Aldwickbury Park Early Birds

The course is undergoing a lot of maintenance work with new bunkers being installed or repositioned, the greens have also been hollow tyned and sanded. I'm sure all this work make the course much better in the future. Last week's Captain's day resulted in a haul of prizes for the Earlybirds and ex Earlybirds. Duncan, 1st team Paul, 2nd team Andy, 4th team Roger G, nearest in 2 on 18th Peter C, 4th team and second best stableford Coenraad nearest the pin On to today's golf, James is our winner today with 33 points and Martin Deery coming in second with 32. Well done to both of you. Some fine front nine scores of 18 points apiece for Dan and Coenraad. Reports of Roger's lost Pink Panther head cover had a good outcome after he found that he had dropped it loading his car in morning. From on course reporter Roger Gibbs "On the 2nd Hole, drive just short of the bunkers. Hit a 5 iron dead straight on the flag and caught a rather large branch on the tree on the left. ...

The weather was very kind to us today, dry with a light wind. The few days of rain we have had have turned the course green. The tee boxes looking very good and fairways to, as long as you don't look to closely. Talked to greenkeeper Kenny and he said they would be spiking the fairways and overseeding so hopefully that will improve things. The next phase of bunker renovations are due to start on Monday 14th September, and are scheduled to last 3 weeks. The holes affected are 1, 5, 6 & 7, in addition to this the old bunker on the 3rd hole which had pooling water over the winter, will have drainage installed to resolve this issue. A very up and down day for some with the winners not being decided until the early evening. This being due to some incorrect scores being entered for both Roger S and Martin D. I myself went from not winning anything, to winning something and then to not winning anything. Some of the confusion came on the ninth for group three where all but Martin went ...

The weather was somewhat different to what we have become use to over the last few months, we had some rain. The forecast was worse than the realty as it was mainly drizzle rather than the heavy rain forecast. The forecast did reduce the number of players but we still had 9 players, one dropping out early however. The golf was difficult as the conditions seem to change as we played, less run on the ball and greens were slower. After a few days of on and off rain the fairways even seemed a little greener. There was a hard fought battle for the win today with Martin Lythgoe starting with a fine 19 points but a few zero pointers on 11 and 12 set him back. Steve Reynolds was doing well until his last three holes only yielded three points. The contest was then between Paul and Roger Gibbs, Roger driving well today, always hitting the fairways. It came down to the last, Paul hit his second just off the back off the green, Roger hit a fine second but it trickled over the hump at the back and ...

AI-Content Roger escapes with the spoils It was billed as a fairly ordinary Saturday Swindle, but ordinary went out of the window somewhere around the first tee. Roger Small emerged as the winner with a fine 37 Stableford points, including 18 on the front nine. Jock Hunter was runner-up on 34, while Coenraad Fourie and Martin Deery both managed 33 and 32 respectively. The official scorecard tells only half the story. Roger’s round featured five pars and eleven double-bogeys-or-worse — a statistical combination that suggests he spent much of the afternoon alternately finding pars and finding himself. Enter Roger the Dodger The accompanying report put it rather better. Roger was apparently producing pars for four points even after some decidedly unpromising tee shots, with balls having to be found along the way. The running joke about The Beano and The Dandy eventually led to the perfect nickname: Roger the Dodger. The grand finale came on the 18th. After losing a ball and visiting two b...

Yet another dry and hot day on the golf course made playing difficult. Very tricky to hold the ball on the fairways especially on the 13th. No problems for Steve Brewerton though who scored a fine 37 points to take the win with Roger Gibbs hot on his heals with 36 points. Roger had a poor front nine with 15 points but came back in 21, what could have been. Some very fine nines with two people scoring 20 points on the front and Roger scoring 21 on the back. Richard won the front nine with 20 points but missed so many putts by an inch or so. Paul won the back nine with a measly 16 points as the other high scorers took first and second places,  Entertainment on the course from the second group that decided that the new hole plan on the 6th was the wrong way around and took it on themselves to up root it and swap it. Unfortunately they were caught unawares by Ed Wilkinson who decided to phone the ProShop to complain, subsequently the group where chastised by the course Marshall.  ...

Another hot day on the course both with the weather and the scoring, well at least for one person! As you can see from this overhead shot of the 4th Green the fairways are scorched but we are not alone all courses in the area are suffering the same fate. The following article from the Times shows more overhead shots from around the area. No let up insight over the next two weeks looking at the weather forecasts. Scorched golf courses across country as heatwave takes toll — in pictures So back to the golf, a depleted field this week with only eight players, the CBL took four of our players this week although Steve Reynolds had to pull out at the last moment due to injury. Hope you get better for the Autumn cup in a few weeks Steve. Well done to the bookers this week especially those that don't normally book but stood up and had a go. As we now have only sixteen player it is quite difficult to ensure we have enough each week so please put your name forward, it's not that difficul...