Seniors Yellow Ball November 30th 2017

In very cold conditions 31 Seniors ventured out to play. The 1st tee was a par 3 and the 2nd hole was out of play.

Results:

1. Reg Peacock/John Kelty and Colin Brown  121 points
2.  Don Wraight/Peter Fraser and Tony Harcombe  120 points on count back
3. Dave Jones/Mike Drake and Nigel Davies  120 points

Tom McGrady ran the 2's competition today with 31 entering.There was only one winner namely Steve Monk on the 5th.

SENIORS OPENS 2018 VIA TONY HARCOMBE NOVEMBER 30TH 2017

TUESDAY MAY 8TH 2018 PRYORS HAYES £15

THURSDAY MAY 10 TH  ARSCOTT  £15

TUESDAY  MAY 22ND MALKINS BANK £15

TUESDAY JUNE 5TH  SHREWSBURY  £25

TUESDAY  JULY  3RD  RUTHIN PWLLGLAS  £12,50

WEDNESDAY  JULY 11TH  ANTROBUS   £13

THURSDAY   JULY    19TH  RHUDDLAN £15

WEDNESDAY  AUGUST 1ST  £20 OSWESTRY

THURSDAY  AUGUST 9TH CLAYS OPEN

WEDNESDAY  SEPTEMBER  5TH  HELSBY  £18

Seniors Winter League 2nd round November 28th 2017

Thanks to Steve Monk for the following report

Today was the second round of the Senior's Winter League. Further rounds will be played in January and February.

32 players competed today over a shortened course, with the 2nd hole being closed and the 1st playing as a par 3

 Winners were:
1st (scoring 10 league points) - Martin Povey with 37 stableford points.

2nd (9 points) - Peter Lynch with 35.

3rd (8 points) - Andy Mitchell with 33.

4th (7 points) - Keith Hawthorn with 32.

5th (6 points) - Bob Brown also with 32.

6th (5 points) - Colin Brown also with 32.

7th (4 points) - Dilly Jones with 31
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8th (3 points) - Don Wraight also with 31.

9th (2 points) - Chris Jacques with 30.

10th (1 point) - John Kelty also with 30.

Those with the same scores were separated by the usual countback method.

Seniors competition events December 2017 via Steve Monk

SENIORS COMPETITION DECEMBER 2017
DATE	KITTY COMPS – in BLUE OTHER COMPS – in BLACK	COMMENTS
Tuesday Dec 5thth	9-Hole Texas Scramble followed by A.G.M at approx 12 noon.	Please make every effort to be at the AGM - Thanks
Thursday Dec 7th	DECEMBER MEDAL  plus  9-HOLE COMPETITION	Draw on Board – see Don for late entries.
TUESDAY DEC 12th	9-Hole Texas Scramble followed at approx 1.30 p.m. by  ***XMAS PARTY***  NOT TO BE MISSED!	Price to be arranged but will include comp fee and party; liquid prizes; free wine at table; free draw for those who have paid their subs in advance; great company, full Xmas meal. (All to be confirmed)
Thursday Dec 14th	‘9 x 3’ PLUS ‘9 x 2’
Tuesday Dec 19th	3 CLUBS AND A PUTTER You can choose any 3 clubs plus your putter, so a maximum of 4 clubs in your bag	Individual Stableford
Thursday Dec 21st	MULTIPLIER
Tuesday Dec 26th	BOXING DAY – Book your own tee if you want to play.	Check with desk if anything is planned by the club
Thursday Dec 28th	PAIRS BETTERBALL
Tuesday Jan 2nd	NEW YEAR’S       INDIVIDUAL STABLEFORD
Thursday Jan 4th	JANUARY MEDAL plus 9-HOLE COMPETITION	Entries via usual notice on board.

Seniors Kitty competition November 23rd 2017

Decision made that due to  various course work/sanding etc being done today the format was to be pairs match play in teams of 4. Rules were through the green. Some 32 members took part and any monies collected for a 2 was waved and carried forward to the next event....pity as Derek had a 2 on the second! Tom indicated....32 players contributed to the 2s today giving a total of £6.40 plus a 20p carry over from Tuesday giving a total pot of £6.60. As there was no kitty comp today the majority verdict was to carry the total fund forward to next Tuesday's game which is round 2 of the winter league. It should be worth winning then!!
The weather today was decidedly winter like and periods of sunshine and showers interspersed with some high winds. If one lost a ball in the rough then often it was not found amongst the leaves.

Some photos and video taken today below

Vice Captain Chris Jones has now completed his work of art...well done

Don Wraight preparing to tee off on the 1st

Trees to right of 4th fairway

Chris Jacques preparing to take his 2 shot on the 4th watched by Ralph Hardy who actually had 2 gross birdies today

View from 8th tee down fairway

Ralph Hardy about to tee off on the 12th

Below Chris Jacques taking his 2nd shot to the green on the 4th

Waltz kitty competition November 21st 1017

Results kindly supplied by Steve Monk as follows:-

40 players today, and the game was a Waltz 4-ball, so 10 teams competing.

