Well, what can be said about the weather? Damp, wet, soaking....yes all three. Upon arrival at about 7.30am the rain was falling very steadily but I was not too worried from a selfish point of view, I didn't tee off for about three hours!!
The players arrived and a lot were thinking the competition might have been called off. An old message on the club phone system said the course was open but with temporary greens, this was later revealed to be a message from last February. Most questioned their sanity when paying their match fee and buying the raffle tickets but the latter did make about £185.00 towards David's charity.
Most groups seemed to make quite good progress, the first group off the 10th were round to the 1st before my group (being the last) had started play, but they were a bit early. The rain continued to fall.
The Senior's Captain said in his remarks after the game that he had to start from the 10th (again) and managed a fine eight, a score that he would repeat on the 7th. The highest score by one player on any hole was 13 and the lowest was 3, only 2 birdies and 121 Pars were achieved throughout the entire competition, so well done to those that got these scores in such difficult conditions.
The winner of the Rex Cleaver with the lowest nett score of 75 was Steve Clark (off 16) closely followed by Bill Burrows in second place with 76 (off 21) on countback from Graham Berry in third place also on 76 (off 20).
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| Nett Winner Steve Clark |
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| Second Bill Burrows |
The winner of the Bessant East with the best Gross score of 85 (off 8) was Malcolm Falconer, that was not the only thing he won, Malcolm also won the Nearest the Pin on the 16th.
Everyone was pleased to arrive back in the clubhouse so that they could dry off and enjoy suitable rehydration of some sort.
Algy Grimes
Organiser
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