Scores for Saturday 29 August 2026



The weather was somewhat different to what we have become use to over the last few months, we had some rain. The forecast was worse than the realty as it was mainly drizzle rather than the heavy rain forecast. The forecast did reduce the number of players but we still had 9 players, one dropping out early however.

The golf was difficult as the conditions seem to change as we played, less run on the ball and greens were slower. After a few days of on and off rain the fairways even seemed a little greener.

There was a hard fought battle for the win today with Martin Lythgoe starting with a fine 19 points but a few zero pointers on 11 and 12 set him back. Steve Reynolds was doing well until his last three holes only yielded three points. The contest was then between Paul and Roger Gibbs, Roger driving well today, always hitting the fairways. It came down to the last, Paul hit his second just off the back off the green, Roger hit a fine second but it trickled over the hump at the back and went out of bounds, his next shot landing on the green. Roger scored a six for one point and Paul took a four for three points. This resulted in a tie on 36 points a piece, Paul won on countback, well done Paul, well done Roger for a fine round.

One piece of excitement was on 15th tee, when a very loud shout of fore from the 14th tee caused the players to duck, only for the ball to fly into the buggy Steve Reynolds was hiding in, ricochet around, before the ball exited without hitting anyone.

Question today :- Are the Ranking table and POTY live, do they change immediately after the round is finished. 
Answer :- No it only changes when the scores are copied across to the scores archive when this newsletter is created, at this point the handicaps are updated based on the archived scores.

The average gross score today was 89.13 and the average Stableford score was 31.88.

Best gross of the day was from Steve Reynolds with 83.

There were 0 Eagles or better today.

There were 0 birdies today.

Our winner today with 36 points was Paul Gardner.
In second place on 36 points was Roger Gibbs.
The front 9 went to Martin Lythgoe with 19 points.
The back 9 went to Steve Reynolds with 16 points.

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