Well we have the men’s Summer Meeting to look forward to this weekend and then it’s the Pro Am the following Saturday. Competitons and results are coming thick and fast at this time of the season…
Open Sweepstake
Believe it or not, the final men’s major of the season, the Open, takes place at Royal Liverpool in just over three weeks time. As usual we are running a sweepstake for this.
It’s £5 for one space or £10 for three spaces. Please just reply to this message or drop into the Pro Shop to take part. Prizes are available for 1st, 2nd & 3rd overall plus the best and worst score each day.
Medal 5
Congrats to Charlie Hindle for shooting an excellent nett 66… with a double bogey on the last! Tony Bray shot a gross 75 which included a one under par back nine to secure the lowest gross of the competition and second place overall with a nett 68. Derek Marshall also recorded a nett 68 but was beaten by Tony on countback.
Nine & Dine
Friday saw the club host a back nine step aside texas scramble. The winning team with 28 points were Andrew & Gill Kay, Rosie Gerrard and Dave Smith. Rob Manley, Kathleen McNairney, Keith Thompson and Diana Hogben also scored 28 points but were beaten into second place following count back. Third spot went to Gail & Tony Sampson and Barbara & Robert Spark with 27 points.
Lady Captain’s Day
The day before was lovely weather for the lady captain Jan Ravenscroft’s big day. Everyone had a lovely time.
The scoring in the 18 hole comp was very good. Noelle Morris won with 41 points and then there were four players with 40 points. Following the card play offs, Diana Hogben finished as runner up and Tracey Thompson was third.
Caroline Smith won the nine hole event with a whopping 24 points. Ann Coulson was second with 20 points whilst Barbara Grant finished third with 19 points.
MCJL at HGC
On Sunday, we hosted the Mid Cheshire Junior League here at Hale GC as twenty seven juniors from six local clubs took to the fairways. Sadly it wasn’t for long as the storm that was forecast rolled in. We had to sound the klaxon and stop play for 45 minutes or so. We then made the decision to complete the competition over nine holes rather that the 18 that was originally planned.
There was some very good scoring with three players scoring 22 points and two players scoring 21 points. The Hale juniors playing were junior captain Matthew Hodder, Olly Mills and Alex Keeling and they scored a very creditable 16, 16 and 15 points respectively.
Spare a thought for one of the boys from another club who made a gross eagle at the first for five stableford points and then proceeded to only pick up three more points over the following eight holes for a total of just eight points. He took it superbly well and was very philosophical about it afterwards. I’m delighted to tell you that all of the juniors were an absolute credit to themselves, their golf clubs and the game of golf.
Huge thanks to the volunteers on the day who were Bill Harvey, Phil Hickson, Noelle Morris and Peter Hardern. Special mention to Edwina Greenwood from Warrington who also just couldn’t do enough to help…. even using her umbrella to escort Michael Oliver to his car as the rain was falling at it’s heaviest!
Eagle
Thanks to Mike Thompson for sending in this snap taken by Roger Sheen after Mike had holed his approach shot from 144 yards for an eagle twoI Paul Hilton then proceeded to hole his shot out of the left-hand bunker for a birdie three!
MIke reported that sadly their rounds didn’t continue at that stellar level adding that “in fact, second time around I got an eight at the 12th, so normal service was resumed!”
