The Clapham Common is a national men's team knockout competition run by the NAPGC. The earlier rounds are regional.

The competition is unusual in that each match is determined by an away and a home leg played on the same day. The format is greensome stableford and the winner is the team with the best cumulative score of the two legs.

The Club has entered one team this year, whose members are selected by the Club Captain for each round. The teams and results for each round of the competition are set out below and to the right. Also follow progress in NAPGC Area 6.

Check back regularly to see how the team gets on.

First Round Report

The Club secured a win Sunday 16 May against Addington 203-192.

 Second Round Report

Richmond Park won by two points against Oaks Park.

It seems that after a huge misunderstanding within the NAPGC committee, Richmond Park should have had a walkover as the first round Oaks v Cobtree match had not not been played. It's a very long and boring story, so thankfully the Club won on the course to put the result beyond question.

Third Round Report

HOME LEG

With not so bad scores from the home team, we still managed to loose by 4 points with Basildon coming in with a 42, 37 and a 40. Richmond Park was an obvious walk in the park for this lot.

I would like to thank all the team for playing both at home and away and give special thanks to Ed and David, who played in their first ever Clapham Common and a big thanks to Tim on the away side for agreeing to play at such short notice.

Better luck next year boys.

Martin Wright

AWAY LEG

We arrived at Basildon with great expectations of a credible performance, but we were overwhelmed by some impressively accurate long hitting and canny putting that owed much to local knowledge.

We had something of a foretaste of what was to come when an enquiry as to why the Basildon chaps should be playing in a gale force wind in Bristol the previous weekend revealed that they had just won the NAPGC Bourne-Vanneck trophy (their 6th trophy win in the last 10 years!).

Basildon is a comparatively hilly course with many sloping lies, blind shots, and some most extraordinary tee shots over wooded areas that require a boldness verging on madness. These were tough conditions we are unaccustomed to at the Park, and the lack of course knowledge further contributed to the team's downfall.

The team scores for the three pairings in the order above were 27, 31 and a very credible 38 for Kerry and Toby - an average of 32 points. The scores for the opponents were 44, 45 (2 under par after the 17th, followed by a blob on the 18th!) and 38 - an average of 42 points. The away side shortfall was a cool 30 points - a good loss if ever there was one, in that we didn't pussyfoot around with the odd point or two.

Peter Harrington