This Friday (25 August) will see the last round of the summer league of best 5 out of 10 rounds. The following players in are contention to become a champion of the summer league. This year, for the first time, there will be two champions, one for each division. (Division 1 coloured pink, and Division 2 coloured blue.)

New Seniors’ Memorial Bench Monitor

Reporter: David Craggs

The Committee would like to thank Andrew Ransom, who has for the last 6 years, maintained the bench and surround area adjacent to the 14th tee.

I have now now taken on this task and had my first day in the sunshine tidying up the area. With the help of Peter Willson the memorial bench is being adapted to house some new brass plaques.

Andrew and Michael John also maintained the rockery and I am sure you will agree the rockery is a focal point outside the clubhouse.

Peter Herrity Trophy – Played Friday 18 August

The Peter Herrity Trophy was a WHS qualifying competition (18 holes off the yellow tees). It as a dull and breezy day, although there was perhaps a bit more run on the ball than in recent weeks. The full results can be see here on the main LGC website.

First: Mark Pickles (on card play off), 40 points
Second: Sammy Lee, 40 points
Third: Ken Narraway, 39 points

Well done especially to Ken, who celebrated his 80th birthday on the day of the competition! And thank you, Ken, for the shots of whisky!

Happy Mondays – 21st August

Reporter: Peter Willson

It was a “Yellow Ball” or it was for most of the 6 teams – 19 players – who took part. 1 team decided to only record 2 of their 3 scores per hole 

Results 

1st – Pete Broady, Paddy Moran, Dave Waggitt – 112 points
2nd – Colin Chisnall, Sammy Lee, Alan Thomas – 106 points
3rd – Charlie Heath, Ken Narraway, John White – 101 points
4th – Eric Cox, Les Fecitt, Steve Gosling, Peter Willson – 130 points divided 4; times 3 = 98 points
5th – John Booth, Tony Lambert, Phil Perry – 91 points
6th – Mike Bennett, Les Williams, Richard Yates – 91 points 

The Seniors’ Champion of Champions – 8th September

The Seniors’ Champions day competition will take place on Friday 8th September. Therefore, if you have qualified for the Champions competition, please book the date in your calendar.

Qualification for the championship includes all Div 1 and Div 2 winners for any Friday of the summer league, and winners of the other competitions, such as the knockouts and the trophies.

Here are the qualifiers to date, in alphabetical order. Please note that after round 10 of 10 of the summer league, there could potentially be two more qualifiers (one from each division):

1 Stuart Baird
2 Mike Bennett
3 John Boyle
4 Colin Chisnall
5 George Clark
6 Paul Collins
7 Les Fecitt
8 Paul Foster
9 Martin Franks
10 Steve Gosling
11 John Hayes
12 Charlie Heath
13 Michael John
14 Sammy Lee
15 Phil Lomas
16 Paddy Moran
17 Bob Mycock
18 Arthur Nuttall
19 Phil Perry
20 Mark Pickles
21 Alan Ranscombe
22 Andrew Ransom
23 Mervyn Roberts
24 Barry Smith
25 Alan Thomas
26 Ron Thornton
27 Peter White
28 John White
29 Jim Wilson
30 Richard Yates

Tee booking schedule for tomorrow (Thursday 23rd August) 

This is the tee booking schedule for play on Friday 8th September.

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

As noted, 8th September is the Champions competition, whose qualifiers will be the first out, due to the course being closed to us for a shotgun start at 13:00. We should have more than enough time for this 15-hole competition. But, as always, try to keep up with the game in front.

The names in yellow are ‘ghosts’, two of whose slots might be needed if the last game of the summer league yields two more qualifiers. Those out from 08:24 onwards will play for a bottle of wine.

Newsletter Editor: Mark Pickles