Seniors away to Letchworth Aug 18 2025

 

Seniors Captain Tony Lloyd and Organiser Nigel Underwood on the Letchworth 1st tee

Organiser Nigel Underwood returned to Letchworth, scene of his first ever hole in one in the Sixties. Here is his report of our inter-club match

The latest group of JoG Seniors' finest gathered, under glowering skies, in and around Letchworth’s lovely Art Deco clubhouse ready to avenge the home club’s win on our home turf a few weeks ago.

 Our Captain decided against a stirring speech, trusting instead to his battle-hardened team to bring home the honours ... not his best decision of the day!

 So play started from 3 tees and soon blue shirted senior golfers were everywhere, some taking more conventional routes than others. Your humble correspondent had the good fortune to birdie the first before Captain Tony unleashed a barrage of pars, net pars, net birdies, net eagles “I’ve never played like this before” he said, the grin suggesting it was an enjoyable experience. So we won 6 and 4, with an approximate better ball score of 50 points for the 18 holes. Our opponents said all the right things ...

But it was not to last ... Tony Goodson and Gavin Little, then Gerry Degaute and David McNair, lost heavily before Terry Sweeney and Paul Life achieved a halved match. Trevor Darrington and Chris Saunders won one up ... could we be seeing a JoG revival? Sadly no, as Pauls Dobson and Hammond, Steve Collins and Martyn Graham and Michael Newstead and Graham Gadsden were all defeated.

So 5 ½ to 2 ½  to the home team. On to a first class lunch with our hosts, niceties and toasts exchanged, good wishes all round and a resolve to do better next year. Our Captain no doubt drove home euphoric (and rightly so) with his personal performance (which included winning Nearest the Pin for the first time) ... if only he’d made that speech ...

Many thanks to all the team, and reserves, for staying fit, well and available, to Letchworth, always outstanding hosts and next year WILL be a different story ... probably

Individual scores:

Tony Lloyd and Nigel Underwood: Won 6&4

Tony Goodson and Gavin Little: Lost 6&5

Gerry Degaute and David McNair: Lost 5&3

Terry Sweeney and Paul Life: Halved

Paul Dobson and Paul Hammond: Lost 3&2

Trevor Darrington and Chris Saunders: Won 1 up

Steve Collins and Martyn Graham: Lost 5&4

Graham Gadsden and Michael Newstead: Lost 7&5

Nearest the Pin: Tony Lloyd

Overall JOG tally:

Won 11

Lost 11

Drawn 1