Scores for Saturday 23 March 2024

What a day to switch to the white tees!! It was a beautiful morning with blue sky and some cloud but a cold feel in the air due to a rather brisk north-westerly wind. I was out with the early 3 ball and it seems we may've had the best of the weather given that the rain was starting to fall as we loaded our clubs into our cars. 

The club management have decided that it's time for the white tees to go out so as is tradition with the Early Birds we switched from the yellows. This combined with the strong wind and rain later in the round resulted in some pretty poor scoring.

Pete Creighton went off injured during the front 9 so his card is void leaving us with 13 players for our official round this week. The scores were, I believe, the worst we've recorded with an gross average of 100.7 and average stableford of 24.54!! 

Only one birdie out there this week for Steve Brewerton on 18. Steve hit driver off the tee into a strong wind and probably a 7 iron from about 100 yards to just make it onto the green and putted out a well deserved birdie opportunity. Nice one Steve.

Our winner this week, Tony Froud, managed 30 points. This may be the lowest winning score we've had and it should be also noted that Tony was the only person who managed 30+! Well done Tony, a great performance in those conditions.

In second place is Brian Geddes with 29 points on countback from Paul Gardner. Paul is often the benchmark for the group so I'll take it as a solid performance. Well done me.

The front 9 went to Paul Gardner with 16 points. Nice to see you're shaking off the holiday cobwebs Paul! Well done.

The back 9 went to Richard Hyne with 15 points. Well done Richard!

Hopefully the weather will continue to improve as we prepare to move the clocks forward next week and prepare to take on our new stroke indexes next month.

Have a great week all!