Seniors away to Cambridge Country Club July 25 2025

 

Seniors Captain Tony Lloyd and organiser Phil Armstrong with their CCC opponents

Organiser Phil Armstrong reports

 Cambridge Country Club (previously Bourn GC) has undergone some significant changes in recent years.  As the team gathered in the marbled halls of the clubhouse there was a sense of anticipation of a good day’s golf in fine weather.

Captains Tony Lloyd and Keith Barton got things started by announcing the pairs.  The presence of two ex-CCC members in our team raised some good-natured boos.

Whatever changes there have been at CCC it remains a challenging course with a good supply of ponds and deep gullies. It would be fair to say that Captain Tony and I did not bring our “A” game to the first half dozen holes.  You’d need to go down the alphabet to “W” to find a suitable description of our game and that stands for “Wet”.  We managed to find more than our fair share of ponds and streams and were 5 down after 6 holes.

By the 6^th hole I’d found the answer to carrying the river, i.e. duff your tee shot and run it across the bridge.  Things looked up after the 6^th and Tony began to drive and putt with some authority so that we were only 2 down after 14.

Tony was unfortunate on 15^th to find a lie that would require a shovel not a wedge to escape from.  We finally had to admit defeat on the 16^th.

Back at the clubhouse the picture did not look good as the teams came in.  The blog for the home match mentioned the “Bourn scroll”. Even their Captain didn’t know about it but it turned out to be a silver trophy containing a record of the scores for each year’s matches since 2011.  This record made sorry reading for John O’Gaunt with only one win in that time.  We certainly weren’t going to add to that but were relieved not suffer the 8-0 defeat of 2011.

In the end it was only(?) a 7-1 loss, with Jed Isbell and Paul Dobson providing our only win.

Martyn Graham took home the Nearest the Pin prize for John O’Gaunt.

The day finished with a traditional meal of Roast Pork and Bakewell Tart and thanks to all involved.

 

Team scores:

Tony Lloyd and Phil Armstrong Lost 4&2

Barry Donovan and Steve Luckman Lost 3&2

Algy Grimes and Martyn Graham Lost 5&4

Michael Newstead and Gavin Little Lost 3&2

Jed Isbell and Paul Dobson Won 5&4

Oz Osman and Paul Life Lost 2&1

Dave Wood and Tony Goodson Lost 2 down

Chris Dennis and Paul Jones Lost 1 down

Running tally

Won 8

Lost 10

Drawn 1

Above and below: some of the on-course reproduction monuments

CCC Senior Captain Keith Barton retains the Scroll, which has been fought for since 2011