Rules quiz

A player may repair natural wear of the hole on the putting green before putting

1. True
2. False

Answer at the end of this newsletter

Find the Fact – Andy Timms

Only one of the following statements about our immediate past Captain is correct. The other two are false. How well do you know your fellow senior?

1. Andy is a keen cook and has over 74 recipe books in 3 different languages. Andy has calculated (for reasons best known to himself) that if he cooked one recipe per day it would take over 34 years to work his way through his collection
2. Andy is a FA qualified coach. During his time as Coach and Chairman of Urmston Meadowside the club won the FA Charter Standard Club of the Year twice
3. During his time as Captain of Lymm last year Andy played golf 163 times on 53 courses, in three countries with over 200 people

Answer below

Summer League – Round 7

Reporter: Paul Foster

Under a sky so blue it looked photoshopped, the Seniors assembled for another glorious late-spring round — part golf competition, part textile experiment.

The fairways were immaculate, the greens deceptively unreadable, and the dress code apparently interpreted as “wear the shortest shorts medically advisable”. Several players arrived looking less like golfers and more like retired cruise entertainers or auditioners for ‘It ain’t half hot mum’. Scoring proved far less cheerful than the weather. Despite ideal conditions and a breeze gentler than a clubhouse handshake, only three brave souls managed to better par. The rest spent the afternoon demonstrating increasingly creative methods of leaving putts short, long, left or right. The rough was busy, the bunkers overworked, and one unfortunate duck on the 12th may file a complaint to the club committee after being buzzed twice by low-flying Titleist balls. Edgar Crowe was repeatedly spotted unzipping golf bags in search of “bootie” on the second hole. Whether he was searching for a tasty snack, an ‘on view’ banana, some contraband confectionery, or something far more suspicious remains unclear. We witnessed Edgar conducting “full investigations” on three of our four trolleys (the smell of engine oil on Ron’s groovy machine seemed to put Edgar off searching his bag). At the halfway hut, cold drinks disappeared faster than stableford points, while several competitors claimed their games were “just about coming together” moments before recording triple bogeys on holes 10 and 11. Highlight of the day belonged to Mike Kendall on the 14th, whose majestic drive travelled approximately 240 yards — sideways. Applause was generous nonetheless, mainly because it avoided all trees, the four ball in front, the four ball in front of them, the four ball on the 16th and a fairway bunker to end its epic journey smack in the middle of the 15th.fairway. In total 12 players ducked after hearing a thunderous “Fore” from our direction.

As the sun dipped and scorecards were examined with the seriousness of international treaty documents, the consensus was unanimous: glorious weather, dreadful golf, exceptional entertainment. And somewhere in the clubhouse car park, Edgar was still checking bags for bootie.

• Two 2s scored today, Steve Barlow and Charlie Hill
• Two cards missing, but IG completed.
• One card handed in but not completed in IG
• Please don’t forget to pre-register in IG for all senior rounds.

Results

Division 1

Division 2

As the summer league enters the final stretch, the first division leader is Steve Barlow, who has a commanding lead of 9 points from Michael John, and in the second division, Steve Bird leads Art Laird by 1 point

Leader Boards

Happy Mondays Report

No report this week as Monday was a gloriously sunny bank holiday.

Tee booking schedule for tomorrow Thursday 28 May

PLEASE NOTE: There will be a Bottle of Wine competition on the 12th of June as there is a match against Northenden on that day. As the team has yet to be finalised at the time of writing you may end up in the team but also appear on the schedule below. If you are selected in the team to play Northenden, and you appear in the schedule below, can you please cancel yourself off the tee booking once it is on IG. If you are in the team and flagged as a tee booker, could you please ensure another member of your group makes the booking on Thursday evening. The tee time of 9.18 a.m. has deliberately been left blank to speed up play in the Interclub match, please do not book yourselves into that tee time. You may see seniors who are in the team against Northenden take that booking just to protect the tee time.

Happy Mondays tee-booking schedule for Sunday 31 May

Non golf related trivia

Three ‘interesting’ pieces of trivia:

1. Leonardo DA Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint the Mona Lisa’s lips
2. Blue is the favourite colour of 80 percent of Americans
3. The average four-year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day

Rules Quiz answer

Correct answer is 2) False. Explanation: See Rule 13.1c. A player may repair damage on the putting green without penalty, however “damage on the putting green” does not include any damage or conditions that result from natural wear of the hole.

Find the Fact answer

Answer 1. is correct. Answer 2 is correct other than that Andy was Secretary of Urmston Meadowside rather than Chairman. Answer 3 is also almost correct, Andy played in four different countries during his year as Captain of Lymm Golf Club.

