Twenty-four pairings set out this morning to compete for the prizes in the John Ives Memorial Cup. The weather was perfect with the course bathed in warm sunshine and very little wind. The competition was played as a better-ball strokeplay event with the men off the white tees.
With the weather being so kind, scoring was always going to be low, but Mark France and Danny Glover carded a fantastic nett 60 to win the cup seven shots ahead of their nearest competitors. The field below this score were very tightly bunched with the next eleven pairings separated by just two shots. Six teams were tied on nett 67, but John and Carl McCartney just claimed the runners-up spot on count-back.
Full result - click here.
Pace of play
Well - it WAS all going quite nicely. The first few competitions of the year were on or near our pace of play targets, but today was nothing short of abyssmal !!!! The average time was 4hrs 20 mins which is at least 30 mins over our target. Given that the R&A guideines for a four-ball event are 3hrs 50mins, I think we can safely say we failed today !!! Let's hope that was just a one-off. We really must try harder to get these times down below 4hrs and nearer our target of 3hrs 45mins. Thanks in advance for your co-operation.
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Apologies for missing the Captains away day at Bicester and todays John Ives Memorial Cup - I was playing football with my kids and attempted a Wayne Rooney over head kick which resulted in a twisted knee - gladly not the one I have had operated on.
ReplyDeleteWell done to Mark & Danny for winning today, I can here the comments of Bandits from here, although it would be nice to see you enter the medals again.
I will always stick up for us higher handicappers taking upto 4 hours for a round (as long as we are striving to be quicker) - over 4 I dont feel anyone has an excuse really.
Time for all us to have a think about ourselves and see where we can improve with the pace of play.
Club Captain
John Graham
John
ReplyDeleteThis is the second occasion you have used the derogatory term Bandit when referring to a Junior who wins a competition with a low score.
Just to make you aware that Danny has competed in 3 of the last 4 Junior Medals and 2 of the Monthly Medals and has been playing for just over 1 year and has managed to get cut 10 shots since starting.
Both Mark and Danny have active Handicaps and enter pretty much every Competition except the Main Medals, Mark for the last 13-14 Years and Dan since he became a Member confident enough to enter Competitions.
I am sure being labelled a Bandit will encourage "New members and Young improver's" to enter Competitions.
Tony Glover
Tony it was meant in the right way - Danny works hard at his game so please take things as they are meant.
ReplyDeleteJohn Graham
Club Captain
unless some direct actions are taken I don't think that a few comments on here are going to make any difference what so ever!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI don't think too may members read these comments and anyone looking to join can read them and its not encouraging reading
I think you'd be surprised how many members DO read these comments Andy !!
ReplyDeleteWe ARE trying to do something about pace of play. This is not a problem just confined to NRGC, but just about every other Club in the country.
At present we have stated our goals for pace of play and are really trying to raise the awareness of this by making people record their round times. We are also identifying and actively talking to individuals about how they can speed up.
We don't want to discourage people playing in competitions, in fact - the opposite is true.
We are looking to educate people rather than resort to draconian methods of punishment.
The committee would be interested in any constructive suggestions to help with this issue.