IMCA Golf Day 2006

The second annual IMCA Golf Day took place on Thursday 18 May 2006 at Deeside Golf Club, Bieldside, Aberdeen, UK.

This event, competing for the IMCA Quaich, built on the success of the first event, in 2005, which had encouraged more competitors and almost a repeat of the perfect weather this time - it was a day between continuous downpours in Aberdeen with only a ten minute shower, when the rest of the UK was almost drowned.

Some 60 players assembled for a nine hole Texas Scramble on the Blairs course in the morning followed by eighteen hole Stableford on the Haughton course in the afternoon. Blairs is older and shorter, with less of a view of the River Dee, whereas Haughton has many new holes and is longer. It has, as yet, many young trees beginning to grow and define the fairways. Some of the players were pleased that those trees which were staked allowed them to drop the ball to a better position - a luxury which will not be there for ever.

John Mair of Subsea 7, guesting in the Nautronix team, carried off the first prize, winning the IMCA Quaich which he keeps for a year and also keeping the holders as Subsea 7 following Steve Wisely's success last year. His score of 44 points was a notable achievement off a handicap of 9. The Texas Scramble is always a tricky team event to co-ordinate with choices of whose drive and shot to play and demanding a calculator to achieve the net score calculations. David Bloom rose to the Captain's challenge, coaxing his team to a net 26.55 strokes compared with par of 35 for the 9 holes.

Deeside looked after all the players very well with bacon rolls, lunch and dinner in the new clubhouse with its ship’s bridge view over the course below.

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Results

Stableford

Texas Scramble