County
Captains Day 2018 @ Clays Golf Club on 9th July
County
Captain Reg Peacock held his Captains day @ his home club Clays. The day was
gloriously sunny and very hot which was a great relief to him as he’d half
expected that would be the day the weather broke! Tee times for the main
competition ran from 8:30 through to 14:10 with almost 100 people competing and
were followed by a DGU junior order of merit competition involving 20 players.
The
course obviously showed some effect from the prolonged drought but reflected
all the work and money that had been invested since the change of ownership at
the end of 2017. Feedback from the players was very positive and all enjoyed
the day, as did the Captain who acted as starter and managed to get a photo of
each group before they tee’d off.
The
combination of 3-balls and 10 minute tee intervals and the adoption of ‘ready
golf’ meant that there were few hold-ups with rounds pleasingly taking less
than 4 hours.
Reg
decided to adopt a different format for the day this year - singles rather than
pairs and incorporating the County 6-16 & 17+ Handicap Championships which
were not contested last year.
Whilst
the overall Captains Day prizes were based on stableford points the 6-16
handicap championships were based on nett strokeplay which produced some
interesting anomalies due to the way the stroke indices fall at Clays.
The
best stableford score was 37 points which was returned by 5 players as follows
in countback order:-
Iwan
Bonds (6) - Clays - Captains Day First - £100 American Golf voucher
Tom
Pierce (22) - Clays - Captains Day Second - £75 American Golf voucher
Ron Roberts (12) - Clays
- Captains Day Third - £50 American Golf voucher
George
Smith (5) - Llangollen - overall fourth
Eric
Howells (12) - Denbigh - overall fifth
When
countback was applied under strokeplay for the 16 and under handicappers (all
returning a nett 68) the order was virtually reversed as follows
Eric Howells (12) - Denbigh - nett
16 and under handicap first - £50 voucher
George Smith (5) - Llangollen - nett
16 and under second - £25 voucher
Iwan Bonds (6) - Clays - nett 16 and
under third
Ron Roberts (12) - Clays - nett 16
and under fourth
In
the 17+ handicap category (after excluding those already featuring above as
voucher winners) prize-winners were
Peter Davies (18) Moss - 36 points -
£50 voucher
Malcolm Williams - Clays - 34 points
- £25 voucher
County
Handicap Championship winners were accordingly
6-16 Handicap - Eric Howells
(Denbigh)
17+
Handicap - Tom Pierce (Clays)
The
best gross score of 72 was returned by Josh Green – Clays who received a £40
voucher.
6
balls were awarded for each 2 recorded as follows:-
Josh
Green (Clays) @ 5th
David
Abell (Wrexham) @ 2nd
Peter
Davies (Moss) @ 5th
Ian
Hall (Plassey) @ 2nd
Paul
Wallace Jones (Clays) @ 12th
Wayne
Harold (Plassey) @ 17th
Iwan
Bonds (Clays) @ 2nd
Nearest
the pin on the 12th was won by Graham Davidson-Clarke (Clays) - 1cm
from hole winning a £25 voucher.
A
voucher was also given to the 2011 Club Captain (the year Reg was Clays
Captain) returning the best score which was Terry Chaplin - Captain of Old
Colwyn that year.
American
Golf sponsored a nearest the hole in 2 on the 18th but the player
who chipped in for a 2 there was unfortunately disqualified which meant this
prize could not be awarded as no distances were recorded.
Clays
Captain Chris Jones, in the presence of County President Tony Harcombe,
introduced Reg who presented prizes to those present. He thanked Bill Lewis for
handing over the course for his event at no cost as well as the greenkeepers
for the course, Hayley for the food and Phil and Gaynor for the bar. He also
thanked everyone for support the event and wished them safe passage home.
When
the junior event was over Reg presented the standard junior order of merit
vouchers to the U14 & U18 nett and gross winners and runners-up together
with a £10 voucher to nearest junior to the pin on the 12th and in 2
on the 18th which concluded a long but enjoyable day.
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