Seniors match vs Henlle Golf seniors and kitty competition June 28th 2016

Some 19 members competed in an individual stableford competition. The weather forecast for the day was for heavy rain. With bated breath everyone managed to have a "dry game" including the match competitors. The rain then started to fall at about 3pm when everyone was in!

Result of the Henlle match as follows....Clays 3 1/2  Henlle 4 1/2

Overall result for inaugural playing for "Chirk Trophy" was Clays 6 Henlle 12 

Results of the kitty competition as follows:-

1. Bill Parrish 36points on countback
2. Mike Turner 36 points 
3. Tony Owens  35 points
4. Harold Hughes 34 points

Roy Jordan played an excellent game and was scoring well until he had a few bad holes. On the 16th he hit 5 wood followed by yet another 5 wood to within 2.5 metres of the pin. He narrowly missed his 3 for 5 points and ended up with 4 for 4 points. A video showing his putt can be seen below

Seniors events and matches July 2016 Note Seniors Open date

Tuesday July 5th	To be decided on the day depending on numbers, because ------------------ >>>>	Many players away at RUTHIN PWLLGLAS OPEN
Thursday July 7th	JULY MEDAL Strokeplay / White Tees	Tee times on board – for late entries, please see Don Wraight
Tuesday July 12th	Match v Aldersey Green (Home) Players not in match book a Tee
Thursday July 14th	‘9 x 3’ plus ‘9 x 2’
Tuesday July 19th	SENIORS TROPHY, also inc. VETERANS TROPHY	HONOURS BOARD COMP – Tee times on Notice Board.
Thursday July 21st	To be decided on the day depending on numbers, because ------------------ >>>>	Many players away at RHUDDLAN OPEN
Tuesday July 26th	SENIORS 2-DAY CHALLENGE – ROUND 1	HONOURS BOARD COMP – Tee times on Notice Board.
Thursday July 28th	SENIORS 2-DAY CHALLENGE – ROUND 2	HONOURS BOARD COMP – Tee times on Notice Board.
Tuesday August 2nd	PAIRS BETTERBALL
Thursday August 4th	AUGUST MEDAL Strokeplay / White Tees	Entries in advance via sheet on Notice Board
Tuesday August 9th – Advance Notice	CLAYS SENIORS OPEN Pairs Betterball – 90% H’Cap GREAT PRIZES AVAILABLE	Get someone to make up a pair with you and enter at Clays Reception Desk

Seniors kitty competition June 23rd 2016. Pairs betterball

40 players competed in a Pairs Betterball kitty competition. (A further 8 were playing in the Seniors Pairs knockout).Winners in the kitty competition were:-

1st - Fred Court and  Colin Brown with 45 points.

2nd - Ernie Williams and Nigel Davies with 40 points.

3rd - Dave Palferman and Paul White with 39 points.

4th - Andrew Mitchell and Alwyn Williams with 38 points.

5th - Peter Fraser and Bob Jarvis also with 38 points (on countback)



Cliff Evans reports on the 2's competition:

33 took part in the Two's  today with three getting a two.

Firstly our Senior Captain    Mr Nigel Davies hole 5 ,

Secondly our past captain Colin Brown on hole 2

Thirdly our handicap secretary Barry Dare on hole 12  

                                                                                         

Seniors Stableford qualifier June 21st 2016

A very humid day today as 48 Seniors competed.
Seen on the course today where  Weasel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Our group saw 4 animals crossing the 13th fairway as well s a 2 by the 15th tee...

Results below:1.

1. Brian Downes - 41 points.
2. Reg Peacock - 40 points.
3. Tony Harcombe - 39 points.
4. Frank Rodenhurst - 38 points.
5. Nigel Harris - 38 points. (also on countback, the respective scores on the 18th were all that separated these two).
6. Fred Court - 36 points.
7. Rodney Evans - 35 points.
8. David Jones - 34 points.

