Seniors Christmas Farye & Baz Backhouse Black Enamelled B’Stard Trophy 19th Dec 2017

Despite dire weather warnings about blankets of fog and frost we managed to find a fine weather window for our Farye and the only concession to the elements was an early decision to make all bunkers GUR to avoid accidents in frozen craters and to allow poor sand players a respite from the dreaded concrete surfaces.

Hon Sec David managed to squeeze everyone in to the competition and so 86 woolly hatted mitten wearing seniors braved the Carthegena to play for their turkey dinners.

Nigel had taken us off temporary greens and we were able to play to the frost holes without fear of bunker trouble.

 

The Prizes

Peter Wade won the Baz Backhouse Black Enamelled B’Stard Trophy and first pick of the goodies from the prize table with 40 points playing off 13.

Winner - Peter Wade

In second place,and recently out of hospital from food poison (dodgy fish!) was Brian Williams with 39 points playing off 16. (We suspect he chose meat!!!)

Second - Brian Williams

In third place, on countback, was Neil Pinnington off 15.

 

Third place - Neil Pinnington

Graham McKay was thanked for being organiser and special thanks was given to Hon Treasurer Les Bolland for buying all the fayre presents, taking the trouble to seek discounts and bargain offers ,and sorting nearly all the background work to make the competition a success.

Les also reprised his recent Santa role (without the red togs) by visiting all our friends and staff at/or about the clubhouse/greens to deliver Christmas wine as a thank you from the Section as well as to give a Christmas gratuity to the bar/kitchen staff.

 

Some of our bar staff - Izzy and Hayley

The raffle raised a tidy sum of £172 which will go into the pot for the charity of the 2018 Seniors Captain Jim Kerr who will announce his charity at the AGM.

We didn’t get any reports of anyone playing from a bunker but a few silly old elves put their score in the computer as his stableford points and not gross score!

Mention was made that Paul Marshall eagled the 10^th hole by sinking his 8 iron approach to the green which clearly helped him to come joint 4^th with Steve Cooper, Colin Newbury, John Sandland and Chris Roy.

As it was Seniors Captain Fred's last competition he took the opportunity to thank everyone for supporting him and the section during the year and to wish all a happy healthy Christmas and Happy New Year.

Graham McKay Organiser