Rules quiz

In a stroke-play competition, players A, B and C were drawn by the Committee to play together starting at 9.00am. A and B were ready to play at the appointed time. Due to bad traffic, player C arrived at 9.02am after A and B had teed off but just in time to play in the correct order. What is the ruling?

1. There is no penalty.
2. Player C is disqualified.
3. Player C gets two penalty strokes

Answer is at the end of this newsletter

Summer League – Round 6

Reporter: Steve Bird

Question. Is this the first time that your Friday results have been finalised from under the Eiffel Tower?

Probably, I would guess. The reason being that Monsieur Foster continues his ‘vacances’ in northern France and today (Friday) he reached gay Paris. There is no truth that he parked his mobile home under the Arch de Triomphe in the middle of the Place de L”Etoile. So full marks to Paul for giving up his holiday time to help collate the results.

Whilst the weather was very bright and sunny there was a biting wind and scores were consequently a lot lower than last week with only one player, out of 41, playing to net par.

There were 2 twos scored by Duncan Clarke and Barry McGuigan (please see Mervyn our treasurer for your sleeve of balls).  Division One – all three players scored 29 points and places were decided by CPO

Results

Division 1

Division 2

The leader boards will be brought fully up to date on Mr Foster’s return to Blighty.

Happy Mondays Report – 18 May

Reporter: Steve Bird

Once again the weather conspired with.our Inter Club Match to leave a very depleted field.

Only 3 teams of three

Winners – Steve Barlow, Alan Copeland and Colin Crail with an average of 25.6 points

Second – Steve Bird, Tony Dixon and Dave Waggitt 22.3

Third – Colin Chisnall, Alan Thomas and Eric Cox 20.6

Top scorers for the day Messrs Copeland and Crail with 26 each. 

Tee booking schedule for tomorrow Thursday 21 May

Happy Mondays tee-booking schedule for Sunday 24 May

Non golf related trivia

1. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
2. Mosquito repellents don’t repel, they hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
3. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

Rules Quiz answer

Option 3 is the correct answer. Explanation: See Rule 5.3a. As C arrived and was ready to play no more than five minutes late, instead of being disqualified, player C gets two penalty strokes for failure to be ready to play at the appointed start time

Rules Quiz

Tatton League – 2nd Round – Thursday 7 May

Reporter: Mike Pigott

The second round of the Tatton League was played at High Legh Golf Club on a cool breezy morning. The course was in reasonable condition with the greens having undergone their Spring treatment, still a bit slow with the presence of sand. The course played very long off the white tees, on the 18th there were 78 paces from the back tee to the yellow tee making the course very demanding. This showed in some of the scoring.

Lymm were winners on the day with 42 points from Martin Franks and Steve Gosling, 40 points from Ian Whitehead and Russ Jones, 38 points from Mike Pigott and Richard Cooper and 36 points from Andy Timms and Mark Pickles (this was later reduced to 35 points due to a clerical error on the scoring – lesson learnt!). Lymm total of 155 for the day was six better than second placed Heyrose and twenty shots better than the overall leaders Antrobus. This now gives Lymm a 15 point lead overall after two games.

A special mention to Martin Franks and Steve Gosling as they won the best score of the day and to Mark Pickles for nearest the pin on the 9th hole.

Summer League – Round 5 Friday 8 May

Reporter: Steve Bird

Firstly, your usual scribe is currently ‘on the continent’ and when he massaged (Editor’s note: I really hope that’s a typo!) me on Sunday, he was on Sword Beach, Normandy no doubt with his binoculars looking for any remaining Boche and then seeking out local beers – or is it cidre in that locality? Needless to say, I shall not be waxing lyrically in the style of PF – no point trying to compete with greatness.

The WhatsApp Group of your Committee was very hot last Thursday when Keith reminded members they had to vacate the course by 12:45 on the following day. It became apparent that the later starting groups would probably not complete 15 holes and various solutions were discussed – in the end the decision was taken to round up pro rata the scores for any players not completing the full 15.

Some of the published scores you see on the Clubs web page will not correlate in respect of the few individuals whose scores were rounded up i.e. they will be less than the rounded up scores.

There were five ‘twos’ scored, namely Mike Bennett, Duncan Clarke, Martin Franks, Michael John and Russ Jones.

Scores in Division 1 were impressive with two players scoring 33 not making the podium. Only one player broke net par in Division 2.

Results

Division 1

Division 2

The leader boards will be updated on Mr Foster’s return from his jollies.

