Thirty-five men and seven ladies competed today for the April medals. Although the weather was dry and relatively bright, the strong south-westerly breeze made for difficult scoring conditions with only two players managing to break nett 70.
Division 1
The top division saw the welcome return of father and son team Phil and John Bye, and it was son John who took the honours today. John Bye (11hcp) returned the best nett of the day (65) and also the lowest gross (76) to win the medal. Runner-up was Nick Powell (11hcp) with a creditable nett 70. Third place went to Jim Purvis (9hcp) who just pipped Andy Steadman (6hcp) and John Day (10hcp) on count back after all three had carded nett 71.
Full result - click here.
Division 2
Exactly a year after his last medal, and fresh off a win in the Winter Greensomes, Richard Osgood (16hcp) was the clear winner in this division with a nett 67. Runner-up was Jeremy Twaits (19hcp) who just beat Ian Turner (14hcp) on count back after both scored nett 71.
Full result - click here.
Division 3
This month's winner in Div 3 was Nick Turner (20hcp) who carded nett 70. Runner-up was Aubrey Phillips (20hcp) with nett 71 followed by Jake Chambers (20hcp) on nett 74. Welcome and well done to Ofer Ben-David (apologies if the name is wrong!!) who played in his first comp today.
Full result - click here.
Ladies
Today saw a welcome return to Fay Unsworth (11hcp) to the winners circle with a nett 72. I can't believe it's over a year since Fay won her last medal!! Runner-up was Maria Tillett (16hcp) who just pipped Kim Richardson (13hcp) on count back after both scored nett 73.
Full result - click here.
Two's
Only two 2's were recorded today - Barry Heath and Nick Powell both on the 16th. Let's hope they paid their entry into the two's competition !?!?
Pace of play
Again thank-you to everyone for recording your finish times on the scorecards. I think just by recording the time on the card it makes us all more aware of our round times. The average time for this month's medal was 3h 53m. There were a few groups (unusually the earlier tee times) that crept over the 4-hour mark, but thanks to some clever and strategically placed breaks in the tee-times by Andrew, this never accumulated towards the end of the field. We're still slightly over our 3hr 45m target, but if we all stay aware and keep working on it, we can improve. Thanks again for your cooperation.
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Well done to the medal winners again this month - Thanks to all the members for taking the pace of play to heart and keeping all the times to a good standard.
ReplyDeleteNon of us are professional and I would like all of us to keep our times below 4 hours - a reasonable time for all of us, as we need to find our balls after mis hitting a few shots each per round, I am sure you will with the odd exception agree.
Please ensure we all fill in our divots every time we play, as well as sanding on the tee, we will have a course to be proud of if we all do our bit.
Club Captain
John Graham
I am the odd exception........It was very slow.
ReplyDeleteWhen we teed off the first three groups had all lost at least a hole on each other..thus causing the field to be delayed
A polite MARSHALL pointing these things out would certainly help
I am also an exception, having not played a Medal for a while since the efforts to speed up play are being looked into I was disappointed to find that there had not been any noticeable improvement.
ReplyDeleteBelow is a quote from the R&A, maybe a bit harsh but something has to be done
Julie Otto, assistant secretary (rules) of the R&A, which has had 3.7 million copies of the new rule book printed with the help of sponsors Rolex, said: "Everyone is affected by slow play which has become a major problem in the modern game
"Slow play has become the curse of the modern game and people should be told that if they can't get through 18 holes in three-and-a-half hours then they should make way for those who can. Not being able to play well enough is not an excuse. Improve, or get off the course."
Difficult to keep everyone happy.
ReplyDeleteJohn Graham
Club Captain
Andy I agree with you but I don't believe it is the playing ability that always delays things it is more often than not that they do not:
ReplyDeleteA)care how they behave or how slow they are
B)do not know how to manage themselves correctly
C)are not even aware that they have lost ground
D)certainly do not appreciate that they are ruining the round for others
E)THINK TO WAIVE OTHERS THROUGH
IT IS ALL ABOUT ETIQUETTE!!!!
Does any one understand it these days??
i'm not known for my tolerance of slow play but having played with chris and andy in the medal i cant say i fully agree with their comments. Yes, we waited on a few shots but not all. I think we have to get things in perspective, it is not a race to get round quickest and even i who had to get to work straight after finishing was quite happy to allocate four hours of the day to the pursuit of happiness. I will say though that in the course of starting competitions recently i do notice that it takes some people an eternity to tee off the tenth. It seems that some treat the completion of the first nine as a chance to take a break, when in reality there is no need to take any more time teeing off here than any other hole. Its not compulsory to add up scores here before continuing!
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