Seniors Yellow Ball May 28th 2015

With several seniors playing individual matches the remainder enjoyed a Yellow Ball competition.
Results as follows.

1st: Brian Downes, Noel Jones, Peter Almond and Chris Jacques  157 points

2nd: Paul White, Mike Parkes, Tom Pierce and Cliff Davies  156 points

Seniors Stableford Qualifier May 26th 2015

Some 54 Seniors competed today with other seniors in their respective knock out matches. Still cool for the time of the year!!


1st Bernie Peters  38 points

2nd  Reg Taylor  37 points (countback)

3rd  Bill Kelleher  37 points

4th  Harold Hughes  36 points (countback)

5th  Brian Downes  36 points

6th  Ian Ketland  35 points (countback)

7th  Cliff Evans  35 points (countback)

8th Mike Jordan  35 points (countback)

9th Malcolm Williams  35 points (countback)

Pauline Peacock's Charity Climb of Tryfan, North Wales May 21st 2015

Clays Lady Captain Climbs Tryfan for Cancer Research UK

Tryfan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pauline Peacock, accompanied by husband Reg, (after he'd played a golf competition) and both novices to this wonderful mountain of ours, set off enthusiastically in lovely sunshine.  Unfortunately we were too eager and never reached the Heather terrace but instead climbed upwards on the East side rather quickly! After panics, leg shakes, pulling, shoving up horrible gullies, we arrived at the top - of the False Tryfan!
Reg took a photo as I didn't know if we could reach the summit, it looked like we needed ropes!  But around the corner on the West side was a safer path and no problems after that.  We picnicked in the sunshine and had wonderful views, We'd seen 3 lots of Harrier jets passing below us but then a large slow plane came passed we weren't sure if it was a Hurricane.  What an experience but not to be repeated by us!  It took us less than 4 hours, time to play a round of golf, Think we will stick to that in the future! If you would like to donate to this worthy cause please visit

https://www.justgiving.com/Pauline-Peacock/
 /

Thank you.


Photos of the day below.

Stableford Pairs both scores to count

At last summer appears it had started today. Super sunshine and warmth at last!

Results:

1. Alwyn Williams and Ernie Williams  66 points on count back

2. Reg Taylor and Steve Monk  66 points on countback

3. Dave Roberts and Ian Ketland  66 points


An interesting observation was seen near the 13th tee today when these 2 teams decided they would have a rest and a chat before teeing off...no names mentioned!!

May 19th Individual Stableford and home match vs Old Padeswood

The weather was as usual awful with numerous showers interspersed with warm sunshine. When will it ever improve. It is mid May after all!!

For those not in the match members played an individual stableford.

1. Stewart Poole  35 points
2. Harold Hughes 34 points on count back
3. Chris Jacques 34 points

With reference to the match versus Old Padeswood Clays won by 6.5 to 1.5. There were two 2's namely Don Wraight of Clays and Allan Challoner for Old Padeswwod

Seniors Stableford and Open news from Vale Royal and Arscott May 14th 2015

Although 44 players played at either Arscott or Vale Royal today, another 13 made it to the club for a kitty comp. Because the numbers were low  an individual stableford was played rather than the planned 9x2 + 9x3.The weather was cold compared to yesterday's warm sunshine but it stayed dry. Results were:
1st:   Dave F Jones, 37 points
2nd:  Graham Stokes, 36 points

3rd:  Irwin Elkin, 31 points


At Arcott the weather was really "horrid" It rained for most of the day which was a great shame as it is a beautiful course  which is shown it all its glory in sunshine. We saw no sun all day. Mind you Colin Brown despite his bad back managed to birdie the index 1 par 4 9th. It just less than 400 yards but is guarded by 2 bunkers. Colin hit an enormous drive (this hole was for the longest drive and he was only a few feet off that!) His 2nd shot came to rest within 3 feet of the pin and he holed out for a birdie 3 and 4 points. Colin is now basking in 35c so it should do his back good.

Typical scene at Arscott with brollies up!

