El Plantio Golf Club - 1st February 2008
It was a return to El Plantio for the start of
the second half of the season with the top teams
having everything to play for only three points
separate first and second places and with three
other teams La Siesta, Katie Reilly and La Zenia
ready to pounce should either on slip up, it looks
likely to be an exciting run in, with just three
matches to play but all worth a maximum of 15
points each. These series of games are the first
of the three.
The top match was Katie Reilly Golf Society against
current champions Benijofar Golf Society and it
looked that the good money could be on either
of them.
It was in a relatively high scoring game with
a total of 478 points being scored, it is often
bandied about by the League players that it needed
around 29 to 31 points to make sure you would
be in the frame to win, well Benijofar edged the
averages at 30.6 to Katie Reilly’s 29.13.
Top scorer for Benijofar was Peter Noble with
38 points.
The score went 3 – 1 to Benijofar and with
it the bonus points.
Las Ramblas “A” who at the other end
of the table from leaders La Manga North, needed
to do something special on the parkland course
of El Plantio, a track that is totally different
to the subtleties of their “Home”
course, which on paper should have gone in their
favour, but alas it didn’t and they went
down 1 – 3 allowing La Manga to maintain
their, narrow three point lead. All it need from
Las Ramblas was those few points when you consider
that in the individual pairing there were only
5 or even 2 points difference, there was a good
Captain’s performance by Lindsay Forbes
with a Par 36 points. But as the saying goes “You
know what points mean?”
Following the 4 nil thumping La Siesta got last
time out I guess they were thinking they might
do the same to bottom side Lunes Golf Society,
they came close only missing out by a solitary
two points in the last match, losing by one point,
it moved them up to third place nine points behind
the leaders, how that whitewash cost them!
Middle of the table sides La Zenia and San Javier
went head to head with either side needing to
do something just that bit special in an effort
to strengthen a position in the top half, but
a draw was the what they got and La Zenia scoring
fourteen more points to take the three bonus points
and holding onto 4th place with an outside chance
of causing some kind of upset.
The results of the matches:
Katie Reilly G S 1 (233 points) vs Benijofar G
S 3 (245 points)
Las Ramblas G S 1 (224 points) vs La Manga North
G S 3 (234 points)
Lunes G S 1 (219 points) vs La Siesta G S 3 (242
points)
La Zenia G S 2 (240 points) vs San Javier G S
2 (226 points)
The best individual scores of the day went to:
Peter Noble (Benijofar G S) 38 points, Lindsay
Forbes (Las Ramblas G S, Jon Peers, (Benijofar
G S) 36 points, George Rawlings (La Siesta G S)
Stewart Harris (La Manga North G S) 35 points,
and Fred Bennett (late reserve La Siesta G S)
34 points.
Bonus points went to:
Benijofar G S, La Manga North G S, La Siesta G
S, La Zenia G S
So its now to the final run in and the maximum
of 15 points available there has to be some soul
searching either to consolidate positions or to
maintain senior (not age) League status.
Leaders La Manga take on San Javier and will want
to try and consolidate their lead while Benijofar
have Las Ramblas who are smarting at the lowly
position and just may surprise the second placed
side, but the most interesting match at the De
Vere Roda Resort on the 7th March must be the
La Zenia versus La Siesta who hold fourth and
third place respectively, each will want to put
indifferent or disastrous result behind them in
these penultimate games.
After all there are only three points separating
them and only twelve points blanket the top four.
But the drop looks pretty ominous for Lunes Golf
Society who take on Katie Reilly who have shown
their strength from time to time over the season.
But the League and golf still can show strange
quirks, so watch this space.
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