Apparently, two of the most common anxiety dreams are:

1. Being submerged in water
2. Being naked in public.

Unfortunately for Phil Lomas, these dreams came true at the interclub friendly match at Leigh Golf Club!

Now; I was not present at Leigh Golf Club, and I have heard various conflicting versions of events. I have tried to make best sense of them. And so consider my version – after collating many witness reports – as gospel.

First, let us look at some images. Poor quality I’m afraid. They were passed on to Dave Meir from a Leigh member, and so Dave cannot provide higher resolution pictures.

Fortunately, we do not have images of Phil walking naked from the showers to his car! But unfortunately a lady golfer on the practice putting green saw Phil. We will come to that.

And so what happened?

Phil played a shot. On his follow through, his club hit his powered trolley. This set the trolley in motion towards a large pond. Phil was heard to cry out loud from the furthest extremes of the golf course. He ran (or at least walked quicker than normal) after his golf trolley and reached it just before it was about to tip into the pond.

As Phil grabbed the handles of the trolley, its momentum took him into the pond head first!

[ The report I received from Dave Meir, Phil’s playing partner, who was further up the fairway, is that after Phil’s scream he saw Phil ‘swan dive into the pond’ to save his equipment. However, we can consider this version of events apocryphal. ]

Dave Meir ran back to the pond, to see Phil ‘almost fully submerged and frothing bubbles’. Dave offered Phil a 5 iron, and managed to pull him to dry land.

Phil, whose famous moustache was green with the algae from the pond, proceeded to the clubhouse to shower. He then dashed to his car naked (almost naked, I believe he was wearing his wet Y-fronts).

Unfortunately, Phil did not escape the notice of a lady golfer, who remarked (according to John Armstrong), “what on earth has this club turned into?”

My hope is that Phil had the wherewithal to say to the shocked lady golfer:

      “Sorry. I’m not a member of Leigh. I’m a visitor from ‘The’ Warrington!”

John Armstrong phoned Phil the day after, to make sure that he had not suffered any consequences of his fall into the pond. Thankfully, Phil is fine, and sees the funny side of things!

Interclub friendly away at Warrington – Friday 21 June

Reporter: Peter Broady (CoD)

A great day for golf, bright sunshine with a light breeze. We all met in the Appleton Lounge for either a bacon or sausage bap before playing our matches.

Big thank you to Grahame Brickell for stepping in last minute for Bob Mycock who picked up a bad cold the night before.

The course was in excellent condition, greens running true and fast. Great views form the 7th tee box looking over Warrington and the Pennines.

After the golf we all enjoyed gammon egg and chips in the lounge.
Overall a good day out, the match played in good friendly spirit with our local rivals at Warrington Golf Club.

Looking forward to the return match at Lymm so we can try and redeem ourselves from the result away from home.

Match results.

Peter Broady CoD./ Phil Perry. Won 4 + 3
Ian Whitehead/ Dave D Jones. Lost 1. Down
Paddy Moran/ Dave Meir. Lost 3 + 1
Barry McGuigan/ Steve Gosling Lost3 + 2
Paul Collins/ Grahame Brickell Lost 6 + 5
Mark Pickles / Duncan Clarke Lost 3 + 2
Mike Pigott / John Armstrong Match Halved
Andrew Cox / Keith Melia Lost 5 & 4

Match Result. Lymm. 1 1/2. Warrington 6 1/2.

Interclub friendly away at Leigh – Monday 24 June

Reporter: John Armstrong (CoD)

We had an excellent day’s golf at Leigh, which ended in an honourable draw of 5 -3 in Leighs favour. The course was in a lovely condition, nice fair ways and very fast greens.

The weather was blistering hot, which is perhaps just as well considering Phil Lomas’ thorough soaking in a pond!

