WATERFIELD POWERHOUSES MEET TO DETERMINE SUPREMACY OAKLEY BIRDIES #1 WEST MAKES 15 PARS GERVAN/McD DON'T STAND A CHANCE. OR DO THEY??

The two acknowledged powerhouses of this year's Waterfield met on Labour Day to determine ultimate supremacy. Here is what happened:

#1 McD rolls in a 9-footer for par but it's not good enough. Wayne has left himself only six feet below the hole and confidently rolls it in for his first birdie of the day. W/O 1 up
#2 McD rolls in a 6-footer for par and that turns out to be good enough. All Square
#3 Bob makes a fine chip from short left and makes par. McD sends his chip long and left above the hole but rolls in a 12-footer for par and a push. All Square
#4 Wayne and Mac run into trouble and doubles. Bob is on in reg and makes par. McD is just over, has a brain fart and sends it 30 feet by. He makes a 4-footer for net par and the push. All Square
#5 Mac, who hasn't played for a month, has been up since 3am with jet lag and has started with four doubles, finally wakes up. He makes a good fourth shot and rolls in the putt for net par. Bob has a fine 2 putt par. McD rolls in an uphill 12-footer for par/net birdie and Gervan/ McD are 1 up, but not for long.
#6 McD goes in the drink and is out of it. Wayne, Bob and Mac all in good shape with their drives. Second shots not so great but after three they all have make-able putts. Mac rolls in a 15-footer for net birdie, Wayne burns the edge and Bob is irrelevant. G/McD 2up
#7 Wayne and Mac are on, Bob and McD short. McD's chip is still short but he nails the 14-footer for par allowing Mac to take a run at a 25 foot birdie. It drops! The birdie puts G/McD 3 up
#8 Bob is on in reg (for the 6th time in a row) and leaves his birdie putt one turn short, opening the door for McD who rolls in a 10-footer for par and a push. G/McD 3 up
#9 Everyone has a birdie (Mac net birdie) putt, no one makes it. G/McD 3 up at the turn (which was somewhat amazing given that Bob was only one over par and his partner had contributed a birdie), but the back nine was to be a whole different kettle of fish.
#10 Bob taps in for another two-putt par, Mac and McD miss their net birdie chances as did Wayne. G/McD 3up.
#11 McD and Mac start to fall apart. Wayne is on and only 12 feet fro birdie. McD is trap-bound (with Bob) and doesn't come close with his par effort. Mac is over then skulls his chip 22 feet by. It's an easy win for Bob/Wayne. Or is it? Mac lines up his putt, channels Gord Thomas and nails it. Wayne comes close but no cigar and it's an unlikely push. G/McD still 3 up.
#12 McD and Mac continue their poor play. Bob is on yet again in reg. Wayne is in the woods. McD and Gervan take four shots just to get on the green. Then, out of nowhere, Mac nails another long putt for net par, Bob just misses again and it's a push. G/McD still 3 up but fading fast.
#13 Mac and Gord continue to fade with mediocre tee shots and lousy chips both more than 20 feet away while Wayne and Bob are on with legitimate birdie chances. McD goes first from 25 feet and incredibly, the putt drops. Mac makes his as well. Wayne and Bob both make routine pars but appear ever-so-slightly stunned and discouraged by the astounding display of putting by two guys who are not generally in anyone's top ten putters.
#14 The discouragement shows on the tee. Bob gets hung up in a tree only 80 yards out. Wayne does not get hung up in a tree. He's way over them right in Nickland. His second effort goes way left. Mac and McD are safely in the fairway. Mac knocks his second up near the green and is lying net 1. McD has a good look at his ball and realizes it isn't. His, that is. It's Mac's. Ouch! Loss of hole and the tide has finally turned. G/McD only 2 up
#15 Juiced by their unlikely win on #14, Bob and Wayne give it their all on #15, Bob deeply into the hazard right, and Wayne O/B short left. Mac also self-destructs after a great drive. McD plays it solid down the middle and his par is at least two better than everyone else. G/McD back to 3 up and Dormie
#16 Mac hits another great drive and then again gets into trouble. Bob hits a great second to leave himself below the hole. Wayne is left but only about 12 feet away in three. McD's third is still short and his fourth 8 feet below and left. Bob makes yet another routine par, Wayne makes net par, and McD can end it with one more putt. Mac gives him the read, he strokes it and the ball falls into the heart. Game. Set. Match - 3 and 2.

In 16 holes, Mac and Gord have had twelve one-putts none of them gimmes, and were three under net. 

Mac continued to falter on #17 and. #18 going quadruple/double. Bob made two more pars for a total of 15. Wayne finished 5 - 5. McD looked bad on #17 making double, but was on about 20 feet away on 18. He said "why not?" then rolled it in for birdie and a fine finish.
Mac and Gord set a new all-time Waterfield putting record - 28 and 26 for a total of 54. We predict that that record will last for eternity.

Bob 37-39 76 net 69
Wayne 42-45 87 net 72
Mac 46-50 96 net 72
McD 39-42 81 net 67

Gord McDiarmid