Davison Cup Match - Men's Team

Report from the Men's Captain, Brian King ..... Parklands men's team run of good results continued on Saturday with a home win against Alnwick in the Davison Cup.The match was a close contest played in cold windy conditions. The first win was by courtesy of Ricky Jamieson who took a lead early in the match which he gradually built upon winning 5 and 4 and during the match played what could be the shot of the season. On the sixth a wild tee shot assisted by the strong northerly wind ended to the right of the 15th green, Ricky proceeded to play a shot over the trees onto the sixth green to approx 8 feet from the pin. Ronnie Dixon was going along steadily to lead 2 up after seven only to see the match back to level. He persevered however, winning the match 3 and 2. Gavin Jobe playing his first team match after rejoining Parklands went two down early in the game , he battled to back to square the match on the 12th only to see his opponent sink a long put on the 13th to go one up. Both players missed the green on the fourteenth Gavin leaving himself very little landing area between the bunker and the pin in attempting a delicate pitch. He saw his ball fall short of the green into the bunker and go back to 2 down eventually loosing the match 2 and 1. Karl Mossom played Dan Swordy both players having similar handicaps and the match was all square until the 14th where Karl put his ball in the pond to go one down. However, he fought back winning the final three holes to finish 2 up. Graeme Hewitt had a very difficult match against an accomplished opponent going two down before fighting back and squaring the match on the eighteenth. The final result was 31/2 - 11/2 in Parklands favour, an excellent team result.