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Scores for Saturday 16 November 2024

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Today was all about chips, the winner James Miller marveling at how good his playing partners, Paul and Andy could chip. Paul and Andy marveling at how far James can hit the ball, both deciding if they could hit the ball that far they would be the best golfers in the group! Pretty good turnout today, with a few dropouts with shoulder and back injuries, Steve Reynolds pushing through, also with a shoulder injury. The weather to day was excellent, little wind and dry under foot, the greens were faster due the green keepers deciding to iron them before we played.   The average gross score today was 92.79 points and the average Stableford score was 29.86, quite low really considering the conditions. Best gross of the day was from both James Miller and Steve Reynolds with 80. There were 0 Eagles or better today. There were 2 birdies today. Richard Hyne with 1 on hole 5. Steve Reynolds with 1 on hole 8. Our winner today with 34 points was James Miller. In second place on 33 points was l
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Scores for Saturday 09 November 2024

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Congratulations to Andy Simpkin for winning the FoxHunter trophy. I believe that is the fourth time our swindle has won it with James taking the other three. Favourable weather conditions today and playing of the yellow tees resulted in some good scoring. Richard Hyne had an excellent start with 20 points on the front nine, three over par. Unfortunately he suffered 3 double bogies in a row from 13 onwards but still took the best gross score of the day. Congratulations to Peter Creighton with another win this week although he tied on 36 with Paul Gardner and Richard Hyne, Paul taking second on countback. Richard took the Front nine and Roger Gibbs the back nine with a superb 20 points. Steve Reynolds suffered badly on the greens today with nothing dropping for him. Peter Creighton has now moved into first place in the "Player of The Year" table and the "Race to De bar" overtaking Brain Geddes. Five more swindle weekends until the end of the year so there is still som
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Scores for Saturday 26 October 2024

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A very pleasant day to play golf, a little misty to start with followed by a short spell of light rain otherwise very calm. Many bunkers now in play, more of which later. The course looking splendid however the fallen leaves caused a few issues with lost balls. The ropes protecting the greens and the approaches along with fallen leaves do make the game slower. Very close for the win today with Richard taking the honours with 35 points beating Duncan on count back. The first four player were within one shot of the leader. A lost ball no doubt under the leaves for Paul on the 12th resulted in another missed win. The initial leader board was somewhat different until it was pointed out to Group 2 that many of the bunkers where actually in play, they thought they were all still GUR. Penalty strokes were applied resulting in a change to the back 9 winner. A lesson to be learnt I feel. The club website status page shows the course status so it's worth checking, also the Pro Shop was handi
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Scores for Saturday 19 October 2024

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Thanks to Richard for entering five of our swindle into the Fox Hunter Cup scheduled for two weeks time even though the entry had closed. Although it's good to have Richard on the inside so to speak, we should try and enter in a timely manner. Our website with availability normally shows upcoming club events so there is really no excuse. Thanks also to me for organizing the 2025 Autumn Cup, sixteen of us are off to Wokefield Park. Welcome to Dan Smith, his first day with the Swindle, only managed to play nine holes as apparently Watford were playing Luton which was more fun than playing golf with us. Not sure the 3-0 to Luton was fun though. One score down and only two to go before Dan can start competing for prizes. The new bunkers are progressing well, some even with sand in. I presume it will be a while before we get to test them as the grass around them needs time to settle in. They do look fabulous though. Anyway onto the golf. The day started wet and stayed like that for the
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Scores for Saturday 12 October 2024

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It was good to be back on our home course after visiting Donnington Valley last weekend, I will never complain about the slopes on ours again. The greens were in excellent condition today, unfortunately the ropes have been put up to protect the approaches and it is a long walk from your trolly when you end up short of the green. The weather was fairly kind to us today with a few showers towards the end. A small field of only 9 players with no outrageous scores. The course was fairly empty today and we had a leisurely four hour round. An excellent score from Steve Reynolds today to take first place, not the bridesmaid on this occasion. Martin Lythgoe asked for a picture of the colourful bruise he inflicted on me last Monday, he said it was for his wife. I (Paul), thought I was playing well today after a reasonable front nine but 1 point from the first four holes on the back put paid to any hope of winning anything. A special shout out to Andy for his par on the 11 his first of the year,
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Scores for Autumn Cup Day 2 Monday 07 October 2024

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Designed by Freepik After a good breakfast and a night’s sleep, some slept more than others, we arrived back at the golf course. Today the groups were in reverse order with the leaders going out last, except that is for the first group which comprised of three player that needed to get away early, two needed to catch flights and one for a family meal in London. The weather looking good on the forecasts. The leaders from the first day and going out last were Peter Williams, Steve Brewerton, Paul Gardner and Steve Reynolds. Would the winner come from this group or would they collapse under the pressure? The first to break was Steve Reynolds, well not Steve but his seven iron which he managed to wrap around a tree on the 2nd. Not a good start for Steve. On the 5th hole Paul “Blofeld” Gardner hit a shot to the green went to put his club in his bag and was hit in his side by a ball coming from the 6th. This the first of two assassination attempts to stop him gaining Swindle domination, this
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Scores for Autumn Cup Day 1 Sunday 06 October 2024

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The final away weekend of the year for the Aldwickbury Park Earl Birds swindle, fifteen golfers arrived at Donnington Valley golf club, fortunately nobody put Donnington Park into their Satnav and ended up at a race circuit in the east midlands. Some arrived early in the hope that they could get a breakfast at the club only to find there was minimal hot food available with a bacon bap taking 15 minutes to arrive. Not the best and we should have gone to McDonalds or Greggs on the way down like some others. In the club house Peter was given the nearest the pin and longest drive markers in exchange for his bank card which was held until the markers where returned. Apparently they get stolen! The course looked splendid, little did we know what was to come. Paul "Blofeld" Gardner had updated last year's spreadsheets to support score recording, however James highlighted a small issue with the handicaps which necessitated as last minute update before we started. James was the fi
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