Golf Report is supplied by Dave Brown from The Corralejo Golf Society. When he is not trying to improve his handicap you can find him every night except Tuesday, entertaining the troops at The Talk of The Town.

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“Let the wind blow high let the wind blow low”, that was the theme of the day for our 6th Stableford game of the year. Our President, Derek Mac “twigged” onto how to hit a ball 15 feet in the air and make it stay there.....

TUESDAY 6TH MARCH

STABLEFORD COMPETITION

Although it was very gusty, the sun was indeed shining and very strong too. It was the type of day where you get weary towards the end after battling against the elements. It was also a pretty quiet day relatively speaking, with just 25 playing, 3 of which were guests. This time last year we might have called it a good turnout, but as it happened it did us a favour as we were having to tee off the 10th, which makes life a little more complicated to keep flow of play when getting round to the 1st. The good thing about it is that you get the uphill 17th out the way half way round rather than when you’re knackered toward the end!

We had three 3 balls going out first, then my group was the 1st 4 ball consisting of myself, President Derek Mac, rookie Liz Rooney and a guest Jim Deacon. Jim played with us last time he was over so he was familiar with the course. In fact he pretty much showed the rest of us the best way to get round the course, certainly up until the last few holes. He scored 18 on the back 9, our first 9 holes and was only 2 over par for his handicap until he reached the 7th. As I mentioned earlier, the conditions were pretty tiring, and his wheels fell off over the last few holes, a shame after such a good round.

It was an interesting round to with flashes of brilliance from us all. Relative newcomer Liz Rooney really got her driver going by the 2nd and played well enough to beat her personal best on the course. Our President Derek Mac was not so fortunate; it was certainly not his day. Not that he played that bad, but just didn’t get the breaks. He did though perform the shot of the day on the par 3 fourth hole. He tugged his tee shot a little left and had to chip over some trees to get to the green. I say trees; they were more like bald evergreens, 15 feet twigs with the odd pine needle on them. We all watched as he took his shot, he got it up fine, and we all waited for it to land on the green. We waited for about 5 seconds, then 10, then we just looked at each other in amazement, where had it gone?! We looked in both bunkers in case we’d missed it coming down, then there was only one place it could be, sure enough, it was wedged in between the thinnest twigs you could imagine! Before I had chance to get my camera out, he’d shaken the tree to get it down. I couldn’t even recreate the scene to show you, I can’t reach 6 feet let alone 15!

My game was ok, had an average 1st 9, and started to play really well and started to pull it back on the 2nd 9, up until the 8th anyway. I pulled my drive out of bounds, which makes scoring on that hole unlikely. I came up just a foot too short on my approach to my last hole, the 9th; the bunker actually had some sand in it for once, which threw me and cost me the hole! Never mind, maybe next time, I’m long overdue a good game!

There were no massively impressive scores on the day, but as I said conditions were tough. Nobody played to their handicap, but a few got close. In 3rd place with 33 points was Eva Krivacska, in 2nd place was Billy Seaforth (junior) with 34.

Our winner on the day was Margot Kenny with a very respectable 35 points. A win of 36 or under only incurs a 1 shot docking, and 2nd place 0.5.

Guest winner on the day was my playing partner, Jim Deacon with 29 points off a 15 handicap.

Nearest the pins were won by Peter Flynn on the 7th and Rob Hughes on the par three 15th.

The 2’s comp was a members rollover & two people managed to get a 2, Jo McKernon on the 12th and Billy junior on the 4th. Liz Rooney swooped the sweepstake, rounding off her day nicely!

We are currently planning our annual trip to Gran Canaria on 4, 5 and 6th June. It will consist of 3 rounds of golf, 2 nights at the fabulous 4 star Marina Suites hotel in Puerto Rico inc. breakfast, flights, bus transfers and much more. The cost for all this will be around 300 euros! It is an Open competition, so everyone is welcome, not just society members, if you would like to join us or find out more information about this trip, please contact me, Dave Brown on the usual numbers listed below.

Don’t forget our next event is Sunday 18th March a Sunday fun day. Then we have our Captains Cup 2007 on Tuesday 20th March. These games will be held at the new Salinas de Antigua golf course, tees from 10am. The following three games, 27th March & 1st and 3rd April are at the Fuerteventura Golf Club, tees from 10am. If you would like to join us for this or any other events, or if you would like any further information about the society, please call Dave Brown on (0034) 620 161360 or drop me an email to info@corralejogolf.com

This report and all others are dedicated to the memory of one of the society’s biggest supporters, Jill Taylor.

Dave Brown.