Round Norfolk Golf Tour summer comp 2015 USPGA took place at Woodbridge last Tuesday and turned out to be the most exciting event of the season as any of the 4 players could have won as the players tee'd off on the last hole.
Sadly due to sickness the field had been reduced to 4 and was nearly reduced to 3 as John H got stuck in traffic and nearly missed his allotted tee time. There was much grumbling about not being able to warm up as he stepped on to the tee only to hit the perfect tee shot. Ian, who had been warming up for about 45 minutes shanked his tee shot towards a gorse bush near the tee and then duffed a couple more before failing to score. Just shows how overrated warming up is.
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| John H teeing off on 1st |
Lack of warm may have been the reason that after his good start John H then struggled and only had 10 pts after 8 holes. However he was clearly warmed up by the 9th to birdie it and finish on 14 pts.
Kevin started solidly and was right on handicap with 12 pts after 6 until back to back blobs restrict him to 14 pts at halfway as well.
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| Kevin Teeing off on the 5th |
After a slow start John B was also putting in a consistent 9 but a blob on the 6th restricted him to 14pts also. The second hole is called the Butts but he couldn't tame his name sake as his attempts to putt up the slope kept returning to his feet (hit it harder man!)
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| John B sinking a putt on the 3rd |
Meanwhile Ian had decided to play all or nothing golf. He blobed 4 and parred 4 of the front 9 to have a one point lead on 15 at half way.
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| Ian's fairway bunker shot on 3rd |
With only one point between all four players the back 9 was set up for a ding dong battle. All the players were clearly up for it as there were only 3 more blobs between them.
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| More Bunker action this time featuring John B |
The lead changed hand on virtually every hole and it took a birdie on the non stroke hole 13th from Kevin just to keep him in touch.
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| Kevin teeing off on back 9 |
With two holes to go Ian had 27 pts and the others 28 but John H then 3 putted from a few feet before driving his teeshot on the last into a nearby gorse bush and his chance of glory had gone.
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| John putting as Ian wills the ball away from the hole |
Kevin also only got 1 pt on the 17th and with no shot on the 18th was out of the running. Despite an excellent par (including a shank into the rough) Kevin could only watch on as Ian (who had got back into joint lead by parring 17) and John B both secured 2 pts to share the tittle and become joint winners of the USPGA.
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| Ian teeing off on par 3 12th as John wills it into a gorse bush |
It was not only an excellent game but Woodbridge was considered the nicest course we had played this year so another round in the Autumn needs to be arranged for those players that missed out.
The main change on leader boarder was Kevin's birdie stretching his eclectic lead back to two birdies.
The tour moves on to Eaton next week
Leader board
| Kevin | John | Bob | Chris | Ian | John B | Prize |
| Prize money | £26.50 | £6.00 | £15.50 | £20.25 | £12.00 | £4.25 | £ 84.50 |
| Average Stableford points | 30.71 | 28.33 | 28.40 | 31.86 | 29.50 | 29.33 | £ 7.38 |
| Most Stableford points | 41 | 33 | 37 | 42 | 39 | 32 | £ 7.38 |
| Eclectic | -16 | -10.33 | -14.7 | -11.5 | -10.4 | 0.5 | £ 7.38 |
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| July, August & Sept Best Front & Back | 41 | 37 | | 41 39 | 32 | 34 | £ 7.38 |
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| Average Blobs per round | 2.4 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 3.0 | Cup |
| Number Rounds | 17 | 12 | 15 | 14 | 8 | 3 | |
| Prize fund contribution | £ 21.00 | £ 15.00 | £ 17.00 | £ 16.00 | £ 10.00 | £ 5.00 | |
