There was much rain overnight but fairways still reasonably firm and odd green soft; the weather forecast had deterred a number and in the event 34 competed with just 5 mins sprinkle for the Silver Jubilee.

Winner on the day was Gerard Ouattara with an excellent 64 off 20. A couple of super 67s chased with Gregory Jean-Baptiste the winner on countback from early leader Tony Kopczak. Paul Green, Toby Hunt and Richard Smith had very creditable 68s.

Paul Kamerling’s 71 proved enough for him to win the overall (best 4 from 5 Jubilees) Anniversary Cup on 281 – 3 from Peter N. Harrison and 1 from Charlie Whiteman and Toby Hunt. Well done Paul!

Our Kelso Hamilton team of Russell Stewart and Brendan Sullivan are this year’s winners of the Surrey Kelson Hamilton competition!
Their path to the final began back in February at a very cold and wet Surrey National with subsequent victories at London & Scottish, Dulwich & Sydenham, Banstead and Cuddington.
Their east section final was against Walton Heath Artisans which was played at The Drift.
On Sunday 22 September they made their way to Clandon Regis to play The Drift who won the West section for the honour of Overall champions.
A magnificent result made all the more remarkable having played all their matches away from home.

Congratulations Brendan and Russell!

A chilly start for some but otherwise great conditions for golf – dry, not too hot and with sunny periods. Greens had sand-banded and fairways overseeded.

It was greensomes stableford for 25 pairs which can produce some high stableford scores and today was no exception. The winning pair stayed on the leader-board throughout – team Hayden and Perkins who just won 43 points on countback last holes from team Grand and Whiteman.
4 pairs followed with 42 points – Teams:
Peter N. Harrison & Hall
Richard Smith & Doyle
Harrington Almasoud
Owen & Katte
Well done for the 2 eagles on 15th to Dun & Mellish and Ali & Fulham.

And to Jagger and Jean-Baptiste for 24 points on back 9.

It was a sunny, albeit windy and cool, autumn day and most players stayed dry during their round.

This medal round was played in two divisions, with Handicap adaptations for men playing off the white tees and for the women.

Gina, our habitual early starter, won the day in Div 1 handsomely with a score of 71 net.
Russell and Naveed (who had the best gross score!) follow with 3 and 4 shots behind.

Div 2 was taken by RichardN (with a net score of 69), again with a 3 stroke advantage over runner-up Charles, with Gerard and Teddy following 1 and 2 strokes behind him.

After some heavy overnight rain the course generally had less run and bounce  = with the greens significantly slower. Dry with sunny intervals that developed.

Scoring generally was above average for the Golden Jubilee. The winner, Tom Simpkins had a fantastic 63 off 19 – 41 gross out and in – and is rewarded with an ESR of -1. 2 behind on glorious 65 was Chris Mellish dropping just 2 shots on the[whites]  difficult back 9. Best woman Sali Davies took 3^rd place with 66 on countback from Tom Laybourn. Mike Assender took  front 9 honours on level par 35 [off yellow] whilst Kerry Sargeant and Umran Ali shared back 9 honours from yellows =37’.

This was 4^th of 5 Jubilees paled so far – just Silver left. Mike Assender and Paul Kamerling are currently tied 293 for the lead whilst Peter N. Harrison and Katharina Katte are tied for 3^rd 304 (and next Charli Whiteman and Kerry Sargeant also tie 5^th -305. Best 4 from 5 counts.

For the men this was 6^th out of 7 comps for the Top Dog  (just Lissaman 3 clubs & Putter plus results of the 2 matchplay KOs left):

Senior division

Little change on leading positions with Will Balakrishnan leading 28 from Alan King 20 and Kerry Sargeant now 18

Junior division

No change with leader Gunnar Sundberg 18 from Richard Inglis16 but Tom Simpkins advances to 3^rd with 12 points from today to 15 just 1 ahead of Peter N. Harrison.

t was a bone dry Prince’s course on a golf-friendly warm windless day.

