Unfortunately Saturday’s dreadful weather meant that the Summer Stableford was cancelled. It has now been rearranged and the new date is Saturday 26th August.
Over on the Wirral, Brian Harman at 5’8′ and 150 pounds was taming Royal Liverpool and his big hitting counterparts to win the Open. It probably wasn’t as close and as exciting as we would have liked but he just did an amazing job of keeping hold of his lead. His putting stats from 10 feet and in were simply out of this world.
Also, as decribed in a really interesting Golf Digest article, Harman’s driver clubhead speed of 109 mph puts him in the bottom 10% on the PGA tour and his driver distance puts him at 142nd in the tour rankings. However he has a strategy to combat this – he hits driver on virtually very par four and par five.
Consequently if we look at the all drives stat —the average distance of literally every tee shot hit on par fours and par fives. You’ll see that Harman ranks 98th, within 0.3 yards of tour average and this bumps him up to 48th in strokes gained off the tee. While other players are playing three woods and two irons from many tees, Harman’s driver is knocking it past them.
Seemingly he spends an enormous of time working on his driving – hitting it high, low, left to right and right to left. He’s as straight with that as the bigger hitters are with their shorter clubs. So, reassuringly, it’s good to know there’s another way to win golf tournaments beyond smashing it as far as possible off the tee.
Johnny Yates was the winner of the Open Sweepstake btw. Thanks to everyone of you who took part.
Ladies Competitions
The results for the Hilda Timpson will be revealed at tea this Thursday.
In the back nine hole max medal, Ann Coulson and Barbra Spark both scored excellent nett 33s but Ann won on countback. Kerry Gill was third with 35.
Seniors Stableford 4
Bob Siddle romped home with 24 points to win this event which was played over the back nine. Great score Bob.
There were then seven (yes seven!) players who tied for second spot with 21 points. They were Lee Bramley, John Moss, Robert Spark, Richard Robinson, Glyn Isaac, Steve Bates and Roger Dawson-Smith. Lee B finished second following the mammoth card play off.
Summer Party
The Abba tribute night based on the photos below looks like it was a fantastic triumph. Top marks to the effort everyone made with their fancy dress. Well done Jo Egerton, Tom Sloan and team for putting such a super evening.