Rules of the competition as follows:-The waltz dance goes 1, 2 3 and then repeats the steps. Hence in this game format the highest team score on first hole is carded, followed by best 2 scores on second hole and then finally best 3 scores on next hole. This pattern in then repeated till the end of the game...easy and very enjoyable.

1st - Peter Lynch, Bill Parry, Peter Fey and Harold Hughes with 86 stableford points.
2nd - Ron Roberts, Barry Evans, Tony Jackson and Nigel Davies with 76 points.

3rd - Keith Hawthorn, Ernie Williams, Roy Jordan and Steve Monk with 72 points


Tom McGrady kindly supplied the following report:-

There were 37 players signed up for the 2s today with a total fund of £7.40.

There was an extra opportunity as well as the 1st hole was reduced to a par 3.

Unbelievably there were NINE!! twos today as follows:

Alwyn Williams, Harold Hughes and Peter Lynch on the 1st.
Chris Jacques on the 2nd
Tom McGrady on the 5th
Peter Fey, Ron Roberts, and Martin Povey on the 12th.

Each player received just 80p!!!! There is a carry over of 20p to the next 2s competition.

Don Wraight's ace on the 2nd hole Friday November 17th 2017

Don Wraight had a hole in one at the 2nd hole using a 50 degree wedge on Friday November 17th.
and it was witnessed by Ron Roberts, Andrew Mitchell, Tony Owens and Tom McGrady

Texas scramble and British Legion presentation November 16th 2017

Thanks to Steve for the results and to Don for the photograph


43 players competed in a Texas Scramble.

Winners were:
1st - Don Wraight, Fred Court, Nigel Davies and Chris Jacques with a score of 62.2

2nd - Dave Palferman, Colin Brown, Tom McGrady and Steve Monk with 63.3


3rd - Nick Lee, Barry Dare, Mike Drake and Alwyn Williams with 63.7

Below Senior's Captain Nigel Davies is seen presenting a cheque for £400 on behalf of the Seniors Section to the Royal British legion representative Andrew Green.

Seniors Winter League round ONE November 14th 2017

Today the going was difficult under foot after recent heavy rains, However the sun did come out and at times it felt just like summer!!!

The results kindly supplied by Steve Monk as follows

48 players competed in what was the 1st round of this years Seniors Winter League, to be played over 6 rounds in total. League points are awarded to the first 10 players in each round, in addition to the usual kitty competition prizes. Winners today were as follows:

1st (10 league points) - Chris Jacques with 35 stableford points

2nd (9 points) - Dave Palferman with 34

3rd (8 points) - Dilly Jones also with 34

4th (7 points) - Ivan Corlett also with 34

5th (6 Points) - John Kelty with 33

6th (5 points) - Don Wraight also with 33

7th (4 points) - Martin Povey with 32

8th (3 points) - Ralph Hardy also with 32

9th (2 points) - Dave Jones also with 32

10th (1 point) - Tony Harcombe also with 32

Those with equal stableford scores were separated by the usual countback method.





Tom McGrady submitted the following - 45 people contributed to the 2s today giving a total fund of £9.00.

There were 3 winners each receiving £3.00;

Don Wraight on the 2nd
Ernie Williams on the 5th
Mike Hollings on the 5th

Derek took some photos and videos today as below....

View down the 14th

Playing the 18th

View back to 18th fairway from the green....apologies for the shadows!!

View from the 18th green to first fairway and beyond

Searching for a lost ball done 3rd fairway amongst the leaves

The half way house being built

Work in progress off the car park by Vice Captain Chris Jones



Below is a video of our new member Keith Hawthorn who plays a "mean 6 iron!Below he can be seen teeing off with his 6 iron down the 10th.....awesome

Ken Lawrence Memorial Trophy & Poppy Day November 9th 2017

Derek is thankful to Don Wraight for supplying the results and photos.Derek unable to play as his dog was at the Vets being spayed.

49 Seniors competed. Weather was reasonable the time of the year...cloudy with temperatures around 12 C.

1^st Ivan Corlett..35pts

2^nd Ralph Hardy..34pts  count back

3^rd Bob Brown...34pts

Raised £352 on the day and Shirley Lawrence and family will make up to £400

The photos below are in order of first, second and 3rd

Nigel Davies, Seniors Captain wishes to thank all those concerned in organising and
participating in the Ken Lawrence Memorial competition today and those
who donated raffle prizes. Our section raised the fantastic sum of £400
for the Royal British Legion, including a very generous donation from
Shirley, Ken's wife. Shirley also donated the malt whisky which the
winner received along with the Ken Lawrence Trophy. Thank you to
everyone for your wonderful generosity.


