We have the results from recent men’s, ladies’ and senior’s competitions to discuss this week. Plus news of Donald Sutherland’s 90th birthday and photos kindly sent in by Colin Bamford, showing both the course and the weather looking almost Spring like!
Men’s Back 9 Stableford (Team of 3)
Graham Jones, Lee Bramley & John Wright scored a fabulous 45 points on Saturday to win the nine hole team competition. Andrew Cowan, David Rodwell and Ted Shaw finished second with 42 points. Roger Laitt, Jonny Gray & Johnny Yates were beaten into third spot following a card play off. Three twos were recoded and they went to Brian Greenbank, Gus Murray-Brown and Quentin Smith.
Ladies Front Nine Stableford
Nicola Kitching scored a very tidy 21 points to win last Thursday. Pat Jefferies was second with 17 points and Sally Budd was one point further back to finish third.
Seniors Bradley 5
Thanks to Chris Adams for the following round up.
A diminishing band of twenty five players took to the fairways on a very windy morning, albeit we seem to be getting more wedded to our beds as the first group did not book until 9.30! But we were able to play in the dry.
It was very good to see John Johnston out and survive his first nine hole competition since his knee replacement and Bill Wrigley safely back from Spain and enjoying a decent score. Despite the wind making in tough, over half the field scored 16 points or more.
A winning score of 20 was achieved by Steve Bates on a back 6 card play-off from Martin Oldfield in second and Derek Marshall was in third on a card play-off with 19 points. Mike Massey got a “proper two” at the second and Bill Wrigley got a two on the 7th.
90th Birthday
And thanks to Chris Wood for sending in this prose and photo.
Playing member Donald Sutherland celebrated his 90th birthday in the company of the President Barry Jefferies and nonagenarians John Hughes and Drummond Sharp and many others on Tuesday. He treated them not only to a glass of wine but brought a wonderful bottle of long-stored Fonseca 1960 vintage port which was considerably younger than all those lunching and a testament to his staying power.
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