeyed.

Tim’s scorecard recorded two three-pointers. A solid drive and good approach found the green on the difficult 12th hole, and a very good second putt found the bottom for his first par. And a bogey on the last (a mere 77m) gave him a second three-pointer.

Brendan had a very ordinary round. His putting was off. A birdie on the last hole for 4 points was his highlight for the day.

PS The fairways and greens were in excellent condition.

Next round on Monday April 27 at Yering Meadows.

Brendan