Autumn League round 4 of 10

Reporter: Paul Foster

33 players completed round 4, 20 players from Division 1 & 13 players from Division 2.

Yet again carrying on the theme of ‘who can beat their handicap’, there was only only 1 player who had beaten their handicap prior to round 4.

All change, as 5 players played below their handicap in round 4, well played indeed. Only Phil Perry managed to record a 2, on the 9th. Balls to you Phil, see Steve Gosling.

Division 1 Results:
Winner – Mike Pigott with a fantastic 34pts on a cpo (level par gross)
R/up – Paddy Moran with 34 pts
3rd – Paul Collins with 33pts

Division 2 Results:
Winner – Alan Copeland with 33pts
R/up – Phil Lomas with 29 pts on a cpo
3rd – Steven Bramall with 29 pts

Still leader in the 1st division is Martin Franks with 115 points, Dave Meir and now Paddy Moran complete the top three.

Leader in the 2nd division is still Alan Copeland, with 100 pts, followed by Steve Bramall and Dave Craggs.

See the Leader Boards tab for full details.

Happy Mondays game on 28th October

Reporter: Peter Willson

A damp cloudy day but comparatively mild – dull and with the odd shower / drizzle but there were a few glimpses of the sun. The leaves are still falling but being collected very well by the green staff.

Game: Team Stableford 

4 Teams with 13 players 

Winners: Paul Collins, Alan Copeland and Steve Gosling – with the ludicrous score of 31.3 points per player – well done guys.
Second: Steve Barlow, Pete Broady and Dave Craggs – 27.3 ppp
Third: Colin Chisnall, Phil Lomas and Phil Perry – 23.7 ppp

Tee-booking schedule for tomorrow – Thursday 31 October

Happy Mondays tee-booking schedule for Sunday 3 November

Senior Section Handicap Rules

Reporter: Paul Foster

The following handicap rules will apply to the gents seniors section until WHS qualifying reopens next spring.

On a 15 hole basis:
Marked cards to be handed in following every Friday competition round, and for any 18 hole seniors section competition. First 15 holes only to count towards their seniors handicap.

After a score of 31pts or above: 0.5 of a stroke deducted from handicap for each point greater than 30pts.

After a score of 25 to 30pts: No handicap adjustment.

After a score of 20 to 24pts: A single addition of 0.5 of a stroke to be added to the handicap.

After a score under 20pts:

0.5 of a stroke added to the handicap for each point less than 20pts

Handicaps that include 0.5 are rounded up to the next whole number.

See the Handicaps tab for handicaps, updated weekly.

Autumn sunset on the 11th

Newsletter Editor: Mark Pickles

Autumn League round 3 of 10

Reporter: Paul Foster

Yet another fine and pleasant autumnal day. Little wind and pleasant temperatures greeted the players on the day of the ABM meeting and trophy presentation.

A session high of 43 players completed the 13 holes that were open to us after some horrendous rain in the last few days, 28 players from Division 1, and 15 players from Division 2.

Carrying on the theme of ‘who can beat their handicap’, to date after 3 rounds of the Autumn League, that’s 111 rounds between us, still only 1 player has beat his handicap…Dave Meir..

Four 2s were recorded today: all the P’s.. Paul Collins, Paul Foster, Peter White & Peter Willson.

After the round, there followed a witty speech detailing last years activities, and then the presentation of the previous years trophy winners by the outgoing chairman Mike Bennett, followed by a sumptuous steak pie and chips dinner, swilled down by wine supplied by Mike. Thanks Mike!

A few incorrect handicaps/markings/scores/totals had to be weeded out of the marked cards to balance with the Ig inputs.

The 13 hole scores have been rounded up to a 15 hole total for each player.

Division 1 Results:

Winner – Martin Franks with 30pts on a cpo
R/up – Mike Pigott with 30 pts
3rd – Dave Meir with 29pts

Division 2 Results:

Winner – Stuart Baird with 30pts
R/up – Peter Willson with 25 pts on a cpo
3rd – Alan Copeland with 25 pts

Still leader in the 1st division is Martin Franks with 88 points, Dave Meir and Richard Smyllie still complete the top three.

