Saturday 9th September

WINTER STABLEFORD

ALAN IN THE SADDLE .......but Con makes a charge   Alan prepares for a bit of post match relaxation.

Dedication or desparation? Driving overnight from the far side of Ireland, Con was waiting to greet the participants of the third round of the Winter Stableford. Some were amazed by this gesture of total dedication, but others saw it as a desparate effort to gain an easy Baxter victory that would ease the pain of his 5-2 drubbing on the Irish tour. ( see below ) A par-bogie-bogie-par start put him well in contention, as Mike stumbled and then staggered after a double par start to fall two behind at four. Alan's triple bogie first put him out of the frame, but two pars put him alongside last week's winner Tom and only one behind Mike and Dave in second. Some mediocre scoring on the next two holes, with no real disasters and the home straight was reached with three separating the field. Con was still leading, but Alan, Mike and Tom were only one behind, with Geoff and Tony one more back. On the seventh, pars from Alan and Dave, a poor quadruple from Geoff and sixes from Mike Steve and Tom changed the picture completely. Alan and Con were now leading with Tom one behind. Mike, Dave and Tony were still in it one more behind. Mike parred the eight and only Con and Steve made bogie. One to go - one in it: Con from Mike and Alan. At last - after a week of last stretch collapses, Con had his chance. The man who eats pressure for breakfast could show the world that he hadn't lost it. Six shots later, Alan was sitting on seventeen points - Con managed to scramble a double bogie and a share of the spoils. A return to form? The jury is still out!   stop press *****stop press *****stop press ***** result from Ireland CON MISSES HIS PRESSUREFLAKES Con 2 wins 5 losses Sir Harold of Londonderry 5 wins 2 losses   Extract from e-mail report sent from Boston U.S.A.   In addition Harold wins the All Ireland Aggregate Championships by a total of 26 shots over the sevn rounds. Unbelievable!!!! Con still cannot believe he finished 9,9,9 at Royal Portrush, but he did follow it up with a close of 8,7,8 one other day. The big question is .... DID THE PRESSURE GET TO HIM?   Harold is still awaiting approval of his application for U.S. membership in Fort Baxter. Con vowsto try to block it, seems like those Irish eyes are not smiling ( I know I'm gonna pay for this) .......

RUNNING STABLEFORD SCORES

	ALAN	CON	MIKE	TOM	STEVE	GEOFF	DAVE	TONY
1	0	3	3	1	1	1	2	2
2	3	5	6	2	3	3	4	4
3	6	7	8	4	3	4	6	4
4	7	10	8	7	6	6	8	6
5	9	11	9	8	7	8	9	8
6	11	12	11	11	9	10	9	10
7	14	14	12	13	10	10	12	12
8	15	16	15	13	12	11	13	13
9	17	17	16	16	13	14	14	13

SCORES

 

	ALAN	CON	MIKE	TOM	STEVE	GEOFF	DAVE	TONY
1	7	4*	4*	6	6	6	5	5
2	3*	4	3*	5	4	4	4	4
3	4*	5	5	5	8	6	5	7
4	6	4*	7	5	5	6	5	6
5	4	5	5	5	5	4	5	4
6	6	7	6	5	6	6	7	6
7	4*	5	6	6	6	8	4*	5
8	5	4	3*	6	4	5	5	5
9	6	7	8	6	6	6	7	9
	45	45	47	49	50	51	47	51

 HANDICAPS

Dave Slips Back

Three stroke spread covers the field

WINTER STABLEFORD

and average scores

 

TOM	23	16			19.5
ALAN	19	17	17		17.6
CON	18	17			17.5
MIKE	17	16			16.5
DAVE	17	16	14		15.6
TONY	19	15	13		15.6
STEVE	14	14	12		13.3
GEOFF	14	13	12		13.0

 

LOW SCORE

	ALAN	CON	MIKE	TOM	STEVE	GEOFF	DAVE	TONY
1	4	4*	4*	5	5	6	5	5
2	3*	4	3*	4	4	4	4	4
3	4*	5	5	4*	6	4*	4*	5
4	5	4*	5	5	4*	6	5	6
5	3*	5	4	5	5	4	3*	3*
6	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	6
7	4*	4*	5	4*	5	5	4*	5
8	3*	3*	3*	3*	4	4	4	3*
9	6	6	7	6	6	6	6	5*
	37	40	41	41	44	45	41	42

 

STATISTICS: Look up this year's statistics

KINGS OF THE HOLES

1	ALAN	5.24
2	GEOFF	3.92
3	CON	4.89
4	ALAN	5.40
5	GEOFF	4.04
6	TOM	6.38
7	DAVE	5.13
8	DAVE	3.91
9	GEOFF	6.17

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