WHITEKIRK RESULTS

A REAL WINTERS TOUR EVENT

SUNDAY 18TH 

WHITEKIRK

WINTER TOUR RD 5
WHITEKIRK

Yesterday was our 5th round of the winter and somehow we managed to get a game near North Berwick at Whitekirk Golf Club.

The course surface was very hard in places and made scoring very tough for most with the greens just about impossible to hold. That aside, the course was in fantastic shape and everyone seemed to enjoy a great layout. There were lots of calls for a visit to be arranged back there next summer.

The scores were mostly poor and not many will be using that round as one of their best five. We only had 8 players getting 30 points or more.

One person who won't be using his round is David "Yorkie "Stirling who drove himself into the Hackers record books by setting a new record for worst points total in a Tour event. His grand total was 13 points, beating Craig's 14 set at Dundonald in 2008. Both these scores were on frozen ground and Geraldo's 16 points at Scotscraig last year remains the Tour record in normal conditions.

It really was a day for grinding out enough points to stay out of the Spoon's way and every point was hard to get with most of it down to luck. It was all about how far the balls bounced on the green and getting up and down was extremely difficult all the time.

So, we know who won  the Spoon. How did the rest of the scores go?

In first place with a very impressive 37 points was John Cumming who was also a Spoon winner last year . Once again, we have a player winning both awards. John's score was 2 shots ahead of Brian Murphy and 3 ahead of Paul "Vera" James who finished with 34, beating Gary Davner on count back.

We have made a mistake with the sweep prizegiving, as Brian should have had 2 points off his score because he has already won a round this season. That was what we did last year to spread the money around more amongst everyone and it worked well. So Brian, you owe Vera £10.00 for the sweep as you only got 33 points. Everyone still gets their full handicap score from the course recorded, it's only for the sweep you are cut. Gary Davner also would have got 3rd place but I dont think Gary will be about as he is off back to Singapore soon, so you might manage to hang onto the 3rd place at this moment.

Nearest the pins were Ian Baird and Jim Cullen who both did very well just to stop the ball on the greens.

I am told that Ian used a rake to stop his ball and Jim just putted his ball from the tee to the green with one big might swipe along the ground. That is what his big brother Geraldo told me.

In the pairs event we had  Davy"Vaginer" Graham and John Cumming winning comfortably with 31 /37 points between them for a total of 68.

So that's 5 rounds in this winter and the leader board has got even tighter with 11 players having between 100 and 106 points !!

Full Leaderboard will be posted soon.

Scores from Whitekirk


J Cumming      37
B Murphy        35
P James            34
G Davner         34
J Wynn             33
D Graham        31
M Drummond  31
G Dickie          31
S Paul              30
I Fox                29
J O Prey           29
G Leadbitter     28
J Hamilton        28
G Cullen           27
G Sinclair         27
R Aitken          27
N Keir              27
S Kennedy       26
R Chalmers      26
I Baird              26
D Mitchell        25
J Sommerville   25
B Gibson          25
A Smart            25
S Jessney          24
J Nicholson      24
A Alexander    23
T Nicholson     20
C Chalmers      18
J Cullen            17
S Gibson           16
D Stirling          13

More course photos, leaderboard details, the dinner presentation of awards and pool pictures to follow soon.

ALSO WE WILL HAVE THE "LOLLYPOP MAN" PICTURE FOR EVERYONE TO SEE AGAIN OR IF YOU MISSED THE DINNER YOU CAN SEE IT FOR THE FIRST TIME SOON.