Devon County PGA MedalsTavistock Golf Club
Thursday 8th November 2007
Tavistock Golf Club
71 Nick Cook
71 Chris Gill
74 Nick Horrocks
74 Neil Holman
75 Ashley Moon
75 Dave Curl
75 Mark Taylor
75 Jason Fallon
75 Andy NormanOn a wild and windswept day the Devon Professionals played the third event of the winter medal OOM at Tavistock last Thursday.
winners Nick Cook and Chris Gill
The conditions were very tough for scoring, with the greens running very well and extremely quick for this time of the year, and the wind gusting at 40mph getting the ball close and holing out proved a real challenge.
The two players who best mastered the conditions were Exeter`s West Region champion Chris Gill and Elfordleigh`s consistent Nick Cook with level par scores of 71.
Chris who has played some fantastic golf this season has continued to impress with his tour standard game from tee to green. He hit sixteen greens in regulation and felt that his score could have been better if his holing out had matched his long game skills. His shot of the day was a driver off the deck into the fierce wind on the par five 12th hole to twenty feet to set up one of his three birdies on the day.
His playing partner on the day Nick Cook went head to head with Chris and was hitting the ball equally impressively from tee to green. Nick who is really enjoying being back among his fellow pro's in the Devon PGA has found the consistency to produce good scores almost anywhere he plays. He commented "the Devon PGA Events have been great for me and have really kept my golf at a high level."
A reflection on the difficulty of the day was that the next best scores were a pair of 74's from Plymouth Golf Centre's Nick Horrocks making a rare appearance on the course and Neil Holman from Torbay Driving Range.
Nick who has been troubled with a knee injury from his days as a trainee goalkeeper with Plymouth Argyle has not been able to play much golf this season, but hopes to compete more regularly in the coming months. Neil who has been playing very well recently puts his improved form down to 'skipping'. He feels he has really improved his fitness in the last three months, all he has been doing is skipping each day for about 10 minutes, he has noticed a difference in his stamina and strength during every round he has played.
Devon PGA Captain Ashley Moon form Okehampton thanked the Tavistock head Greenkeeper for presenting the course superbly and looked forward to returning next season.
