This months top golfer is Kevin McKinney.
Records
Net score 61 Kevin
Gross score 67 Craig
Highest gross 100 Kenny
Since the start of the season below par rounds have been hard to achieve by most hackers so Kevin's rounds of 61 and 62 clearly put him at the top for this month.
Kevin's 61 is currently the Hackers net score record. Will it be beaten this season ????
The new layout of par 66 has been a lot harder to score on than most thought at the start especially the 5th up the Alma. The green at the 4th can be a bit of a lottery and I myself have 3 putted it on numerous occasions. The new 18th is also a hole where club selection is difficult and we have yet to play that hole into a really strong wind rather than down wind like this weekend.
Other players scoring well this month include
Jim Cullen 62
Craig Chalmers 63 ( shot 67 gross - currently the Hackers gross record)
At the other end of the scale some of the Hackers have yet to find their swing and some high scores by the following show they have room for improvement.
Kenny Lang our current Donkey for the winter is obviously struggling to get off the donkeys back and is the current leader with a 100 shots for 1 round ( a net score of 85 +19 over par). Kenny also has a 98 to his name but in recent days has shown improvement and a net 70 shows us that he might have one arse cheek off the donkey.
Will anyone shoot over 100 gross this season ????
Other high Gross shooters are John Wynn 90 ,David Graham 91 and 2 time spoon winner Gerry Cullen had 90 blows in last Tuesday's medal. I myself have had a couple of stinkers and with a 85 on my card last Tuesday I decided to have a few days off which resulted in a net 65 to break par for the first time this season on Saturday. Quite a few players have been around par or 1 under but getting 4 and 5 under seems very difficult at this moment.
At least the above players are completing their round and entering a score at the bottom of the card and not letters.
Stevie "Hagrid" McPherson has now completed 4 medals with a NR on his card and therefore I have made a decision to name him Donkey of the month as he must have been playing some horrendous golf out there to NR 4 times. This has been confirmed by Billy Gibson his playing partner on most of these rounds that he did play shocking. Would he have shot more than 100 shots ?? Billy's reply " Aye quite comfortably" Another NR man is Graham Dickie with 2 rounds to his name so far this season. The NR King is of course Paul 'Vera '' James but Paul has resisted putting letters on his card this season and we wait to see how long this lasts.
So come on Stevie lets see numbers at bottom of your card and that will give us a true picture of how bad you are playing.
On the Team front a lot of the Hackers are representing the club in the Thomson McCrone League and also the Jessiman Team.
In the Thomson McCrone a good half match away at Douglas Park was followed up with a excellent win at home against Hayston. Stevie Paul and John Wynn yesterday had the most impressive win of the season so far by winning 5/4 in their match. They were backed up with wins from George Leadbitter and Bruce Finney winning 2 up as well as myself and Alex Smart winning 1 up on the last. Other Hackers playing yesterday were Tommy Nicholson and Mick Drummond who fought hard for a half match. Unfortunely Davy Chalmers and Graham Dickie lost on the 17th 2/1 but once again gave their opponents a hard match.
It's great to see so many Hackers playing in the Thomsom McCrone Team and as I said to Peter Ritchie I think playing the Tour and outings have definitely over the last few years built a good spirit in the team. The last 2 years have seen us win our section twice and last year reach the final of the knock out stages only to lose to Milingavie in a very tight final. Who knows how we will do this year but our first aim is to win our section and hopefully progress to the next rounds.
In the Jessiman match the 8 man team was made up of 7 Hackers which again shows how well we represent the club in team events. Unfortunately we did not progress very far this year. In the first match Jim Wylie and George Leadbitter came from 3 holes down to finishing just 1 down ( it's holes up ). In the second game myself and Billy Gibson won 2 up but the last 2 games were heavily defeated by a couple of pairings from Douglas Park who were on fire. The other players representing the club were Ian Hutchison, Davie Drew and John Sommerville.
So now onto May and all the singles, 4 ball and 2 ball games to arrange and play. This month also sees the Class Championships and I have no doubt there will be plenty of Hackers qualifying for their relevant categories.
At the end of May we have the Balmore Open and there are 21 of us playing. Tee times to follow later.
Anyone who is not entered can contact Graham Henderson at Balmore and give him your details. Explain you are from Lenzie and you want to go out around the same time as all the rest. I think we are going to be from 9.30-10.30. Cost £10.00.
Our Summer outing is currently full with 33 players. Polo shirt colour still to be confirmed and some alterations to the names as Vajiner and Adolf are not accepting theirs !!!
Enjoy your golf this month gents.
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