Autumn League Round 10 of 10

Reporter: Paul Foster

A still winter’s day for the final round, and once again some excellent scores from the 45 runners. All to play for.

Two ‘keep a 6 off your cards’ were handed in from Ian Whitehead & Paul Collins (that’s two for PC now).

2s from Mike Bennett, Duncan Clarke, Paul Collins, Michael John and Peter Willson. See George Osbourne aka Steve Gosling for your Christmas balls.

Division 1 Results
Winner – Paul Collins with 36pts on a CPO
2nd – Colin Hughes with 34pts
3rd – Mike Kendal and John White 33pts

Division 2 Results
Winner – Stuart Baird with 36pts on a CPO
2nd – Mike Bennett with 36 points
3nd – Dave Craggs with 35pts

Autumn League Summary

Reporter: Paul Foster

‘They think it’s all over… it is now’.

So we come to the end of the Autumn League. 71 competitors, 402 rounds, ten different winners in Division 1, but only five different winners in Division 2.

Mr Stewart Baird won 3 rounds and Mr Alan Copeland won 4 rounds. Thirty-one 2s scored, Best score was 41 points by, yes, Mr Copeland. Lowest winning score was 30 points in Division and 28 points in Division 2

Mark Pickles is Division 1 champion of the Autumn League, and richly deserved I must say. Mark lost 7 shots from his handicap over the Autumn League getting down to an all time senior’s low handicap of 1. Michael John takes second place, a solitary single point behind Mark in the league table. Martin Franks takes third place, having been a leader throughout most of the Autumn League period. Congratulations to all three of you.

Alan Copeland is Division 2 champion. With a Christmas-cracker of a finish to his campaign, he has lost 8 shots in his final few rounds. Stuart Baird takes second place. Dave Craggs takes third place. Once again many congratulations to you three.

The seniors’ handicap system, and divisions will be amended for the Winters League starting on Friday 10th January. All will be revealed in due course.

Handicaps until Friday 10 January

The senior section competitions, including ‘Happy Mondays’, will be using senior handicaps for both Div 1 and Div 2. See the ‘Handicaps’ tab for the latest adjustments.

A new handicapping regime will apply from the first round of the Winter League, on 10 January.

Happy Mondays – 16th December

Peter Willson

Well ….  Another Monday morning – chilly, damp with glowering clouds and a stiff breeze and because we’re the Senior Section plenty of clouds of confusion to see us on our way and to provide discussions in the Clubhouse afterwards. 

The rules were changed in the car park by the earlier starters to play off WHS handicaps rather than the customary Lymm Seniors handicaps. Why this was suggested before we recalibrate the handicaps for the Winter League before WHS returns in the Spring – I’d prefer not to speculate. Some players played off WHS – some of the later starters were told to play off Lymm Seniors handicaps. I’ve checked the scorecards and adjusted the many incorrect handicaps when Seniors handicaps are applied – however amazingly the change to use the most recent SWHS handicap still brought out they same wining team 

Game: Team Stableford

6 teams a total of 20 players 

Winners: Grahame Brickell, Steve Gosling and Ken Pearce – a creditable 85 points or 28.3 points per player. 

It was a close run thing though as 2 other teams came in with 28 ppp

No game for the next two weeks, but the draw for the 1st game of 2025 – 6th January will need to be done on Sunday (see below).

The new scoring system and which handicaps are to be used for next year’s Happy Mondays will decided nearer the time.

Merry Christmas!

A good time was had by all at our Senior Section Christmas lunch last Friday. Here are a few snaps from the event. There was an impressive array of Christmas jumpers.

There were big cheers when the amazing duo of Joe Priestner and George Allen were each in turn drawn in the first raffle tickets! Lucky Joe, whose number was the first to be drawn for the second year running said, “Is this a fix?”

Thank you to Karen and all the catering and bar staff for the excellent meal and service and smooth running of the afternoon.

Tee-booking schedule for tomorrow (Thursday 19 December)

Happy Mondays tee-booking schedule for Sunday 22 Dec

Newsletter Editor: Mark Pickles