Aldwickbury Park Early Birds

Yet again the weather was kind to the golfers today, hot and dry but the course is suffering. Great win for Jason with a commendable 38 points and a good 2nd place for Jock on 36 points. Unfortunately Jock's Summer league playing partners were not playing but it did not matter, more of which later. Reports from the players on the course. From Roger Gibbs "Ok on 5th hole, I’d driven into the rough just short of the bunkers. Mr Hyne, having played golf with me for 9 years, jeopardised his life by walking 40 yards in front of me off to the left. Of course, I didn’t connect properly and the ball arrived towards him bouncing a couple of times on the way. A body swerve and a dive to the right with his bag on his shoulder evaded the potential life threatening golf ball. Like all true pros, he dusted himself off, found the front of the green in 3 facing a 80 foot putt across the green to a white flag, and holed it for a memorable birdie" From Steve Brewerton "As Martins doub...

Weather conditions were good today as we are still experiencing the heatwave. Work on the course is due to start on Monday 18th August, new and refurbished bunkers on several holes which will result in temporary greens hopefully only during the week and not at weekends. It was the penultimate Summer League game today and some good scores should mean we get a few teams into the finals. Good scoring today with a hard fought win by Paul, second place was Tony on 37 points. Two players scored two birdies each, Paul and Martin Deery, Martin attributing his to the “magic” ball he found on thirteenth. The average gross score today was 94.67 and the average Stableford score was 31.25. Best gross of the day was from Jason Landau with 86. There were 0 Eagles or better today. There were 6 birdies today. Paul Gardner with 2 on holes 6 and 9. Martin Deery with 2 on holes 14 and 18. Jock Hunter with 1 on hole 5. Stephen Brewerton with 1 on hole 11. Our winner today with 38 points was Paul Gardn...

The weather today was calm and dry. Some tricky pin positions with the 14th being the worst. The fairways have not improved a whole lot but not too dissimilar to Burhill which a few of us played earlier in the week. I have added two new items to the website menu the first is a list of members we have had over the years since 2004, that's about as far has by emails go back. I have included short cut links here if you wish to see them. Let me know if I have missed anything. https://apearlybirds.blogspot.com/p/memberlist.html   The second is a list of past/future events https://apearlybirds.blogspot.com/p/notable-events.html Some comments after the game today about slow play so please don't take multiple practice swings and be ready to play when it is your turn. I myself (Paul) tried to take out my two playing partners once on the 6th with a wayward chip that narrowly missed Pete Laurance and then on the 7th to miss James after I tried hacking out of the woods. Sorry guys. Jock ha...

Plans for changes to the course have been posted near the changing rooms prompting much discussion on the WhatsApp group. Many changes to the number of bunkers and positions. It will be interesting how much is actually completed. Another pleasant golf day, weather was kind to us but the course less so. The pins were cut very close to the edges of many greens, the 12th especially so with the pin cut back right with many slopes protecting it, it didn't however stop Jason getting a very good birdie there though.   Today's winner was Roger Small, well done Roger scoring a 3 on the 4th hole for a massive 5 points. Steve Reynolds moves away from the bottom of the money list with a front 9 win. The scores were not as good as last week mainly due to the pin positions also the fairways were much slower so the course was playing longer. The average gross score today was 95.92 points and the average Stableford score was 29.42. Best gross of the day was from Pete Laurence with 84. Ther...