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Monday, 28 December 2009

Presentation Evening

NRGC Presentation Evening


Saturday 30th January 2010


6:30pm - Midnight


For full details - click here

Sunday, 27 December 2009

Winter Texas Scramble

At last .... after a week or so of snow and ice, we were finally able to get out onto the golf course. The Winter Texas Scramble was played today. Conditions were still wintry with a very cold breeze, but the course was very playable.

The winners today with a nett score of 59.2 were the team of Tony Glover, Mark France and Shey Walder.
Second place went to George Stockley, Lloyd Childs and Conor Dick with the lowest gross of the day (63), 59.8 nett.
In third place (a repeat of last year's performance) were Roy Martinez, Ian Martinez and Chris Moore with a 60.6 nett.
Lorraine Storey and Curtis MacGeever won the Longest Drive prizes.
Elaine Brichard and Shaun Irlam won the Nearest the Pin prizes.

Well done to all competitors for playing today. Full result - click here.

Thursday, 10 December 2009

Seniors Xmas Fayre

The annual Seniors Xmas Fayre took place yesterday.
42 seniors played in a 3-ball texas scramble event and as usual the scoring was good. The winners with a fantastic score of 55.8 (gross 66) were Andrew Buchanan, Ted Fitzsimons and Harry Jackson.

Tom Wallin, Harry Jackson, Andrew Buchanan, Ted Fitzsimons and Brian Faithfull
Runners-up were decided on countback with the team of Arthur Milne, Paul Tebbutt and Mike Willson (gross 70 nett 59.0) just beating Bob & Liz Evans and Tony Grove (gross 72 nett 59.0) on the back nine.
Afterwards all the seniors plus invited partners enjoyed a superb Chrismas lunch thanks to Fiona and her hard working team in the clubhouse.
A big thank-you to Brian and Tom for making this a successful event.

Sunday, 6 December 2009

December Medal

Following a week of unsettled weather, the December medal was played yesterday in good conditions. The course was in great condition and the very good scoring reflected this. This was the second of the winter Stableford medals played off the yellow tees for men. 38 men and 10 ladies competed for the medals.

Division 1
Another solid performance from Carl McCartney (43 points) saw him take the medal in the top division justifying his reduction in the handicap review earlier this year. Runner-up was Nick Powell with 41 points with Jim Purvis just beating Tony Grove to third on countback both on 36 points.
Full result - click here.

Division 2
Club captain John Butcher won the Div 2 medal with a creditable 40 points. Second place was decided on countback with young Will Green just beating John Baron, both scored 38 points.
Full result - click here.

Division 3
The in-form Peter Turner won the Div 3 medal (his second in a row) with 40 points. Runner-up just one point behind was Mike Chamberlain on 39 points with Matthew Baillie grabbing 3rd place on 37 points.
Full result - click here.

Ladies
It took countback to separate the top two ladies with Fay Unsworth just beating Cilla Osgood on the back 6 holes - both scored 38 points. In third place was last months winner Sam Whiting on 36 points.
Full result - click here.


Wednesday, 2 December 2009

December Seniors Medal

Thirty five players (31 gentlemen and 4 ladies) competed today in the December Seniors Medal.
The gold medal for Men was won by Tony Grove with nett 71 beating two other players on the same score via countback. Brian Bailey took the silver medal with the unlucky Chris Moore 3rd with the lowest gross of the day (79).
Full result - click here.
The Senior Ladies medal was comfortably won by Judy Willson with a gross 92 nett 73. Lesley Cratchley was runner-up scoring nett 84.

Full result - click here.