Have you been to the new adventure park that we didn’t know existed in Murcia? Well – we did today – we have renamed Saurines de la Torre as “The Wild & Windy West Parque Aventura” with its newest ride “The Rollercoaster Greens”….. if you’ve played there lately you will understand what I mean!
Another attraction of this new park was the weather feature with the Weather Master switching the sun on and off and the wind machine was on and off also. In all seriousness, most of the golfers had a few choice words to say about the very undulating greens and pin positions today.
The course overall was lush and green – maybe pre-empting St. Patrick’s Day on Monday. Fast greens, to be sure, to be sure – especially if you didn’t putt hard enough for your ball to race up the hill onto the plateau of the green and stay there.
I witnessed one such incident of the ball rolling back down the hill three times to end up in the same position at the putter’s feet (you know who you are…). To say the day was challenging is a slight understatement.
44 set off into the desert wilderness with better weather overall than our last outing here, the scores weren’t awful and there were some fancy twos – one of which I again witnessed as a fantastic chip in off the fringe of the green on hole 2.
The category winners today were:
Gold: Steve Webb (36 points) joint best score of the day
Silver: Matt Newman (35 points)
Bronze: Ivan Hanak (36 points) joint best score of the day
The Twos Pot was shared between Paul Lambert, Tony Smale, Tommy McGinn and Rod East. With Nearest the Pins winning a sleeve of balls for Guy Wade Palmer, Denis Ryan, Kev Allbright and Paul Guest. Our best guest and previous member, also winning a sleeve of balls, was Robert GIllies. Matt Newman also took the coveted football card with Watford (also a season ticket holder there we believe!).
Overall an enjoyable day out and already looking forward to La Serena next week.
We’d also like to say a big Get Well Soon to Norman McBride, one of our very regular players who is currently in Torrevieja Hospital. We want you back on the course soon!
Winners (and the unusual suspects) pictured (L to R) Ivan Hanak (Bronze), Mickey Roscoe (PBomber), Darren Strugnell (President) Lee Eastman (Captain), Steve Webb (Gold), Tony Smale (PBomber) and Matt Newman (Silver). Well done all (well nearly all…).
