Aldwickbury Park Early Birds

Second game of the year and a good turn out of 14 players. A blustery day today and wet under foot but no rain and the Sun came out, the Sun making it difficult to spot the flight of some shots particularly on the second and fourth holes. Scores were quite mediocre today with the winners in the low 30s and the best gross being James with 84. Roger Gibbs played a solid round with six pinkies in a row on the front nine and was looking set for at least a second place, however Lucky TonyE was having none of it and produced a great back nine to take second. Roger getting a consolation front nine for his efforts. Our winner this week was Jock Hunter who had a very solid round, Jock couldn't stay afterwards as he was hosting an early Burns night that evening and therefore missed out on all the congratulations. A few rules queries today. 1) What is the rule if you knock the ball of the tee at the start of your backswing? 2) What can you do about a plugged ball? 3) Are you required to mark ...

Weather was kind to us today with only a few spots of rain about half way around, course being quite soggy in places . On the course they have now opened all the new bunkers and cut down all the trees and bushes around the lake adjacent to the 10th green. It looks much better from the 18th tee and now you should be able to see if a sliced tee shot goes into the water or not. This is the first swindle game of the year with the first two being cancelled due to the course being closed with frozen greens. I am sure everybody is pleased to be back playing golf after the long lay off.  Excellent round by Steve Reynolds to take first place with twelve pars a gross of 79 and Stableford of 36 points, a great start to the year for Steve after a poor 2025. Dan also had a poor year in 2025 and a back 9 win today will hopefully mean a better year this year. In fact Dan also won the back 9 on his first game last year. Second place goes to Andy with a score of 34 points, Dan, Paul and Jason all b...

Today was the last swindle game of the year so it brings a close to the competitions we run during the year. Player of the year Race to de Bar Gross Eclectic Stableford Eclectic Many people today said it was cold but not for Steve Reynolds, he was on fire with a very impressive 77 gross and 39 points beating second place Richard by 10 points. Probably some of the lowest Stableford scores of the year. Another year of golf comes to an end and it's time to announce the winners of both the Player of The Year and the Race to De Bar. Player of the year     The winner of Player of The Year is Richard Hyne well done Richard winning by four points from Jason and Jock. Race to de Bar The winner of Race to De Bar is Richard Hyne well done Richard winning £60 net. That is Richard's first win of either competition a rise from 10th and 15th places from last year. Gross Eclectic Won by James Miller with 59, four shots ahead of the next players and nobody scored an eagle this year. Stableford...

First Swindle game since the end of November due to competitions and our Christmas Golf and Meal.  This was the penultimate game of the year and it did not get off to a great start with fog at the course causing a half hour delay. The early starters did not get off before 8am and resulted in Paul having to leave after the 14th or risk damage to important parts of his body, family do taking precedence. He played the 18th on the walk in and pared it, nobody there to see it, such a shame. On a positive note he didn't finish last although apparently Martin was feeling unwell but carried on to finish his round. Excellent win by Roger G today, that's two in a row and two points clear of second place. Not the highest of scores today with only four making 30 points or more. Conditions were difficult what with the early fog and the wet ground. A few stories from the course today Richard "Roger not only played very well today. He was well behaved we had to wait until 18th. Before he...

Today was the Earlybirds Christmas golf and meal. We had a good turnout with 14 players, 11 of which enjoyed an excellent three course meal, mince pies and a coffee to finish. The weather started foggy, this delayed our start and made spotting our golf balls difficult until the seventh hole. On the positive side we had no rain or wind. It turned into a very pleasant day for all. Judging by the scores many struggled out there. Excellent gross of 84 for Steve Reynolds looking like he may win but struggled on the last three holes and let Roger Gibbs in for the win. Both score 33 points but Roger wins on count back. This is Roger's first Earlybirds Major. Roger was ecstatic about that but not looking forward to organising next year, that all changed when Hollie turned up and he managed to book next year's in about 2 minutes! Next year is booked for 12th December, more details to follow..... Not much news from the golf course, I had the longest drive until the last group when allege...

The weather was not kind to us today and we had a number of dropouts. It rained for most of our round, which no doubt affected our scores. Today we were joined by Brian, it was good to see Brian and Emma again, we hope Brian enjoyed his golf and the changes to the course. Excellent round by James today with a gross 79, 34 points and four birdies. Richard has now moved to the top of the Player Of The Year table on 26 points but it's still all to play for with two weekends to play with eleven players able to win, although some of those will need two wins. Richard also leads the money list. On the course we now have a robot cutting the fairway on the 8th. Appeared to be doing a good job. Being much lighter than a tractor, it should damage the fairway less. Cutting nice straight lines In action Reports from the course James "Peter was very happy when he out drove me on the 4th. He even took a picture of it which he might be able to send you. But to be fair to him he did say in was...