Keswick greens praised
Last updated 19:46, Thursday, 28 August 2008
IN SPITE of heavy rainfall, hard work by head green keeper Mike Branson and his team resulted in the Threlkeld Hall course being in very good condition for Keswick Golf Club’s Four Ball Better Ball Open.
While the wet fairways meant that the competition was played using preferred lies the record entry of 148 players from around the county were especially full of praise for the trueness of the greens.
Scoring was high throughout the field with first place going to Tony Kitto and Jason Norman from Seascale, playing off handicaps of nine and 21 respectively, who came in with 47 Stableford points.
The next three places went to pairings from Keswick with Lee Watson (off 14) and Steve Grogan (off nine) taking second spot with 46 points.
Club captain Mik Brown and Bob Thornton, both off 9, came third with 44 points and fourth went to Mark Davidson (off 17) and Gerry Maypother (off 24) on 43 points.
Keswick member John Hartshorn (off nine), partnered by Martin Cooper from Ulverston (off 17), came fifth on 42, with sixth place going to the Keswick pairing of Attilio Savasi (off 10) and Bob Watson (off 15) with 41 points.
Adam Bragg from St Bees, who plays off five, won the prize for nearest the pin on the third, with Lee Watson being nearest on the 16th.
Keswick’s ever-improving Jamie O’Brien, who was last year’s Junior Captain, now playing off nine, won the prize for the longest drive on the seventh.
Proof that the greens were putting well was confirmed by the 13 Twos recorded.
