Winter League round 2 of 10

Reporter: Paul Foster

A little late, but straight from the heart – To all members of the Lymm Golf Club Seniors Section I wish you a New Year filled with laughter, love, and success, I may be late, but my wishes for your happiness are always on time. Here’s to a year full of joy on the fairways, friendship amongst all our members, and health to each and every one of us. I personally have made many friends in my short time with the seniors, and looking forward to making many more.

At last, the weather has abated, and we can get back to our favourite sport of whacking that pesky pill of peril around a big field…!

A beautiful winter’s day, no wind, 12 holes on offer, and a record 49 players for the first round available in 2025. However, I collected 64 completed cards from the box!!

Alas there was no ‘keep a 6 off your card’ handed in.

A large field of 49 runners completed the 12 holes on offer, 25 players from Division 1 and 24 players from Division 2.

Just the one 2 recorded today, Martin Franks. See the Second Lord of the Treasury Steve Gosling for your balls.

Division 1 Results
Winner – Steve Barlow with 27pts
R/up – Andy Timms with 26pts
3rd – Paul Collins with 25pts on a CPO

Division 2 Results
Winner – Jeff Ashurst with 27pts on a CPO
R/up – Steve Bramall with 27pts
3rd – Keith Melia with 26pts on a CPO

A few comments for you all to digest, following our first round of the new year, and a few headaches for me after collecting the scorecards!

Three Div 1 players put the wrong WHS club hcap down, and two Div 2 players couldn’t remember their hcap from the Autumn league…

Eight players completed 13 holes and recorded all in their total on their card, trying to confuse me. Took me a while to work that one out.

Eight members did not register their rounds before last Friday. I think the booze laden Xmas pud got to scramble too many brain! Don’t forget to register your round prior to playing on Fridays. You can register for them all in advance. You can register for all rounds up to the round 10 now if you like. If, nearer the time, you decided cannot play on the day, just remove yourself.

Finally there were fourteen cards in the box from the 27th December 2024. Now that really confused me!!!

Happy Mondays – 20th January                           

Reporter: Richard Yates

A very cold morning, with drizzle most of the time. 

There were 18 of us, playing in 5 groups.

Winners:
Dave Craggs, Steve Bramhall, Tony Lambert and Charlie Hill with an impressive average of 32 points per person over 15 holes.

Tee-booking schedule for tomorrow (Thursday 23 January)

Happy Mondays tee-booking schedule for Sunday 26 January

2025: Editor’s notes

Would you like to be Newsletter editor for the Senior Section?

My obligatory three years will be up in autumn. If you’re interested, please let me or the committee know.

I would be happy to continue into next year if no-one comes forward between now and autumn, but I do think it would be good to get some fresh impetus for our ‘comms’.

The Newsletter is published on the ‘WordPress’ platform. It is easy to use.

I would like to echo Paul Foster’s ‘New Year’ positive sentiments on our Senior Section. I joined LGC four years ago, on my retirement, age 60, having not played golf for a decade. Back in 2020 it was a shock to me to discover that a radically new rule book had been published. Even ‘water hazards’ no longer existed. And what was all this ‘WHS’ stuff?

When I started looking for a golf club, England was just gradually coming out of ‘Covid’ lockdown, and I had just moved from Sandbach to Altrincham (not easy in lockdown). I phoned a few golf clubs within reasonable distance (all of which were still closed) inquiring about membership. I phoned Tim, the former business manager of LGC, who was friendly enough, and he started talking about Lymm’s relatively high ‘slope rating’. I told Tim that I’m not keen on hilly courses… And so you can imagine how the conversation went!

On joining LGC, I was encouraged by Steve in the Pro’s shop to join the Senior Section, and I’m glad I did. However, the first person I was introduced to was a guy with outrageously colourful clothes and what sounded like a South African accent (but is apparently Rhodesian): Rob Taylor, Senior Section secretary/communications officer. I complimented Rob on his attire. He said, “the strange thing about you Englishmen is that you live in a dull climate and yet insist on wearing dull clothing!”

No-one is more frank than Rob, which is fine: I’m a Yorkshireman!

Rob asked, “What did you do for a living?”
“Scientific Technical Writer”, I replied.
“Good, he said”, just what we need. “I’ve been doing the comms for the Senior Section since its foundation, and am looking for for someone to take it over…”

Newsletter Editor: Mark Pickles