Away match v Aspley Guise & Woburn Sands - 18th April 2019

This return fixture, just 10 days after our home fixture, saw a first as far as I know. 19 members of John O’Gaunt turned up at Aspley Guise in the early morning fixture. Confused, well let me explain.

Two members, Steve Collins and Pete Jarman were there as guests of Aspley players on a pre-arranged visit. The third additional player, Fred Williams, was there because he thought he was a member of the team even though he had not been informed he was a team member.

A quick discussion and he had a round arranged, and was also invited to lunch with us. Lucky really as he had a lift there and couldn’t go home anyway.

As to the match, it was the normal close encounter with most matches being close with not more than a couple of shots in most.

There was one incident however when a crow swooped down on Colin Newbury’s bag and stole his banana, flew off up the fairway and continued to eat it.

As to the result, we lost narrowly by 4 ½ to 3 ½ but Jim claimed a draw as Steve and Pete beat their host.

Whatever we claimed a narrow victory over the two legs.

Dave Gauge

Senior Captain.