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November 10th - MIKE'S REMARKABLE RECOVERY
Up from the floor to trounce all opposition.
 
A wonderful Autumn morning, but there were glum looks on the faces of theBaxter boys in the Brent Valley car park which displayed "Course Closed" notices. However, their patient mingling was rewarded, as they were allowed to press on with the Winter Matchplay league.
 
No one was more desperate than Mike, who was left reeling from Dave's drive on the second. Laying on the floor with a suspected broken ankle, his only thought was to get up and play the round. When he finally found his feet, his par on the first signalled that Con was up for a drubbing. This turned out to be the case, as Mike scored another five pars and his season's best score of 88. Nine shots clear of the field and a 4 & 3 victory in the matchplay.
 
Dave, meanwhile, breathed a sigh of relief as Mike's success meant that he escaped a law-suit and Steve's second half stumble meant that he managed a last-gasp victory to keep his league hopes alive.
 
In the third match, Geoff's compassion weighed heavily, as he not only had to witness Mike's pain but had to play against Tony whose back was increasingly giving him gip! The early stages were cut and thrust, but three in a row for tony suddenly had him in the driving seat after ten. Four over par on eleven followed by triple-bogey on twelve, suddenly brought the game alive. With Geoff getting another two in a row, the match was level with two to go. In the end, Tony fell foul of a lost ball ( one of many) on the last, as Geoff managed his second tie of the series.
 
With many lost balls, the scores were high, only Alan with four pars and Dave who was the only player to avoid worse than triple-bogey managed to get anywhere near Mike's sub-90 performance.
 
  Con  Mike  Match  Geoff  Tony  Match  Dave Steve  Match Alan 
8 4* M+1 6 5 T+1 5 5  level  5
 2 5 5 M+1 8 10 level 6 5  S+1  6
 3 5 4* M+2 6 5 T+1 6 5  S+2  9
 4 4 4 M+2 5 6 level 4 4  S+2  3*
 5 7 6 M+3 7 6 T+1 7 6  S+3  6
 6 6 6 M+3 8 8 T+2 5 8  S+2  10
 7 4 4 M+3 5 7 T+1 4 3*  S+3  5
 8 8 4* M+4 6 4* T+2 6 8  S+2  5
 9 5 6 M+3 8 5 T+3 6 7  S+1  4*
 10 6 4* M+4 9 5 T+4 6 6  S+1  7
 11 8 5 M+3 6 8 T+3 4* 5  level  4*
 12 6 3* M+3 4 6 T+2 5 5  level  6
 13 5 3* M+4 6 6 T+2 5 9  D+1  4
 14 7 6 M+3 7 8 T+2 6 6  D+1  5
 15 8 6 M+4 5 6 T+1 5 6  D+2  5
 16 5 4 5 6 level 5 4  D+1  3*
 17 6 9 7 5 T+1 7 5  level  6
 18 8 5 6 7 level 5 7  D+1  6
 in 59 45 Mike 55 57 Geoff 48 53  Dave  46
 out 52 43 wins 59 56 Tony 49 51  wins  53
 total 111 88 4&3 114 113 draw 97 104  +1  99
 net 93 70 92 88 76 85    81
 stab 15 34 15 19 27 23    27
   
 Handicaps  Actual  Play 0ff
MIKE 17.2  17
CON 18.5  19
ALAN 18.5  19
STEVE 19.8  20
DAVE 21.5  22
GEOFF 22.5  23
TONY 25.3  25
 
     

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