Vega Baja Premier Golf League - A Division Reports

Benijofar Golf Society – Vega Baja ‘A’ League at El Plantio, 1st February 2008

First things first and our best wishes go to John Kemp, our Society Secretary, who is currently undertaking radiotherapy treatment on a daily basis.

Get well soon.

Well we have now passed the halfway stage of the season and the league has begun to take shape.

Unlike last season when we ran away with the league title at an early stage, this season is much different with only a handful of points separating the teams in the top half of the division.

Our own season has been extremely disappointing stuttering along from game to game due to absence, illness and loss of form of key players.

Despite our best attempts to throw away the title of ‘A’ division champions we somehow find ourselves in second place in the league a mere 6 points behind the leaders La Manga to whom we lost heavily earlier in the season.

We certainly need to put our early season troubles behind us and have a strong close to the season but the golfing gods have put us to the sword again.

Why?

Our opponents for today’s game were third placed Katie Reilly’s who were runners up last season and winners of the inter society challenge.

Just how did we fair?

There is a saying that that when opportunity meets preparedness that is luck, well we must have been lucky today.

Having selected the best team available to us on the today and checking the usual batting order of our opponents we matched them head to head with the pairings we believed could win us the vital points.

First off for us today was the strong pairing of Dave Mason and Stuart Tosh who finally managed to shake off their opponents to win by 5 points with a 61-point team score.

Playing second for us today was the new pairing of Jon Peers and Graeme Card who were just too good for their opponents on the day winning by 11 points and with a team score of 68 points.

Third away for us today was Mike Probert and his old golfing partner from the UK, Barry Grinsell who have consistently scored 60 points + in previous games but who were not quite at the races today and lost by 5 points with a team score of only 52 points despite being ahead until the 16th hole.

The last match was the new pairing of Peter Noble and Phil Pettican who were always ahead through the round and we were confident of the win as we watched them play the final hole.

Their opponents both missed putts from inside 3 feet and as Phil tapped in from 2 feet he gave a little ‘Tiger’ fist pump.

It was only then that we realised that it was that putt which game them a 1 point win with a team score of 64 points.

So the match finished in a 3-1 win for the Benijofar Golf Society and with the bonus points secured this was an excellent 12-3 result for our team.

We look forward to the next game at Roda Golf on 7th March against Las Ramblas.

Report by Mike Probert, Handicap Secretary