Senior Section Christmas Dinner - Diners - 6th December 2017

Photos of the various tables at the Annual Dinner

 

Senior Section Christmas Dinner Winners - 6th December 2017

Senior's Christmas dinner was held on 6th December in the Burgoyne Suite. Over 100 Seniors and guests were welcomed by the Senior's Section Captain Fred Williams who also said, "I would just say that the annual dinner was enjoyed by all". Ladies Captain Sue Colledge was also a guest at the dinner.
On completion of the meal, trophies were presented by the Club Captain David Wilsher and Fred Williams assisted by the Senior's Vice-Captain Jim Kerr to all winners.
It was good to welcome back old friends Peter Hollingsworth and Hugh Harknett. The section raised £3400 for our charity and Dr Colin Stokes MBE was kind enough to attend and accept our cheque.

The winners were as per the list on the evening's programme as shown below;



The Trophies

 



Senior's Captain Fred Williams
 

The winners are pictured below, please refer to list for the trophy won:

Golfer of the year Peter Imray with all his trophies - Well Done!

Peter Imray

Peter Imray

Peter Imray

Peter Imray





 

Algy Grimes, Stephen Cooper, Derek Page (Steve Akrill missing)

Alban Macdonald



Paul Jeeves

Alban Macdonald

Robert Anderson

Stephen Cooper and Dave Wilsher

Robert Anderson

Harry Wakefield



Chris Roy

Arthur Lucas Cup (Bring and Win) - 14th November 2017

The Arthur Lucas Cup (Bring and Win) was played for on the Carthagena course on Tuesday 14^th November.



The Prizes



We had 66 competitors but Keith Fuller hurt his knee with his first shot and had to retire.

The weather was a tad warmer than of late but there was a bit of a chill and at least it was dry.

There was no entry fee and this boosted the raffle receipts which raised just over £200 for our charity.

Graham McKay was thanked, for again, being the organiser of the event and was presented with a bottle of wine.

Normally the top players are presented in reverse order but as the nature of the competition means that the higher up in the field the sooner you get to pick from the table of goodies Kevin Barbour (a relative new boy and first time winner) was presented with the Cup and given a keepsake trophy. He then had first pick of the table with a score of 41 points playing off a handicap of 21 which will be cut in due course.

Winner - Kevin Barbour

Second on countback with 37 points was Ned Yorke who couldn’t stay for the presentation due to a family bereavement,

In third place and still on a fine run of form was immediate past seniors captain Jim Peacock who narrowly pipped Terry McSweeney also on 37 points.

The best gross score, but only being able to take his turn at the table, was Phil White with a 74 and 36 points playing off a handicap of 5 .

There were a few reports of misfortune and bad luck etc from the field of players and Bob Anderson was mentioned because he chipped in for a 2 on the 13^th but that was in a frost hole on the green!

After those that remained had collected their prize from the table we had left a packet of rubber tees and a Magibrush! They have been consigned to the seniors cupboard for later collection?

 

Fred Williams - Seniors Captain

Ladies and Seniors' Texas Scramble - 31st October 2017

The Ladies & Seniors Texas Scramble took place on Tuesday 31st October on the John O'Gaunt Course.

All 100 entries turned up and registered. 

The Raffle made £75 for Fred's Seniors charity and £75 for the Lady Captain's charity.

Skill Prizes.

Ladies nearest the pin - Lorna Jerome

Seniors nearest the pin - George Turner

Nearest the pin on the 16th for the ladies was Lorna Jerome

 

 

 

 

       Nearest the pin on the 16th for

        the Seniors was George Turner.


 

 

 

Wine for Organiser Les Bolland

The Organisers


Flowers for Sue Colledge

 

Main result;

3rd place with a net 64.6 (all scores were adjusted with a nominal 3 entered for the 4th for all teams)

Pat Court, Brian Gill, Alban Macdonald and Penelope Staveley-Smith.

Third - Alban Macdonald, Penelope Staveley-Smith, Pat Court (missing Brian Gill)

 

2nd place with a net 63.6

Pauline Gauge, Diane Munns, Derek Weller and Phil White.

Second - Phil White, Pauline Gauge, Diane Munns (missing Derek Weller)

Winners - with an net 61.9

Theresa Brown, Steve Cooper, John Ellary and Tineke Smith

 

Winners - John Ellary, Steve Cooper, Theresa Brown, Tineke Smith

Les Bolland - Organiser


 

TSB Trophy - Seniors v Juniors - 24th October 2017

For the past 2 years this competition has been won by the Seniors. This year the match was played over 17 holes on the John O’Gaunt Course in dry benign conditions. The junior pairings sparkled and had a resounding success winning 6 matches to two and the two matches that were lost were very close fought with Junior Captain Daniel Haugh (with Rachel George) giving shots to Seniors Captain Fred and Algy Grimes to lose 2 and 1. The other loss being to the artful Pat Gilgallon playing with Michael Newstead who just got past the post 1 up against Bradley Williams and Ethan Akpan.

