Winter League round 10 of 10

Reporter: Paul Foster

So that brings down the curtain on the Winter league, a super final day where over half of the field played to their handicap or better.

A field of 50 competed, a league high, 25 players from Division 1 and 25 players from Division 2. With the splendid weather, little wind and again no rain, the scores were spectacular.

Three 2s recorded today, Martin Franks, Tommy Lawless & Barry McGuigan, balls to you three from the treasury!

Division 1 Results:
Winner – Richard Smyllie with 29pts
R/up – Charlie Hill with 28pts on a CPO
3rd – Grahame Brickell with 28pts on a CPO

Division 2 Results:
Winner – Rob Taylor with 28pts (great to see Rob’s name in lights)
R/up – Steve Bird with 27pts
3rd – Steve Bramall with 26pts on a CPO

Four 1st division players put the wrong hcap down, and two 2nd division player put the wrong hcap down. Please check your seniors hcap every week in the newsletter. Just 1 card marked incorrectly (pts entered under the ‘B’ column).

50 cards handed in, 47 entered into Ig. When the WHS hcap system awakens in April, only scores entered into the Ig system will count.

Two ‘keep a six off your card’, this week, Richard Smyllie and Mark Pickles. The following achieved this over the winter league; Paddy Moran x 3, Michael John, Ian Whitehead, Paul Foster, Tommy Lawless, Dave Meir, Steve Barlow, Russ Jones x 2, Koos Alders, Richard Smyllie and Mark Pickles x 1. Paddy wins this new league challenge. Congratulations Paddy.

For the upcoming Summer league, alongside the ‘keep a six off your card’ for the 1st division, we will be running a ‘keep a seven off your card’ for the 2nd division.

Final results of the years Winter League

Reporter: Paul Foster

Division 1:

Paddy Moran, with a top-notch 16 under par, finished as the top dog.

Grahame Brickell, with a late burst in the last couple of rounds, finishing 13 under is the r/up.

Michael John, Steve Barlow & Richard Smyllie all came equal 3rd.

Division 2:

Steve Bramall, with an amazing 20 under par is champion, despite lowering his hcap by 8 shots during the winter league!!

Dave Craggs, finishing 9 under par is the r/up.

Steve Bird, finishing 7 under par came 3rd.

The winter league had 35 division 1 competitors and 34 division 2 competitors, totalling 333 rounds of golf across 8 Friday’s, 8 different winners of the 1st division & 7 different winners of the 2nd division. Only Steve Bramall managed to win 2 rounds, Steve was also in the top 3 five times. Surely the player of the season!

Texas Scramble this Friday (21st March)

This coming Friday we have a ‘fun comp’ on the calendar. By popular demand, the format will be Texas Scramble.

Calculating the Team handicap:

The WHS system for calculating Texas Scramble team handicaps is:

• Four Players: 25% + 20% + 15% + 10% of the course handicap from the lowest to highest handicap.
  
• Three Players: 30% + 20% + 10% of the course handicap from the lowest to highest handicap

Do not round the decimal points up or down.

Rules:
15 holes, medal. When you subtract the team handicap from the gross score, do not round the decimal point.

For teams of four, at least 3 drives of each player must be used.

For teams of three, at least 4 drives of each player must be used.

Summer League – Best 5 out of 10 – starts on 28 March

The Summer League starts on Friday 28 March. If, on the 28th, we are still on winter conditions – the shortened winter course, and playing off mats – our senior handicap will apply.

When LGC switches to WHS qualifying, our WHS handicap will apply.

If you intend to play on the 28th, please remember to enter in the ‘Upcoming Competitions’, on the I.G. app of the LGC website. The competition is listed as Senior Section Summer League Round 1.

Congratulations to our Senior Section Chairman!

Congratulations to Young Mr Armstrong, who has become the latest of our octogenarians to grace the fairways! Steve Gosling presented John with his LGC Senior’s jumper on his 80th birthday.

Final Match of the Doubles Knockout (The Andy Ward Trophy)

The final of the Andy Ward Trophy is to be played next Monday, teeing off at 09:27. Spectators welcome. Admission free. Please follow the stewards’ advice at all times. Overflow carparking has been arranged.

The finalists are:

Paul Foster and Dave Craggs versus Dave Meir and Bob Ellison.

It should be a great match!

Tee-booking schedule for tomorrow (Thursday 20 March)

Tee-booking schedules for Fridays – General Information

Mike Kendal, who joined the senior committee last autumn, was assigned the difficult task of producing the tee-booking schedules for the Friday competitions.

A few of our members have sent comments, moans, and questions to Mike. A few have asked why they seem to be drawn regularly with the same players, and would prefer it if the draw was more mixed up.

Mike creates the schedules based on the requests of the members. For instance, my request is to play ‘early’. Some members have requested half-hour time slots. If other members have requested the same half-hour time slots, they will inevitably be drawn together very often.

On the other hand, we have other members who prefer to play regularly with their close friends.

Mike tries to accommodate all requests, but as you can imagine, it’s not easy! Please send any updates to Mike if you want to be less restrictive about your tee times, which will allow him to create a more diverse mixing of groups.

Happy Mondays tee-booking schedule for Sunday 23 March

Spot the Ball !

I think we’ve all hit balls into dense conifer trees, only for them never to come down. Last Friday Steve Gosling managed to keep his ball high up in some skinny bare twigs of the tree overhanging the 11th fairway! The gravity-defying ball was still there this morning (Wednesday). It’s becoming somewhat of a tourist attraction!

I believe that Steve is taking bets for the day his ball drops!

Newsletter Editor: Mark Pickles