A threat of rain during Sunday’s round at Maples of Ballantrae golf course never materialized. Almost perfect weather, not so cold, not so hot. But guess what, the sky opened up after the round. Rain came down hard with booming thunder and occasional lightning strikes. Winds were not a real factor at all except for some holes where it blew in an open field. Called it luck why the bad weather phenomena never happened during our round? Twenty-one players gutted it out and as usual, it was a perfect time to allow players to play true and to score well but moaning and groaning were heard from those who didn’t. Count your blessing because we have eighteen more games to go, hopefully with circumstance beyond our control never delivers.

Well moving onwards, who got the high honours at last Sunday’s event? A double whammy is trending actually for the past seven weeks now. This member who happens to work hard to improve his game transpires to lead both POY and SPOY up to last SGC’s event. To early to tell, did you say? Personal gratification tells us that it is better to get the lead while you can than trail behind where substantial pressure could mount trying to catch up. Ricky R. turned in a net of 67 to grab the day’s tournament. He topped Rey P. by a stroke; three strokes behind settling for a tie for third place were Jimmy M. and Julio R.

Nassau contest: With finishing net of 67, the aforementioned day’s winner, Ricky R. seized overall score as well as tying Rey P. for grabbing the back nine. Julio R. who dangerously hovering around lately for such honours snatched the front nine. Julio leads Month 2 race by a stroke over Ed I.; two strokes over Rey P.

Sharpshooters: Rene Q. playing only in his third game of the season got the closest on sixth hole; Jimmy M. convincingly won his on hole number ten; par 3 hole fourteen as well as the eighteenth hole had only one owner to claim – Bingoy P.

It was just ill-fated that this golf course closed their dining hall & bar area for renovation. Players had to congregate outside and after a while had to scramble for shelter for chatter and tallying of the scores when the rain came down.

For all scores please check SGC web posting.

Congratulations to the winners.