Results

John Armstrong and Russ Jones, Won 2 and 1
Peter Willson and Art Laird Lost, 1 down
Phil Ormesher and Paul Collins, Lost 9 and 7
Phil Lomas and Dave Meir, Halved
Sammy Lee and Jeff Ashurst, Lost 8 and 6
Mervyn Roberts and John Woodward, Lost 3 and 2
John Higgins and John White, Won 2 and 1
Steve Gosling and John Hayes, Halved.

Next match Davyhulme away.

Bottle of Wine Competition Friday 21 June

Reporter: Peter Willson

No summer league game today, due to the away match at ‘The’ Warrington.

28 entries – fine day with slight breeze 

Winner: John White – 30 points
2nd: Phil Lomas – 29 points
3rd: Bob Ellison – 28 points – CPO from Colin Lees and Rob Taylor 

A note on tee booking

Please remember, before every Thursday evening, to see the weekly draw sheet to see if you have been nominated as a tee booker, or to see what time you should be booked in for.

Shortly after 8pm on Thursday evenings, make sure you have been booked in by the nominated tee booker. If you haven’t, book in yourself and the other three members. Grahame Brickell has received a few complaints from members who are not booked in. There is nothing that Grahame can do to rectify such problems, because he will be already booked in himself.

Tee booking schedule for tomorrow – Thursday 27 June

Note that tomorrow’s booking schedule is for the Gordon Wood Trophy, to be played on Friday 12th July.

The Gordon Wood Trophy is an 18-hole competition, off yellow tees, open to members of the senior section only.

Happy Mondays – 26 June

Reporter: Paul Foster

A hot summer’s day, with lashings of sun cream barely rubbed in, milk white legs on show and an assortment of silly hats…!! Eric Cox sensibly had his umbrella up for most of the day.

Due to an away inter club friendly on the same day, there were just 3 teams to compete for the gold coins.

Team stableford was the game of the day, and most unusually everyone played to the same rules…!!!

In first place were team Thomas, Copeland (winner again) and Bramall, with an impressive average score per person of 28pts per person. Including three 4 pointers and 7 blobs

Runner up were team ‘silly hat’ Fecitt, Rigby, Bird and Cox with a score of 27.25pts per person. Including just one 4 pointer and 5 blobs.

Alas, in 3rd place (last….!) and this week’s silly boys were team Broady, Foster, Crail and Les ‘keep your left arm straight’ Williams, all of whom were more interested in discussing England’s poor performances than concentrating on the golf…with a pathetic 24.75pts per person, including zero 4 pointers and 7 blobs.

But as usual a great day was had by all, with lots of merriment on the patio when it was revealed Pete ‘Boring’ Broady missed the fairway on the 14th. Pete hasn’t missed a fairway for nearly 2 years….

Happy Mondays tee booking schedule (Sunday 30 June)

Summer at last!

I think that our golf course is looking great with the arrival of summer. And there is no better place to enjoy a cold beer!

Here are Mr Captain (right) and members of the senior section, in the volunteer working party, making hay while the sun shines:

Welcome to new member, Alan Copeland

Hello Seniors 

I am Alan Copeland. I was brought up in Statham, and now live in Thelwall, I’m a recently retired self-employed bricklayer. 

I played golf at Antrobus Golf Club about 15 years ago, but took up running and fell walking to keep myself fit. What started as a weekly parkrun soon developed into marathons and completing all 214 Wainwrights. 

Now I am retired I have the time to take up golf again and I have received a warm welcome at Lymm and look forward to meeting and playing with you all. 

Newsletter Editor: Mark Pickles

Updated Calendar

Our Committee Secretary Dave Craggs has updated the calendar. I have uploaded the new spreadsheet on the Senior Section Calendar tab.

We have a lot of activities for senior golfers in the next month or two. Please take a look at the calendar. And please add your name to the seniors’ noticeboard for any upcoming activities.

Some dates to remember include:


Wednesday 10 July: Hinson Cup (open to all LGC seniors)

Friday 12 July: Gordon Wood Trophy (open to senior section only)

Friday 2 August: Senior Section Fun game (format to be decided)

Tuesday 6 August: Mitre Cup (Senior section versus ladies section match)

Friday 16 August: Peter Herrity Charity £5 entry (open to senior section only)

Friday 23 August: Chairman’s BBQ, starting at 12:00 (see below)

I will send reminders and further details of each of these events a week or two before them. For the Mitre Cup, look out for the list that will go on the noticeboard soon.

