"C" Grade Referee Roger Williams reports : The two C grade finalists, Peter Metcalf (PM)and Peter Dunn (PD), teed off just after noon on Sunday 19th November in perfect golfing weather. PD was 1 up on the 1st hole, and stayed there on the 2nd, but PM pulled the game back to all square on the 3rd. The game went one way and then the other with only one separating the pair until PD went 2 up on the 10th after a clean recovery from the front bunker. He then stayed ahead by 1 or 2 holes until the 14th, when they were again all square. Both drives on the 12th were just a few feet short of the green, with PD's chip to 18" being the decider. PM grabbed the 15th after PD's drive found the water. Then, after two great drives onto the fairway on the 16th and PM's second shot to 15' below the hole it went to PD when the former's first, rather enthusiastic, putt ended 6' above the hole and they ended all square yet again teeing up for the 17th. PD won the 17th so the match teed up for the 18th dormy to him, and the match looked all set to end in short order. Things never work out as you expect, though..... Two lovely drives, two efficient second shots and two nice pitches had them both on the 18th green almost level with the hole but PM some 25' away to PD's 15' or thereabouts. The match looked all over but then PM's first - and only - putt shot like a bullet into the back of the hole, lept into the air and dropped into it. PD couldn't match that and off to the 1st they went, all square, to continue. PM put his ball in the fairway, PD off to the right of the poplars with his chip back just short of the ditch. They each pitched short of the green, PM holed out for 5, leaving PD a downhill putt to halve the hole and take the game on to the second. His putt looked in the hole all the way until it stopped an inch to the right, and the match was over after two of the most exciting final holes we've seen. Congratulations to both for a sportsmanlike contest, and especially to Peter Metcalf for that bullet-like par putt on the 18th which brought him back from the dead! " Thank you Roger for your taking on the role of referee and the report.
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