TSB Trophy - Seniors v Juniors - 24th October 2017

For the past 2 years this competition has been won by the Seniors. This year the match was played over 17 holes on the John O’Gaunt Course in dry benign conditions. The junior pairings sparkled and had a resounding success winning 6 matches to two and the two matches that were lost were very close fought with Junior Captain Daniel Haugh (with Rachel George) giving shots to Seniors Captain Fred and Algy Grimes to lose 2 and 1. The other loss being to the artful Pat Gilgallon playing with Michael Newstead who just got past the post 1 up against Bradley Williams and Ethan Akpan.

Although many games were tight there were some heavy defeats with vice captain Jim Kerr and David Lincoln losing 4 and 2 to Junior's vice captain Joe Clark and Alex Zavodov. Even the redoubtable Phil White lost 2 down to Harry Warmouth and Callum Bareham with a chip in birdie helping Callum home. Perhaps the biggest surprise was the loss by the Section's most consistent player this year  Peter Imray (with Tony Goodson) 5 and 4 to the diminutive James Stocks and Caitlin Thomas which very much had the look of David v Goliath on the first tee. Dave Gauge (back from a few weeks holiday in India) playing with the steadfast Bill Walker were overwhelmed 5 and 3 by Ixie Akpan and Tom Sennett. The final two junior pairings also winning to secure the Trophy. The Seniors didn’t play too bad, just hats off to the brilliant performances of the youngsters.

Daniel Haugh receives the TSB Trophy

It was good to welcome back to the club Steve Akrill who was applauded and thanked for his many years of support, help and leadership to the Junior Section.

The Organisers Sue Lee (Juniors) and David Crosby (Seniors ) were thanked for their efforts.



Skills

Caitlin Thomas

Steve Clark

 

Nearest the pin on the 16^th Juniors - although Harry Warmouth and Alex Zavodov names were on the marker, Caitlin Thomas was able to beat them to the pro shop voucher.

Nearest the pin on the 16^th Seniors - won by Steve Clark just being inside the shots of Algy Grimes and Phil White.

 

 

 

  

Daniel Haugh

Tony Goodson

Longest Drive 5^th Juniors - Junior Captain Daniel Haugh

 

Longest Drive 5^th Seniors - Tony Goodson

The Victorious Juniors then gathered for a team photograph, the smiling faces says it all!!



The 2017 Juniors

Fred Williams - Seniors Captain

Autumn Singles Stableford Competition - 17th October 2017

A  good field of 81 competed for the Stableford Trophy on the Carthegena Course. We had missed the side effects of Hurricane Orphelia by one day but the course had significant leaf fall which made finding balls a bit tough but losing them easy and this spoiled a number of cards. Well it is an Autumn competition which is “fall” in the USA!

John Ellary was thanked for his efficient organising of the event and charity raffle collection which raised £188.00 and was pleased to receive a sleeve of balls to make up for some lost to the course.

Although not in contention for one of the prizes Colin Beales was cut 0.4 on his round of 94 gross and nett 74.

Michael Newstead narrowly missed out in 4^th place on countback with 37 points and cut 0.3. He opined that he should have easily got 40 points but we can’t cut him on a wish.

In third place was the usual suspect Robert Anderson with yet another good competition round with 37 points and cut 0.3.

Third Place - Robert Anderson

In second spot was another senior golfer often in contention, namely  George Turner also with 37 points but 21 on the back nine against Robs 18 on countback  and also cut 0.3.

Second Place - George Turner

However the winner of the Trophy with 40 points and a cut of 1.2 and now playing off 13.6 was the redoubtable Harry Wakefield who graciously thanked his playing partners in his acceptance address for their contribution to his very good round by finding his ball whenever  he thought it was lost to the foliage.

Winner - Harry Wakefield

Anders Lindquist was singled out for mention at the presentation for his generosity to the Senior Captains charity for buying 8 raffle tickets where the norm is 3.

Also mentioned in dispatches was Mrs Ann Gill who provided Alban Macdonald with an unusual rose as a family gift and insisted on making a £10 donation to our charity.

John Ellary - Competition Organiser

2 Clubs and a Putter Stableford - 10th October 2017

Only 47 players competed for this “fun” competition on a cool and overcast morning on the Carthagena course. Organiser Chris Roy quipped it’s like Marmite, you either enjoy the novelty and fun of trying to play the course without access to all the clubs in the bag or you hate the idea. The trick is to pick the best two clubs to suit your style. It’s not much fun trying to get out of a bunker with a long iron or to chip over a bunker with a wood!

 

Anyway the players stayed dry and generally enjoyed the challenge and some clearly adapted the clubs very well to record decent scores. Others struggled! The raffle raised about £200.00 which is being donated to the Breast Cancer charity.

 

In 3^rd place was Michael Tomblin (a previous winner of the comp) playing off 17 with 35 points.

 

Third Place Michael Tomblin

In 2^nd place was John Sandland playing off 19 with 36 points.

 

Second Place - John Sandland

The winner of The Trophy was Mike Marshall also playing off 19 with an excellent 37 points.

Winner - Mike Marshall

The Gordon Percival Team Trophy - 3rd October 2017

Gentlemen!

