AT Eastwood Golf Club, tucked beneath Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges, septuagenarian Trevor Skerry delivered the sort of round most golfers only fantasise about.
The 78-year-old returned a remarkable 47 Stableford points to run away with the Wednesday competition, prompting good-natured cries of “bandit” from fellow members as he handed in his scorecard.
Skerry, who plays off a handicap of 26, could only laugh.
“I just had one of those days you dream of where nothing could go wrong,” he said.
The scorecard told its own story: one four-pointer, nine three-pointers and eight two-point holes – a model of consistency.
Trevor Skerry poses on the putting green with his “red-hot” putter.
The putter, he admitted, was red-hot that day.
“I hardly missed a putt. You know what they say, ‘drive for show, putt for dough,’” grinned Skerry, who only recently returned to golf following a year-long layoff for a hip replacement.
“I used to play off 13 once, but I had to take 12 months off for the surgery.”
A 32-year member at Eastwood, Skerry has ticked off just one hole-in-one in that time – on the 137-metre par-3 14th – and maintains a refreshingly relaxed approach to his golf game.
He plays every Wednesday and in the club’s 12-hole Friday comp … and doesn’t step onto the practice fairway unless absolutely necessary.
“The only time I’ve been on the practice fairway is if I slice my ball on the ninth hole,” he joked.
While delighted with his own performance, Skerry confessed to feeling a touch of sympathy for a friend who had posted 43 points and was prematurely celebrating in the clubhouse.
“My mate was sitting there having a drink with a big smile on his face when I walked in,” Skerry recalled. “I said, ‘what are you so happy about?’ He said he had 43 points and I said, ‘well, you’d better buy me a beer because I had 47.’
“And that’s when they started to call me a bandit.”
The post Trevor, 78, fires sensational 47 points first appeared on Inside Golf. Australia's Most-Read Golf Magazine as named by Australian Golfers - FREE.
Article Link: https://www.insidegolf.com.au/news/club-news-news/trevor-78-fires-sensational-47-points/