This Friday (28th July) we play for the Gordon Wood Trophy, a WHS-qualifying competition held just for members of the senior section.

If you are playing on Friday, inform the Pro’s shop before you start. Steve or Fizz will then put you on the competition system in order that you can enter your score at the end of your round, either on your phone (using the I.G. app) or on the computer in the snooker room.

If you are an early starter, and arrive before the Pro’s shop is open, append your name to the list that I will leave on the table outside the Pro’s shop.

As current holder of the trophy, I can report that it is a very large and unsightly rose bowl with a wire-mesh lid. Perhaps the idea is to obscure it with roses? At the time of writing the trophy is in my garage, where it is home to a huge arachnid that I have named ‘Gary the Garage Spider’. I guess he thinks that the wire mesh gives him a head start in building a fresh web every evening.

Good news from the interclub-friendly last Friday, as captain-of-the-day Mike Pigott reports below.

Interclub Friendly at Home versus Sale, 21st July

Match Reporter: Mike Pigott

With the forecast giving wind and rain we were very lucky to avoid most of the heavy rain which made its way to Hoylake and Old Trafford so the match went ahead in acceptable conditions.

Sale fielded a strong team with some low handicap players at the top of the order and higher handicaps down the order.
Lymm’s captain for the day Mike Pigott and partner Barry McGuigan lost the top match 3 and 2 sharing six birdies in a hard fought match and when the second game consisting of John Armstrong IV and Phil Perry also lost 4 and 2 things started to look very ominous despite the rallying calls given before tee off time.

The rest of the team answered the captain’s demands and with wins for Andy Timms and Duncan Clarke (3 and 2), Paul Lennie and Paul Collins (5 and 4), Ron Thornton and Peter Broady (4 and 3), Dave Craggs and Sammy Lee (3 and 2) and Colin Hughes and Ken Pearce (6 and 5) backed up by a half from Steve Gosling and Peter Wilson, the only ones to actually play the 18th competively.

The overall result was Lymm 5.5, Sale 2.5.

When Ken Pearce and Colin Hughes and their opponents finally returned to the clubhouse we all moved into the dining room and had a fabulous meal of steak pie, chips, veg and gravy followed by the hottest apple pie every produced.

The greens staff and catering staff were thanked by both captains and finally the teams were treated to an original joke not one from the 1900’s.

Happy Mondays – 24th July

Reporter: Peter Willson

A sort of Happy Mondays competition. Only 7 player’s turned out this morning, and so the decision was made to abort the planned competition and go for an individual Stableford score
The winner:  Dave Waggitt with 35 points gained through really solid play

Tee booking schedule for tomorrow (Thursday 27 July) 

This is the tee booking schedule for play on Friday 11th August. The competition will be individual Stableford for a bottle of wine, due to our interclub match versus Ringway.

If your name is in the left column, please book for your group. 

Newsletter Editor: Mark Pickles