Breaking all records!

It has certainly been a record-breaking autumn, winter and early spring, with more rainfall than any of us can remember. And it’s looking like we will see record-breaking delays to the start of the season. The Gents’ Spring Medal, scheduled for Saturday 20 April, has already had to be cancelled (a four-man team event is now scheduled for April 20).

Other golf clubs are also struggling to get their courses summer-ready, hence the postponement of our first two away inter-club matches (Warrington and Leigh), causing a headache for John Armstrong to rearrange things.

Michael John has certainly been breaking the records. He is by far the youngest senior in our history to graduate from Division 1 to Division 2. And in his first league game in Div 2 – using his generous WHS handicap – he posted the lowest ever Div 2 gross score, resulting in a mighty 44 points for 15 holes! Michael was an incredible 12 points clear of the runner-up, Mike Bennett.

However, Div 2 players need not fear Michael running away with the Div 2 league trophy. He’s got his eyes on bigger prizes. Our baby-faced bandit tells us that he’s going to skip the Senior Friday comps in order to conserve his handicap for the Saturday white-tee comps.

There were some excellent Div 1 scores on Friday, all based on WHS handicap, which were not adjusted because we were playing off mats on the winter course.

Division 1:

1st Martin Franks: 38 points (beating Dave Meir on CPO)
2nd Dave Meir: 38 points
3rd Paddy Moran: 36 points.

Division 2:
1st Michael John: 44 points
2nd Mike Bennett: 32 points
3rd Eric Cox: 32 points.

See the Leader Boards page for full results of Round 1 of 9.

2024 Calendar Updated

I have now updated the Senior Section Calendar page with an updated spreadsheet provided by Dave Craggs. This is the reflect changes to dates for inter club matches, namely Warrington away now 21/6/24 and Leigh away 24/6/24.

Tee-Booking Schedule for Tomorrow (11 April)

Happy Mondays Tee Booking

Peter Willson has asked me to include the Happy Monday tee booking schedules in the weekly newsletter. Therefore, expect to see following kind of booking list every week. The booking for Mondays is done at 8pm on Sunday evenings two weeks in advance.