Also coming up are the Padeswood & Buckley event on 4th July, organised by John Hayes. And the Hawkstone Park trip on 23/24 July, organised by Les Williams.

Chairman’s BBQ

This year we are having a BBQ on 23 August, after the Friday match, beginning at about 12:00

Please do attend if you can, to make it a good social get together for our section. Food will be provided from our section funds (burger and salad), and Mike Bennett, our outgoing chairman, will provide some bottles of wine.

Mike will put a list on the noticeboard. Add your name to the list if you intend to join us, to enable us to plan the catering.

Round 7 of Summer League, Friday 14 July

Reporter: Peter Willson

A dry breezy day after the early heavy shower passed by. 

40 Entrants – 18 in Div. 1 and 22 in Div. 2 

Some players had curtailed rounds because of the Shot Gun Charity day competition. Their scores will be pro-rated to 15 holes  

Division 1 

Winner: John White – 34 points; 2nd Paul Collins – 32 points; 3rd Steve Gosling – 31 points

Division 2 

Winner: Alan Copeland – 34 points; Les Fecitt – 33 points ; 3rd – Jeff Ashurst and Mike Kendal 30 points 

2’s – only 2 this week – Phil Lomas and Mervyn Roberts both on the 13th.

Tee-booking schedule for tomorrow (Thursday 20 June)

Happy Monday’s Competition – Monday 17th June 

Reporter: Peter Willson

A dry day with only 1 sharp shower – getting warmer (well a little bit ) 

Game: Yellow Ball 

3 teams of 3 players 

Winners:
Alan Copeland, Phil Perry and Dave Waggitt – and amazing score to 130 points – 10 points over “par”

2nd: Pete Broady, Paul Collins and Peter Willson (the 3 P’s) – 108 points

3rd: Steve Bird, John Booth and Phil Lomas.

Newsletter Editor: Mark Pickles

 

I thoroughly enjoyed our annual trip to play in the Llangollen Seniors Open (4BBB) last Thursday. The course was in great condition, and the surrounding scenery was terrific on our bright and clear day.

Peter Broady and Ron Thornton were the overall winners of the open (each winning a £70 voucher for the pro’s shop), and, naturally, they were the winners of the little secondary competition we had amongst LGC seniors. I was honoured to have marked Peter and Ron’s card.

Peter played the most boring golf imaginable: he hit every drive down the middle of the fairway. The rest of us were enjoying the great variety of trees, and wild flowers in the rough, and an occasional flirt with the River Dee: we watched a guy fly fishing just over the course boundary by the 16th green. But ‘Pedro’ Broady saw none of this. On every hole, he took the short cut: a straight line from tee to green! Ron also played well, and on holes where he had extra shot over Peter, invariably made good use of it.

Thank you Grahame Brickell for organising the day out, including block-booking the tee times for us.

Vale of LLangollen senior golf open, Thursday 6 June

Reporter: Grahame Brickell (LGC Seniors away-day organiser)

20 of were booked in for this years event .. unfortunately one was unable to make it at the last minute … Hope you are feeling better Les W, I’ll put you down for next year. 

It was a great day for golf, bright and dry and as the majority of us fuelled up on bacon or sausage barms and coffee before heading out. The mood in the club room was joyful. Many had a quick putt on the adjacent putting green. Messrs  Moran & Mycock, no doubt looking after their figures, skipped the breakfast and arrived just in time to tee off!

[ Editor’s note: When has Bob ever not arrived just in time to tee off! ]

We were led off by Messrs Broady & Thornton and it was a sound start for PB with a birdie 4 on the par 5 dog leg right… 4 points in the bag and with a solid 21 on both front & back nines posted a leading & overall competition winning score of 42 points – Mr Handicap sec please note! 

