Peter Broady, who recently turned 80, posted a great score in Round 1 of the Watkin Cup on Saturday off his handicap of 16. Pete’s 66 off the white tees was the best net score of the day, in a field of 151 players. He came second in a card play off. This makes Pete the first of our senior section to qualify for the Watkin Cup Final in September. (There are 6 rounds of the Watkin Cup, and the best 9 net scores in each round qualify for the final.)

Very well done Pete!

Lymm V Helsby Interclub Friendly – Friday 10 May 2024

Match Reporter : Art Laird (CoD)

Lymm Won 4.5 to 3.5

The third game of the Interclub series 2024 – against Helsby at home

The weather forecast looked very promising and in fact the day was true to forecast, no rain, very warm and sunny and a light breeze – just great

It was the second week of a full 18 holes open, following the wettest of all months – the course was in good condition thanks to the green staff who were continuing their efforts throughout the day – they were all very courteous to the players making way as necessary – a few of us wrestled with the bunkers but moral of the story was not to in there in the first place !! Pick and place was on the closely  mowed areas only

David Craggs and I played against some stiff competition with low handicaps – we did lead the way for a while until the competitors stepped up a notch and were 1 down going into the 17th – we won the 17th going down the 18th all square – despite both the home players having poor drives some good fortune levelled the game on the putting green – All Square !
At one stage it looked not too good for Lymm but with the last three matches coming good the win was secured – the second win this season
Match 2 – won 1 up
Match 3 – lost 8 and 7
Match 4 – lost 5 and 4
Match 5 – L 2 down
Match 6 – won 3 and 2
Match 7 – won 2 up
Match 8 – won 3 and two

The after match food was up to the usual top notch standard – all be it for some of us rather too much but far better that way than the other and of course the beer and wine slid down rather well

Good luck to the Interclub matches coming thick and fast in the coming days.

Bottle-of-wine Comp (running alongside Helsby match)

15 entries. Warm and sunny morning.
Winner was Bob Ellison with 30 points
The runners up with 29 points were Mervyn Roberts and Paul Foster.

Bob will receive the bottle of wine. Well done Bob!

Ringway V Lymm – Interclub friendly, Wednesday 15 May

Match Reporter: Grahame Brickell (CoD)

Lymm lost 3 to 5

Why is it that some people forget about early morning  traffic & roadworks  especially as you are heading towards manchester!! There is life East of Lymm!

Anyway .. everyone eventually got there for the 8.40, 2T  start .. and from the 1^st Tee  the course looked in fine nick ..it was a bit damp in places after the heavy late Sunday downpour but overall, greens / fairways and the bunkers, especially the latter, were all in excellent shape, 

Better shape that some of us Lymm golfers, given we went down 5-3 !!

Brickell & Armstrong – L
Pickles & Pigott -L
Hughes &  J White – W
Smith & Cox – W (AC beating his brother, but not wearing a team shirt!!)
Broady & Gosling – L
Collins & Roberts – W
Hayes & Melia & Lennie & McGuigan … say no more ! 

The chicken dinner was excellent as was the Dunham Massey Big Tree bitter .. 

Well done to our organiser .. John A 

Happy Mondays – Monday 13 May

A fine morning, but only 14 turned out to play the Happy Mondays team competition. The format was Team Stableford.

The winning team, with 26 points, was:
Phil Lomas
Pete Broady
Ken Pearce.

Tee-booking Schedule for tomorrow (Thursday 16 June)

Happy Mondays Tee-Booking Schedule for Sunday 19th May

New members of the Senior Section

It is great to see the senior section growing, and to see some new faces. If you are a new member, please feel free to send me a brief bio, and a photograph, to introduce yourself to the section via the newsletter.

Newsletter Editor: Mark Pickles