It was a warm, early summer’s day, with a bit of a south-westerly breeze, and scoring on the Prince’s course was generally good, with almost 80% of the field scoring at least 30 points.

The winner, Graham Cull, on 39 points was just one ahead of Jeremy Prescott, in 2nd place. Giles and James both scored 37 points but Giles snatched 3rd place with a better back 9, although James birdied the 11th.

The field faced some variable conditions. Especially the winds became stronger during the course of the day. On top of that the winds changed directions more frequently for the 9am starters.

None of this takes away any credit of Jay’ performance. A stable front 9 (18pts) was followed up by a splendid back 9 (22pts – 35 gross). He needed this strong stretch to hold off 2 competitors. Tamas’s round as a mirror image of Jay: 22pts (out) + 18pts (in). But he will have some serious regrets about the 17th hole (no points scored).  Kevin (Prendergast) does know to chose the right moment to peak. Playing a good round of golf during a competition remembering someone called … Prendergast. You cannot make this up. He torched the front 9 (24pts). Unfortunately he didn’t record any points on holes 11-12. He then settled down. A final tally of 16pts on the back means he “only” finishes 3rd. The Men’s Secretary recorded 3 4-pointers en route to 39pts and 4th place. Early starter Paul Green and Jeremy Ryan also finish on 39pts. The countback rule awards them 5th and 6th place respectively.

Provisional Standings MW Founders Cup: Juho Lim (145pts), Richard Owen (143), Gina Jillett (140), Jeremy Ryan (139), KSC (136).

Threatened rain did not materialise for the Club’s Platinum Jubilee competition (coinciding with Queen’s Jubilee).

Richard Inglis was top of the leader-board for quite some time but a classy round [ and lowest gross] of 62 from Joe Gonclaves took the honours with Duncan Taylor putting in a splendid 63 albeit possibly rueing 8 at 12th. Richard’s 65 took 3rd slot.Reiko first woman 70

It was a good day for eagles attached with congrats to Paul Green at 12th and Richard at 17.

This was first Jubilee of year of 4 so associated Anniversary Cup (3 from the 4) reflects the result.

It was a good turnout on a warm, partly sunny and slightly breezy day, especially considering that many of our regular Friday 5-day members didn’t play because today’s bank holiday was classified as a ‘weekend’ by Glendale. Scoring was slightly ‘inflated’ by 2 extra strokes being given to men off the white tees and women off the red tees, because yellow tees were an option for high handicap men. The fairways and greens continue to be in good condition and large rakes were evident in most of the bunkers.

Uli was today’s clear winner with a solid 42 points; 21 points on both the front and back 9s, a birdie on the 11th and just one blob. 2nd and 3rd places were taken by Rannesh and Martin Hay respectively, both having 19 points out and 21 points in. Amazingly for him, Rannesh only blobbed one hole; the 8th where he was 3 off the tee. Martin played most holes well but had serious problems on the 3rd and 18th, blobbing both, but he birdied the 11th.

In 4th place, just one point behind was Sean O’Sullivan (38 points), who was also 19 points out but ‘only’ 20 points in, with a total of 3 blobs on his card. Sweep payout to the top 4 (£9, £7, £5, £2).

The best front 9 of the day was scored by Suhail Salim (23 points) and by the time he had played the 12th, he had 34 points. The pressure must have been too much for him at that point, as he only scored a further 4 points over the final 6 holes – one to watch for the future though.

I guess it is fair to say that the 7am starters enjoyed the better weather.

It should come as no surprise then that Gina became leader in the clubhouse with a very tidy score of Nett 63 (but she will have some regrets over her score on the 18th hole). Despite the floodgates opening on the 10am starters 3 of them managed to beat Gina’s mark. Tamas and Peter H finished with Nett scores of 62. An excellent back 9 (36 gross) awards 2nd place to Tamas. Their scores were only bettered by yours truly. A solid start (a rather unlikely but welcome birdie on the 3rd and a solid par on the 7th stand out) ended with an ugly bogey on the 9th. I then came back with score of level par (gross) on the back 9. 2 birdies (a spike mark helped to slow down my putt on the 17th) and some excellent scrambling (I believe I recorded just 11 putts on the last 9 holes) were some highlights. Mayumi (that HI will keep coming down if she keeps playing this way) and Juho round out the Top6. Brett Colley had the best front 9 (38 gross) but ran into trouble on the 17th.

MW Grand Medal Standings: Juho (273), Jeremy Ryan (286), Peter Goodall (287). Other players have only recorded 3 scores at best.