Overall Position	Player	Score	Comments	Revised Handicap
Division 1
1	Downes, Brian	41 pts (23)	Division 1 - Winner	21.1
2	Peacock, Reg	40 pts (14)	Division 1 - Runner-Up	12.7
3	Harcombe, Tony	39 pts (16)	Division 1 - 3rd	14.8

Cliff Evans ran his usual 2's competition with 5 members in the frame today

The following player(s) returned Twos or better in this competition:

Hole	Player	Score
2	Key, Richard	2
5	Hughes, William (Bill)	2
5	Jenkins, Eifion Wynn	2
5	Rodenhurst, Frank	2
12	Taylor, Reg	2

Some photos taken on the course below:-

Ernie Williams's group on the 11th tee

Chris Jacques, memorial trophy winning about to tee off

View to the 17th green with all players, Tom McGrady, Tony Owens and Barry dare scoring apart from Derek who had yet another blob!!!

Barry Dare teeing off on the 15th 

Golf ruling from Fred June 18th 2016

A question from a recent game. A player plays his ball down the fairway into the semi rough, and walks down to the area his ball is likely to be, and finds a strange ball in that area. By definition his ball is lost after a 5 minute search. Feeling aggrieved because the ball is lost and stroke and distance applies he also believes another player has played his ball, what are his options?

If his group are virtually certain another player was seen to play from that area, he may place another ball where his ball was played from and continue without penalty, however with a ball in the “rough” this option can be tenuous because there is a strong possibility his ball may still be in the area, laying in the rough and not identified. Sheriff

Seniors Memorial Day competition June 16th 2016. Individual stableford

The results from today as below:-

1st - Chris Jacques - 40 points and winner of the Memorial Trophy - see below
2nd - Nigel Harris - 39 points.
3rd - Dave Palferman - 38 points.
4th - Roy Jordan - 36 points (on countback, better back 9).
5th - Reg Taylor - 36 points.
6th - Ron Roberts - 35 points (on countback, better back 6).

7th - Maelor Davies - 35 points.



Cliff Evans ran his 2's competition and today there were 4 winners as below:-
37 entered the two's with four players getting a 2. Stewart Poole on the 5th, Nigel Harris on the 12th as also did Reg Taylor on the 12th and the fourth player Chris Jacques getting his on the 18th  hole.

Chris Jacques winner receiving the trophy from Seniors Captain.Nigel Davies

Stewart supporting Wales.Pity about today's result

Look like Stewart has heard the news about Wales!!

Chris receiving financial reward for today


Some more photos of the day below together with video footage to be posted later

The photo below shows bunker in front of the 9th




There were hundreds of poppies growing at one side of the 9th tee as the 2 photos below show. Apparently the poppy can germinate even after hundreds of years of the seeds in the soil

Below John Kelty about to drive off on the 9th

Steve Monk played well today but had a blob on the 13th when he found bunkers twice as can be seen in the video below. He had to drop out behind on the first bunker and then proceeded to put it in the further one. Golf is cruel sometimes. As for Derek who took the video he had a blob...one of many!!

Stableford kitty competition plus home match vs Hawarden June 14th 2016

About 20 players playing in the match today against Hawarden and result was: Clays 5 1/2  Hawarden 4 1/2

17 other players played an individual stableford comp before the match started. Results were:-

1st - Frank Rodenhurst, with 38 points.

2nd - Graham Stokes, with 36 points.

3rd - Andrew Mitchell, with 34 points.


4th - Nigel Harris, with 33 points.

Devon trip June 2016 results

Results from Devon kindly supplied by Fred. Photos from the event can bee seen below.....kindly sent by Don Wraight. Derek has edited those suitable for publication!!

Day 1. Don Wraight 37 C/B Fred Court 37 C/B Ralph Hardy 37.:

Day 2. Colin Bain (Upton GC) 43, Don Wraight 37 C/B Mike Goring 37.:

Day 3. Barry Dare 40, Irwin Elkin 38 Don Wraight 36:

Day 4 Tony Harcombe 37, C/B Colin Bain 37, ED Bowden ( Northop GC) 36.

Ramnee Trophy Accumulative score over 4 events. Don Wraight 144.

Forest Trophy best net score on any individual event Barry Dare Net 68.

28 mymy Trophy most holes with a score of 4 points or more Fred Court, 4.

Some photos below:-

Seniors Texas scramble June 9th 2016

A large number of Seniors bared their legs to play in very hot conditions today. Some other played Honours board competition whilst the Devon crowd are still having a great time.
The weather was about 25-26C all day but when Derek left to travel to Snowdonia it suddenly changed and the temperature steadily dropped along the North Wales coast down to 17c with very heavy rain. After the last tunnel out came the sun again and on arrival at Brynteg Holiday Home Park the weather was glorious once more!