Leader in the 2nd division is now Alan Copeland, with 80 pts, closely followed by Steve Bramall and Dave Craggs.

Happy Mondays, 21st October

Reporter: Peter Willson

A dry day, if a little chilly to start with, it warmed up and the sun came out by the end of the round. The leaves are gathering following Storm Ashley over the weekend – but the big red sucker leaf gatherer has been wheeled out to rid us of the green/orange/russet/brown peril – great job by the green staff

Game: Team Stableford (again) held over the 13 holes open

5 Teams comprising 19 players 

Winners – Alan Copeland, Tony Dixon, Mark Pickles and Richard Smyllie – 23.75 points per player

Second: Colin Crail, Dave Waggitt, Les Williams and Richard Yates – 22.5 ppp on card play off over last 6 holes 

Third: Steve Barlow, Kevin Bocquet, Paul Collins and Peter Willson – 22.5 ppp

Tee-booking schedule for tomorrow (Thursday 25 October)

Happy Mondays tee-booking schedule for Sunday 27 October

Prostate PSA blood testing day, Saturday 2 November

Phil Ormesher informs me that, to date, 84 members of Lymm Golf Club have signed up for this event since it was advertised a fortnight ago.

Newsletter Editor: Mark Pickles

The Annual Business Meeting and Presentation will commence at 13:30 on Friday. We anticipate sitting down for lunch at around 14:15. We have 60 members attending the lunch, and so come early for a ring-side table!

The outgoing chairman Mike Bennett will be putting a bottle of red and white wine on each table. Mike retires from his role LGC Senior’s Chairman after his three-year stint.

John Armstrong is also stepping down following his three-year stint. We thank both Mike and John for their invaluable contribution to the committee and the smooth running of the senior section.

Autumn League, Round 2 of 10

Match Reporter: Paul Foster

Another fine and pleasant Autumnal day. Very little wind, full sun to blind us (a great excuse) and preferred lies on fairways (to those that hit them), does life get any better? Pity I didn’t play!

So, 33 players completed the 15 holes, 17 from Division 1 & 16 from Division 2.

To date after 2 rounds of the Autumn League, only 1 player has beat his handicap: Dave Meir.

One 2 was recorded: Dave Meir, at the 13th.

Upon entering the clubhouse to collect the stragglers half completed cards, I noted once again the tennis wine group, led by that old boy Art Laird, (celebrating his lofty finishing position today) were half way down a bottle of red wine accompanying their teacakes and chips. There’s always an invitation from Alan Ranscombe, Art, Gordon and Colin Lees to join them in the evening at the Sadlers pub in Lymm, although we will not see Art Laird until the new year, as he will be going to sample the wine in Portugal! Members…please be aware they are ridiculously happy people!

Division 1 Results:
Winner – Dave Meir with 31pts
R/up – Mike Pigott with 30 pts
3rd – Martin Franks with 29pts

Division 2 Results
Winner – Alan Copeland with 29pts on a cpo
R/up – Dave Craggs with 29 pts on a cpo
3rd – Art Laird with 29 pts

Early leader in the 1st division is Martin Franks at 2 over par, with 58 points, Dave Meir and Richard Smyllie complete the top three.

Leader in the 2nd division is Steve Bramall with 55 pts, closely followed by Alan Copeland, Barrie Smith and Art Laird.

See the Leader Boards tab.

Happy Mondays game, 14 October

Match Reporter: Peter Willson

Result of Happy Mondays game played on 14th October

A dry, chilly day with no wind and light clouds, breaking into weak sunshine by the end. The leaves are coming more into play now following the cooler weather but the ground staff are doing a good job of blowing and collecting.

Ground continues to be soft and mud balls are common.

Game: Team Stableford – only 14 holes counted as rolling programme of course tining work under way 

6 Teams with 17 players 

Winners: John Booth, Les Fecitt and Steve Gosling – 76 points – 25.3 points per player

2nd: Alan Copeland and Phil Lomas – 25 points per player

3rd: Kevin Bocquet, Pete Broady and Eric Cox – 24.3 points per player. 