Or should that be: Gentle Man? That man Gentle, a member of a string of Gs ....... (with Goodson and Gilgallon) just managed to miss first place by 3 points but at least Mr Gilgallon was joint top scorer on the day (alongside Clive Morley) with 37 points. Clearly Pat has fewer distractions these days and is able to focus more on his driving .......... ;-)

Messrs Degaute (28), Curtis (31) and Westergreen-Thorne (35) managed 94 points but so did Messrs Wakefield (35), Standen (35) and newby Richard Brown (24) so, as dictated by the Rules (not my fault!!), Harry W's 35 beat Gerry D's 28 on countback for Harry's team to take third place (When Harry met Gerry???)

But in the end Messrs Cobb, Donnelly and Evans got their surname initials in a row to deliver the top team score of 100 points and take the Gordon Percival Trophy for 2017. Congratulations to them. 

The weather was kind to us today with a breeze strong enough to make you think on club selection.

71 stout hearts took part in the comp and most of them stayed to the end for prize giving.
John McPherson did a sterling job in organising the comp and raffle. The raffle took a creditable £201 for Fred's charity so thank you all for contributing.
Last years winners of this trophy were John Wade Peter Hollingsworth and Captain Fred.
In Fred's absence, Jim Kerr managed to rehearse his Captain's role ready for next year - I promise he'll have the correct trophies to give out then!!! We persuaded Jim to use the microphone eventually, primarily because of the inbuilt instantaneous translation facility ....! 

As the fisherman said: May your cod go with you ...

David Crosby - Hon Sec (added to by Vice Captain Jim Kerr)

3rd Place - Sam Standen, Harry Wakefield
plus Richard Brown

2nd Place - Tony Goodson, Pat Gilgallon
and Gerry Gemtle

Winners - Richard Cobb, Kevin Donnelly and David Evans

 

2017 Seniors' Gordon Percival

        Team Trophy Results

 

Team no first - Name - H/Cap - Score - Total at end of line

1 David Evans 15 31 Kevin Donnelly 17 36 Richard Cobb 21 33 100 1st

24 Gerry Gentle 13 29 Pat Gilgallon 18 37 Tony Goodson 21 31 97 2nd

6 Harry Wakefield 15 35 Sam Standen 17 35 Richard Brown 23 24 94 3rd (CB)

11 Gerry Degaute 15 28 Alan Curtis 16 31 Richard Westergreen-Thorne 19 35 94 4th (CB)

21 Peter Jarman 15 33 Derek Weller 18 29 Peter Grimes 19 30 92

17 Chris Roy 13 33 Jonathan Lean 17 31 Paul Stallard 22 27 91

16 Philip White 6 28 George Turner 16 32 Graham McKay 21 31 91

22 Neil Pinnington 15 25 Alan Anderson 18 35 William Burrows 21 31 91

18 Clive Morley 10 37 Robin Smith 16 23 Ned Yorke 28 30 90

5 Vernon Toms 12 36 Clive Thompson 17 21 Richard Banham 24 33 90

15 Derek Page 11 33 Michael A Tomblin 17 25 Jim Kerr 20 32 90

9 Alan Fowler 14 28 Paul R Jeeves 18 29 Colin Fox 21 32 89

13 Stephen Foster 11 25 Brian Williams 16 34 Bill Conway 22 30 89

4 Lawrence Wilson 11 29 Geoff Emery 19 23 Mike Marshall 19 36 88

20 Robert Anderson 14 28 Brian Gill 19 31 Graham Lewis 21 27 86

14 Colin Newbury 14 35 Peter Evans 17 29 John Thoday 27 20 84

7 Richard Munns 12 22 John McPherson 19 30 Graham Berry 24 32 84

10 John Wade 13 28 Keith Davidson 16 25 James Peacock 22 30 83

8 Robin Carter 15 25 Keith Fuller 16 30 John Sandland 19 28 83

2 Robert Bage 9 35 Terry McSweeney 17 0 John Ellary 21 19 81

3 Malcolm Falconer 9 33 Fergus Moynihan 16 22 David Sutton 26 25 80

19 Stephen Cooper 12 24 William Skelding 17 29 Malcolm Lee 27 26 79

12 Peter Imray 10 29 Steven Clark 16 32 Anthony McLean 24 17 78
 

23 Geoffrey Elcome 13 28 Bernard Gurney 18 21 Kevin Barbour 21 26 75

The Bailiff Shield - 26th September 2017

A mainly overcast but fairly warm morning greeted the 77 senior competitors aiming to win the Bailiff Shield held by Hon Sec David Crosby for the last two years.

The greens presented difficulties and the Carthagena rough was testing.

Organiser Bernard Gurney just missed out on the prizes in 4^th place with a creditable 38 points.

It was nip and tuck at the top of the leader board as the final few players impacted on the best scores.



Third place - Jonathan Lean

Second place - Peter Imray 

Winner - George Turner

Having been clubhouse leader for some time Jonathon Lean came third on countback with 39 points off handicap 18 and cut .9.

In second place on count back with 13 points over the last 6 holes was habitual winner (this year) Peter Imray playing off handicap 10 and cut .6.

In first place (and another previous winner of this competition) was George Turner with 40 points playing off handicap 19 and cut 1.2

Fred Williams Seniors Captain