Clays Seniors Open August 12th 2021 report from Mike Healey. Photos will be added later

Clays Senior's Open - Result and Report Seniors - The "Glorious 12th" came and went and we are not talking grouse shooting here! On your behalf, the senior committee worked hard yesterday, for our Seniors Open and what a roaring success it was for everybody. Lots of great comments concerning the whole operation were forthcoming, especially on the running of the competition. 65 Clays members and 41 visiting club members coming from Wrexham, Llangollen, Padeswood & Buckley, Pryors Hayes, Arscott and Hawarden all took part. The Committee would like to thank all visitors for their support and participation in the event and further hope that we can all meet up again in 2022. Having thanked the visitors - there are, of course, a number of thank yous due elsewhere. Firstly, there were quite a few contributions from you (our senior members) to make up a generous raffle, which always makes money, especially if "Del Boy" Don is selling the tickets - did anybody actually see the "Speedboat" prize? Steve reports a bumper profit on the raffle (figures to follow). Our thanks go out to you as members for supporting with raffle prizes, taking part in the comp and for any other contributions that you made. A massive thank you goes to Mark and the green keeper's team - the course was closed for three hours on Wednesday for extra preparation and I'm sure we all appreciated the effort that had gone into it. There were a dozen players from Arscott, who paid particular attention to the course being immaculate. They waxed lyrical about the club set up, the food and bar afterwards (another thank you to Hayley) and generally acknowledged that they would return to Clays for other competitions. They are even booking Clays for their forthcoming Captain's Away Day . There was also a sterling effort made by Chris, who manned the desk all day for payment / handicap checking etc and Tom, as early morning "Mr Starter" for his shift, not to mention Steve with his totting up of the takings in the afternoon.The biggest thank you must go to Don for overseeing everything from the outset. He "drove" us on to sign up (or should that read - drove us mad?) for the occasion. He e-mailed a myriad of clubs to advertise the Open, made thorough checks with Mark regarding the course beforehand and further checks with Josh on prizes. He prepared the cards / scoreboard in advance and oversaw detailed checks and organisation on the day. He then proceeded to sell us all raffle tickets for the "Boat!" Well done Don - magnificent effort. What about a result you ask. Warm weather with a slight breeze was the order of the day. Course conditions were fantastic and the greens were like lightning with some fairly difficult pin positions. 106 golfers took part in the comp and the following prizes were awarded. The points scores were considerably lower than our normal Pairs Betterball results but the prizes were well worth it - Roll on Clays Senior Open 2022 Results: First: Andy MacDougal & Paul Davies (Clays) 40pts (c/b) £100 each Second: Colin Brown & Nigel Davies (Clays) 40pts (c/b) £60 each Third: William Jones & Dave Jones (Padeswood & Buckley) 39 pts (c/b) £40 each Nearest the Pin (5th): Steve Jones (Padeswood & Buckley) £20 Nearest Pin in Two (18th): Guests only Steve Jones (Padeswood & Buckley) £20 Nearest the Line (10th): Vic King (Arscott G.C) £20