Another beautiful day for golf despite the breeze!! A very good field of thirty-five seniors (30 men and 5 ladies) competed for the prizes in today's event. In line with tradition, this Stableford competition was played off 7/8 handicap from the yellow tees for men.
Scoring was very close with the top 19 places only separated by 4 points. However, the outright winner today was Brian Faithfull with 39 points. On 38 points the runners-up spot was claimed by Allan Trotman on count-back from Alan Owen, Ray Tillen and Al Drennan. Best lady today was Judy Willson who took sixth place on 37 points.
Full result - click here.
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
April 9-Hole Stableford
The first of the monthly 9-Hole Stableford competitions was played this evening.
These 9-Hole qualifying events are a new innovation mainly aimed at players who for one reason or another are unable to compete regularly in weekend 18-hole qualifying competitions. As the name suggests, the competitions are played over 9-holes (front nine) and are open to ALL members. They will be played once a month this calendar year (April - August) to assess the success of organising these events. The next competition is planned for May 24th. See notice board for details.
This month's competition was won by John Christopher (20hcp) with a score of 22 points. The runner-up was decided on count-back as the next six players all carded 18 points. Mike Willson just pipped David Warwick, John Graham, Tom Wallin, Sam Whiting and Dean Butler.
Full result - click here.
These 9-Hole qualifying events are a new innovation mainly aimed at players who for one reason or another are unable to compete regularly in weekend 18-hole qualifying competitions. As the name suggests, the competitions are played over 9-holes (front nine) and are open to ALL members. They will be played once a month this calendar year (April - August) to assess the success of organising these events. The next competition is planned for May 24th. See notice board for details.
This month's competition was won by John Christopher (20hcp) with a score of 22 points. The runner-up was decided on count-back as the next six players all carded 18 points. Mike Willson just pipped David Warwick, John Graham, Tom Wallin, Sam Whiting and Dean Butler.
Full result - click here.
Monday, 25 April 2011
April Fool Texas Scramble
Todays event was played in warm sunshine with a welcome cooling breeze blowing and the course in immaculate condition (many thanks to the green staff). Twenty-one teams of three competed for the prizes and the scores, as usual were excellent.
It was very close at the top of the leaderboard and the winners and runners-up had to be separated on card count-back after both scored nett 56.2. The winners, courtesy of an impressive gross 31 on the back nine were Darren Boyce, Jean Raincock & Lorraine Storey. Runners-up were the team of new members Tony Ilsley, Matthew Atkins & Trevor Mouring (hope they don't think it's that easy every week!!!). In third place were the Turners (Nick, Pete and Ian) on nett 57.0.
Full result - click here.
It was very close at the top of the leaderboard and the winners and runners-up had to be separated on card count-back after both scored nett 56.2. The winners, courtesy of an impressive gross 31 on the back nine were Darren Boyce, Jean Raincock & Lorraine Storey. Runners-up were the team of new members Tony Ilsley, Matthew Atkins & Trevor Mouring (hope they don't think it's that easy every week!!!). In third place were the Turners (Nick, Pete and Ian) on nett 57.0.
Full result - click here.
April Junior Medal
Seven juniors took part and there were some excellent scores.
Max Nicholls net 67, Chris Richardson and Lloyd Childs net 66, but all to no avail as Dan Green came in at the end with a net 65 to secure his first win. Although Lloyd was beaten into 2nd place he scored an excellent gross 70 one under par.
Full result - click here.
Chris Moore.
Max Nicholls net 67, Chris Richardson and Lloyd Childs net 66, but all to no avail as Dan Green came in at the end with a net 65 to secure his first win. Although Lloyd was beaten into 2nd place he scored an excellent gross 70 one under par.
Full result - click here.
Chris Moore.
Scratch Team vs Donnington Valley
A hard fought battle at Sandford Springs against Donninton Valley saw us just lose out by three matches to nil. All were very close affairs with Ian and Max 4 down, Curtis and Conor 2 down and Lloyd and Joe losing the last to be beaten by one hole.
Chris Moore.
Chris Moore.
Sunday, 24 April 2011
April Weekday Stableford
A much better sized field this month competed in the beautiful sunshine in the April Weekday Stableford on Thursday and Friday. A total of twenty-three players took to the course.
Head professional Nick Mitchell led the way by showing us how the course should be played carding a fantastic gross 64 to amass 43 points. Fortunately, it's an amateur event so Nick's score did not count in the competition !!!!
Behind Nick, there were three players on 41 points, so the winner had to be decided on count back. David Warwick (13hcp) just pipped the visiting Deanwood pair of Julian and Kalebh Black. Fourth place went to Matt Baillie on 40 points.
Full result - click here.
Head professional Nick Mitchell led the way by showing us how the course should be played carding a fantastic gross 64 to amass 43 points. Fortunately, it's an amateur event so Nick's score did not count in the competition !!!!
Behind Nick, there were three players on 41 points, so the winner had to be decided on count back. David Warwick (13hcp) just pipped the visiting Deanwood pair of Julian and Kalebh Black. Fourth place went to Matt Baillie on 40 points.
Full result - click here.
Sunday, 17 April 2011
John Ives Memorial Cup
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.
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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