The  photo below shows Ken's son Chris on
the 1st tee with our playing partners Tony Harcombe and Cliff Davies.
Chris played the first drive of the competition.

Seniors Kitty competition November 7th 2018 Teams of 3 with best 2 scores to count

Derek took one look out of his bedroom window today, saw the rain and went back to bed!

So Derek is indebted to Don Wraight for the following results

21 played a 3ball best 2 to count in the rain today

1^st  Bob Brown Stuart Leyland Tony Owens  68 pts

2^nd Tony Harcombe Tony Jackson Nigel Davies 64 pts

3^rd Andy Mitchell Mike Drake Barry Dare 61 pts

Tom McGrady sent in the 2's result

21 people turned up and played today. As you can imagine it was pretty uncomfortable in the persistent rain but we all completed the course.

There was £4.20 in the 2s kitty but nobody won it. Rather than roll it over to Thursday we all agreed that it should be donated to the Ken Lawrence fund instead.

Seniors Medal and 9 Hole Stableford Qualifier November 2nd 2017

Autumn had really started today when weather was grey and gloomy but the sun did come out late morning.

Some photos taken on the day below showing Autumn colours

View across 9th tee

Looking down 9th fairway

Looking across from 9th fairway towards 10th fairway

The results can be seen below....take no notice of the dreadful score from Derek...not proud
Played on Thursday, 2 November 2017 at Clays

Competition Scratch Score:
71 (34pts) (RO) (Men - Yellow Tees)
73 (34pts) (RO) (Ladies - Red Tees)

Overall Position	Player	Score	Comments	Revised Handicap
Division 1
1	McGrady, Tom	37 pts (17)	Division 1 - Winner	16.3
3	Jones, Dilwyn	33 pts (18)	Division 1 - Runner-Up	18.2
4	Palferman, David	33 pts (12)		11.7
5	Williams, Ernest	33 pts (13)		12.9
7	Wraight, Don	31 pts (10)		10.1
11	Poole, Stewart	28 pts (18)		18.3
15	Mitchell, Andrew	26 pts (15)		15.2
16	Peacock, Reg	24 pts (15)		15.1
17	Davies, Nigel	24 pts (15)		14.6
27	Brown, Colin	20 pts (17)		16.7
29	Harcombe, Tony	18 pts (16)		15.7
31	Jackson, Tony	16 pts (15)		14.5
-	Fraser, Peter	No Return	No Score Recorded	16.2
-	Hardy, Ralph	No Return	No Score Recorded	18.3
Division 2
2	Jones, Derek E	33 pts (23)	Division 2 - Winner	22.5
6	Lynch, Peter	32 pts (22)	Division 2 - Runner-Up	21.9
8	Lloyd, Dave	31 pts (23)		22.6
9	Healey, Michael J	30 pts (23)		22.7
10	Kelty, John	28 pts (22)		21.6
12	Drake, Michael	27 pts (26)		25.9
13	Peacock, Pauline	27 pts (22)		21.5
14	Jones, Dave F	26 pts (19)		18.6
18	Hughes, Harold Bryn	23 pts (21)		20.8
19	Dare, Barry	23 pts (22)		21.6
20	Jones, Noel	23 pts (23)		22.7
21	Jarvis, Robert	23 pts (21)		21.3
22	Davies, Maelor	22 pts (21)		21.1
23	Brown, Bob	22 pts (25)		25.2
24	Ketland, Albert Ian	21 pts (23)		22.6
25	Evans, Barry K	21 pts (28)		28.0
26	Monk, Steve	21 pts (22)		21.6
28	Hollings, Mike	20 pts (19)		19.3
30	Bowen, Peter	16 pts (28)		28.0
32	Jordan, Roy	15 pts (19)		19.4
33	Williams, Alwyn	13 pts (26)		26.0
-	Evans, Colin T	No Return	No Score Recorded	28.0
-	Bryne, Graham	30 pts (23)	DQ: Rule 6-6(b)	23.2
-	Davies, Clifford	20 pts (24)	DQ: Rule 6-6(b)	23.9
-	Pierce, Tom	28 pts (21)	DQ: Rule 6-6(b)	21.3

Competition Result

9-hole Stableford Qualifier Front nine

Played on Thursday, 2 November 2017 at Clays

Competition Scratch Score:
No CSS (Men - Yellow Tees)
Non-Qualifying (Ladies - Red Tees)

Overall Position	Player	Score	Comments	Revised Handicap
1	Elkin, Irwin	16 pts (13)	Overall Winner	25.0
2	Thomas, Godfrey	14 pts (14)	Overall Runner-Up	28.0
3	Morris, Geoff	12 pts (11)	Overall 3rd	22.6
4	Parks, Michael	8 pts (14)		28.0
5	Lyon, Derek G	4 pts (12)		24.3