Knights gallop back onto the golf course

The members were abuzz with anticipation before the monthly ‘100 Club’ draw on Friday and the big money went to Heinz Habermann, with Jimmy Hanlon scooping the lesser amount.

The sports experts were vocal with excitement – some full of knowledge, others full of brewery products – over the mouth-watering sports challenges taking place over the weekend, ie The Ryder Cup; Sharks and Boks in action or inaction, depending which way you look at it; as well as the F1 and English football.

The big local golf event that took place over the weekend was the return of the Round Table Golf Day.

This annual fun-filled event has been AWOL from the calendar since Wynand hung up his knife and fork from the Table a few years back.

But with the reformation of the Round Table under the leadership of King Izaak Boshoff, his knights and their ladies of the Ladysmith 52 Table, it arrived back with a force to be reckoned with.

The day was probably as good as or perhaps even better than ever before (sorry, Wynand), with plenty of action – not all golf – on the course and around the clubhouse.

Contrary to popular belief, the Round Table organisation has no connection to King Arthur, but was founded in the city of Norwich in Norfolk in 1927 by a young member of Rotary, Lois Marchesi.

The name Round Table was taken from a speech given by the then HRH Prince Edward at the 1927 British Industries Fair when he stated that “the young business and professional men must get together round the table, adapt methods that have proved so sound in the past, adapt them to the changing needs of the times and wherever possible, improve on them.”

The key facet of the organisation is Adopt, Adapt and Improve, which is certainly what Izaak and his team of hardworking Tablers did on Saturday.

For the youngsters playing in the field, it was no real problem to follow this adage, as the team of Max Pillay, Marcel Meyer, Bransby and Adelene Niemach adopted the right attitude, adapted to the conditions rather well and improved their scoring to finish on an outstanding 105 points.

The four men of the Scorpions – Dries Slabbert, Gerry Grobler, Corné Stevens and Rhyk Neethling – were unable to adopt or adapt, but certainly improved their play to finish second on a well-manufactured 99 points.

There was only one two-club winner and that was Carla Craffert, who drove the Par 4 seventh to a few metres from the hole and sunk the putt with ease to win a rather large kitty.

The novelty prize winners were nearest the pins Heinz Habermann, Max Pillay, Phillip Boardman and Michele Bozza.

The longest drive for men was won by Bransby and for ladies Jaqui Porrill.

A group of our bowlers took the long road to Klipbank to play in the Hospice fun day.

Well done to all the winners over the weekend and to Izaak and your fellow Tablers, thank you for the fantastic day and all your hard work in putting together such a fine fund-raising event.

It is good to see the organisation up and functioning again, and perhaps we might even see the popular cabaret make a welcome return too. Don’t forget the Bowls Sections T-Bone Steak evening on October 20. Tickets are available from Glynnis and the club.

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