Seniors 7/8 Stableford

Twenty-four players braved the elements yesterday for the Seniors 7/8 Stableford competition. Once again, scoring was not easy.
The clear winner, continuing his good form after a win in the Div 2 medal at the weekend was Derrick Perrin with 34 points. Runner-up was John Day on 31 points followed by Linda Vale who just pipped Richard Hook and Ray Tillen on count-back after all three scored 26 points.

January Medal

As you can see from the picture (courtesy of Andrew Buchanan), the first main medal of the year was a typically cold one with temperatures of -4C at the start. The ice, fog and frost cleared towards the end but that didn't help with the scoring in this Stableford which resulted in both Men and Lady competitions calculated as "Reductions Only".

Division 1
The top division was headed by Ian Folwell on 35 points followed by Jim Green (Snr) on 31 points and David Warwick one point further back.
Full result - click here.

Division 2
One of our hardy seniors was the winner in this division, Derrick Perrin carding the top score of the day of 36 points. Runner-up was John Baron on 35 points. Geoff Denner grabbed third spot on count-back from Ian Turner, Roy Whiting and Bob Stevenson after all scored 33 points.
Full result - click here.

Division 3
This winner in this division was John Swallow on 35 points who captured his first medal today. Runner-up was John Cooper on 34 points followed by Peter Turner on 33 points.
Full result - click here.

Ladies
Unfortunately only a small field of ladies today, but Maria Tillett came out on top with 27 points. Runner-up was Christine Cooper on 23 points playing in her first medal.
Full result - click here.

Presentation Evening

Saturday 28th January 2012

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Seniors January Medal

The first medal of the year was played today by the Seniors. The course was playing long with a stiff south-westerly wind and the scoring was understandably higher than usual in this strokeplay event.
Only one player managed to break par today and that was the winner of the men's medal Jeremy Proud with a superb nett 69. Behind Jeremy there were three players on nett 72. Rob Seaton (lowest gross 83) grabbed the runners-up spot on count-back from Rod Spring and Barry Heath. Full result - click here.
The ladies also found it tough going with no player breaking nett 80! Liz Evans was the victor from Lesley Cratchley on count-back after both carded nett 82. Third place went to Linda Vale followed by Sam Whiting with the lowest gross for the ladies. Full result - click here.

Eighteen players entered the two's competition and there were three winners - Paul Tebbutt (2nd), Roy Whiting (16th) and Rob Seaton (2nd and 11th).
Steve Thompson kindly donated wine for his birthday last week, and drew four random winners from the scorecards - Les Eden, Rob Seaton, Jeremy Proud and Gordon Turner.

Happy New Year

Seniors Xmas Fayre

The final Seniors event prior to Christmas was the Seniors Xmas Fayre played on Wednesday of this week. This year, the competition was a three-person Dallas Scramble competition drawn with a mixture in each team of low, medium and high handicaps with fourteen teams taking part. In the normal tradition of this event, each player brings a gift for the prize table, so everyone wins a prize with the top three teams receiving extra prizes of turkeys, Christmas puds and mince pies!
There was plenty of seasonal attire out on the golf course and the winning team with a score of nett 64.0 was Allan Trotman, Rod Spring and Ofer Ben-David. Runners-up were Sam Whiting, Harry Jackson and Steve Thompson on 65.4 closely followed by Derrick Perrin, Tom Wallin and Ted Fitzsimons on 65.8. Full result - click here.
After the golf the Seniors and invited partners had their traditional Christmas dinner. In all 68 people attended the dinner. A huge thank-you must go to Fiona and her hard-working team for providing and serving what was an excellent meal - nobody left the clubhouse feeling hungry!!! There were some quizzes during the meal with boxes of chocolates as prizes, Mrs Santa visited the tables during the meal to hand out presents to all the ladies and a "nearest the bottle" competition which raised £40 for local Macmillan nurses. Big thanks as well to the many people who helped organise this successful day including Mike and Judy Willson, Roy and Sam Whiting, Andrew Buchanan and Lesley Cratchley and many others too numerous to mention.

Merry Christmas