Summer Cup & Strokeplay Championship - Season 2005 - 2006

Summer Cup Round 13 - 26 July 05
Gavin & Alan grab best rounds

Gavin Sutherland

Summer Cup 13 produced a CSS of 69 with some outstanding scores and a lot of disappointing scores. In Division 2 birdies were hard to come by and it was great to see that gritty old competitor Jim Frew sneak a birdie two at the fifth and Willie Young get the only other birdie with a birdie two at the picturesque 9^th hole. Danny O'Hagan regularly picking up the sweep money these days did it again for third place with 87-15-72. Willie Young finding form and playing well grabbed second place with level par figures for 95-26-69 and will be confident of a further handicap reduction before long. With the lowest gross in the Division of 79 Alan Paul had a sparkling round, no birdies but a run of fine pars and steady play to win Division two with 79-13-66 and was the only man in the Division to break par.

In Division One we had some stunning play and a very competitive evening with Bruce Mackay getting a triple birdie spree at the 5^th, 10^th and 12^th. The par three 5^th yielded up birdie two's for Stephen Lucas and Andy Whitelaw coping well with playing in Division One for the first time. Joe Wilson broke par with 79-11-68 becoming a nice regular habit and pushing the leaders. John O'Brien surprisingly only had only two birdies at the 6^th and the 16^th for 72-5-67 for a very tidy round. Edging out John on the count back was Donald Mowat (Mojo) who had back to back birdies at the 5^th and the 6^th returning a fine round of 76-9-67 to secure third spot.

Two players were tied on nett 64 a truly excellent score and a shame to separate them. The seasoned veteran campaigner Fred Groves made three lovely birdies with two two's at the 5^th and 15^th and a good birdie at the par 5 fourteenth hole. Two's really do smarten up a card but unfortunately Fred had to settle for second spot on count back with 71-7-64. The honours fell to the young pretender Gavin Sutherland with four magical birdies at the 12^th, 13^th, 15^th and the 16^th. Gavin shot the lowest gross of the evening with a 70 beating Fred Groves on 71 and John O'Brien on 72 to shoot 70-6-64. In such fine form Gavin will be having a beady eye on the Club Championship and realistic hopes of success and he will be hard to beat with the confidence of youth on his side.

Photos

Alan Paul & Bob Earnshaw	Fred Groves
Gavin Sutherland	Jim Frew

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