Results from today's competition:-

1. Bob Brown, Dave Palferman, Cliff Evans and Bill Parrish   59.2
2. Maelor Davies, Phil Morris, Dave Jones and Bill Kelleher 60.1
3. Colin Brown, Derek Lyon, Efion Jenkins and Roy Jordan (the Gresford lads) 60.7

Some photos taken by Cliff Evans below and Derek will post his photos and videos later. 

Now for some of Derek's photos and videos

Eifion attending flag for Colin on the 8th

Colin about to putt on the 8th after hitting a superb 5 iron into the green

Having a natter with team in front on the 9th tee

Waiting too long for team on front to putt out on 17th...they did in fact win the event!!

Close up of the winning team on the 17th....they carded a 5!!

                                                AND now for some videos taken on the day.
                                      The first video shows Colin taking his putt on the 8th

Below Eifion taking 2nd shot to 17th green having initially laid up with a 7 iron. Derek afterwards took a 6 iron to leave a 10 foot putt which Colin holed

Seniors individual Bogey competition June 7th 2016

With over 20 members away on the annual Devon Golfing Holiday, and several others playing in Honours Board knockout matches, today's turnout for the kitty competition was somewhat reduced.

Nevertheless, 19 players were present for a rarely played Individual Bogey competition. Results were:
1st - David Jones on 6 holes up.

2nd - Graham Stokes on 4 holes up.

3rd - Andrew Mitchell also on 4 holes up (on countback).


4th - Bill Hughes, on 3 holes up

From all accounts received via Facebook  from the Devon lads they seem to be having a great time.

Senior Medal June 2nd 2016

Senior Medal

Played on Thursday, 2 June 2016 at Clays.

Competition Scratch Score:
72 (Men - White Tees)
73 (Ladies - Red Tees)

Show: Gross Scores Result

Overall Position	Player	Score	Comments	Revised Handicap
Division 1
1	Williams, Ernest	81 - 14 = 67	Division 1 - Winner & Lowest Gross Score	12.2
3	Davies, Nigel	84 - 13 = 71	Division 1 - Runner-Up	12.7
4	Jacques, Chris	83 - 11 = 72	Division 1 - 3rd	10.7

Division 2
2	Evans, John Clifford	91 - 23 = 68	Division 2 - Winner	21.0
5	Pierce, Tom	93 - 21 = 72	Division 2 - Runner-Up	21.3
9	Monk, Steve	95 - 21 = 74	Division 2 - 3rd	20.9

Eifion Jenkins had hard luck with about 7 putts narrowly missing the hole on each occasion.

However he had no problem with his putt on the 12th

Golf rule from Fred June 1st 2016

A saying often heard in regard to the rules of golf. I was asked if a player whose club breaks during a practice swing on the tee is able to use his partners Driver, I answered no I don’t think so to which I had a response, Someone told me I can.

 

To clear the decks as they say and avoid any unnecessary disqualifications may I Paraphrase from the rule book. 4.3 Damaged Clubs repair and replacement.   If during a round, a player's club is damaged during he normal course of play he may without delay repair the club, or replace the damaged club, but not by borrowing any club selected for play by any other person playing on the course. The sheriff.

Clays Seniors events for June 2016

COMPETITIONS -  JUNE 2016
DATE	KITTY COMPS – in BLUE OTHER COMPS – in BLACK	COMMENTS
Thursday June 2nd	JUNE MEDAL Strokeplay / White Tees	Draw on board -  late entries see Don Wraight
Sunday June 5th	DEVON TRIP STARTS FOR THOSE INVOLVED.
Tuesday June 7th	INDIVIDUAL BOGEY
Thursday June 9th	TEXAS SCRAMBLE
Friday June 10th	DEVON TRIP ENDS
Tuesday June 14th	Match vs Hawarden (Home) Players not in match book a Tee
Thursday June 16th	SENIORS MEMORIAL TROPHY	Individual Stableford, held in memory of our former colleagues.
Tuesday June 21st	INDIVIDUAL STABLEFORD	Qualifier
Thursday June 23rd	PAIRS BETTERBALL (followed by a Committee Meeting)
Tuesday June 28th	Match vs HENLLE (Home) Players not in match book a Tee
Thursday June 30th	YELLOW BALL (5, 4, 5, 4).