Tee-booking schedule for tomorrow (Thursday 17 October)

Happy Mondays tee-booking schedule for Sunday 20 October

General reminder

If you are planning to play in any Friday competition, please enter the competition on the LGC website or the I.G. app. If you change your mind near the day, you can easily withdraw by going to ‘My Upcoming Competitions’ and pressing the ‘Withdraw’ button.

Newsletter Editor: Mark Pickles

Annual Subscriptions now OVERDUE !

Reporter: Steve Gosling (Treasurer)

We have 30 people who are current members who have not paid the £25 annual subs yet.

If these are not paid by this Friday your name will no longer be included in the Friday tee times and other booking schedules, and so please pay by this Friday to retain your membership for the next 12 months.

The account for payment is:

Lymm Golf Over 60s
60-20-29
50244779
Ref: Surname

[ Editor’s Note:
I do not think that all members of the senior section read the newsletter, in which we have asked for payment of subs several times. Therefore, please spread the word to your regular playing partners, who might be unaware they are about to have their membership suspended, and will be unable to take part in senior section competitions and events. ]

Pick, clean and place on fairways

Until further notice, senior-section competitions are now preferred lie, but on fairways only.

Lunch at our Annual Business Meeting, Friday 18 October

Reporter: Steve Gosling (Treasurer)

We have a total of 53 people listed for the ABM lunch on Friday 18th October

The list will close this Friday (11 October) and so if you want to join, please add your name to the list by this pay the £10

We still have 10 people on the list who have not paid. Please pay immediately to the following account:

Lymm Golf Over 60s
60-20-29
50244779
Ref: Surname

Memorial Trophy, and Round 1 of 10 of the Autumn League, Friday 4 October

Reporter: Peter Willson

Last Friday’s round was a combined competition. The Memorial Trophy does not have divisions, whereas the League has divisions.

Memorial Trophy:

1st – Mervyn Roberts – 30 points
2nd – Martin Franks – 29 points
3rd – Steve Bramall – 28 points

Round 1 of Autumn League – Best 5 from 10 games

Division 1:
1st- Mervyn Roberts – 30 points
2nd – Martin Franks – 29 points
3rd – Arthur Nuttall – 27 points

Division 2
1st – Steve Bramall – 28 points (wins on CPO 13 points over last 6 holes)
2nd – Jeff Chapman – 28 points (11 points over last 6 holes)
3rd – Barry Smith – 26 points (CPO over last 6 holes)

Two’s scored: Jeff Chapman, Martin Franks and Andy Timms

Happy Mondays Comp on Monday 7 October

Reporter: Peter Willson

A dull start but the sun came out half way through the game and it turned quite warm in the sunshine

Game: Team Stableford 

16 players – played over 13 holes after uncertainty over number of holes open.  

Winners: John Booth, Alan Copeland, Tony Dixon and Steve Gosling – 24.8 points per player 

Second: Grahame Bricknell; Colin Crail and Richard Yates – 21.3 ppp

Third: Eric Cox, Les Fecitt and John White – 20.3 ppp

Tee-booking schedule for tomorrow (Thursday 10 October)

Happy Mondays tee-booking schedule for Sunday 13 October

Llangollen Seniors Day out: Thurs 5th June 2025

Reporter: Grahame Brickell

This year 20 seniors enjoyed a ‘grand day out’ at the Vale of Llangollen Golf Club. Peter Broady and Ron Thornton won the first prize in the Llangollen Senior Open!

Apart from the main Llangollen Open competition, we run a little competition between the Lymm GC visitors.

The committee would like to make it a bigger day out next year. And so if you’d like to join us on 5th June please message me soon through IG and I’ll contact Llangollen as soon as possible to block-book the times. I hope to get times around 11am. Cost will be about £30 to £35. The competition format is 4BBB.