Although many games were tight there were some heavy defeats with vice captain Jim Kerr and David Lincoln losing 4 and 2 to Junior's vice captain Joe Clark and Alex Zavodov. Even the redoubtable Phil White lost 2 down to Harry Warmouth and Callum Bareham with a chip in birdie helping Callum home. Perhaps the biggest surprise was the loss by the Section's most consistent player this year  Peter Imray (with Tony Goodson) 5 and 4 to the diminutive James Stocks and Caitlin Thomas which very much had the look of David v Goliath on the first tee. Dave Gauge (back from a few weeks holiday in India) playing with the steadfast Bill Walker were overwhelmed 5 and 3 by Ixie Akpan and Tom Sennett. The final two junior pairings also winning to secure the Trophy. The Seniors didn’t play too bad, just hats off to the brilliant performances of the youngsters.

Daniel Haugh receives the TSB Trophy

It was good to welcome back to the club Steve Akrill who was applauded and thanked for his many years of support, help and leadership to the Junior Section.

The Organisers Sue Lee (Juniors) and David Crosby (Seniors ) were thanked for their efforts.



Skills

Caitlin Thomas

Steve Clark

 

Nearest the pin on the 16^th Juniors - although Harry Warmouth and Alex Zavodov names were on the marker, Caitlin Thomas was able to beat them to the pro shop voucher.

Nearest the pin on the 16^th Seniors - won by Steve Clark just being inside the shots of Algy Grimes and Phil White.

 

 

 

  

Daniel Haugh

Tony Goodson

Longest Drive 5^th Juniors - Junior Captain Daniel Haugh

 

Longest Drive 5^th Seniors - Tony Goodson

The Victorious Juniors then gathered for a team photograph, the smiling faces says it all!!



The 2017 Juniors

Fred Williams - Seniors Captain

Autumn Singles Stableford Competition - 17th October 2017

A  good field of 81 competed for the Stableford Trophy on the Carthegena Course. We had missed the side effects of Hurricane Orphelia by one day but the course had significant leaf fall which made finding balls a bit tough but losing them easy and this spoiled a number of cards. Well it is an Autumn competition which is “fall” in the USA!

John Ellary was thanked for his efficient organising of the event and charity raffle collection which raised £188.00 and was pleased to receive a sleeve of balls to make up for some lost to the course.

Although not in contention for one of the prizes Colin Beales was cut 0.4 on his round of 94 gross and nett 74.

Michael Newstead narrowly missed out in 4^th place on countback with 37 points and cut 0.3. He opined that he should have easily got 40 points but we can’t cut him on a wish.

In third place was the usual suspect Robert Anderson with yet another good competition round with 37 points and cut 0.3.

Third Place - Robert Anderson

In second spot was another senior golfer often in contention, namely  George Turner also with 37 points but 21 on the back nine against Robs 18 on countback  and also cut 0.3.

Second Place - George Turner

However the winner of the Trophy with 40 points and a cut of 1.2 and now playing off 13.6 was the redoubtable Harry Wakefield who graciously thanked his playing partners in his acceptance address for their contribution to his very good round by finding his ball whenever  he thought it was lost to the foliage.

Winner - Harry Wakefield

Anders Lindquist was singled out for mention at the presentation for his generosity to the Senior Captains charity for buying 8 raffle tickets where the norm is 3.

Also mentioned in dispatches was Mrs Ann Gill who provided Alban Macdonald with an unusual rose as a family gift and insisted on making a £10 donation to our charity.

John Ellary - Competition Organiser

2 Clubs and a Putter Stableford - 10th October 2017

Only 47 players competed for this “fun” competition on a cool and overcast morning on the Carthagena course. Organiser Chris Roy quipped it’s like Marmite, you either enjoy the novelty and fun of trying to play the course without access to all the clubs in the bag or you hate the idea. The trick is to pick the best two clubs to suit your style. It’s not much fun trying to get out of a bunker with a long iron or to chip over a bunker with a wood!

 

Anyway the players stayed dry and generally enjoyed the challenge and some clearly adapted the clubs very well to record decent scores. Others struggled! The raffle raised about £200.00 which is being donated to the Breast Cancer charity.

 

In 3^rd place was Michael Tomblin (a previous winner of the comp) playing off 17 with 35 points.

 

Third Place Michael Tomblin

In 2^nd place was John Sandland playing off 19 with 36 points.

 

Second Place - John Sandland

The winner of The Trophy was Mike Marshall also playing off 19 with an excellent 37 points.

Winner - Mike Marshall

The Gordon Percival Team Trophy - 3rd October 2017

Gentlemen!

