The Bunker Boys!

Two Day Annual Championship

Monday 1st December 2008

Mountain Shadow

Mountain Shadow

The Bunker’s Annual Championship is traditionally held around this time of the year. We again played the same courses as last year with John McDonald the reigning champion, determined to hang on to his crown.

A medal round is played over each of the courses and the scores are added together with the lowest net score being the winner.

On the Monday it was Mountain Shadow (the tough round) where the low handicappers usually play well and today was no exception.

Paul Smith ended up leading the field beating Gerry Cooney on a count back (again!) both scoring 34 points and Tony Scambler came third a point further back.

In fourth place came Gordon Melia one point better off than PJ who’s playing some good golf lately and next on the leaderboard came Colin Stokes.

Oddly enough when the field was split into two flights with the cut at handicap 14 for the day’s individual Stableford competition (played in conjunction with the Medal round) the first three were in the A Flight and the following three were in the B Flight.

Last year’s champion John McDonald was hovering in the background but leaving himself a lot to do finishing with a net 76.

Results after day one

A Flight:
1st Paul Smith           (hcp 4)  34 points
2nd Gerry Cooney     (hcp 10) 34 points
3rd Tony Scambler    (hcp 6)  33 points

B Flight:
1st Gordon Melia      (hcp 15) 32 points
2nd PJ Redmond       (hcp 21) 31 points
3rd Colin Stokes      (hcp 26) 30 points

Near pin winners; Ron Ryan, John McDonald, Jack Gayer, Alan Sullivan.

Wednesday 3rd December 2008

Crystal Bay

The second leg was played at Crystal Bay (the easy round) with some surprising results!

The cut was set at handicap 14 again and we had some cracking scores in both flights and the calculator had to come out to sort out the winner.

Tony Robbins had a great round shooting a four under par nett 68 to win the A Flight on the day followed by Geoff Parker with a fabulous three under par round and Takehi on his “home” course pushed the leaders all the way finishing with a two under par score.

The B Flight went to Gordon Melia whose one under par score must put him in contention, three players behind him all finished with a level par round including the John Preddy Trophy winner John Hughes…..where’s the calculator?

The individual results for Wednesday’s Medal competition in the A Flight and B Flight are as follows:

A Flight:
1st Tony Robbins          (hcp 11) nett 68
2nd Geoff Parker           (hcp 14) nett 69
3rd Takeshi Hakozaki   (hcp 12) nett 70

B Flight:
1st  Gordon Melia         (hcp 15) nett 71
2nd Ron Ryan               (hcp 15) nett 72
3rd John Hughes          (hcp 15) nett 72

Near pin winners: Paul Smith, Geoff Parker, Tony Robbins, Tony Berry/William Macey (dead heat!)

With the batteries replaced in the calculator and the dust settling, the Bunker Boy’s Annual Champion was Gerry Cooney who won by one shot with a total score of net 146.

Gordon Melia came runner up ahead of Paul Smith having had a better second day score both finishing with net 147.

Last years champion John couldn’t make up the ground he lost on the first day.

But one of the most disappointing things to come to light was that the Matchplay captain William Macey had a No Return for the FOURTH year running!

For this his punishment was to wear a silly hat all evening in the bar (see photo).

This win for Gerry means he has won three out of the last four Bunker Championships which just shows what a brilliantly consistent golfer he is…well done Gerry!

William wearing a silly hat!

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