Mountain Shadow

 

Monday 24th March and The Bunker Boy's were playing a Stableford match at the lovely Mountain Shadow Golf Course and with the cut at handicap 15 we had some pretty impressive scores particularly in the A Flight where only two points separated the first three players. John Graham coming out on top with 29 points,Gerry Cooney was second with 38 points and William Macey was third one further point back.

Jim Payne won the B Flight on a count back with 30 points ahead of old campaigner Fred Griffin also on 30 points, Joel Flor took third place with a very modest 26 points.

Joel won one of the near pins too along with Paul Smith, Gerry Cooney and Roger Privett.

 

MATCHPLAY

 

ANGKANA HOUSE V THE BUNKER

 

WEDNESDAY, 26TH MARCH

 

Phoenix was, as usual, in good condition and, compared to recent months , had very few golfers on the course. Isn't it wonderful to have  the courses around Pattaya to ourselves once again .  Following our remarkable win last week The Bunker Boys were full of confidence for our last match before the April break.

Gerry Cooney  followed his win with a solid performance.  Being 2 holes down with 4 to play  Gerry came back to win the last 4 holes to win on the last. Jack Robertson came back from defeat with a win but again on the last hole. Angkana's Bob Rasmussen had one of those days that we all have from time to time and lost 6 & 5 to William Macey but Bob is a resilient golfer and will return shortly. I just hope I am not on the receiving end.  John Graham was 3 up with 4 to play but Ken McCarthy came back and needed to sink a 4 foot putt on the 17th to be all square going down the last but for the first time today, Ken missed the putt and unfortunately lost the last as well.

Paul Smith halved a tough game against the scratch Marty Allred and Allan Sullivan had a tight match, again winning on the last hole to David Wood.

John MacDonald returned from Australia, ended up in Udon Thani, John does get lost sometimes, was still in a tizz at the golf course and was our only defeat of the day to Captain Clive Robinson. Gordon Melia, for reasons better known to himself, decided to return to the snows of Bury from the comforts of Thailand the day after our match and was obviously in a hurry for he won his match with 6 holes to play. Mashi, likewise, was in no mood to hang around,  winning with 5 holes to play and Geoff Parker won by 2 holes against Rob Gandley.

On our return to Angkana House we were presented with a table full of sandwiches and chips, or were they French fries supplied by Bob . The chips kept coming for most of the evening, he must have purchased Foodlands entire stock,  so  our thanks to Bob 'the base'  as he is known by his friends but from this day on will be known affectionately by the Bunker Boys as 'chippy' Bob for his generous contribution to a very pleasant evening and to Captain Clive for a warm welcome extended to all those from The Bunker.

 

Eastern Star

 

On the Friday playing Stableford again this time at Eastern Star Eddie Martin won with 35 points and John McDonald beat Joel Flor on a count back both finishing with 33 points. Near pin prizes were shared by David Harvey, John King, Jack Robertson and Joel Flor.