Conditions were markedly different from last Wednesday – a fall in temperature of 15-20C but there was some fine golf, particularly from our ‘Mr. 59′ Igor Stark who earns a three shot reduction! But for a couple of holes, Rochard Owen would have joined Igor with a superlative 63 and lowest gross score 77. Stephen Mason and Kathryn Zally also shot below CSS/SSS earning handicap reductions (latter administered by White Lodge). Results…

In the associated best 4-from-8 Midweek Grand Medal Trophy Richard Owen has opened a 12 shot advantage from Liam Bridger after 4 rounds. R5 Leader board…

Ladies
Honours Board

A good contingent of the ladies’ section turned out to support the Captains on their day, with particular welcome to Christine, Jini, Rianda and Christina whose visits are rare these days. The Lady Captain, Lia Donath, gave each of the ladies a clip-on towelling bag containing a ball, a ball marking gadget and pen – either in pink or purple. Hours of fun stencilling – thank you Lia!

The heat of the previous week was noticeably absent, and many started in showery conditions. The dry conditions of the previous week or so certainly made the ball run, unfortunately, not always in a helpful way, at least, not for many of us. This didn’t seem to affect our occasional visitors as Christine Stewart was the runaway winner with a net 62, some seven shots below her handicap. In second place was Rianda with a net 66. Results…

The CSS remained at 69 as most of use found the conditions somewhat trickier to deal with.

Veronica and Susan won the nearest the pins and Lia, herself, won the ‘nearest the hole in two’.

Men
Honours Board | Top Dog

There was some very good scoring in ideal golfing weather albeit with light intermittent rain early. Tamas Ladacs had a spectacular 61 to win but just a shot behind was Martin Heinrich and Captain Paul played a suitable captain’s innings for a 63! New member Mikel Eguidazu Arrien fired a 64 whilst Alan Cinnamond scored lowest gross 75 but lost two balls with very unlucky bounces. Results…

A large field of 41 competed and the overall balance of play was such to raise CSS one from SSS to 68. Tamas and Martin earned ESR handicap reductions and Paul Rockett joins the eagle tree with a three at the par 5.

John Ahad was nearest-the-pin at the 2nd, Tim Meyer won nearest-the-hole-in two at the 8th and Mikel Eguidazu Arrien was nearest-the-pin at the 16th.

In the associated Top Dog Trophy, after three events, Martin leads by one point on 14 from Tamas, Tony Kopczak and Graham Terry. R3 Leader board…

Playing early on the day of record temperatures seems to have paid off with the first two places going to Tamas Ladacs (38 pts) and Gina Jillett (36 pts) who both teed off at 8.30 – though they will have finished their round in the heat of the day. Certainly the heat seems to have got to many of the rest of the field such that the CSS went up by two and thus awarding both Tamas and Gina with handicap cuts. Results…

Ladies

Val Riziotis maintained her lead from the first round of the ladies’ Club Championship to win by four shots on 176 from Jayne Maxwell on 180. R2 Results… | Overall Results…

In the Handicap Cup, for those on handicaps of up to 21, Val also won on net 138, with Lia Donath just one shot behind to take 2nd place. Results…

In the junior division, the Pembroke Cup was won by Cheryl Woodhouse on net 141, maintaining her first week lead, from Doreen Dolby just one shot behind.  For her efforts Cheryl was awarded an exceptional handicap reduction of 0.5 over and above her shot reduction. Results…

Men

In each of the handicap divisions for the club championship and for the net competition, the first week’s front-runners maintained their leads to win.

The Senior Club Champion for 2015 is Shaun Feldon with a gross score of 149 over the two rounds with Aidan Hurley the runner-up on 152. Results…

In the Junior Division Paul Rockett extended his lead from the first round to win by 14 shots on 161 from Keith Cassidy on 175. Results…

The Handicap Trophy was also won by Paul Rockett on net 129 with Pete Harrison six shots behind on 135. Results…

In the day’s sweep, Tim Meyer took first place with a net 66. Keith Cassidy was 2nd from Pete Harrison and Paul Rockett all on 68. Results…

With the CSS remaining at 71 all received handicap reductions, but following a number of exceptional scoring rounds, Paul’s was reduced by a further two shots to drop from 17 two weeks ago to 11 today.

With 4 of the 12 contenders scoring better than the SSS the CSS came down by one to 66 or 38 points. Colin Pizzey was the winner on 42 points with Liam Bridger in 2nd place two points behind. A further two behind were Stephen Mason & Mike Shabani. Results…

Ladies

Scoring is much tighter in the scratch event for the ladies Club Championship, with Val Riziotis on 88, just one shot ahead of current champion, Jayne Maxwell, and ladies’ captain, Lia Donath. So all to play for in the second week. Results…

In the two handicap divisions, Lia is leading the Handicap Cup (handicaps up to 21) on net 68 from Val on 69. Results…

In the Pembroke Cup, for higher handicaps, Cheryl Woodhouse is leading the field with a net 67 followed one shot behind by Joan Mulcahy. Results…

Men

Leading the way in the senior division, after the 1st round on Prince’s for the Club Championship is Sean Feldon on 71 with in form Roger Rojas lying in second spot on 75, earning Roger a one shot handicap reduction to 11. Aidan Hurley and Paul Appleton are one further shot behind on 76. Results…

Paul Rockett who started the competition with a handicap of 17 is leading in the junior division on 78 with Mike Shabani six shots behind on 86, just one shot ahead of Ray Esin on 87. Results…

In the Handicap Trophy, Paul Rockett leads by one on net 61 from Jason Rees on 62 and Roger Rojas one shot further behind on 63. By the end of the day Paul’s handicap had been cut to 14.9. Results…

Another good scoring day, although the 12th seemed to scupper a number of people’s card with over half the field recording a triple bogey or worse! The ladies are doing well with the adjusted SSS on Duke’s, but they weren’t quite good enough to catch Julian James who was the day’s winner on a net 66 to earn himself a handicap reduction to 15.1. Lesley Mason, one of our new recruits shot another great round to take 2nd place just one shot behind on 67 and reducing her handicap again to 27.4. Gina Jillett was one shot further behind with a 68 to take 3rd place and reduce her handicap to 18.0. Results…

Mid-season conditions prevailed with the odd spot of light rain. Rough was punishing for those that found it in a Duke’s medal competition. CSS remained at SSS.

Straight hitting by Peter Osgood and another tidy round from Roger Rojas saw 68s with Roger the winner on count-back. Keith Cassidy 69, Captain Paul Brown 70 and Toby Hunt 71 equalled or bettered CSS with Peter, Roger and Keith earning handicap reductions. Best lady was Veronica 72. Results…

The associated Anniversary Trophy reflects placings in this, the first of the 4 Jubilees. R1 Leader board…