2016: Indiv. Stableford (28.9.)

An Individual Stableford Competition, qualifying for the Campbell Lamont League

Today's Top 5 and Nearest-the-pin Winners

After a night of heavy rain and strong wind, it was with some anxiety that the club's golfers arrived to tee-off around 8.20, hoping that conditions would relent and allow a decent morning's golf. They were not disappointed; after an hour or so the sun broke through and the temperature rose. Normal service was resumed, jackets and jumpers dispensed with, and umbrellas safely stowed away.

To judge from the overall scores, one might reasonably assume that the damp fairways and slow greens proved a bit trickier today, even for the low handicappers. Unsurprisingly, then, there were no birdie 2s to report today. 

Indeed, it was hard to separate the top 5 players all of whom scored a respectable 34 or 35 points and had to be separated just on countback. So well done to them for being the best to master, or at least cope well with, today's conditions.

Flying in the face of this, however, was another fine round from our professional 'guest'  Ninolito who, playing off 1, still walked in with 34 points. Well done to him again for snapping up the guest prize (which his father promised to deliver later - we hoped.)

Edi Rogers, pictured above holding two bottles, earned these with two fine shots into the greens on both holes 8 and 14. No one even managed to get on the green at hole 11 today, but Alan Perry hit a fine drive on the par 3 hole 4 to claim his nearest-the-pin bottle.

Just for a change, Jan decided to hand out sleeves of golfballs as today's prizes for the top 5, and one such sleeve plus a bottle of wine for the winner. Guess who won!! Now there's forward planning for you.

Two important further announcements were made: (1) not to forget to buy your tickets for the Captain's Dinner Dance on Saturday October 29th, (2) and to offer your opinion to the captain on various possible new logos, kindly and professionally designed by our resident golfing graphic artist, Stephen Grey. The 'winning' choice will feature on our soon-to-arrive new shirts - the colour of which will be pink, cerise or raspberry depending on whom you ask!

To finish, here are today's tabulated results:

Nearest the pins:

Hole 4       Alan Perry

Hole 8       Edi Rogers

Hole 11     -

Hole 14     Edi Rogers

The top 5:

5th place, handicap 7,     34 points                             Nino Andres Aloras

4th place, handicap 21,   34 points (better back 9)     Peter van der Mee

3rd place, handicap 22,   35 points                             Jim Hurley

2nd place, handicap 30,  35 points                             Neville Woodfine 

1st place, handicap 20,   35 points (best back 9)    Jan Boultbee