Lo Crispin Golf Society at Saurines De La Torre

On Wednesday 5th. April 30 members, including 2 playing for Handicap and 1 guest, competed in an Individual Stableford competition at Saurines Golf, a venue at which the Society had not played at before. We would not have been playing there at all, as we were booked to play at Mar Menor, who transferred our booking to Saurines, following the closure of half the course at Mar Menor due to a water problem ! A Jack Nicklaus designed course, Saurines has many swales and hollows (including some of the greens, or so it seemed to many of the players), which made finding and staying on the greens or very close to them with ‘approach’ shots somewhat problematic. A stiff breeze throughout most of the day, and variable green speeds also added the issues we had to contend with.

As usual we returned to the Lo Crispin Tavern, where welcome Tapas was provided by the helpful and friendly staff and the Day’s prizes were distributed.

Gold Division

1st. Place - Richard Brady 32 pts off 17

(on count back)

2nd Place - Steve King 32 pts off 18 (on count back)

3rd Place - Howard Soltau 32 pts 22

Silver Division

1st Place - Steve Harrington 34 pts off 33

2nd Place - Alex McCartney 33 pts off 36 3rd Place - Janet Candlin 32 pts off 40

As mentioned above the difficulties in finding and holding the greens resulted in just one player, Steve King being rewarded with a sleeve of golf balls for achieving the nearest the Pin in 1 shot on the Par 3 sixth hole. Nobody could find the green or hold the green on the rest of the Par 3s. In the light of this it is hardly surprising that nobody was able to achieve a 2 on the day, which means that the 2s Pot will roll over to our next game, our Anniversary Trophy at Font Del Llop on 19th. April.

Finally, the Free Game Draw was won by John Dunnion, again ! Steve Harrington Membership and Handicap Secretary.