Seniors' Annual Medal Trophy - 1st May 2018

The Annual Medal passed unremarkably yesterday - no it didn't. The sun shone! The JOG course was stunning, a real credit to Nigel and his team having battled the Spring thrown at us this year. To produce such a course under such circumstances was indeed remarkable.

 However the golf was a little less remarkable. The Standard Scratch Score for the JOG course off the white tees is 72. The competition SS yesterday was 75 and there were so few in the buffer zone that handicap changes were 'reductions only'. In other words, no-one got 0.1 back. Even our lowest handicap golfer on the day, Malcolm Falconer, playing off 7, could only manage a gross 84. As a result of incorrect set-up by that useless Hon Sec the competition shows Malcolm with the winning Gross score, for which he received NOTHING but my respect! The Gross Score trophy is presented with the Seniors Championship Trophy in June. Oh dear! But well done Malcolm anyway. If it was tough for you, imagine how the rest of us felt!

 

A few players, including Malcolm Falconer, came in with a net 77 but, in the main event, third was Derek Weller with a net 76, second was Clive Morley with a net 75 and this year's winner of the John Freedman Annual Medal Trophy was Kevin Donnelly with a gross 90 and net 73. Kevin was the only player with a handicap change, a reduction of 0.6 from 16.5 (17) to 15.9 (16). Congratulations Kevin.

 

We have instigated a Nearest the Pin in competitions this year and the winner yesterday was Bill Conway.

Third Place - Derek Weller

 

Captain Jim with the other prizes on the bar as most recipients had gone home!!!

 

The parallel competition yesterday was the Jubilee Cup, presented to the Division 4 (handicaps 21-28) golfer with the highest Stableford score. The Hon Sec redeemed his earlier error by spotting that the net score of one Division 4 player might indicate a good Stableford score but no points had been shown on the scorecard, despite the clear instructions on the scorecard and on the notice on the registration desk. Being good hearted, the Hon Sec asked the player's scorer to add the points and, lo and behold, the Jubilee Cup went to Malcolm Lee with 30 points. It's a good job no such omissions like that happen in the Aesopian's GS is it Malcolm (who, by the way, is the Aesopian's Hon Sec .....)? :-)

 

Jubilee Cup Winner - Malcolm Lee

 David Crosby - Hon Sec.