Week ending October 1st 2011

Seniors Individual Stableford. Some 30 players took part as other played in a match at home

1. Larry Birch 40pts
2. Dave Talbot 39pts
3. Tony Jackson 38pts
4. Mike Turner 36pts

Seniors Individual Stableford competition Thursday Sept 29^th

1.       Reg Taylor  42pts

2.       Mike Turner  41pts

3.       Peter Fraser   40pts

Week ending September 24th 2011

Invitation Day Saturday September 24th

Format Betterball pairs off 3/4 handicap. 2's recorded by Stewart Poole/Gary Hart, Shaun Benson/Steve Custaldo, John Morris/Martin Davies, Mick Carnell/John Selwood and Captain Reg Peacock/Martin  Coy

The actual competition winners were as follows:
1. Mick Carnell and John Selwood  44pts

2. Lady Vice-Captain Annie Lee and Malcolm Edwards 43pts

3. Shaun Benson and Steve Custaldo 42pts

Thursday September 22nd Clays Seniors vs Chirk Seniors away match. Chirk won by 4.5 matches to 3.5 matches. Some photos of the day below kindly supplied by John Hughes.

Golf result for Thursday 22nd September 2011. Stableford, best two scores out of three.

1st Peter Fey, Cliff Davies and Tom McGrady 79 points

2nd Andrew Mitchell, Peter Almond and Reg Taylor 78 points

3rd Joe White, Bill Duncan and Larry Birch 75 points

Tuesday September 20th Individual Stableford

1. John Hughes on count back 36pts
2. Stewart Poole 36pts
3. Larry Birch 35pts
4. Joe White 33pts

Some photos taken by John Hughes of the competition on September 20th can be seen below

Clays Finals weekend 2011 Sept 17th/18th

The weekend saw the finals of all the Clays Knock-out competitions. The course was in superb condition thanks to the Greenstaff

In the Scratch Cup Paul Fell beat Josh Green on the Saturday and he went on to triumph on the Sunday in the Challenge Cup beating Dave Parry

Noel Popplewell beat Bill Kelleher in the JCB trophy and Neil Lloyd-Richards finally overcame an extremely strong challenge from Junior Jack Roycroft to win on the 19th

In the Seniors Championship Dave Lambert beat Colin Brown in the singles.

The Junior Matchplay champion was Bradley Edge who beat Jamie Lee.

The Ladies Aber Rose Bowl final was won by Pauline Peacock who beat Lady Vice-Captain Annie Lee.

In the better-ball competitions  Jane Bell and Lady Captain Diane Dare beat Kim Harcombe and Sheila Roscoe and Mike Jones and Rob Brown eventually overcame Steve and Wyn Williams on the 19th

Ray Martin and Nigel Moore triumphed yet again in the Seniors Pairs Final beating Tony Jackson and Don Wraight

In the foursomes Gem Trophy on the Sunday Jack Roycroft and Josh Green beat Paul Williams and Martin Jones

In the mixed foursomes Annie and Jimmy Lee beat Jane Bell and Dave Riley

On the Saturday prior to the finals a shot gun stableford was held for those players not competing in finals that day. Results as follows:-

1. Jonathan Falcus 39pts
2. Steve L. Williams 38pts
3. Ron Roberts 37pts

Some photos of the weekend below which were kindly taken and provided by Geraint Jenkins

Week ending September 17th 2011

Tuesday Sept 13th Seniors Stableford. Played under very blustery conditions!!

1.       Bill Duncan 33pts on countback

2.       Den Murphy 33pts

3.       Fred Court 31pts

Thursday Sept 15^th Seniors Texas Scramble

1.       Fred Court, Irwin Elkin, Bob Jervis and Mike Carding 54.3

2.       Harold Hughes, Nick Evans, Peter Fey and Joe White 59.9

3.       Brian Downes, Neil Sanger, Frank Harrington and Reg Taylor 60.1

Irwins tree shot

Captains Charity Day September 10th 2011

On Saturday 10th September the Clays Captains Charity Day competition took place. This was a pairs betterball competition off three quarters handicap with a separate par 3 competition where both scores counted. Nearest the pin on the fifth was Jack Roycroft. Winners of the par 3 competion prize were Lawrence Highton and Rob Brown with 14 points. In the main competition there was a consolation prize for the 'strongest' pairing from Llangollen who held up the rest of the field. Winners of the competition, with 45 points, were Bill Kelleher (13) and Keith Jones (17) with the runners-up on 44 points being Ricky Comber and Stu Woolrich. Before the prize presentation, a promise of auctions was held which raised over £1000. This brought the total amount raised on the day for the nominated charities (Family Friends, Home Start and Cancer Research) to almost £3,000, and the total for the year to more than £4,200. Captains Reg Peacock and Diane Dare thank all players, sponsors, donors and auction bidders for their contibution to making this such an enjoyable day, and so financially beneficial for their charities.

Dennis Walters Golf show

On Wednesday Sept 7th the Dennis Walters Golf show came to Clays at 5.30pm. He gave a superb performance and details can be found on his website link below

http://www.denniswalters.com/

Some photos taken at the event below.

Mike Copperwheat Eclectic result 2011

Mike Copperwheat Eclectic 2011

Fewest strokes taken on each hole

Final Eclectic Scores as at Thursday, 8 September 2011

Position	Player	Gross	Handicap	Nett
1	Mitchell, Andrew	65	7	58
2	Lambert, David	65	7	58
3	Kelleher, William (Bill)	68	7	61

Week ending September 10th 2011

September 6th
Clays Seniors played Mold Seniors at home and had a resounding victory by 9 matches to one. 3 players had 2's...one from Mold and 2 from Clays

Tuesday September 6^th Seniors Kitty Competition…Individual Stableford…played by those Seniors not in Team Match

1.       Graham Stokes 38pts

2.       Don Wraight 34pts

3.       Joe White 33pts

Senior September Medal

Played on Thursday, 8 September 2011 at Clay’s

Competition Scratch Score = 69 (Men)

Worthy of note is that Brian Mercer had an ace at the par 3 12^th hole!

Overall Position	Player	Score	Comments	Revised Handicap
Division 1
8	Martin, Ray	80 - 09 = 71	Division 1 Winner	9.2
9	Lambert, David	84 - 13 = 71	Division 1 Runner-Up	12.5
10	Wraight, Don	82 - 10 = 72	Division 1 Third	10.5
Division 2
1	Hollings, Mike	88 - 22 = 66	Division 2 Winner	20.7
2	Sanger, Neil	88 - 21 = 67	Division 2 Runner-Up	19.8
3	Mercer, Brian	91 - 23 = 68	Division 2 Third	22.0

Presidents Day September 3rd 2011

On Saturday September 3rd Tony Harcombe held his Presidents day at Clays. Over 90 competitors (including County President Wyn Mostyn) took part in his Presidents Day competition with some fine individual performances being recorded.

One of the day’s highlights was a hole in one at the twelfth by Andy Matthews

Nearest the pin prizes on the fifth were taken by Kim Harcombe and Mike Evans. Straightest drives on the tenth were recorded by Shirley Roberts and Derek Roberts (Llangollen).

Best junior performance, with 40 points, was Jack Cade (23). Seniors prize was taken by Dilly Jones (18) with 38 points with Wyn Williams (19) taking the seniors second prize with 37 points.

Winners of the mens prize was Dave Wright (5) with 41 points on countback from Robert Edge (12) with Paul Jeffs (12) third on 39 points.

Ladies prize and best overall score of the day was taken by Shirley Roberts (36) with a fantastic 43 points.