Along with Messrs Willson & J White posted a very respectable 39 points to take 6^th place. 

Our own Mr Treasurer (Steve G)  offered a sleeve of balls for our own nearest the pin comp – won by Captain elect – Andy Timms. 

Some participated in large platters of curry rice / chips and nan ..and other fine fare after playing to fuel them for the journey home.

Overall a great day out that I’m pretty certain we all enjoyed and will all look forward to next year. If any senior fancies joining us, just message me. The actual date for next year will come out in November. 

Summer League Round 6

Reporter: Paul Foster

Another pleasant summer’s day, and another great day for golf, but once again we failed to make the most of it, with only 1 out of 38 scoring under par.

I must apologise to my playing partners, Stuart White and Rob Taylor for my truly abysmal performance, asking them to look for my ball on every hole…!!! (and not finding many)

Once again there was a card handed in, but no score entered into Ig, and 2 scores entered into Ig, but no cards handed in !!I Also a few handicaps marked wrong on the cards.

Onto the results…

Winner of the first division was Grahame Brickell with 30pts, including a fantastic finish of 17pts on the last 5 holes. R/up was Martin Franks also with 30pts, and in 3rd placed Paddy Moran again with 30pts.

In the second division, the winner was Alan Copeland with the top score of the day, a sensational 38pts, r/up was Phil Ormesher with 30pts, and in 3rd place Stuart Baird with 29pts.

Paddy Moran now leads the way in division 1 from Martin Franks and Mike Pigott.

In the second division, Michael John still leads, with Bob Ellison and Richard Yates in 2nd and 3rd place

No 2s recorded on the day.

Happy Mondays – 10th June ‘24

Reporter: Peter Willson

A bright yet breezy morning but still chilly – 15 deg C with the wind and slow going after heavy overnight rain 

Game : Team Stableford

6 teams – 22 players in total 

Winners:  Mike Bennett, Colin Crail, Les Williams and Richard Yates – 26 points per player 

2nd: Charlie Hill, Phil Lomas and Phil Perry – 25.3 points per player 

3rd: Steve Bird, Alan Thomas and Dave Waggitt – 25 points per player  

Tee-booking schedule for tomorrow, Thursday 13 June

Tee Booking Schedule on Sunday for Happy Mondays

Volunteers for raking bunkers

Volunteers are still required for raking bunkers on Fridays, while we are temporarily short of green staff. Please contact Andrew Cox if you would like to help out by raking the bunkers on one or two holes after you have played on Friday. This will free the green staff to do their principal Friday tasks.

Volunteers Required!

Andrew Cox would like volunteers in the section section to help raking bunkers on Friday, after we have played golf.

As you probably know, we are temporarily understaffed by greenstaff. Over the next few weeks this will problem will be made worse, as each member of the greenstaff takes a week’s holiday, in rotation.

Andrew has asked how we can help, the greenstaff suggest that we can rake the bunkers on Friday afternoons, which is a task that is done every Friday in preparation for the Saturday competition. Andrew suggests that those of us who would like to volunteer are nominated bunkers on two or three holes. Please contact Andrew if you think you can help.

Summer League, Round 5, Friday 31 May

Reporter: Paul Foster

A beautiful early summer’s day, a great day for golf, but we didn’t seem to make the most of it, with only 5 out of 39 scoring under par. Note there were a cards handed in that had not had their scores entered via Ig, and some scores entered via Ig but didn’t hand their cards in!!

Thanks and congratulations go to Mike Pigott on his 70th birthday for providing a celebratory shot of Whisky (or was it Whiskey) to all seniors on the day. I can’t believe he’s 70…Mike must have had a very easy paper round..or perhaps non at all..!

Onto the results…

Winner of the first division was Paddy Moran with 33pts, followed by Mike ‘70’ Pigott with 32pts a cpo over 3rd placed John Higgins. (who blobbed the 15th after looking at his score for the first time in the round on the 15th tee)

In the second division, the winner was Ron Thornton with the top score of the day of 34pts, r/up was newcomer Alan Copeland with 31pts, and in 3rd place Michael John with 30pts.

