Please consult the Seniors’ noticeboard the next time you’re at the golf club, and confirm your availability for the Andy Ward Pairs Trophy and for the Presentation Lunch/Annual Business Meeting (described in last week’s newsletter), planned for Friday 20th October.

If you are attending the lunch, please pay £15 into our main senior’s bank account. The committee encourages you all to attend. This is the correct bank account:

Lymm Golf Over 60’s
Nat West Bank
60-20-29
50244779

At the annual meeting, we will also go through the new plans for updating senior handicaps, which will be run by Paul Foster, whom the committee has co-opted to the role in charge of handicaps.

Paul has proposed three possible systems. The committee agrees unanimously on Paul’s simplest system, which will not be WHS. For those who say WHS is the simplest, it would not work well for the senior section, for many reasons, not least as we go into the Autumn season (best 5 from 8) then Winter season (best 5 from 10), in which no-one’s WHS handicap is adjusted. Furthermore, many of our senior section are 5-day members, some of whom have a poorly maintained WHS handicap. Therefore, the handicap you start with in the new system will your WHS handicap if it is well-maintained, or a calculation based on this year’s senior 15-hole competitions if your WHS is poorly maintained.

Andy Ward Pairs Trophy

If you would like to be drawn into this year’s doubles knockout, please add your name to the list on the Senior’s noticeboard before Friday 13th October (if possible). The draw will be made the following week.

The format is, we draw playing partners, a player in Division 1 with a player in Division 2. It is then a straightforward knockout, with deadlines set for each stage of the knockout. We have found that in previous years it is not possible to be flexible with the knockout stage dates, therefore please give yourself plenty of time to play your match, allowing for possible postponements due to weather. If a match cannot be played before the deadline, you can agree to use the toss of a coin to decide which pair goes through to the next stage.

Annual senior subs due

Our annual subscription is due. It remains at £20 this year. If there is a credit or a deficit against your name, Steve Gosling will inform you and ask you to make an adjustment to your subs.

Please pay £20 into our main seniors’ bank account (not the friendly league account).

These are the details.

Lymm Golf Over 60’s
Nat West Bank
60-20-29
50244779

Autumn League

The committee has decided to delay the start of the the Autumn League until Friday 27th August, to give Paul Foster and the committee enough time to firm up the correct handicaps going forward. Therefore the Autumn format will be best 5 from 8 (rather than from 10).

Seniors’ Turkey Trot – 6th October 2023

35 seniors entered the Turkey Trot to play in fine weather with a gentle breeze.

The winners are:

Division 1:
Charlie Heath: 32 points.
Division 2:
Art Laird 29 points.

Charlie and Art will receive a £30 voucher, presented at our annual lunch.

Happy Mondays

A good turnout this Monday, for the popular format of Shambles 

7 teams – 22 players

Winners – 56 points – Tommy Lawless, Phil Perry and Peter Willson
2nd – 54 points – Steve Gosling, Phil Lomas and Charlie Heath
Joint 3rd – 52 points – Mike Bennett, Richard Yates, Colin Crail and Les Williams 
Joint 3rd  – 52 points -Graham Utton, Dave Waggitt and Les Fecitt
5th – 47 points – Paul Foster, Tony Lambert and Eric Cox
6th – 44 points – Steve Barlow, Ron Thornton and Ken Pearce
7th – 43 points – Colin Chisnall, Alan Thomas and John Booth 

Tee booking schedule for tomorrow (Thursday 12th October) 

This is the tee booking schedule for play on 27 October: Round 1 of best 5 from 8

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