IMPORTANT REMINDER – Registering your round and entering your scores onto IG

Please remember that you now need to register your round on IG and enter your scores onto IG on completion of your round for all Senior competitions. One senior from division 2 had to be disqualified having finished in third in last Friday’s Summer League round as his card was not entered onto IG after the round. Please see the following extract from an email sent to all members from the Handicap and Competition Sub-Committee on 6 May:

Immediately after playing in a competition, all competitors must enter their cards via the IG app and upload a photograph of their scorecard before depositing their original card in the box outside the Professional’s Shop. Please ensure when uploading a photograph this clearly shows that the card has been signed. If this carries on (cards not being entered), we will have to bring in a one Competition ban, for all those that do not follow the above rule.  If you are having an issue with completing the task, then please speak to the Professional’s shop and they will be happy to help you.

Happy Mondays Report – 11 May

Reporter: Steve Bird

A combination of the rain and our match against Bramhall meant that only 12 hardy souls turned out in four teams of three.

Ironically, by 9 am, we were playing in glorious sunshine on lush green fairways.

The winning team was that of Tony Dixon, Ken Pearce and Richard Yates with an average score of 25

Runners up were Steve Barlow, Steve Rowley and Dave Waggitt with a score of 23.3

Top scorer for the day was Ken Pearce with 28

Can I add a personal thank you to Tony Dixon who found my specs somewhere on the eighth hole. They has been perched on top of my cap and I hadn’t noticed they were missing until the 10th!! 

Interclub match v Bramhall – Monday 11 May

Author: John Armstrong (Captain of the Day)

Lymm beat Bramhall – 5.5 to 2.5

There were wins for:

• J Armstrong & Ian Whitehead.
• B McGuigan & P Ormesher
• A Timms & S Baird
• D Craggs & J Woodward
• G Brickell & B Ellison

Match halved:

• A Laird & M Lyons

2nd Place for

• S Lee & B Simpson
• P Perry & P Willson.

The food was excellent a bacon butty on arrival with tea or coffee, steak and mushroom pie, after the match

Local Rules

I am sure most of you will have read Keith Melia’s Friday update of 8th May. For those that missed it there was a helpful link to the Temporary Local Rules list. Please click on this link if you need to bring yourself up to speed.

Lymm Visitor

Author: Barry Smith

This morning (May the 8th) on the 4th hole, I got a birdie, well a picture of a birdie, an exotic birdie at that!

The Egyptian Goose!

Scientific name: Alopochen aegyptiaca

Apparently Egyptian geese aren’t true geese, they’re members of the shelduck sub-family, Tadorninae. They are naturally found in Africa, in the Nile valley and south of the Sahara. They were introduced to Great Britain to be kept in wildfowl collections, and are usually found in south-central England, East Anglia, and the East Midlands, so this one might be lost. Egyptian Geese are said to be noisy and quarrelsome, with aggressive behaviour which has ruled them out of some collections, therefore they might well be a good fit for Lymm Seniors!

Tee booking schedule for tomorrow Thursday 14 May

Happy Mondays tee-booking schedule for Sunday 17 May

Non golf related trivia

Three interesting pieces of trivia to share with your loved ones over tonight’s evening meal:

1. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head
2. 40 percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals
3. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily

Rules Quiz answer

Correct answer is 1. Explanation: A spider web is a loose impediment even though they are attached to another object and may be removed. (See Definition of Loose Impediments and Rule 15)

Rules Quiz

Find the Fact – Dave Craggs

Only one of the following statements about Dave is correct. The other two are false. How well do you know your Secretary?

1. Dave was one of the founding members of Helsby Golf Club
2. Dave flew a glider sitting in the same seat (but not at the same time) that Anneka Rice had occupied whilst filing Challenge Anneka in 1993
3. Dave ran in the Warrington 10K (6.2 miles) at the age of 71. He completed the course in under 52 minutes and raised over £200 for the River Reeves Foundation which was set up following the tragic accident in Sweden involving members of Viola Beach

Answer below

Fun round – Bottle of Wine Friday 1 May

Reporter: Ian Goodman

No report this week I’m afraid (as no one seems to have collected the cards in Mr Foster’s absence!) but the result taken from IG was as follows:

Happy Mondays

Reporter: Steve Bird

Nothing to report this week as Monday 4 May was a bank holiday.

Tee booking schedule for tomorrow Thursday 7 May

Happy Mondays tee-booking schedule for Sunday 3 May

Rules Quiz answer

Correct answer B. Explanation: See Rule 18.1. Once the player put another ball in play under penalty of stroke and distance, the original ball is no longer in play and must not be played.

Find the Fact answer

Answer 2 (Anneka Rice) is correct. Dave can’t remember if he was a founding member of Helsby Golf Club which came into being in 1901. Dave did complete the Warrington 10k run but he was 73 years of age, not 71, when he did this. Other than his age all the other facts in answer 3 are correct.