Round Norfolk Golf Tour summer comp 2015. Final round at Gorleston

The final Round Norfolk Golf Tour summer comp 2015 round was held at Gorleston on Wednesday. A good field of 5 turned up with new player Andrew making his tour debt late in the season. It was still mathematically possible for any of the five season long competitions to switch hands if some one could put in a particularly good score.

Golf pig had been counted and seemed to have more money in it than expected enabling £10 prizes to be on offer for competition winnners.

Using the traditional balls in the air system a group of 2 and 3 were selected.

Chris and Kevin went off first and both seemed to be hitting the ball well. Unfortunately Kevin didn't seem to realise which way the strong wind was blowing allowing it to help the ball out of bounds on 1 hole and into bushes on 2 others. He still managed to get 13 halfway pts but his 2 blobs had opened the door for Chris to snatch the lowest average blob trophy.

Kevin Teeing off on par 3 4th as wind blew it off course, again

Chris was having no such problems and had no difficulty reach 20 pts parring the last 3 out of 4 back 9 holes

Chris hitting the only teeshot to stay in bounds on the 3rd

Meanwhile in the group behind Bob had got off to a flying start with 3 pars in the first 4 holes and ended with a solid 18 pts.

Second group on the first green.
Where Bob and Andrew both opened with pars as John stomps off without one.

The 3rd hole seemed to cause the 2nd group problems as of 6 attempted tee shots only one ended up in play but no pts were scored. New boy Andrew also failed to score on the 8th hole restricting him to 15 pts at the turn.

Strolling down the 3rd fairway after collecting their balls from the out of bound area

John was still on a high after winning a cup at Bungay over the weekend and obviously hadn't recovered from the celebrations as 3 blobs and no pars left him on 12 pts.

It was all change on the back 9, except for John who managed 13 more pts for 25 and last place, as early leaders Bob and Chris fell away scoring only 12 and 11 pts respectively.

John chipping to 12th green for a point

Chris's only blob of the day on the long par 5 18th also handed the blobs trophy to Kevin by 0.04.

Chris 4th shot to 16th after she had got carried away with previous bunker shot hitting it a bit far

Andrew had a solid back 9 and got 16 pts to match Chris on 31 pts.

Andrews latest chip of several on the 12th during his only back 9 blob

Kevin managed to throw away his chance of glory by going into two bunkers on the last and failing to add to the 17 pts he had got on the way in, leaving him on a tie for 3rd place with Bob on 30pts getting 25p each to add to their prize money. However his birdie on the 14th secured the eclectic prize.

Kevin with good tee shot on 16th but went on to 3pt

After the round the scores were entered and the prizes for the season awarded

Average stableford pts Chris with 30.67 per rond
Most points in a round Chris with 42 pts at Bury St Edmunds
Eclectic off half average handicap Kevin on -17.0
Best front and back 9 in July, August, September was a tie betwen Bob and Kevin on 41 pts
Cup with lowest average blobs per round went to Kevin.

Kevin proudly showing off the lowest average blobs per round trophy
 after being presented it from himself

Special thanks to Ian and John for donating to the prize fund.

Course selection will take place early next year ready for the 2016 season which will start 1st April (ish)

Final leaderboard

	Kevin	John	Bob	Chris	Ian	John B	Prize
Prize money	£31.75	£7.75	£17.25	£25.75	£12.00	£4.25	£  98.75
Average Stableford points	30.05	27.87	28.28	30.67	29.50	29.33	£   10
Most Stableford points	41	33	37	42	39	32	£    10
Eclectic	-17.0	-10.3	-14.6	-13.5	-10.4	0.5	£    10
July, August & Sept Best Front & Back	41	37		41        39	32	34	£    10
Average Blobs per round	2.57	4.2	3.7	2.61	3.5	3.0	Cup
Number Rounds	21	15	18	18	8	3
Prize fund contribution	£   25.00	£    18.00	£  20.00	£    20.00	£    10.00	£    5.00