Winner of the Fred Hawtree Cup was Peter Miller, finishing 5 up, two clear of the field, +3 on the front nine and +2 on the back nine. He may have rued his two pick ups but they didn’t matter. Last year the winner, Mitchell Cohen, finished 7 up, and perhaps the difference in scoring today was the greens, heavily worked on by the greenkeeping staff.

In second was Jose M Gomez. at 3 up by countback, from Teddy Holt and Richard Marriott. Mike Assender came in in 5th, leading those on 1 up by countback.

33 cards.

A hot, sunny and humid day as forecast for the September Medals.

Women

Another small field for the Autumn meeting (aka September) medal and looks like the conditions suited most. Very impressive 2 on the very long par 3 13th from Katharina. Can’t think that the women have recorded many of these on that hole.
A birdie 4 on the 7th, alongside 5 pars all helped Susan to 1st place with a great 65. Her gross 83 was her lowest round on Prince’s for just over 2 years.
2 shots behind on a 67, Deb is showing the result of lessons and is her best result for 4 years on Prince’s!

Congratulations both, and WHS also agrees that you played really well, Rewarding both of you with cuts of 0.9 each.

Men

Good scoring generally.
Best in senior division came from Richard Smith and a glorious 65; Richard was one under par for back 9 with 2 birdies, Just a shot behind was Kerry Sargeant 67 – Kerry had a purple patch with consecutive birdies at 15 and 16. Richad Owen also had 67 being nipped on countback.
In the junior division Onursal Soyer was best with 66 beating Peter Harrington and Julian James 67s Peter would have been better but for an errant drive at 3rd for an 8 and Julian completed a superb back 9 37.

This was the 7th round [6th played – July abandoned] in the Grand Medal and with just 1 round left:
In the senior division just 3 have completed 5 rounds so Richard Smith leads 343 from Kerry Sargeant just 1 behind 344 then Paul Kamerling 357. In the junior, Nigel Ward 342 leads from Tony Kopczak 360 with 2 others having played 5 – Ian burgess 375 and Gerard Ouattara.

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).

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.

The net results for the day show no surprise that Richard Young (playing off 27) recorded the best score with his seven under net 65.  Richard last matched his best score over twelve months ago and in turn he matched an identical score another twelve months earlier.  The runner up to Richard was Alison Chadwick (playing off 29) with a four under net 68 and losing out on the countback Sheena Harrington (playing off 19) finished in third place with her net 68. 

For the gross results of the day the senior division Naveed Manazir returned with the day’s leading score, an eight over par gross 79.  Chasing hard was Angus Robertson with his gross 80 and in third place George Taylor finished with his gross 83. 

In the junior division gross Richard Young played to seven under his handicap for the best score on the day with his gross 92.  Stephen Haworth and Dave Cato both finished as close runner ups with a pair of 94s. 

Of course, the final result for the 36 hole event takes account of the two rounds and for 2024 we see that :

• Our senior Midweek Club Champion is Naveed who secured two winning scores of 75 and 79 for an aggregate total of 154.  Angus finished in joint second place with his two scores of 78 plus 80 to record a total of 158, and joining Angus on 158 it was indeed George with rounds of 75 and 83.      

• Our junior Midweek Club Champion is Dave Cato heading the leaderboard with rounds of 89 and 94 for a total of 183.  Colin Price finished as the runner up with scores of 92 and 96 for a total of 188, and Tom Rose was third with rounds of 89 and 104 for his total of 193. 

The women’s scratch was won by Gine Jillett 166 with Sheena Harrington runner-up 177.

The Midweek Handicap Trophy is awarded to the player with the best aggregate net result, subject to one proviso.  Our player with the best aggregate net result was Michael Hayden with his two sub-handicap scores of 64 and 71 for an impressive total of135.

  Unfortunately for Michael he did not meet the qualifying proviso of three midweek rounds played in the period from 1st Jan 2024 and it follows that the trophy will be collected by Angus who was consistent with two net 69s for his aggregate total of 138.  Following Angus were the duo of Naveed and George who shared the runner up position with aggregates of 139.