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Saturday 26th May
SUNBURY
The Douglas Bader Trophy

MIKE REACHES FOR THE SKY
STRONG FINISH GIVES MIKE THE DOUGLAS BADER TROPHY
 
Mike has leg amputated in order to convince Tony of the value of handicaps

A glorious Summer's day and five Baxter boys turned up early at Sunbury to commemorate the daring-do of their boyhood hero Douglas Bader. If he could punish the Hun sans-legs, there would be no wingeing from the Baxter platoon as they stuggled with their own form of handicap (slicing, skying, shanking etc.)

As is the tradition, the course was given th usual respect of a +4 handicap ( i.e. double Perivale handicap +4 ) As it turned out, the boys took it in turns to challenge the course by hittiing par or birdie on nine of the holes.

Mike missed puts for par on the first two holes, but managed to stay ahead of the pack until an almost superb approach pitching wedge missed the green by a foot and plummeted into the bunker leading to a big eight. With Alan going birdie on four and Dave going back-to-back pars, the scene changed. Tony picked up a nice three pointer on six, where Mike was in the water, but recovered well. A third of the way through and Alan was in the lead by three, a three-way tie for second and Tony one further back.

Over the next three holes, each player parred once and by half way it was Alan leading with a monster 21 points. Mike was three behind, as he moved one ahead of Dave. Tony was a point further back with Geoff trailing on 15 points.

The opening three holes coming back has the interesting par threes and the dog-leg par four by the pylon. This is where Alan came to grief, but with some desperate ball-searching, great chipping and putting he managed to scramble four points. Dave was less fortunate by two points. Mike managed seven points and then went birdie on the thirteenth. With five to go, Mike was back in the lead by one and Tony had crept into third place, still four behind Alan.

Dave's par on thirteen was the first of three in a row. Tony hit par on fourteen, but Mike came back strong with par on sixteen. A par three and a par five to go, Mike was now four ahead of thepack, with Alan and Tony tie for second. Dave was one point behind and Geoff a further two adrift. Mike hit yet another par to extend his lead, but Tony was the only one to get a four.

All was set for a grandstand finish, with Tony one ahead of Alan and two ahead of Dave. Mike played to the crowd, by going onto the first green with his drive and then zig-zaggig the course to end up in the bunker by the green. A chip and two puts gave him his two points for a great 40 on th back nine. The others couldn't score a point between them, so it was Tony in second place, with Alan staying one ahead of Dave.

Mike's 87 was achieved with a total of 42 puts a ball in the water and some hacking from the sand. Alan's record of 85 was safe, but with Steve and Con absent, it lookes as if the Subury course has lost some of it's terror. Future Baxter rounds will be played +2.

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RUNNING STABLEFORD SCORES
(course handicap +4)
   MIKE 23  TONY 28  ALAN 23  DAVE 23  GEOFF 27
 1  2  0  0  0  0
 2  5  2  3  3  2
 3  5  4  5  3  5
 4  8  5  9  6  7
 5  8  6  11  9  8
 6  10  9  13  10  10
 7  13  12  15  11  11
 8  16  13  19  15  13
 9  18  16  21  17  15
 10  21  18  22  17  17
 11  23  21  24  18  20
 12  25  22  25  19  20
 13  29  24  28  22  22
 14  31  27  29  26  23
 15  33  31  30  30  27
 16  36  32  32  31  29
 17  39  34  33  32  31
 18  41  34  33  32  31
(course handicap reduced to +2)
 
SCORES
   MIKE 23  TONY 28  ALAN 23  DAVE 23  GEOFF 27
 1 5 7 7 7 7
 2 5 6 5 5 5
 3 8 6 5 7 5
 4 3* 5 2** 3* 3*
 5 7 7 5 4* 5
 6 6 5 6 7 6
 7 3* 3* 4 5 4
 8 5 7 4* 4* 4*
 9 5 5 5 5 5
 10 3* 4 5 7 5
 11 5 4 5 6 5
 12 5 7 6 6 6
 13 2** 4 3* 3* 3*
 14 6 5 7 4* 7
 15 6 5* 6 5* 6
 16 4* 6 5 5 5
 17 3* 4 5 5 5
 18 6 8 8 8 8
 in  40  47  50  49  51
 out  47  51  43  47  49
 total  87  98  93  96  100
 net  64  70  70  73  73
 birdies  1  0  1  0  0
 pars  5  2  2  6  3

 

   
 HANDICAPS
Mike gets cut .. again!!
   
   
 Handicaps  Actual  Play 0ff
Con 8.1   8
Mike 8.6   9
Dave 9.5  10
Alan 9.7  10
Steve 11.1  11
Geoff 11.6  12
Tony 12.1  12
 
   
 CHECK OUT THIS YEARS STATISTICS
SPRING STABLEFORD
Alan leads on averages
 
ALAN 19 18 16 15 17.0
MIKE  21 20  13  11    16.2
DAVE 17 17 15 13 13 15.0
STEVE  16 13 14.5
GEOFF  16 14 12 14.0
CON 16 14 14 11 13.7
TONY 16 15 11 11 13.2
LOW SCORE
ALAN SLIPS INTO THE LEAD
   ALAN MIKE  CON DAVE STEVE  GEOFF TONY
 1  4*  5 5 4* 5 5 5
 2  3*  4 3* 3* 5 4 3*
 3  3**  4* 3** 5 10 5 7
 4  5  5 4* 4* 5 6 4*
 5  4  3* 4 3* 3* 4 4
 6  5  5 6 6 6 6 7
 7  5  5 6 5 8 5 5
 8  3*  2** 3* 3* 3* 3* 3*
 9  6  6 6 7 7 6 7
   38  39 40 40 52 44 45
 
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