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.