Mike Pigott now leads the way in division 1 with Martin Franks and Paul Collins tucked in behind. These three wise men are 15 pts ahead of the field.

In the second division, Michael John still has a sizable lead going into the second half of the summer comp, Michael stays at 22 under par, playing for a distant second place are Bob Ellison and Richard Yates.

Four 2s recorded today, Alan Burton, John Higgins, Martin Lowe & Peter White.

Interclub Friendly – Hale V Lymm

Reporter: Andy Timms (CoD)

On a day that started with clouds and the odd shower, but ended in bright sunshine, the seniors chosen to represent Lymm at Hale acquitted themselves admirably (well, most of them did)!!

The course itself was in excellent condition, particularly the greens which were fast and true, and as ever we received a first-rate meal following the golf as we’ve all come to expect from this venue. Even the captain’s joke raised a laugh, so all told a good day out and another win for our Seniors team.

Match results – 
Andy Timms & Jeff Ashurst – Won 4&2
Grahame Brickell & Pete Broady – Lost 4&3
John Woodward & Steve Gosling – Lost 3&2
John White & Dave Craggs – Won 6&5
Stuart Baird & Paul Collins – Won 2&1
Phil Perry & Ron Thornton – Lost 3&2
Jeff Chapman & Paul Lennie – Won 4&3
Steve Bramhall & Steve Barlow – Won 2&1

Overall score – Lymm – 5, Hale 3

Happy Mondays – Waltz

Reporter: Paul Foster

Yet another day of mass confusion, deliberation, disputes, debate, conflict and challenges, all for the sum of seventeen English Stirling one pound gold coins. This week’s fun game, the Waltz we had two teams of 2, three teams of 3 and one team of 4. Steve ‘mathematician’ Gosling construed some method of turning all the teams into 3 balls. (that’s why Steve is the treasurer and we’re not).

Weather was fair, with a smattering of rain early doors. Sanctuary was taken with lots of discussions back in the clubhouse, over lashings of hot coffee and a teacake.

Leading the way with a fine score of 8 under par were team El Bandito, consisting of Steve ‘chipped in twice’ Barlow and big Ken Pearce. Their third person’s score selected at random being Steve Gosling.

(Can I just point out if Steve Barlow had chosen Mark Pickles or Steve Bramall instead of Steve Gosling as their ‘ghost’, they would have finished in 4th place….just saying….)

The honourable runners up, a set of fine upstanding young men, who played the wrong format, before correction in the clubhouse were team Top Banana Collins, Foster and Bird. In third were newcomers Alan Copeland, Ray Rigby with Peter Willson. Also rans were team Bramall, Pickles & Gosling. Team Narraway, Cox, Bocquet and Broady, wooden spoonists were team Booth and Lomas who picked Mr Pickles as their third persons score. (if they had chosen Steve Gosling instead, they would still have won the wooden spoon)

A very enjoyable mornings golf had by all.

Tee-booking schedule for tomorrow (Thursday 6 June)

Happy Mondays Tee Booking (on Sunday 9 June)

Welcome to a new member of the senior section:

Ray Rigby

Hello senior golfers! 
I’m Ray Rigby and have been a member for over 3 years now but soon after joining I was taken seriously ill and couldn’t play for 7 months. I’m now fully recovered and try to play 3 times a week. I’ve been an avid golfer since my early twenties and have been a member of local clubs including Birchwood, High Legh, The Mere, Frodsham and Widnes. Hopefully my nomadic period is over and I am now very happy here at Lymm. I can honestly say out of all of my previous clubs Lymm is by far the friendliest and I know more people here than  all of the others combined!

I look forward to meeting you all over the next year!

Newsletter Editor: Mark Pickles

[ I know that a few people have recently joined the senior section. If you are new to the senior section, please send me a photo of yourself and a short write up, to introduce yourself. ]