Captains Cup

After some early morning refreshments kindly provided by the new Captains, the customary drive-in took place for this year's new captains. Club Captain Jeremy Twaits, Ladies Captain Jan Hinks and Junior Captain Jack Unsworth all successfully hit their tee shots to the appreciation of the crowd gathered round the 13th tee.

Jan Hinks, Jeremy Twaits and Jack Unsworth

The 18-hole Captains Cup Stableford was then contested in tricky conditions with a brisk south-westerly keeping all the players on their toes. After a shot-gun start, it was back to the clubhouse for the presentation of the prizes and the customary raffles. The clear winner of the Captains Cup today with a super score of 43pts was Roger Tillett. The next four players were all tied on 37pts so count-back had to be invoked to separate them. The lucky runner-up was Paul Tebbutt who just pipped Jack Unsworth, Jim Green and Captain Jeremy Twaits courtesy of a better back nine score. Full result - click here.

Winner Roger Tillett with the Cup

To view more pictures - click here.

The longest drives were won by Sarah Purvis and Gordon Souter, whilst the nearest-the-pin prizes went to Allison Holmes and Lloyd Childs. The charity parking space raffle was won by Mark France who will now have further to walk to his car than his normal parking spot!!!!! There was also a charity raffle with prizes donated by many generous members. The Captain's charity benefits from today's proceedings to the tune of approx £391 which is a good start to the year.

This is another event that counts towards the Order of Merit. With this win, Roger Tillett has just sneaked into the lead one point ahead of Fay Unsworth. With points earned yesterday, Jack Unsworth is now in third place - Full listing - click here.

There are many people to acknowledge and thank for their part in helping to make today's event the success it was. Judy Willson, Tina Hawkins and Jon Miller for their early morning shift extracting money for captains drive-in pegs and raffle tickets, Andrew Buchanan and Dan Green for collecting the pegs and balls, Jon Miller and Paul Tebbutt for processing all the score cards, the clubhouse team for an early start to provide the refreshments, the green keepers for preparing the course in excellent condition and Brian Grace for collecting the forgotten longest drive marker in his buggy despite the fuel gauge being in the red!!!!
Most of all thanks to all the competitors who turned out today to make this a very successful event.   

September Weekday Stableford

This month's weekday Stableford was played on Thu 27th and Fri 28th Sept. Nine men and three ladies competed for the prizes and the scoring was excellent.
Steve Cobb came out on top with a fine 43pts. Runner-up was August winner Jamie Hines (42pts) followed by Adrian Hayward in third spot (41pts). Leading lady was Allison Holmes (36pts). Full result - click here.

September Junior Medal

The Junior Medal was played today in beautiful sunshine. Max Nicholls followed his win last month to make it a double by winning this one as well with an excellent net 66 and the lowest gross of 68. Just one stroke further back was runner-up Jack Unsworth (67) followed by Luke Gregory then George Baker. Full result - click here.
Jack Unsworth has a healthy 18 point lead in the Junior Masters with only three counting competitions to go. Full details - click here.

Captain's Cup

The Captain's Cup and drive-in will take place this Sunday 30th September. It is a shotgun start and the draw for starting tees will be done on the day before the start of the competition.
 
The drive-in should take place at 08:30 and the competition approx 20 minutes after that. Please arrive in plenty of time to draw your starting tee and place pegs out for the captain's drives.

There will be a raffle after the event and if anyone wants to donate prizes for this (no matter how big or small) please contact Jeremy Twaits on jeremy.twaits@nrgc.co.uk

Seniors Bowmaker

The Seniors competition today was a Bowmaker strokeplay event with seven teams of 4 taking part and the best two net scores to count on each hole.
The winning team were Sam Whiting, Lesley Cratchley, Ofer Ben-David and Frank Morley with a score of 124. Runners-up were Malcolm Passey, Stephen Vale, Geoff Denner and Chris Piper (126) followed by Paul Tebbutt, Judy Willson, Alan Gray and Linda Vale (127) in third place.
Full result - click here.

Course changes

As discussed at the AGM, the new course changes have now taken place.
The first hole is now a par 4 for both men and ladies, the second hole is now increased in length (still a par 3), the third hole is now reduced in length (still a par 4) and the tenth hole is now a par 5 for both men and ladies.
The resulting changes mean that the par for both men and ladies is now 71. The SSS will remain the same on all tees for the time being and there is no change to the stroke indexes.
Once the racecourse car park changes have taken place, there may be some modification to these holes to lengthen them. There will also be some "featuring" around the new greens in time.
Competitions will continue to run as normal on the modified course but with some slight changes to Competition Handicap Allowances in mixed gender competitions.
The yardages for the changed holes are as follows:

Hole   Par   White   Yellow   Red
 1      4     394     374     310
 2      3     168     155     140
 3      4     318     300     290
10      5     490     475     437

Thanks in advance for your patience whilst these new changes "bed-in".

AGM

The 18th Annual General Meeting of Newbury Racecourse Golf Club was held on Wednesday 19th September. Speeches and reviews of the year were given by Maria Tillett (Treasurer), Jon Miller (outgoing Club Captain), Sam Whiting (outgoing Ladies Captain), Mike Willson (outgoing Seniors Captain), John Hoskison (Juniors Coordinator), Nick Mitchell (Head Professional and Golf Centre Manager) and Stephen Higgins (MD Newbury Racecourse). No specific resolutions were tabled for discussion. 

The new committee for the year were nominated and will be as follows:

Managing Secretary - Nick Mitchell
Club Captain - Jeremy Twaits
Ladies Captain - Jan Hinks
Treasurer - Maria Tillett
Vice Captain and Matches - Vacant
Ladies Vice Captain - Vacant
Handicaps Secretary - John Christopher
Competitions Secretary - Vacant
Seniors Captain - Roy Whiting
Juniors Co-ordinator - John Hoskison
Admin Officer - Vacant
Press Officer - Judy Willson
IT Officer - Paul Tebbutt
The new Junior Captain is Jack Unsworth

As you can see, there are some vacant positions still to be filled. If you would like to help the Club in any one of these positions, please let any of the committee know.

Jon Miller and Jeremy Twaits

Sam Whiting and Jan Hinks