Scores for Saturday 13 July 2024

 

Jason shared a picture of his garage this week following a slightly drunken commitment to decorate it IF England reached the final. Well done England for making Jason go to the trouble!!

Following last weekend's washout conditions for the club champs (now rearranged for end of August) the conditions were near perfect this week and the scoring reflected that. Average stableford score was up at a healthy 32.57 and gross score average was at 93.4. In fact all but two early birds managed to break 30, a rare event given a field of 14 players. 

A story from the course this week from one Roger (Gibbs) about another Roger (Small).... 

Story of Roger on 6. Standing on the tee, standard warmup and THWACK. Massive divot behind the ball. Ball still on tee. Takes another swing, the ball rolls at 100mph, hits the yellow tee marker, knocking it 10 feet down the tee. Ball rebounds to our left in the trees, about a yard in front of us.

Thanks Roger's for the contribution, I wish I was there to witness that one. I wonder if there is a prize for hitting the tee box market further than the ball?

It was a lottery if you went into a bunker today with GUR ratings for most bunkers but not all! The rationale for a bunker being taken out of play is a little unclear as some in play bunkers had more stones than sand which is what I thought the problem was, it will all get sorted I'm sure.


This picture, courtesy of James, shows the group behind us nicely lined up on the 12th fairway ready to take their approach shots, the hole thing looked very contrived.

Back to the golf...

There were only 4 birdies despite the benign conditions. Steve Reynolds (8, 12) James Miller (8) and Richard Hyne (5) well done gents.

Our winner today played some very solid golf. Peter Williams managed 37 points despite two blobs and took first place on countback from myself. Well done Peter, some excellent golf today!

In second place yours truly also managed 37 points with two blobs but where Peters were on the front 9 I managed one on the front and one on the back. Well done me.

Andy Simpkin took the front 9 with 19 points on countback from Peter Creighton. Well done Andy!

The back 9 went to Pete Laurence who was surprised by the score of 21 as he only got 19 in the summer league. Which handicap is a truer reflection of form? Well done Peter. 

Worth a mention that Roger Gibbs and Steve Reynolds managed 36 and 35 points respectively but didn't win anything despite 20 points each on the back 9, unlucky both.

Have a great week gents and hopefully most of us will be celebrating victory in the Euros tomorrow to kick of the week ahead. Come on England!!

Aldwickbury shield next week, good luck all those taking part




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