Locally Owned and Operated..September 25, 2016 Issue No.131
Twin Creeks Golf Senior Mens’ League Final Event of 2016
Photography Courtesy of Enrique Photo Art www.mywasagabeach.com The Twin Creeks Golf Senior Men events are held every Wednesday morning throughout the season. One of the goals of our club is to foster fellowship so foursomes are changed each week. The Twin Creeks Senior Men’s League ended a very successful 2016 season on Wednesday, September 21st with a scramble competition and an outstanding banquet. The winning team of Paul Lattman, Cal Budgell, Lawrence Lamarche, and Mike Mcwilliam scored a stunning thirteen under par round of 59, Closest to the pin contests were won by Mike Bissonnette (#3), Mark Son Hing (#8),Frank Eilles (#11), and Andy Beaudoin (#16). The players all are looking forward to next season. The weekly team competitions based on a Modified Stableford System and a randomly selected team structure remain very popular features because of the fellowship and camaraderie which ensues.
The Stableford System was developed by Dr. Frank Barney Gorton Stableford more than 100 years ago, as he introduced it to his fellow members at a golf club in Wales. It was an experiment back then and Stableford was not happy with the results, so he worked on a new formula that he introduced in 1931. He wanted to deter golfers from giving up after playing only one or two bad holes, a common occurrence during tournament play. It is also credited with significantly speeding up the pace of play. A variation in points on the original Stableford System is called the Modified Stableford System. The Twin Creeks Senior Men’s League uses a point system: 1 for a Bogey, 2 for a Par, 4 for a Birdie and 8 for an Eagle or Hole-In-One. There are no deductions for Double Bogey or worse.