VETERANS GOLF<\/p>\n
As the scores indicated, twin towns veteran golfers last Thursday found a rain-affected Forbes course hard to handle with little run on the fairways then due to slick, but true to line greens scores were unlike usual results.<\/p>\n
It came as a shock to all including the winner, John Milton, with only 34 points which included two shots worthy of mention.<\/p>\n
After his drive on the 7th found trouble and unable to make the ladies tee his preferred lie looked inviting for a solid whack only to have the ball roll off the mark on his downswing, resulting in a huge divot and another hit of only 15 metres.<\/p>\n
Plenty of comment from all four in the group but that wasn\u2019t the end of the story for the \u2018punters pal\u2019.<\/p>\n
On the 16th John teed-up only to have the ball roll off as he made a monster swing to see the drive dribble 20 yards in behind the practice green.<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t end there, four good shots later saw the likeable larrikin walk-off with five for two points.<\/p>\n
That didn\u2019t end the laughter for the foursome as Andrew Norton-Knight had his partners in stitches after a very solid drive on the 13th hole.<\/p>\n
Looking to \u2018hit the green\u2019 in two Andrew had a quick look early for the ball to roll half a centimetre then back into its original lie. Like his buggy partner later he did get a five for two points.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what vets is all about, plenty of fresh air, exercise, a bit of fun with excellent likeable company playing two very good courses in Forbes and Parkes.<\/p>\n
That was emphasised during presentations with Peter Barnes welcoming new members while noting the return of others who have been missing for a number of reasons in recent weeks.<\/p>\n
Stephen McAlister is one new Forbes vets member on the scene to collect the runners-up trophy with 33 points, while back from \u2018holidays\u2019 was yet another Forbes trophy hunter with Brian Clarke taking home the encouragement award.<\/p>\n
With 20 starters Forbes won the twin town shield (again) with 194 points from their best six individual scores. Parkes, 13 players scored 176 points.<\/p>\n
Ball sweep to 28 points on a count-back. 32 Lex Hodges (P), Les Little, Bede Tooth, Stuart French (F), 31 John Dwyer (P), Andrew Norton-Knight (F), 30 Greg Diener (P), Barry Parker, Adam Andrews (F), 29 Nym Dziuba (P), Bruce Chandler (F), 28 Barry Shine (F).<\/p>\n
Nearest the pins, 9th A grade Andrew Moon (F), B grade Adam Andrews (F), 18th A grade Peter Boschman (P), B nil.<\/p>\n
Thursday\u2019s play will be in Parkes, nominations from 9am for a 9.30am shot gun start.<\/p>\n
Next Lachlan Valley 18 holes in Condobolin on July 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VETERANS GOLF As the scores indicated, twin towns veteran golfers last Thursday found a rain-affected Forbes course hard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-773420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}