Or should that be: Gentle Man? That man Gentle, a member of a string of Gs ....... (with Goodson and Gilgallon) just managed to miss first place by 3 points but at least Mr Gilgallon was joint top scorer on the day (alongside Clive Morley) with 37 points. Clearly Pat has fewer distractions these days and is able to focus more on his driving .......... ;-)

Messrs Degaute (28), Curtis (31) and Westergreen-Thorne (35) managed 94 points but so did Messrs Wakefield (35), Standen (35) and newby Richard Brown (24) so, as dictated by the Rules (not my fault!!), Harry W's 35 beat Gerry D's 28 on countback for Harry's team to take third place (When Harry met Gerry???)

But in the end Messrs Cobb, Donnelly and Evans got their surname initials in a row to deliver the top team score of 100 points and take the Gordon Percival Trophy for 2017. Congratulations to them. 

The weather was kind to us today with a breeze strong enough to make you think on club selection.

71 stout hearts took part in the comp and most of them stayed to the end for prize giving.
John McPherson did a sterling job in organising the comp and raffle. The raffle took a creditable £201 for Fred's charity so thank you all for contributing.
Last years winners of this trophy were John Wade Peter Hollingsworth and Captain Fred.
In Fred's absence, Jim Kerr managed to rehearse his Captain's role ready for next year - I promise he'll have the correct trophies to give out then!!! We persuaded Jim to use the microphone eventually, primarily because of the inbuilt instantaneous translation facility ....! 

As the fisherman said: May your cod go with you ...

David Crosby - Hon Sec (added to by Vice Captain Jim Kerr)

3rd Place - Sam Standen, Harry Wakefield
plus Richard Brown

2nd Place - Tony Goodson, Pat Gilgallon
and Gerry Gemtle

Winners - Richard Cobb, Kevin Donnelly and David Evans

 

2017 Seniors' Gordon Percival

        Team Trophy Results

 

Team no first - Name - H/Cap - Score - Total at end of line

1 David Evans 15 31 Kevin Donnelly 17 36 Richard Cobb 21 33 100 1st

24 Gerry Gentle 13 29 Pat Gilgallon 18 37 Tony Goodson 21 31 97 2nd

6 Harry Wakefield 15 35 Sam Standen 17 35 Richard Brown 23 24 94 3rd (CB)

11 Gerry Degaute 15 28 Alan Curtis 16 31 Richard Westergreen-Thorne 19 35 94 4th (CB)

21 Peter Jarman 15 33 Derek Weller 18 29 Peter Grimes 19 30 92

17 Chris Roy 13 33 Jonathan Lean 17 31 Paul Stallard 22 27 91

16 Philip White 6 28 George Turner 16 32 Graham McKay 21 31 91

22 Neil Pinnington 15 25 Alan Anderson 18 35 William Burrows 21 31 91

18 Clive Morley 10 37 Robin Smith 16 23 Ned Yorke 28 30 90

5 Vernon Toms 12 36 Clive Thompson 17 21 Richard Banham 24 33 90

15 Derek Page 11 33 Michael A Tomblin 17 25 Jim Kerr 20 32 90

9 Alan Fowler 14 28 Paul R Jeeves 18 29 Colin Fox 21 32 89

13 Stephen Foster 11 25 Brian Williams 16 34 Bill Conway 22 30 89

4 Lawrence Wilson 11 29 Geoff Emery 19 23 Mike Marshall 19 36 88

20 Robert Anderson 14 28 Brian Gill 19 31 Graham Lewis 21 27 86

14 Colin Newbury 14 35 Peter Evans 17 29 John Thoday 27 20 84

7 Richard Munns 12 22 John McPherson 19 30 Graham Berry 24 32 84

10 John Wade 13 28 Keith Davidson 16 25 James Peacock 22 30 83

8 Robin Carter 15 25 Keith Fuller 16 30 John Sandland 19 28 83

2 Robert Bage 9 35 Terry McSweeney 17 0 John Ellary 21 19 81

3 Malcolm Falconer 9 33 Fergus Moynihan 16 22 David Sutton 26 25 80

19 Stephen Cooper 12 24 William Skelding 17 29 Malcolm Lee 27 26 79

12 Peter Imray 10 29 Steven Clark 16 32 Anthony McLean 24 17 78
 

23 Geoffrey Elcome 13 28 Bernard Gurney 18 21 Kevin Barbour 21 26 75

The Bailiff Shield - 26th September 2017

A mainly overcast but fairly warm morning greeted the 77 senior competitors aiming to win the Bailiff Shield held by Hon Sec David Crosby for the last two years.

The greens presented difficulties and the Carthagena rough was testing.

Organiser Bernard Gurney just missed out on the prizes in 4^th place with a creditable 38 points.

It was nip and tuck at the top of the leader board as the final few players impacted on the best scores.



Third place - Jonathan Lean

Second place - Peter Imray 

Winner - George Turner

Having been clubhouse leader for some time Jonathon Lean came third on countback with 39 points off handicap 18 and cut .9.

In second place on count back with 13 points over the last 6 holes was habitual winner (this year) Peter Imray playing off handicap 10 and cut .6.

In first place (and another previous winner of this competition) was George Turner with 40 points playing off handicap 19 and cut 1.2

Fred Williams Seniors Captain