Rathmore hosts Inter-Council Match with local clubs on the Valley course

They organised glorious weather for the game and the Valley course was in superb condition. The main individual feats of the day came from the Portstewart contingent with Arthur McMullan bringing in the best score of the day, 39 points, and Desi Wreath holing in one at the par three eighteenth, thereby winning his match and transforming a mediocre card into an average one.

It was also Desi and Norma’s 40th wedding anniversary - quite a day!

In the team event, Royal Portrush held on to the trophy they won last year, pipping Portstewart by a single point.

Rathmore looked after everyone so well on the day they lost the edge off their home advantage and didn’t threaten the winners. At the presentation dinner in Royal Portrush, Rathmore Captain Colin Walker thanked all the participants for a good day’s entertainment and Portrush’s Captain John Bamber replied in similar vein for the guest clubs.

With ten fourballs to cover it would take too long to report every story of the day so I will relate just one: Portstewart’s Ivan McDonald, along with Rathmore’s Gary Cardwell took on RPGC’s Roy Dunbar and local thespian Harry Stinson who came off the bench and did sub for Castlerock.

Harry is to play the part of a clock in a forthcoming production of the Ballywillan Drama Group.

Unfortunately for Harry his timing wasn’t quite right on the day and he failed to strike at the appropriate time and, as we all know, time is money.