My apologies for forgetting to include the results of the Senior Championship in last week’s newsletter. (I did add them a couple of hours after I first published the newsletter, when it was pointed out to me that they were missing.)

Our Champion this year is Martin Franks. Congratulations, Martin!

Senior Championship – 8 September 2023

Winner: Martin Franks – 35 points  (CPO over last 6 holes -16 points)

Second:  Paul Foster – 35 points  (CPO over last 6 holes -14 points)

Third: Steve Gosling – 35 points (CPO over last 6 holes -11 points)

Tatton League – 2023

Reporter: Tatton League Captain, Bob Mycock

Round 6 and Final Round at Antrobus

Our Team of 4 pairs assembled at Antrobus for the Final Round of the Tatton Trophy. On a Glorious Sunny Day all 4 of our Teams performed with a determination and vigour for Lymm GC to Win the Day, on Antrobus’ own patch. A remarkable effort, not least because Antrobus are the overall Tatton League winners for 2023.

Paddy Moran and Martin France had the Highest Pairs Score of the Day with 44 points and that Old Dog and Stalwart Mike Pigott picked Nearest The Pin (3 inches from the Hole).

Our other pairs’ scores were:
Mike Pigott & Sam Leach – 40 pts
Bob Mycock & Andy Timms – 36 pts
Richard Cooper & Graham Brickell – 36 pts

Round 6 Scores

Lymm – 156
Antrobus – 151
Heyrose – 147
Styal – 145
High Legh – 144
Birchwood – 139   

Tatton Trophy Final Standings

Antrobus – 883 (Winners)
Heyrose – 877
Lymm – 864
Birchwood – 850
High Legh – 838
Styal – 827

In Summary, another really good effort from everyone who has taken part this year and we are certainly getting closer to hopefully getting our hands on the Trophy in the near future.

I would like to everyone who has been involved and especially the support from you all, it has been a pleasure to Captain the Team, especially the banter and fun, the most important element of golf for me.

We re-assemble next April for 2024 Tatton…

Friendly match at Home versus Leigh

Match Reporter: Mervyn Roberts (CoD)

Despite negative weather forecasts during the week leading up to the match we were eventually able to entertain our visitors Leigh GC under blue skies and with the sun on our backs. The course and greens were in excellent condition leading into our Finals weekend and a closely fought and enjoyable match ensued.

Of the 8 matches played 5 went to the 18^th hole with 2 one hole defeats, a win for Sammy and Pete and 2 halved matches, including a fightback from 3 down with 5 to play by Mervyn and Phil O. Phil Lomas and Jeff Chapman were in inspired form and ran out 6 and 5 winners but unfortunately the other 2 matches ended in defeat such that the overall result was yet another defeat for Lymm Seniors by 5 games to 3.

A special mention must be made for the excellent lunch served up by Karen and her team. The chicken curry and chocolate dessert drew many words of praise including players from Leigh who rated the lunch as very much the best they have had over all the 28 matches they have played this season.

Results:

Steve Gosling / Mike Pigott: Halved
John White / Paddy Moran: Lost 1 down
Alan Ranscombe / Colin Crail: Lost 4 and 3
Phil Ormisher / Mervyn Roberts: Halved
Graham Brickell / Ron Thornton: Lost 1 down
Sammy Lee / Peter Broady: Won 1 up
Jeff Chapman / Phil Lomas: Won 6 and 5
Arthur Laird / Peter Willson: Lost 3 and 2

Bottle of Wine Competition – 15 September

Competition running alongside the Leigh match:

Number of Entries – 19 

Number of wrong handicaps = 4  (21%) – please check your handicaps !!

First – Ken Narraway – 34 points 
2nd – Andrew Cox – 33 points – CPO over last 6 holes – 14 points 
3rd – John Armstrong – 33 points -CPO last 6 – 11 points

Well done, Ken!

Tee booking schedule for tomorrow (Thursday 21st September) 

This is the tee booking schedule for play on 6 October: our annual Turkey Trot.

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