Round Norfolk Golf Tour summer comp 2017. Round 16 at Ufford Park

The Flying Beasties Cup at Ufford Park

Round Norfolk Golf Tour summer comp 2017 round 16 took place at Ufford Park on Wednesday. With this years tour now well past the halfway mark several tour players had chosen to take a break this week so there was only a small entry of 3 playing today. It would mean that all players would be adding to this year's earnings and put some pressure on to Bob who currently leads the money list. He was absent today after hopefully having had his plumbing fixed.

It was also the second chance to get a good back or front 9 in the best 3 front and back 9's in July, August and September (BTFABNIJAAS) competition.

As the only player off the yellow tees today Kevin got proceedings underway and was looking solid with five 5's over the first 5 holes but then fell apart with 3 successive blobs as he kept putting his drives into the trees. A nice par on the 9th bought back a little respectability and 12 pts at this point.

Kevin 2 putting on the 4th for another 5

Jill had also started solidly over the first 4 holes but could only pick up a single point in the next 4 holes as for once her excellent short game deserted her and she only had 10 pts at the turn.

Jills opening teeshot 

Chris was at least scoring on most holes but often with only single points and she too struggled up to 12 pts at the turn.

Despite going in the pond on the 2nd Chris still managed to secure a point

The back 9 started very differently as all 3 players found the green on the short 10th. Kevin hit the best approach putt going 18 inches past as the other two mishit their shots. However when Chris sunk an outrageous 15 footer and Jill a good 6 foot one everyone knew Kevin had no chance of making his short putt. As he shanked it wide there was much giggling from his playing partners as he stomped off the green.

However those who laugh last laugh longest and despite Jill paring the next hole she couldn't maintain the momentum and could only scrape together another 7 pts on the last 7 holes and last place on 23 pts.

Jill escaping from the bunker on 13 shortly before Kevin made his birdie putt 

Chris continued to play solidly, scoring on each hole, but struggling to score big points with only one 3 pointer all day. This restricted her to 29 pts overall but after Kevin's putting wobbles would it be enough.

Chris's teeshot to the pivotal 10th hole

The answer was an emphatic NO, as Kevin went points crazy playing the last 10 holes in 3 over the course. He was able to laugh for a very long time at the end (and did) as his 33 pts got him the big £2.50 prize and his 21 pts on the back 9 in a good position in the BTFABNIJAAS competition.

Kevin looks concerned that his ball was heading for the bunker on the 12th but fortunately came up short

Next week the tour really hots up with the third major of the season, The British Open, at Kings Lynn where the big £5.00 first prize could really shake things up at the top of the money list.

Finally RNSG rules state that to win the average pts or blobs competitions you have to play in a quarter of the rounds of the player who plays the most rounds. As the most anyone can now play is 24 rounds then this is now reduced to 6 rounds minimum to qualify.