A sunny day, around 30 degrees, perfect conditions for the Midweek Captain’s Day … sadly without the presence of the midweek captain, who had to travel abroad!

Sheena made best use of the weather and the course conditions, with a fabulous 23 points on her back nine and the best score on par5s (12 points), 40 points overall! 🙂

Tee distribution today, as we played with a choice between Whites and Yellows for men again:
White: 7
Yellow: 27
Red: 5

There were a few extra challenges – ‘Nearest to the Pin’ and ‘Nearest to the Pin in 2’, and they were won by:

• Uli (NTP in 2 on hole 2)
• George (NTP on hole 7)
• Brett (NTP in 2 on hole 9)
• Jose (NTP on hole 10)
• Brett again 😉 (NTP in 2 on hole 15)
• Cheryl (NTP on hole 16)
• Jose again 😉 (NTP in 2 on hole 18)

Post-round drinks followed and closed a beautiful day on the golf course! 🙂

Women

Congratulations to Silvia who retains the Women’s CC with ease as there was little challenge from the rest of the field. The winning margin was 22 so lack of fierce competition didn’t affect her focus.
Of the chasing pack things started with positive signs but both Susan & Sheena fell apart at various times as Lia continued to plot her way round the course with her fairway irons keeping her out of trouble.
The overall result being 1 & 2 for Silvia & Lia in the gross, reversing positions in the handicap comp. Rather amazingly in the nett, Silvia, Susan, Cheryl & Sheena all finished today’s round with the same nett score.

On the back 9 today there was the same number of pars as there were quadruple (or worse) bogeys!! But highlight of the day must go to Susan’s eagle on the 8th. On the green for 2, she calmly sunk a long putt for the 3.

Men

A Warm and humid day with sun for second round of the Club Championship. Not a fast round.

In the senior division Will Balakrishnan built on his first round gross 70 with a 2nd round 82 for a total of 152 to win the Club Championship by 13 shots from 152 from Richard Inglis and Raymond Esin both 165; well done indeed Will! Tied in 4th were Justin Wildman and Paul Kamerling 167s. Fine golf from all and Duke’s proved as always more difficult to score.

In the junior division Paul Green maintained his lead 173, 7 ahead of Jim Deissler 180 with Alan Treacy, Robin Thomas and Adrian Wells having 184s.

Chris Melllish secured front 9 honours 39 and back 9 went to Sam Goodchild-Way.
The Handicap Trophy awarded as follows:
Senior
Richard Inglis 138 building on fantastic first round 63
Justin Wildman 140
Will Balakrishnan 144
Junior
Paul Green 139
James Deissler 144
Adrian Wells 149

In the net (and sweep) results by division for the day the senior went to Justin Wildman 69 followed by Duncan Matthews 70 whilst the junior went to Paul Green 71 then James Deissler 75 .

Women

No real surprise that Silvia is leading after today’s round, but a little disappointing that none of the rest of could get close to her. So after 18 holes Silvia has a 13 shot cushion, but there is competition for the runner-up with 3 within 3 shots.

In the nett, Lia is 1 shot ahead of Silvia with the pair of them having a nice little cushion on the rest of the field. With only 8 women playing in both rounds, just the one handicap trophy will be awarded.

Conditions were pretty nice out there with the added bonus of some sun which wasn’t really expected. A pity then that most of us failed to take advantage of it.

Men

Some sun and wind but no rain for round 1 of the Club Championship.

Outstanding golf from Will Balakrishnan secured the first round scratch lead with gross 70 – just 2 over par and best front and back 9s; well done indeed. Chasing him with superb 74s were Paul Kamerling and Raymond Esin (Paul just 1 over on back 9. In the junior division Paul Green established a 2 shot lead on 84 from Jim Deissler 86; the in-form Alan King and Adrian Wells had excellent 87s.

The senior handicap division shows Richard Inglis leading with a fantastic 63 playing off 13 -dropping just 1 shot on the back 9 excellent 69 then Duncan TAck 9. James Deissler followed with Duncan Taylor 70.

A number of NRs with thick rough causing loss of balls etc.

Perfect conditions for the J.Q. Robertson trophy – sunny start with cloud building to stem the temp. and little wind.

This suited the clear winner on the day – Alan King 42 points – 21 out and 21 in (40 gross out and in) with reduction in HI. Another fine score from Will Balakrishnan of 40 captured 2nd place from Justin Bradford. Ben Dickey 39 beat Louis who as best of 37s from Henry Lindesay-Bethune and Peter Needham, Peter had best front 9 22pts and Ed Hall the back also 22 pts. Of interest 25 men played off white tees and 21 yellow.
Best woman was Reiko Hashimoto 33 pts.

This was 4th comp in the men’s Top Dog:
In Senior Division Will maintains his lead 28pts from Kerry Sargeant 16 ; In Junior Gunnar Sundberg still leads 18 pts from Richard Inglis 16.

A pleasant and warm day with a gentle breeze. Fortunately no rain for a change.

38 players competed and only 6 No Returns. Staying out of the long grass was definitely the order of the day. The early starter Raymond Esin set the early target of net 66 off 10 handicap and nobody could overtake him. Paul McGrath was just 1 off the pace with his net 68. There were 4 players with net 89’s. Among them was Gina Jillett who had the best female score on the day.

The forecast wasn’t great and no doubt everyone had rain at some point. Unfortunately as the women played the 18th there was an ominous clap of thunder. Shortly after they finished there was a cloudburst followed by some fierce thunder & lightning. Glendale then closed the course (the klaxon sounded) and as the men would have been unable to mark their balls to restart from the same place, their medal had to be abandoned.

Women

That was an interesting day on the course and perfect timing for our 2 games – we saw quite a few drowned rats eventually making their way into the clubhouse after the klaxon went. Undoubtedly the wind played a part in some of the scores recorded today and it certainly wasn’t what we’ve come to expect from conditions underfoot in July at the Park.

Congratulations to Sali who recorded a net 69 to win from Silvia with the comfortable margin of 4 shots and will get a small cut in her handicap tomorrow – as we know, not a given with WHS.

There were 2 birdies on the 16th par 3, 1 for Sali and 1 for Elisabeth whose shot your author saw and what a good one it was. Barely a 6″ putt required to slot away her 2, which had it been a stableford comp would have given her 5 points!! Sali’s may have been just as close but unfortunately I didn’t see yours.

A warm cloudy day with the odd quick shower. A choice for the men of White or Yellow tees which only really made a difference on 3 or 4 holes.
Division 1 winner is Gina Jillett and a net 69 followed closely by Sheena Harrington with a net 71 on countback with Kim Chaffart and Richard Owen.
Division 2 winner is Peter Harrington with a net 67 with Adrian Wells in second with net 69.
Dave Cato was in line to win until recording a 10 on the 11th hole but maintained his form to take 4th Place.

Gina and Peter each win a glass tumbler for July’s medal day.