August 2024
August 2024
Friday Sweep
A warm sunny day without significant wind – ideal for golf.
Naveed continued his fine form in the Midweek Club Championship with a gross 71 (3 over par) to win comfortably with 39 points. Taking 2nd place (after a score entry correction) was Charlie Haines on 36 points. Gerrard Quinn takes 3rd place on countback, being the best of 3 players on 35 points – the 18th hole being critical. (Gerrard got his 2 points, Mike Assender followed up his consecutive birdies on the 16th and 17th with a double bogey 6 for 1 point, and Mike Jones had a blob).
MW Club Championship/Hcap Trophy R2
We were fortunate to have a lovely day to play the second round of the M/W Club Championship. The dew for the early starters lifted fairly quickly.
A field of 46 contested the outcome with several players finding the going rather tough.
36 hole aggregate winners:
Scratch senior division – Naveed Manazir 154
Scratch junior division – Angus Robertson and George Taylor both 158
Handicap Trophy (- best net )- Angus Robertson 138
Women’s Scratch – Gina Jillett 166
Summer Bank Holiday Plate
A fresh sunny day after rains from yesterday for the Bank Holiday Plate. Greens slowish but mowed.
A sterling performance from the winner Richard Owen 39 points with 2 birdies – the one at 12th being a ‘chip-in’. Onursal Soyer was a point behind on 38 and won back 9 honours 20 in spite of a ‘blob’ at14th. Caroline Stilwell came 3rd with a fine 37 points in another fine round . 3 had 36 points – Mel Dunn. Deborah Potter and Richard Young. Henry Lindesay-Bthune took back 9 honours 22 points.
Well done to Mel for his eagle 3 off whites at 17th his 2nd Sunday eagle this year 9th overall per attached.
Friday Sweep
After overnight rain, it was a dry, mainly sunny, very windy but not unpleasant day for golf on the Duke’s course.
Scores were probably depressed a little by the wind and the top three all scored 36 points, 3 clear of Cheryl and Teddy, both on 33 points. Colin Price came out top on countback (17 out and 19 back), Richard Owen 2nd with 19 out and 17 back, and Leigh Drake 3rd with 20 out and 16 back. There were just 2 birdies, Colin’s 2 on the 10th and Naveed’s 3 on the index 1 14th.
Sweep pay out to the top 3.
MW Club Championship/Hcap Trophy R1
Weather was kind but the holes were in the wrong places and even the greens on some holes!!
However, some players found everything to their liking. It’s easy to run up a cricket score if you got into a tight spot as many players found out. The greens were rather slow due to not having been cut for today but I’m sure Dukes greens will be better next week.
Next Wednesday is round 2 on Dukes so we must all pray for good conditions with no rain on the day. Scores will be joined with todays scores. Both Net and gross.
Well done to those having good score.
NAPGC Ballantyne – National Semi-Final
Richmond Park won their National Semi-Final match by 2 to1 points against Wycombe Heights B at Thorney Park (neutral course) on a warm and sunny Sunday afternoon. The team will now play at the NAPGC National Finals at Thornbury Park golf course, near Bristol, on Saturday September 28th. The wins at Thorney Park in this round of the pairs matchplay competition came from Uli Katte & Adrian Wells (4&3) and Paul Green & Tamas Ladacs (1 up); Mark Bean & Richard Owen narrowly lost their game 2&1. A photo of the winning team at the 18th green after the match is pictured below.
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President’s Putter (Top Dog 5/7)
Clouds melted to give a sunny and fresher day than of late for the President’s Putter. Good turnout of 62 considering NAPGC commitments of some and peak holiday season.
As with last week, women featured strongly on the leaderboard with 3 in the top 4 positions; the winner on countback with 41 points was Igor Lanzargorte from Caroline Stilwell. Igor steady on both 9s but an excellent front 9 – 23 points including birdie and NTP at 2nd (see further below re prizes) from Caroline. Next on 40 points was Avi Murphy – truly excellent and Avi shares the front 9 honours with Caroline. Reiko Hashimoto was the next woman on 39 points. 5 shared 38 points with Peter Harrison the leader on countback from Tony Kopczak, Alex Catlow, Ben Dickey and Tom Simpkins. A mention for Chris Mellish who had 5 birdies outweighed by 7 ‘blobs’.
Our President not present but 7 novelty prizes as below – and note Ray’s eagle a 9th– well done indeed! 2nd men’s eagle at the hole this year and 9 so far recorded [see attached] . Well done Goran for 2 prizes!
Hole
2 NTP Caroline Stillwell
4 NTP Alex Catlow
9 NTP in 3 Ray Esin (in hole – Eagle!)
11 NTP Goran Kovacevic
13 NTP Kenny Du
16 NTP George Taylor
18 NTP in 2 Goran Kovacevic
For the men this was 5th To Dog competition and by division:
Senior: Will Balakrishnan leads 28 pts from Alan K 20 with Kerry and Ben 16
Junior:Gunnar Sundberg still leads 18 from Richard Inglis 16 and then a chasing pack of 4 on 12.
Midweek August Plate
The day started with light rain but as predicted became dry and pleasant.
Scoring was generally good with over half the field scoring 30+.
Colin Price was out to beat his own age but apparently missed out by one, howver he topped the scoring with a sparkling 42 points. Wishing he had entered the sweep!!
Tom Simpkins , Chris Rudkin and Richard Marriott all scored 40 points but Tom came second on countback with Richard 3rd. Ed Robinson just pipped Bridget Stone both on 36 points. Well done Bridget being the leading lady.
A mention about Ian Burgess who scored a 4 on the 4th hole for 4 points. Must be his lucky number!
Jeremy Prescot got a 2 on the 10th for 4 points.
Diamond Jubilee (60y 1924-1984)
A very warm day for the Diamond Jubilee.
A fine 66 off 19 earned David Grace the trophy; some excellent rounds from 2 women followed – Pat Barbour 69 and Doreen Dolby 70 – well done ladies! Peter Harrison and George Taylor followed with 70s beaten on countback with George dropping just 1 shot on front 9. New club champion Will Balakrishnan took back 9 honours of 37 (1 over)
This was 3rd of 5 Jubilees in the Anniversary Cup and with his 73 today Gunnar Sundberg has stablished a 2 shot lead on 220 from Mike Assender and Paul Kamerling.
A good turnout of 67.
Midweek August Medal (MGMT R6/8)
The day on Prince’s started sunny and became clouded, but dry – perfect conditions for good results, if it were not for the treacherous high grass ‘eating’ balls, which led to a number of unfortunate NRs. 😉
The competition was held in 2 Divisions, with the majority of players starting in the higher handicap Division 2.
Gina, playing off 11, came in first in Division 1, with a net result of 67, which could have been even better if she hadn’t run into problems with the par3s on the second 9.
Peter Miller won Division 2 with an even better result of net 66, playing off 29.