The Bunker Boys!

Friday 7th November 2008

Phoenix GCC

The Bunker Boys - Champions

The Bunker Bar v Tony’s Tiger

The final days of the MBMG Matchplay league could not have been closer. 3 teams on 21 points and the 4th team on 20 points and only our game against Tony” Tigers at Phoenix to be played.

Tony had assembled a strong team needing only a half to be crowned champions and 9 of his team with handicaps of 10 and less. But The Bunker boys are a tough bunch and would fight all the way.

PJ Redmond was disadvantaged against Brian Jacks receiving only 3 shots when the handicap difference was 8 but he took the match to the 16th  and was supported by Ron Ryan who  came in with a valuable half coming back from dormy 2.

John Hughes was his usual reliable self having a tough game with Neil McAllister winning on the 17th and has only lost 1 game in the league. William Macey had one of those games that only happens occasionally for us mere mortals, beating David Richards 5 & 4.  The ice cold putter of Glen Cunningham allowed Andy Mills to dominate but Gerry Cooney took The Bunker a step closer to winning by beating Ted Morris 4 & 3.

The Bunker were now leading by 3 ½ matches to 2 ½ and required a total of 5 ½ matches to win the league. Allan Sullivan lost to Chris Holmes but Paul Smith stuck to his task and won on the last hole. The Bunker now needed 1 match from the two still out on the course.

Tony Robbins entered the changing rooms first and declared that he had lost to Geoff Bowers so now The Bunker needed to win the last match. Nails were being bitten, hair pulled out waiting for Mashi Kenatta. What was the result Mashi?  He had beaten David Smith 4 & 3 for The Bunker to be crowned Champions in the inaugural year of the MBMG Matchplay League.

WELL DONE THE BUNKER BOYS!

Wednesday 5th November 2008

Crystal Bay

Crystal Bay

Playing a Medal round at Crystal Bay the cut was set at handicap 15 and with a bit of wind and rain swirling around most of the day the scores were not that pretty.

John McDonald had the best round of the day shooting a level par to win the A Flight with JJ Harney second a couple of shots back and Takeshi Hakozaki having a reasonable round on his “home”course finishing third.

The scores were fairly average in the B Flight where Dave Keats beat Arthur Rowley on a count back to win and Geoff Hart took third spot a shot further back.

Near pin prizes went to Mashi Kaneta, Peter Habgood, Tony Berry and Glen Cunningham.

A Flight
1st John McDonald (hcp 7) nett 72
2nd JJ Harney (hcp 12) nett 74
3rd Takeshi Hakozaki (hcp 12) nett 76

B Flight
1st Dave Keats (hcp 26) nett 78
2nd Arthur Rowley (hcp 28) nett 78
3rd Geoff Hart (hcp 19) nett 79

Monday 3rd November 2008

Treasure Hill

Treasure Hill

John Hughes warmed up for the big Matchplay game on Friday by winning the Medal round here at Treasure Hill. Making light of this tough course John came into the clubhouse with 35 Stableford points.

Colin Stokes had one of his better rounds too to take the runner-up spot ahead of Ron Ryan in third and Lawrence Harding in fourth place.

The par three holes are never easy here and once again only three were hit with prizes going to Mashi, PJ Redmond and Gerry Cooney.

Results:
1st John Hughes (hcp 15) 35 points
2nd Colin Stokes (hcp 25) 33 points
3rd Ron Ryan (hcp 15) 29 points
4th Lawrence Harding (hcp 21) 28 points

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