Seniors Captain David Barlow and organiser Dick Cobb with Cambridge Country Club's
Richard Ricketts and Captain Keith Barton
Organiser Dick Cobb reports
Where to start? It was my first bash as an organiser of a Club match and I was keen to get it right for Captain Barlow so the first thing to get on point was to make sure he had his favourite meal - chicken and chips. Don't worry about the golf!
The next issue was to get a full team for this match. Due to numerous good reasons I had a churn rate of about 40%! So many thanks to the guys who jumped in to save my bacon .
Also Cambridge Country Club had their problems too, including their Captain who two days before fell over and head butted a door! So Keith Barton stepped in to great effect. The joys of Senior life!
As far as the golf is concerned it was a great day - well almost. The Sun shone, the course looked great, but alas we lost.
It was very tight but we lost 5 games to 3. So close in fact that four games were decided on the 18th and two on the 17th.
So our Captain's run of two wins and a draw comes to a close, but not without a good fight. Well done to everyone .
Graham Berry, who has never got up so early for a long time to play in the match, was rewarded with a bottle of wine for nearest the Pin on 16th!
If you are tempted to be an organiser, my advice is just do it. I found testing but rewarding! It was Richard Westergreen-Thorne's last weekly blog a few months back when he was looking for help. He wrote "come and help - don't leave it for somebody else to do it". Wise words.
Full results:
David Barlow and Dick Cobb: Lost 1 down.
Dave Woods and Graham Berry: Lost 6&4
Trevor Darrington and David Price: Lost 1 Down
Tony Walters and Algy Grimes: Lost 2&1
Barry Donovan and Paul Life: Won 3&2
Nigel Underwood and Rob Ebsworth: Won 1 up
Paul Dobson and Daniel Emkes: Won 2&1
Stephen Mathers and Gavin Little: Lost 1 Down
Overall result: CCC 5 - JOG 3
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