Senior Golfers’ Report
The very hot weather has now been replaced by rain and I was looking forward to seeing how the course was affected when I played on Wednesday. In fact, there was little change in the course. The rough is still parched and wispy and the fairways were still hard and affording a lot of run on half hit shots. Although we expected some sharp showers none arrived until the seniors were ensconced in the bar after completing their rounds.
This week we played a team Stableford yellow ball competition, with the best two scores from each threesome counting on each hole and the player using the yellow ball having their points total doubled. There was a significant variation in scoring between eight teams, not least for those who lost the yellow ball early in their round.
Two teams did remarkably well. Kevin Doyle, Richard Luxton, and Rocky Mowat had a total of 128 points. But the winners by a wide margin were a team of David Bouch, Egbert Veldman, and Martin Flint who scored the grand total of 136 points. Congratulations to the winners, especially to David Bouch who had the highest individual score of 44 points. Scoring was generally good with seventeen out of a field of 24 getting 36 points or more and a quarter of the field reaching 40 points or better.
In the previous week, the Wednesday competition was a Texas Scramble. In this format, each player in a team plays from the place where the selected drive has finished and similarly with second and further shots. It is an interesting format because many of us play shots from places we would not reach playing our own ball. As this week, there were 24 players entered.
In the event two teams tied on a Nett 55 points. The winners were Chris Cowan, Egbert Veldman, and Roger Gilbert; and David Moss, Peter Bateman and Nick Pack. Well done to them all especially to Egbert who has been in the winning group in consecutive weeks.
The mixed season of results of the Senior team has continued with losses away to Ealing and to Coombe Hill. We need a strong finish to the season in our remaining seven matches to ensure that overall we win more than we lose!