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Senior Men’s Golf Chairman’s Report

Team Stableford

Today (8th May) it was a pleasure to be playing golf at Roehampton Club. The sun was shining but the temperature was not too hot. With many trees in full leaf, the course looked in magnificent shape.

How appropriate it was that we witnessed some special moments in the course of our Team Stableford with yellow ball competition. For a mid-month roll up, we had a healthy number of 32 starters, playing in eight groups of three and two groups of four. Each player is given the yellow ball in turn so that when they are using it, their Stableford points are doubled.

Two teams amassed 101 points, with Michael Godfrey, Paul Gordon Brown and Gilbert Ellacombe winning on countback. The runners up were Kevin Doyle, Peter Rogan and Egbert Veldman. Well played to them all.

This was not the end to the excitement and interest of the day. Playing behind him, I noticed that on the fourth hole David Openshaw was taking a long time looking for his ball.

 

I correctly assumed that this meant that David was unable to find the yellow ball which eliminated his team’s chances of winning as they were unable to double the score of the person playing the yellow ball for the remaining 14 holes of their round.

 

Determined to make up for his misfortune, David proceeded to achieve some notable scores during the remainder of the round, in particular carding a HOLE IN ONE at the thirteenth. Ironically, had he done it using the yellow ball, he would have scored 10 rather than 5 points.

 

David was playing using some borrowed clubs and hit a six iron off the tee rather than his customary eight. He tells me that the ball pitched roughly a yard from the pin. A classic effort in other words. David kindly gave us all drinks in the bar to celebrate afterwards.  David holding his scorecard.

April Grail

 

Our first event since the last Recorder was the April Grail, held on the 24th of the month. Conditions were not great and only three entrants played to their handicaps or better. The winners were:

 

1st Brian Hall 38 points (countback)

2nd Chris Cowan 38 points (countback)

3rd John Dawes 36 points

4th Hassan Dajani 35 points

 

The picture of Brian has appeared previously when he won the March Grail. Who says that lightning doesn’t strike twice!

 

Texas Scramble

 

On 1st May the seniors played a Texas Scramble. This format allows many of us to play shots from places on the course that we rarely see when playing our own ball. The scoring was good and we ended with one team scoring a nett 58 and three others scoring a nett 60.

 

The worthy winners were Clive Nicholson, Ken Pratt and Davood Fallahdar. The runners up on countback were Peter Sabine, Ian Taylor-Restell, Trevor Hearle and Douglas Millar.

Seniors’ Spring Medal

Next week we will be competing for the Seniors’ Spring Medal. Only 37 Seniors have signed up so far and so there are plenty of slots available on the start sheet. Please sign up as not only will it be a significant trophy to win but it will also count towards the summer eclectic.

Which reminds me … There is still time to sign up for the summer eclectic played for the Hamid Lari trophy.

Douglas Millar, Senior Men’s Golf Chair