Aldwickbury Park Early Birds

  Well this reporter doesn't have much to say about the golf this week having struggled to wake up before 10am this morning after getting back home from a party at 3am! Glad I bailed on the 07:40 tee time in the end as I don't think it would have been good for my stats. Not having experienced today's conditions I can only suppose that they looked like good conditions and the scores generally reflected this.  A few birdies today: Pete Laurence (9) Steve Brewerton (9) Coenraad Fourie (15) and Paul Gardner (17) Well done gents. Our winner today with 39 points is Steve Reynolds. Steve seems to be getting the hang of winning these days and with a round of 78 definitely deserved it. Well done Steve. In second place, snapping at Steve's heals with a solid 38 points is Andy Simpkin. Is Andy going for the bridesmaid spot this year, 2 second places from 2 matches so far! Well done Andy. Front 9 went to Roger Small who managed 21 points on the front 9 but could only post another 1

  HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!! Yes it was a very wet start to the 2022 campaign and it made for a VERY tough round for us mere mortals. It rained pretty much all the way round and by the back 9 there was plenty of standing water on the greens. WHY then did so many people finish!!?? Martin Deery, Tony Froud and John James had the good sense to call it a day after 9 holes. Tony's motives come into question when you look at his front 9 score, more on that soon! One quite remarkable incident today and sadly I can only give an impression of what happened despite being there as I cannot recall where exactly on the course this happened. Richard eagerly approached the tee box and went through his normal warm up routine then promptly released the club on a practice swing and launched it over to the left of the fairway. Thankfully no-one was hurt in this unusual display of aggression but I'm convinced it impacted my concentration for the rest of the round. Judging by my scorecard, it happened re