Another gloomy view at Arscott

Apparently Vale Royal was dry but somewhat cold and was enjoyed by all who played there,

Some photos of Clays Seniors teams below at Arscott

Gemini Trophy May 12th 2015

Seniors Gemini Trophy

Played on Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at Clays

Overall Position	Team	Score	Comments
1	Evans, Rodney H  Turner, Michael	151	Overall Winner
2	Jacques, Chris  Kelleher, William Bill	152
3	Jenkins, Eifion Wynn  Williams, Malcolm	153
4	Dipple, Desmond  Evans, John Clifford	155
5	Brookfield, Stan  Brown, Bob	155
6	Davies, Nigel  White, Paul	155
7	Goring, Mike  Hardy, Ralph	155
8	Jarvis, Robert  Morris, John P	156
9	Williams, Alwyn  Williams, Colin	158
10	Mitchell, Andrew  Owens, Tony Martin	158
11	McGrady, Tom  Roberts, Ronald H	162
12	Hollings, Mike  Peacock, Reg	163
13	Jones, Dilwyn  Sanger, Neil	163
14	Monk, Steve  Wraight, Don	163
15	Davis, John S  Jordan, Roy	164
16	Dare, Barry  Keen, Terence	165
17	Davies, Maelor  Jones, Noel	167
18	Court, Frederick Wm  Jones, Roy	167
19	Poole, Stewart  Taylor, Reg	167
20	Davies, Clifford  White, Joseph Joe	167
21	Lynch, Peter  Williams, Ernest	168
22	Bush, Lewis Edward  Evans, Barry K	169
23	Jones, Dennis  Morris, Geoff	170
24	Harcombe, Tony  Lloyd, Cliff	171
25	Drake, Michael  Key, Richard	171
26	Brown, Colin  Lyon, Derek G	171
27	Jackson, Tony  Stokes, Graham	174
28	Kalka, Michael  Ketland, Albert Ian	176

Clays seniors vs Eastham Lodge away match

Clays Seniors lost by 6 matches to 4. It was a close game and if halved matches had gone the way of Clays Clays could have come away with an honourable draw.

Clays Seniors match vs Old Padeswood-away Friday May 8th 2015

Result of today's match away at Old Padeswood. A win for Clays 5.5-2.5, a good result given we were away.

Seniors Medal May 7th 2015

There were some excellent scores despite the dreadful weather. We had periods of very heavy rain interspersed with periods of warm sunshine...very odd and not what was forecast?

I (Derek ) had the most dreadful round with a gross 110 - net 88. This was down to my trolley battery packing in which resulted in me pushing it for 14 holes!! I had 5 8's. Hence I felt awful with the resulting bad back! But that is nothing compared with our Senior Captain who had a 13 on the 13th. He started with 5 off the tee and went downhill from there! Hard luck Colin who came in with a gross 100.

Senior Medal

Played on Thursday, 7 May 2015 at Clays.
Competition Scratch Score = 72 (Men) Non-Qualifying (Ladies). 

[ View Gross Scores Result ]

Overall Position	Player	Score		Comments		Revised Handicap
Division 1
4	Jones, M Keith	86 - 14 = 72		Division 1 - Winner & Lowest Gross Score		14.0
5	Williams, Ernest	86 - 13 = 73		Division 1 - Runner-Up		12.8
8	Jackson, Tony	88 - 14 = 74		Division 1 - 3rd		13.9
Division 2
1	White, Paul	89 - 20 = 69	Division 2 - Winner		18.7
2	Evans, John Clifford	95 - 24 = 71	Division 2 - Runner-Up		24.0
3	Brookfield, Stan	97 - 25 = 72	Division 2 - 3rd		24.5

Seniors Texas Scramble Tuesday May 5th 2015

A very windy day.


1st. Bill Kelleher, Graham Stokes, Frank Carroll and Eifion Jenkins  59.2

2nd. Malcolm Williams, Brian Downes, Mike Goring and Peter Lynch 60.8

3rd. Don Wraight, Stewart Poole, Tony Owens and Tom Pierce  61.8

  

SENIOR EVENTS FOR MAY 2015

TUESDAY MAY 5TH   TEXAS SCRAMBLE

THURSDAY MAY 7TH  SENIORS MEDAL

TUESDAY MAY 12TH  GEMINI TROPHY

THURSDAY  MAY 14TH  9X3    9X2

TUESDAY  MAY 19TH  MATCH vs OLD PADEWOOD AT CLAYS. THOSE NOT IN MATCH TO BOOK OWN TEE TIMES

THURSDAY  MAY 21ST  STABLEFORD PAIRS

TUESDAY MAY 26TH  INDIVIDUAL STABLEFORD QUALIFIER

THURSDAY  MAY 28TH  YELLOW BALL

CLAYS SENIORS OPEN DETAILS AUGUST 20TH 2015

20th August. Entry fee members £8 and visitors £10.

You can find details on the Clays web site under Play then Open Events.