Aldwickbury Park Early Birds

Weather was kind to us today with no rain and little wind, it looks like we are heading for some dry and warmer weather in the coming days. This is the last Swindle game for a few weeks as we have the Yellow ball, 3 clubs and a putter and the rescheduled Captains drive in competitions over consecutive weeks. The course is still quite muddy and this is reflected in the scores today. A winning score of 32 points from Coenraad winning on countback from Martin Lythgoe. A good recovery from Martin after a poor Saturday last weekend. News from the course Paul had a close shot into the second with his third shot landing an inch from the hole. He managed to sink the difficult putt for a par. The average gross score today was 91.33 and the average Stableford score was 28.53. Best gross of the day was from Steve Reynolds with 84. There were 0 Eagles or better today. There were 7 birdies today. Duncan Miller with 2 on holes 12 and 15. Coenraad Fourie with 1 on hole 9. Martin Lythgoe with 1 o...

A cold start to the day with frost on the greens for the early starters, the sun came out later making it a great day for some great golf. The great golf came from Steve Reynolds today with a fabulous 37 points to win by 8 shots. This must be one of the largest winning margins we have ever had, well done Steve. A great start to the year moving Steve to the top of both the money and points lists. A fine second for Jason on 29 points tied with two others, Martin Deery and Coenraad, Jason taking it on count back. Many a missed putt by both Jason and Martin. Dan Smith taking the front nine despite injuring his back on the fourth hole,  he sounded like Monica Seles on almost every shot with various grunts and groans. Most of us struggled in the rough with mud on golf balls and on fairways riddled with worm casts, it looked in places like the worms were taking over the golf course.  One more swindle game next week followed by four weekends of club competitions. The average gross sco...