Aldwickbury Park Early Birds

Great weather this weekend heading into the bank holiday, somewhat rare as it normally rains. A great win for Martin Lythgoe with 38 points, closely followed by Richard on 37 points. Thanks for the contributions from a number of guest writers this week From Steve R Sighted, the rare occasion of Tony hitting a wood, it went straight and true, must have been lucky. A very dapper hat. From Richard The weather was lovely which lead to a fight to get a shady seat on the patio. Golf was good in parts with Jock keeping up his recent form. Roger not so much. But Roger did excel with his impressive command of Anglo Saxon. If Jock and I were younger, less worldly wise, men we might well have blushed. Guest writer this week was ChatGPT! The Unfortunate Case of Andy’s Round Subject: A catalogue of avoidable misfortune, suspicious circumstances, and general golfing injustice during Andy’s round. Andy’s latest golfing outing provided compelling evidence that there is, in fact, no shortage of things ...

Weather was fine today with little wind and no rain. The greens were much better than of late with far fewer bumps. Quite a good turnout of 15 players with a few missing due to Summer Knockout commitments and holidays. Some excellent scoring again this week with the winner Jock scoring a mighty 41 points and one of the best gross scores of the day 82 shared with Peter Laurence. Not much to write about this week apart from Steve B having a few tantrums and throwing the odd club. From reporter Duncan on the course "For those that don't know. Andy found a secret par 6 hole at Aldwickbury yesterday. We've all been playing the 8th as a 508 yard par 5 up the hill but there is a secret 585 yard par 6 hole in the same area with invisible trees which you have to navigate around. I've drawn out how Andy played it yesterday to help you all visualise it." From reporter Roger Gibbs on the course "Jock misses out on hole in one on 14th" The average gross score today w...

The weather was kind to us today, no rain, warm and no wind, something we have been plagued with for a while. The greens are much improved but still slow, I'm sure they will be faster for the Coronation Cup next weekend.  A good turn out of 17 players this week making it a worthwhile week to win. The winner this week with a magnificent 42 points was Peter Williams, Peter played a fabulous round and was sinking putts from all over the green. A huge one of 20 feet or so on the 12th gave him a well deserved  birdie. It's the first weekend of the Summer League, I'm sure his team will be very pleased! A commendable 37 points for Steve Brewerton gave him second place. Some good scoring this week with half the field scoring 34 points or more. An injury for Richard who managed to hit his ball into the hedge on the 13th and cut his head whilst retrieving it. Carried on as it was merely a scratch. The average gross score today was 92.41 and the average Stableford score was 32.00. Be...

Beautiful day for golf, dry, warm and no wind. Surely a day for high Stableford scores, unfortunately the green had been hollow tyned and covered in sand, making it really difficult to putt consistently. It didn't seem to hold Dan Smith and Roger Small back with their fine first and second places. As there were only six players, no points are awarded for the Player Of The Year, the prize money is still awarded and winners handicap cuts are half normal. The reason for the low numbers was that a number of swindlers entered the Brian Farr trophy. This is not easy to win as it is the lowest gross score that wins. However well done Steve Reynolds for coming second. Steve shoot 75 gross and lost on count back to James Lawrence who plays of a handicap of +1. This is probably Steve's lowest score ever. It also means Steve has had three second places in a row, two from the JJ Cup weekend and this one. Definitely the bridesmaid! The average gross score today was 92.67 points and the aver...

For Day 2 we once again had good weather, no rain but windy conditions. A late start at 12:56pm meant a lot of sitting around after breakfast, very similar to last year. The golf was played on the Championship course which was looking splendid. Plenty of water to contend with and we played off Swindle handicaps. Again we were 14 players as unfortunately Dan Smith was unable to join us. Prizes were the normal swindle money for 1st, 2nd, front 9 and back 9. Winner today was Paul with 34 points with bridesmaid Steve Reynolds missing out with 32 points after having a nil score on the eighteenth. unlucky Steve. No longest drive or nearest the pins today. High for Paul at least was his first hole where he hit a seven wood 107 yds into gale force winds to come up 1ft away for a knock in birdie. Well done Paul. Final words from Duncan the JJ Cup winner this year "Thank you to Roger for organising and sorting the prizes, Paul for doing the cards and last minute adjustments. John James for ...

This year we started on the Signature course and ran the JJ Cup first so we could present the trophy as on the Saturday people are keen to leave as soon as they have finished, therefore no warm up game. The competition was run, as normal, with WHS handicaps. We had fourteen starters and all finished. Unfortunately no John James this year. John was however kind enough to donate his deposit of £57 to swell the prize fund, thank you John. The weather was mostly kind to us this year although it was very windy and we had a few light shows during the round today.  Some great golf by Duncan today with a splendid 40 points following on from his win last Saturday, obviously the inform golfer. Shot of the day to Steve Reynolds, tee shot on the twelfth goes into ditch on the left near the driving range, he takes a drop then hits his third shot into greenside bunker, then holes his bunker shot for a par. Clapping ringing out from three guys in the car park.    Steve Reynolds forever ...