The Race to Iceland

This coming Friday sees the climax of the Senior Section’s golfing year: the frozen-and-affordable-Turkey Trot.

Entry to the competition is free to all paid-up members of the Senior Section, who will compete for the massive purse of £60: two £30 cash prizes, one each for the winner of Division 1 and Division 2 respectively.

Rules of the competition are:

• 15 holes, or fewer if parts of the course are closed.
• WHS playing handicap.
• Register in ‘Upcoming Competitions’ on the LGC website or the I.G. app for the ‘Senior Section Turkey Trot’ by Thursday evening at the latest (the I.G. app does not allow same-day entrants).
• Enter your scorecard on the I.G. app.

When you enter your score on I.G. it will ensure that you enter your correct WHS 95% playing handicap. All the scores will be published the following day on the LGC website, after Paul Foster has checked the cards and ‘finalised’ the competition.

Good luck to all competitors. And remember, ‘Mums go to Iceland’. (Are we allowed to say this in our diversity-and-inclusion times? If not, ‘People who have given birth go to Iceland’. )

A reminder of our new change to Autumn/Winter league rules

In previous years, games that were played on more than three temporary greens and/or on a severely-shortened course due to weather conditions did not count in the ‘best 5 out of 10’.

Following the appallingly-wet weather last autumn and winter that jeopardised the leagues, the committee agreed that every Friday competition will count when the course is open. We play what is in front of us, regardless of the number of holes open, and the number of temporary tees and temporary greens.

If fewer holes are open than the designated 15 holes for the Autumn league (or 12 for the Winter league) your score will be aggregated up.

Senior’s Christmas Lunch – 13 December

If you intend to join us for the Christmas lunch on Friday 13th December. Please add your name to the list on the Seniors’ noticeboard, in order that Karen knows how many to cater for. The cost is £18, which will be taken from your bar card on the day.

Autumn League round 8 of 10

Reporter: Paul Foster

Wow, what a day to play golf! From where I was in a nice warm church the weather looked horrendous. I did feel for you all, however the scores didn’t reflect the arctic conditions. There were some excellent scores.

I think the cold seemed to mess with the old cerebellum though, as there were 5 wrong hcaps entered onto the score cards again, 3 completed cards for 15 holes (even though we only played 13 holes), 2 cards from 1 player (with different scores on them) 1 missing card but his IG had been inputted, and 2 cards submitted but their IG not inputted.

I have highlighted any change in handicap on the handicap list.

36 hardy souls completed round 8, 20 players from Division 1 and 16 players from Division 2.

Five 2s recorded again today, Grahame Brickell, Steve Gosling, Bob Ellison, Mark Pickles and a magnificent 2 on the 2nd for a net zero for 5 points for George Clark, well done to you 5. See ‘Jeremy Hunt’ Steve Gosling

A second card for this series to ‘keep a 6 off your card’ was handed in from Martin Franks, well done Martin, take some doing that..!

Division 1 Results:
Winner – Grahame Brickell with 33pts on a CPO
R/up – Martin Franks with 33pts
3rd – John Hayes with 32pts on a CPO

Division 2 Results
Winner – Stuart Baird with an excellent 36pts
R/up – Peter Willson with 35pts
3rd – Alan Copeland with 32pts

Still leader in the 1st division is Martin Franks with 151 points, Mike Pigott now having completed 5 cards has risen to 2nd place with 147 points and Mervyn Roberts in 3rd place with 146 points

New leader in the 2nd division is Dave Craggs with 155 points, leaving Alan Copeland in 2nd position with 152 pts, followed by Steve Bramall with 140 points in 3rd place

Please check your Seniors handicap here on our website.

Your WHS hcap could be different to your seniors hcap.

Happy Mondays – 25 November

Match Reporter: Peter Willson

A dry bright day with blue skies and plenty of sunshine which plays havoc with tee shots on the 9th.

The course was comparatively dry and back on main greens but only 8 holes were played on the top land.

Game: Team Stableford. 5 teams – 17 players.

Winners: Kevin Bocquet, Tommy Lawless and Peter Willson – 18 points per player 
Joint 2nd: Mike Bennett, Les Williams and Richard Yates 
and Steve Bramall, Colin Chisnall and Steve Gosling – both teams with 17.3 ppp

Tee-booking schedule for tomorrow (Thursday 28 November)

Happy Mondays tee-booking schedule for Sunday 1st December

 
Newsletter Editor: Mark Pickles