Aldwickbury Park Early Birds

Second game of the year and a good turn out of 14 players. A blustery day today and wet under foot but no rain and the Sun came out, the Sun making it difficult to spot the flight of some shots particularly on the second and fourth holes. Scores were quite mediocre today with the winners in the low 30s and the best gross being James with 84. Roger Gibbs played a solid round with six pinkies in a row on the front nine and was looking set for at least a second place, however Lucky TonyE was having none of it and produced a great back nine to take second. Roger getting a consolation front nine for his efforts. Our winner this week was Jock Hunter who had a very solid round, Jock couldn't stay afterwards as he was hosting an early Burns night that evening and therefore missed out on all the congratulations. A few rules queries today. 1) What is the rule if you knock the ball of the tee at the start of your backswing? 2) What can you do about a plugged ball? 3) Are you required to mark ...

Weather was kind to us today with only a few spots of rain about half way around, course being quite soggy in places . On the course they have now opened all the new bunkers and cut down all the trees and bushes around the lake adjacent to the 10th green. It looks much better from the 18th tee and now you should be able to see if a sliced tee shot goes into the water or not. This is the first swindle game of the year with the first two being cancelled due to the course being closed with frozen greens. I am sure everybody is pleased to be back playing golf after the long lay off.  Excellent round by Steve Reynolds to take first place with twelve pars a gross of 79 and Stableford of 36 points, a great start to the year for Steve after a poor 2025. Dan also had a poor year in 2025 and a back 9 win today will hopefully mean a better year this year. In fact Dan also won the back 9 on his first game last year. Second place goes to Andy with a score of 34 points, Dan, Paul and Jason all b...