Mackay just ahead as countback decides winner
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THE second round of Thurso Golf Club’s Winter League competition was played on October 22.
Terry Mackay and Stanley Ross tied with 37 points each. Both players had identical points on each nine-hole halves and, after countback, Mackay was the winner.
Ross had a bogey at the 18th while Mackay managed a par and this proved crucial since the last six holes decided the winner.
The best of the rest was Stuart Bell on 34 points. Bell stormed to the halfway mark in 23 points but three no-scoring holes in his last four wrecked his opportunity of a win.
Gavin Souter was next with 33 points while Bryan Ronald and Donald Sutherland were a point further back. Ronald had an up-and-down round to say the least, including three twos, the best being an eagle at the 17th. There were additional birdies at the seventh and eighth holes but two no-scoring holes and a succession of bogeys reduced his point accumulation.
Only the most committed seniors contested round four of the EGGS Winter Stableford last Tuesday when the weather was seriously windy.
Nonetheless, there was some good scoring, especially from Donald Farquhar who won with 33 points.
Farquhar reached the turn with a total of 18 Stableford points with four of the points coming from a birdie two at the ninth. Despite a sticky patch of four holes from the 11th, Farquhar finished strongly to win by two points from playing partner Pat Valentine and Billy Hossack, winner of the first two rounds.
Valentine, steady as ever, was the only player in the field to score at least one point at every hole. Hossack, on the other hand, had a few blanks compensated by one four-point hole and a few three-point ones. Sandy Reid, with 18 points on the way in, and Ian Manson were next best with 30 points.
