Catch up time!

Here goes - if of course this sad old blogger can remember all that has happened since the last posting!

Lets start with further success in the McDonald Household! Congratulations to Colin and Stephanie McDonald who each won the respective Monthly Stablefords and Mercedes Benz Challenge in July with 42pts and 40pts respectively. Colin and Stephanie will now go forward to the Regional final at Brockett Hall on the 17th Sept.

Next we move to the Ladies Challenge Trophy. The men stepped forward like lambs to the slaughter! As it now transpires, no matter what the eventual match score is, the ladies recalculate the result so they win! So I suppose, somewhat reluctantly as one of the sacrificial lambs, I must congratulate the Ladies for retaining the Ladies Challenge Trophy. (Pictured here is the Lady Vice Captain Jean Clarke being presented the trophy by Val Walker)


The weekend of the 14/15 July witnessed the Herts Cup (for 18 handicappers and below) the Rabbits Cup (19 handicappers and over, and finally on Sunday the Ladies Betterball.

So we start with the Herts cup, I would like to applaud Steve Coombes, firstly for his outstanding round of 69 (gross) and secondly for the magnanimous way in which he accepted his and Kevin Elkins disqualification from the Herts Cup. Unfortunately the rules for the Herts cup state that the competition is open only to those members who have a handicap of 18 or less, sorry to say that Kevin did not meet this criterion.


Congratulations therefore to Paul Gillard and Kevin Hyde, who irrespective of severe hangovers and an extreme lack of sleep shot a supberb -5 betterball score to take the Herts Cup. (Paul and Kevin are picture here with the Vice Captain Colin McDonald).




So to the Rabbits cup, and it is with great delight that I announce the winners Steve Patton and Sean Ward. These 2 new members have become an active part of the membership and along with success at Grovers they now move to a bigger stage. (Sean and Steve are pictured here with the Vice Captain Colin McDonald)