Round 6 – Sunday, 15th February, 2026
Ringwood @ 8.40 am
Format: Pairs (9 drives each)
A very frantic week for the organisers in the lead up to this month’s game. With Barra withdrawing due to a knee injury, it was a crazy scramble to find a replacement worthy of the wee man’s jersey.
That proved to be a bridge too far, but we did find Dave who admirably stepped in at short notice to avoid the field resorting to a singles event.
Only the clubs second time at Ringwood, and by all accounts from the members, certainly won’t be the last, very favourable reports indeed.
With the pairs event requiring nine drives from each player, the strategy would fall heavily on the team captains. Many teams finding a bit of difficulty towards the end as certain players struggled to find the fairway when needed most. None more so than Redder, who couldn’t get his tee shot past the ladies tee on the 18th.
It also seemed to be the day for early predictions. Macster and Tich declaring that the naga team would be coming out of their own group as they went head to head with Scott and Hubba.
Big Stork wasn’t to be left out as he called for the organisers to give him the numbers for the par 3s, he picked the 5th as the hole he’d be cleaning up on. Needless to say, he landed 30m short of the green.
As the last groups come in, there were only 4½ shots separating the entire field of 8 teams.
But the Macster did predict correctly as himself and Tich were to pip Billy A. and Koala by ¼ of a shot to take home the naga trophy. Upon presentation Tich exorcised his right as captain, to lay the blame squarely at the feet of Macster and thus he should take the trophy home.
It was also noted that since Macster’s return from his European tour he has figured in 3 out of 3 team events for the naga.
In the winner’s circle was the team playing alongside Macster and Tich of Scott and Hubba, who only just managed to beat Girdy and Tommy by ½ a point to don the tweeds.
Joe doing a poor impression of the absent Scott
So delighted with his win that only a few minutes had passed after he had walked off the 18th that Hubba felt the burning desire to get in touch with the absent Barra (reporter) to share the news of his victory, looking for an early editorial on the website.
Nearest the pins on the day went to Redder 5th, Koala 8th and 12th, Dave 16th.
Usually at this time of the year the conversation quickly turns to handicap management as we near the marquee event of the year. Some get it right, some do just enough to hold their status quo or even sneak a cheeky slide.
Hubba and Scott both earned a one shot cut going from 23 to 22 and 14 to 13 respectively. Macster and Tich eased themselves out a shot with Tich out to 20 and Macster out to 49, staring perilously at the dreaded 50.
For event management, in the season’s absence of Winker, the club stepped in with pizzas alongside Ryan’s cheesecake and ice-cream.
Team 1; Red 12, Ryan 23 8.75
Team 2; Joe 14, Baby Koala 22 9
Team 3; Billy A, 13, Koala 27 10
Team 4; Stork 11, Clayton 36 11.75
Team 5; Girdy 6, Tommy 29 8.75
Team 6; Taffy 20, Dave 18 9.5
Team 7; Scott 14, Hubba 23 9.25
Team 8; Tich 19, Billy Mac 48 16.75
Event management Winker and Ryan