Seniors League – Round 9
Reporter: Stephen Bird
You will recall a few weeks ago that your results were finalised from underneath the Eiffel Tower. Well this week your intrepid Handicap Secretary, Paul Foster, has finalised last Friday’s results from a beach in Mallorca !! I caught up with him before his first cerveza of the day although I suspect San Miguel or Estrella Damm would not be high on the list of Paul’s favourite beers.
Friday dawned quite bright but with a chill wind. I started in polo shirt and shorts but by the 3rd had donned my all weather top. Not great for June although the recent rains had the course looking in great condition.
One or two admin matters. We had a card submitted for a club member who is not a member of Seniors!!
He appears on the results table and I leave you to fathom out who is the mystery man.
And on Saturday morning I had to take a stroll down to the Clubhouse to try and find a card for one of our band who had entered his score on IG but had placed his card in the box that’s sits behind our own, where it lay overnight. I shall not name the player but he finished high up the leader board.
Three 2’s recorded – Eric Cox, Tommy Lawless and Richard Smyllie.
Results:
Div 1:
Michael John 33 on CPO
Martin Frank’s 33
Steve Barlow 32
Div 2:
Mike Kendal 34
Les Williams 32 on CPO
Phil Ormesher 32
With one round to go there are quite a few potential winners in both divisions and Paul will update the league tables upon his return to the UK and well before the start of Round 10 in order that you can all see what your target score should be on the last day of competition.
Happy Mondays Report – 8 June
Reporter: Steve Bird
The heavy rain forecast for starting times did not come to fruition as the main belt of rain had already passed us by although we had a sharp shower mid-morning.
Twelve players took part in one team of 4, two of 3 and one of 2.
The leading three teams could not have finished closer with scores of 27.66, 27.5 and 27.25 respectively.
The winners were Steve Bird, Alan Copeland and Eric Cox with runners up Colin Chisnall and Alan Thomas.
Top scorer for the day with 32 points was yours truly which included a 5 pointer on the 6th (gross 4 with two shots received) my first birdie on this hole since becoming a member two and a half years ago.
Tee booking schedule for tomorrow Thursday 11 June
Happy Mondays tee-booking schedule for Sunday 14 June
Away Match at Sale
Reporter: Alan Burton (CoD),
Photographer Colin Hughes
The weather was good on the whole, apart from one downpour halfway through. The course was in good condition, and the company fantastic.
We played out a true draw: 4-4, followed by a very nice chicken dinner and pudding. Shout out to Ian for his efforts playing solo. Just a great all-round day.
Three winning pairs and two halves as follows:
Barry Mc and Stuart B: 1 up
Alan B and Andy Timms: Halved
Paddy and Phil O: Halved
Trevor W and Barrie S: 5 and 4
Richard S and Colin H: 3 and 2
Seniors’ Trip to Llangollen
Reporter: Grahame Brickell
27 cheery seniors plus 1 interloper made the journey to the beautiful Vale of Llangollen for their Seniors open.
The forecast was mixed to wet but we were hopeful on arrival, the clouds were high and the wind was a blowing!
All had a hearty breakfast, except Paddy: Mr-nothing-before-2pm!
Leading us off were the 3rd placed team in the main Llangollen open competition last year pair of Mr Club Treasurer, Steve Gosling, and interloper Jeffery Acton, along with Messrs Yates & Barlow.
The rest of the field went out a 10 min intervals, which I thought would mean a nice smooth flow during the round!
Some rains did arrive, on occasions they were heavy but thankfully not prolonged.
As the the last group out, we decided to need to get our picture taken. Mr Ranscombe had a storming front 9!!
As we eventually arrived back in the clubhouse some 4.5hrs later [note to self.. don’t go out last, next year!] the mood was joyful.. and the sun was a shinning, and some, John A to name but one, were enjoying a big plate of chicken curry.
Our own results were,
Pigott & Smith 40 pts .. 4th place in main comp, 👏👏
Timms & Craggs 37 pts on CPO with Mr T having an eagle on the 394 yds 8th hole with a (so I’m told) 212yd 3wood 2nd.
Timms and Craggs 20 out 17 back surpassed Brick’s and Ransky’s 22 out 15 back, with me complaining that our wait on the 18th tee led to me to nobbing my shot into the cabbage, and and then provisional ball (which would have been ‘nearest the pin’ in main comp) ended up giving us only1 point!
Our comp other winners
Nearest pin on 6 Bob Mycock
Nearest in 2 on 7 Koos Alders
Everyone seemed to enjoy the day, the course, so on a show of hands a prov booking has been made for next year at the discounted price of £30 – £7.50 saving on this years price – 8 tee times, 32 so if u fancy it.. let me know.
A big thanks to Paddy for his late stand-in and personally to Mr Treasurer for collating scores and monies so we were ready to do a dart once my group were in and the formalities completed.
Mike and Barry, you get the privilege of being the only pair to play together next year and lead us off.
Date to be confirmed shortly but expected to be Thursday 3rd June.
Brix
Newsletter editor: Mark Pickles
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