Seniors away to Brocket Hall April 29 2024

 

Captain Richard and Organiser Jonathan with their Brocket Hall opponents on the 1st tee

Organiser Jonathan Lean reports

After the Biblical downpour of the previous 24 hours, the JOG team were delighted to be greeted with bright sunshine on the morning of the match against our new rivals, Brocket Hall.  The civilised late start of 1pm tee time also meant a traffic and stress free journey down the A1 to get to the beautiful venue for our match.

We were welcomed with tea, coffee and bacon rolls to sustain us over the forthcoming ordeals.  We played on the Palmerston course which is just a few yards short of 6500 which, together with the lengthy walks from green to tee, meant that it was a fairly lengthy round of golf.

What a beautiful venue and course though.  If you like tree-lined narrow fairways which are sloping and dog-legged then this is the course for you.  Our opponents told us that the Palmerston is the preferred course since the Melbourne has a lot of water including some holes with significant ‘carries’ required and also the ferry on the last hole was not functioning!  (Did this mean that you had to swim across?!).

Our match (Captain Richard and organiser Jonathan) was a ding-dong affair right up to the 10th with never more than one hole in it.  Brocket then managed to win 3 of the next 4 holes to go three up and held off a spirited fight-back eventually winning 3 & 2.

We retired to the bar to lick our wounds but confident that the rest of the team would redress the balance.  Sadly we were wrong as the results slowly came in it became apparent that we came second in every match.

Trying to put a positive spin on it, there was only one match which was not close.  Peter Johnston, the acting Brocket Hall captain for the day informed us that they rarely lose matches at home.  We look forward to trying to redress the balance when we entertain them at JOG on 1st July.

The day was nicely rounded off with an excellent meal of Chicken casserole followed by Crème Brulée and ice cream.

Detailed results are as follows:-

Richard Westergreen-Thorne and Jonathan Lean – Lost 3 & 2

Tony Lloyd and Jack Shepherd – Lost 2 & 1

Algy Grimes and David McNair – Lost 3 & 2

Oz Osman and Gavin Little – Lost 2 down

Tony Goodson and Peter Imray – Lost 6 & 5

Steve Luckman and Neil Pinnington – Lost 2 & 1.

Scenes from the Palmerston course taken by Algy Grimes

The pit where Lord Brocket's collection of Ferraris were rumoured to have been buried