Prostate PSA blood testing day, Saturday 2 November

Reporter: Phil Ormersher

Please see the attached poster:

Newsletter Editor: Mark Pickles

A reminder from our treasurer, Steve Gosling, that payments are due for both the annual subs (£25) and the ABM lunch (£10) on Friday 18th October.

Subs were due by 1st October, but so far only 41 people have paid out of a membership of around 95. If you do not intend to re-join the senior section for 2024/2025, please inform Steve Gosling.

There are 11 names on the ABM lunch list that still need to pay.

The account for payment is:

Lymm Golf Over 60s
60-20-29
50244779
Ref: Surname

(Please note that this is a different account number to that we use for for the inter-club matches.)

Lymm v Warrington, interclub-friendly

Reporter: Art Laird (CoD)

This was the final Interclub match of the season and we were blessed with dry and fine weather even although the higher holes were rather cool with a biting wind – it was just great to get down to the 11th and even better the 19th!

The course has just had three days of Autumn maintenance making the greens a challenge for most of us – having said that the course overall is very much improved in many ways, clearly some way to go but all credit to the new head greenkeeper Rob Cooper and his team

Peter and I had a tough challenge against the formidable Anthony COD and Andrew Warrington Vice Captain – in spite of the greens treatment Andrew only missed one put to my knowledge – even our banter could not put him off !! We were soundly beaten 4 and 3. Notwithstanding our loss the rest of the team came up trumps and we were only defeated by one game losing 4 1/2 to 3 1/2 – whatever an honourable draw – a very significant improvement over the away Warrington  match earlier in the season

The result: Lymm 3.5, Warrington 4.5

Peter Broady and Art Laird – lost 4 and 3
Mervyn Roberts and Alan Ranscombe (PMA) – Halved
Dave Craggs and Martin Lowe – won 5 and 4 ( Craggsy could do no wrong! )
Paddy Moran and John Armstrong – won 2 and 1
Grahame Brickell and Phil Perry – lost 3 and 1
Phil Lomas and Peter Wilson – won 3 and 2
Charlie Hill and Dave Meir – lost 5 and 3
Mike Pigott and Steve Gosling – lost 1 down

As usual the lunch provided by Karen and the team was 1st Class and enjoyed by all – the final glass of red slipped down with ease !!

Very many thanks to John for ALL the hard work organising the teams and securing the best ever Captains of the Day throughout the season and of course Steve for managing the ‘readies’ and keeping the ‘elderly’ in line – I for one am voting for John and Steve to remain in charge for at least another season !!

I also had the great pleasure in presenting Paddy Moran the ‘seniors 80th jumper’ – he will achieve that ripe age on October 04 – congratulations and well done !

Bottle-of-wine Competition, Friday 27 October

Reporter: Paul Foster

A chilly start for the Friday bottle of wine competition, however the day turned out to be a sunny day for the players with a late morning tee off.

The cold wind seemed to cause havoc with all 20 entrants, with no one beating their handicap.

I had the pleasure today of playing with new member Howard Jones (no not that one)…who possess a classic text book golf swing, one to look out for in future competitions…his playing handicap of 14 will surely come tumbling down.

So to the results…

In 3^rd place was Paul Foster with 26pts

R/Up was Alan Copeland with 27pts

Winner of the day and recipient of a fine bottle of Vintage Châteaux de Latchford was Richard Smyllie with 29pts.

That’s the last of the BOW competitions, as Fridays match against Warrington was the last of these friendlies. The Autumn leagues starts on the 4^th October.

Tee-booking schedule for tomorrow (Thursday 3 October)

Happy Mondays tee-booking schedule for Sunday 6th October

Reminders:

Trophies: If you are a trophy holder – listed in newsletter of 4 September 2024 – please ensure you return your trophy to a committee member by 4 October.

Memorial Day: This Friday, 4 October, Memorial Day. It is also round 1 of the Autumn League (best 5 from 10). Please ensure you enter the competition which is open on IG or home page of Lymm GC.

A donation bucket and tot of whiskey will be on the bar.

The memorial trophy is awarded to the player with the highest points (regardless of division) and will be presented at the ABM on 18 October.

Newsletter Editor: Mark Pickles