In near-perfect conditions, only those teams with the hottest of putters had any chance and the trophy was lifted with a remarkable score of 50.1 by a team named Monty's Last Stand.
Two club members, Jacek Nowak and David Cusiter, were joined by friends from Craigielaw GC, near Edinburgh, David McLaughlin and Steve Livingstone, and playing off a 4.9 handicap, they just pipped Cally's Angels by the narrowest of margins, 0.2.
The winners started in style with an eagle at the first, thanks to Cusiter driving to the back of the green and then holing his putt.
That set them up nicely and nine birdies followed in halves of 27 and 28.
The new four-drives rule, however, caused them some grief and they arrived at the last hole with 11-handicapper Steve Livingstone still one drive short.
Into the breeze, however, he nailed a three wood to the centre of the green and Cusiter, with the team's last putt, secured a birdie and the trophy.
Cally's Angels (Alan Cruickshank, David Callaghan, Mark Geraghty and Euan Kennedy), playing off 2.7, returned the best gross score of the day with 54, one better than the winners, thanks to a four-iron hole-in-one at the seventh by Alan Cruickshank.
They played the first nine holes in only 25 shots, starting with five birdies, but just fell short at the end of the day.
The two rule changes introduced by Willie Donald, a director of the event's sponsors, proved popular in the main.
Just about everyone welcomed the decision to allow placing of the ball rather than dropping but the four-drives-per-player rule proved slightly more controversial.
It certainly forced teams to think much more about their strategy when choosing drives, particularly teams with a mixture of high and low handicappers, and it also involved all the players much more in the contest, which must be good.
However, if more ladies or junior teams are to be attracted in future, the handicap maximum of six might have to be looked at. The current rule does tend to penalise teams with four high-handicap players.
Overall, however, a very successful day's golf.
Neil Selbie and Co Texas Scramble: 50.1 Monty's Last Stand (J Nowak, D Cusiter, D McLaughlin, S Livingstone) (4.9); 51.3 Cally's Angels (A Cruickshank, D Callaghan, M Geraghty, E Kennedy) (2.7); 51.9 Team Graham (R Beadie, G Graham, S Forbes, D Summers) (5.1); 52.6 The Cruickshanks (A Cruickshank, I Cruickshank, S Mitchell, J McPherson) (3.4); 53.2 Team Martin (A Martin, K Martin, R J Smith, B Ferguson) (2.8); 53.4 Fairway Woods (A Wood, K Taylor, R smith, R Tindall) (4.6); 53.5 Weekend Hookers (D Peters, B Fenwick, D Bowman, I Smith) (4.5); 54.0 Station A (J Dykes, J Gordon, M Gordon, R Davidson) (6.0), Hepburn's Heroes (J Hepburn, L McCulloch, C Innes, R Davidson) (6.0); 54.1 The Laughing Boys (B McGillivray, S Dempster, M Wood, K Douglas) (1.9); 54.2 Urquhart's Ubiquitous 4 (S McGhie, M Rollo, F Urquhart, G Garden) (4.8); 54.7 Malcolm's Mounters (W Spiers, J Douglas, R Lanning, F Ferguson) (5.3); 55.0 Captain's Choice (H Roulston, J Hamilton, A Buchan, W Penfold) (6.0); 55.3 Turriff Loons (E Innes, M Bruce, C Spence, D Ramsay) (5.7); 55.4 Davy's Dare Devils (D Cruickshank, G Adam, D Kelman, C Innes (3.6); 56.0 Station 111 (K Green, N MacNaughton, J McBain, A Stephen) (6.0); 56.4 Selbie's heroes (W Donald, J Starrs, D Hamilton, C Starrs) (5.6); 56.5 Station B (S Allsop, B Lawson, A Innes, G Brown) (5.5), McAllan Team (I McAllan, J Laing, J Christison, K Bruce) (5.5); 56.8 Hazlehead Goats On Tour (K Duthie, D Low, L Prouse, L Thomson) (3.2); 57 Recycled Teenagers (G Reid, B Reid, J Forbes, D Gall) (6.0), SIKK Boys (K Duncan, I Wood, K Duguid, S Lloyd) (6.0), Mr Gilmour and His Young Friends (R Gilmour, W Burness, D Becci, S Sinclair) (5.0), Four Putts (M Halliday, N Murray, J Halliday, S Murray) (6.0); 58.0 The Whims (I Smith, W Chalmers, M Rendall, H Davidson) (5.0), Stoney Redz (K Gordon, S Birss, K Boyne, C Irvine) (6.0); 58.2 Anither Day Alder (M Innes, M Carle, M Killoh, M Gowans) (5.8); 58.5 We Will Walk 100 Miles (R Riddell, J Riddell, K Riddell, R McAllan) (5.5); 59.0 Team Walker (E Gilmour, H Kakebeeke, M MacEwen, A Walker) (6.0); 59.9 Tinker/Tailor/Soldier/Sailor (T Middleton, A Geddes, M Dick, D Ewing) (5.1); 60.0 The Desperate Dans (D Seery, D Seery, D Thomson, E Thomson (6.0); 61 AGA (B Adams, D Fish, L Matelski, C Taylor) (6.0), Team Christison (D Lawson, S Clark, W Scorgie, D Morrison) (6.0); 61.4 The Pole Bearers (H Easton, E Collier, R Mitchell, S Arthur) (5.6), Rough Justice (J Leitch, J Bremner, A Thomson (5.6); 62.0 2 Workers & 2 Pensioners (B Bamford, I Groundwater, G Forrester, D Mitchell (6.0); 70 The Tee Ladies (V Forrester, K Groundwater, P Spence, N Byars) (6.0).
Nearest the Pin (ladies, 15th) Val Forrester; men (18th) Malcolm MacEwen.
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There was a close finish on Saturday to the Barlow Cup, the last trophy competition of the season, with Duncan Ewing just pipping Terry Middleton on countback.
Both had 42 Stableford points, two more than Barry McGillivray, who has not played much competitive golf this season but still returned the best scratch score of the day, his 67 ensuring his handicap returns to four for the winter season.
Both Duncan and Terry were also cut on a day when 22 players equalled or bettered par.
Barlow Cup (CSS 65): 42 points Duncan Ewing (18), Terry Middleton (10); 40 Barry McGillivray (5); 38 Alan Wood (13), John Starrs (18), D Gall (10); 37 Brian Hunter (6), Alistair Duncan (10), John Lawson (17), John MacFarlane (11), Allan Officer (8), David Cusiter (7), Hans Kakebeeke (27), Gordon Adamson (3); 66 Callum Mitchell (7), Luis Arandia (17), Craig Martin (6), Stuart Campbell (16), Richard Tindall (12), Brian Reid (16), Doug Warrender 910), Malcolm MacEwen (10)
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Smart new lounge furniture was installed in the clubhouse last week and has received much favourable comment from members and visitors. It was made possible thanks to a sponsorship agreement reached with local company Groundwater Lift Trucks. More about this in a future column.

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