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.

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.

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.

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 2^nd (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 9^th– well done indeed! 2^nd 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 5^th 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.

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.

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.

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.