Aldwickbury Park Early Birds

  Well this picture doesn't get used much these days but it's perhaps appropriate given we've had over a week of sunshine albeit with some windy days to keep the temperature down. I was happy to be out in the earlier group this given the hot weather that was forecast having already suffered super hot temperatures on Monday this week.  Scoring was made a little difficult this weekend by the brutal rough which is not giving up balls easily. We had a bit of hunting to do on our round and we saw one of the later groups hunting on the first hole, perhaps the shape of things to come. The average scores today were not the best but certainly not the worst. Average stableford score was 29 points and average gross score was 96.4. There were only 3 birdies out there this week: Pete Laurence (15) Andy Simpkin (8) and Duncan Miller (4) Well done gents - Notable that nearly 50% of Duncan's front 9 score was due to his birdie! The winner today was yours truly with 36 points. I think t...

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