Seniors Captain David Barlow and organiser Peter Imray with Harpenden Common opponents
Organiser Peter Imray reports
On a cold, overcast, but thankfully not overly wet Tuesday
morning, JoG's Seniors finest gathered together to do battle with Harpenden
Common on Carthagena. The course had improved with the rain of the previous few
days but not sufficiently to belay a request to the club's powers-that-be to
allow us to offer pick and place on the fairways for this match only.
The match as a whole was tight in most of the games, and was
perhaps best epitomised by the pairing of Jed Isbell and Steve Luckman versus
Rex Mayo and Steve Torrance from Harpenden. Starting on the 17th, and virtually
playing off scratch - both Jed and Rex received a mere single shot - the home
pairing quickly went into a one hole lead and took advantage of the Arctic
Training Ground that is Carthagena's 1st tee, to go two up by the second.
Warming up processes didn't take that long however, since Harpenden won the
3rd and the 6th to peg it back to level, then quickly consolidated by using
their one shot on the 7th to good advantage to go one up. The 10th saw a further
Harpenden advance to go two up, and they were still two up standing on the15th tee,
with only two holes to play. Jed and Steve rallied however and won both the 15th
and 16th holes, to tie the game and earn a crucial half point.
A very evenly matched handicap fourball, producing a very
tight game, with the overall match also proving to be tight. JoG emerged as 5
games to 3 victors however, to continue David Barlow's fine winning run, and despite
he and his partner's struggles with personal form, further proof (if proof were
needed) of his inspiring leadership!
Results
David Barlow and Peter Imray lost 3 and 1
Paul Jones and Jeff Thompson won 5 and 4
Barry Donovan and Tony Thurgood lost 2 down
Tony Lloyd and Tony Walters won 3 and 1
Neil Pinnington and Richard Cobb won 4 and 3
Jed Isbell and Steve Luckman halved
Tony McLean and Rob Ebsworth won 2 and 1
Paul Hammond and Paul Jeeves halved
Group 2 with Jeff Thompson and Paul Jones
Group 3 with Barry Donovan and Tony Thurgood
Group 4 with Tony Lloyd and Tony Walters
Group 5 with Neil Pinnington and Dick Cobb
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