Seniors at home to Wellingborough April 18, 2023

Organiser Neil Pinnington reports

It would have been a beautiful spring day were it not for the biting nor'easterly gusting across the Carthagena Course. These conditions seemed to suit our Captain and me. We rained down par after par on their Seniors Captain and his partner Andrew.  

Even more unfortunately for them,  Andrew was suffering from a bad back that severely hampered his golf swing. He said it normally wore off after 4 or 5 holes. However this did not happen. On the seventh green he retired hurt (after our Captain had chipped in from off the back of the green for yet another par to put us seven up).

 Their Captain did battle on alone for the next three holes, until the game came to its inevitable conclusion on the tenth green.

The following five games kept the match incredibly tight. Each result alternated such that the JOG lead was lost, regained and then lost again. Three of the games went all the way to the eighteenth green before being decided. 

Congratulations to Rob Ebsworth & Tony Goodson. Commiserations to Algy & Fred and to Chris Roy & Ken Brewer. Congratulations to Ian Maddison & Rafe Bateson who had a comfortable 3&2 win.

 Special commiserations must go to Nigel Underwood & Oz Osman. Last year, I had been the subject of Bob Anderson's wrath for sending him out for a second time against a certain 30 handicap player from Wellingborough when Bob had to give him 19 shots. That same fate befell Nigel and Oz this year. Again that Wellingborough player not only played consistently throughout but this time was receiving 22 shots. Despite their best efforts Nigel and Oz lost 2&1, which was an honourable result under the circumstances.

So, after 6 games the match was tied 3-3. Luckily, I had backloaded the team with the golfing talents of Andy Shilton, Gerry Degaute, Richard Westergreen-Thorne and Nick Schumann. This meant we rounded out the match with two magnificent 4&2 wins.

The overall result was a 5-3 win for John O'Gaunt. No doubt Wellingborough are already plotting their revenge for the return match in August.