Aldwickbury Park Early Birds

Nearest the pin on the 17th by Martin Deery, courtesy of roving report Duncan. The average gross score today was 97.93 and the average Stableford score was 24.87. Best gross of the day was from James Miller with 86. There were 0 Eagles or better today. There were 6 birdies today. Martin Deery with 1 on hole 2. James Miller with 1 on hole 7. Peter Creighton with 1 on hole 18. Brian Geddes with 1 on hole 18. Paul Gardner with 1 on hole 5. Martin Lythgoe with 1 on hole 6. Our winner today with 35 points was Martin Deery. In second place on 32 points was Andrew Simpkin. The front 9 went to Paul Gardner with 17 points. The back 9 went to Brian Geddes with 18 points. Longest drive on 11 was Coenraad Fourie. Nearest the pin on 12 was James Miller.   Nearest the pin on 17 was Martin Deery. The adjusted scores sheet above has handicap cuts from the first day and do not go towards the Autumn Cup combined score, that sheet is shown below. The above sheet initially showed Pet...

Participants, 15 soles from the Saturday swindle and Peter Williams' friend Shaks Kurshid on the end.  The second Swindle Major of the season was at Wokefield Golf Club and place we had visited many times before. This year coinciding with the Ryder Cup in the USA. Who would win? The Ryder cup was going incredibly well for Team Europe and it looked like we would thrash the USA. Europe only needing 3 points to win and 2.5 points to retain. More to follow. Drama before we started with Duncan managing to injure himself trying to cut carrots. I trip to A&E resulted in his cut finger being dressed by our wonderful NHS.  Duncan's finger after an altercation with a knife whilst cutting carrots Duncan decided he would try to play and joined us on the first tee. Unfortunately he could only manage a few shots before calling it a day. He did attempt the longest drive and the nearest the pins though. Well done for trying, It was a slow start as the group ahead of us struggled to get a ...