Seniors events August 2018 courtesy of Steve Monk

SENIORS COMPETITIONS -      AUGUST 2018
DATE	KITTY COMPS – in BLUE OTHER COMPS – in BLACK	COMMENTS
Wednesday Aug 1st	OSWESTRY OPEN
Thursday Aug 2nd	AUGUST MEDAL (Strokeplay) And 9-HOLE QUALIFIER (Stableford, Yellow Tees)	Draw on Club Website Booking Page
Tuesday Aug 7th	BONUS BALL
Thursday Aug 9th	CLAYS SENIORS OPEN PAIRS BETTERBALL 90% H’CAP Prizes: 1st - £100 each; 2nd - £60 each; 3rd - £40 each, plus other prizes and raffle.	Enter in advance asap, in pairs, via Reception or online. Fee = £8 for members and £10 for guests.
Tuesday Aug 14th	TEXAS SCRAMBLE Also MATCH V HAWARDEN (AWAY)
Thursday Aug 16th	PAIRS, BOTH SCORES TO COUNT
Tuesday Aug 21st	‘D.J. BOGIE’ COMPETITION. Format = Bogey, full handicap, yellow tees.	Annual Honours Board Comp. Late entries see Don asap. Cost = £3
Thursday Aug 23rd	THE LARRY BIRCH MEMORIAL TROPHY	Individual Stableford Kitty Comp.
Tuesday Aug 28th	Individual Stableford QUALIFIER
Thursday Aug 30th	‘9 x 3’ plus ‘9 x 2’
Tuesday Sept 4th	Match v Holywell (Home)	Players not in match, please book a tee.
Wednesday Sept 5th	HELSBY OPEN
Thursday Sept 6th	SEPTEMBER MEDAL  plus 9-HOLE QUALIFIER	Entries in advance via sheet on board

Pairs betterball July 31st 2018

Results:-

1. Mick Carnell/Mike Griffiths  45 points
2. Andrew Mitchell/Tony Harcombe  44 points
3. Mike Hollings/Colin Evans  42 points
4. Bob Jarvis/Mike Parkes 42 points

Photos and videos taken on the day below:-

Nigel Davies preparing to putt on the 6th

Our new member Paul Damian Aitkin about the putt out on the 6th

Nigel Davies teeing up on the 7th

Stewart Poole about the play his 2nd shot on the 7th

Nigel Davies had a massive baguette for his lunch. Excellent value courtesy of Hayley.




Below Stewart Poole putting on the 6th

Nigel Davies below teeing off the 7th

Below Nigel Davies putting for a gross birdie on the 8th. Nigel hit a 6 iron onto the right handside of the green from where it travelled towards the pin where Nigel had a easy putt to hole it.

Seniors 2 day Challenge July 24th and July 26th 2018

Glorious weather for both days, in fact too hot and steamy on the 26th

The results are posted below:

Round one July 24th 2018
Division one:

1. Dave Palferman 40pts
2. Keith Jones 39pts
3. Chris Jacques 37pts

Division two:

1. Mike Jordan 40pts
2. Peter Almond 37pts
3. Mike Healey 37pts

Round two July 26th  2018

Division one:

1. Martin Povey 39pts
2. Malcolm Williams 36pts
3. Ron Roberts  36pts

Division two:

1. Maelor Davies 39pts
2. Mike Healey 37pts
3. Irwin Elkin 36 pts

On Tuesday 24th Bob Brown had a great round often scoring 3 points on several holes but then had 2 blobs on the back 9. Below some photos of Bob on the 13th. His drive went into the woods on the left of the fairway and up against a tree. No problems for Bob. He chipped out onto the fairway and then proceeded to hit a great iron to the right of the 13th green from where he salvaged a 5 for 2 points

One can just see Bob's ball under the foliage by the tree

Bob preparing to chip out sideways

Rain came later in the round for about 3 holes. The picture shows Tom Pierce driving off the 15th watched by Bob Brown


On the 26th the weather got really hot and humid

One can just see a young robin by the path leading up to the 6th tee

Frank Rodenhurst waiting the hit his tee shot off the 16th




Below Frank can be seen  taking his drive on the 16th

Individual Stableford July 19th 2018

A larger number of Seniors were away today playing in the Rhuddlan Open. Those who were not there played an individual stableford at Clays. Results below:-

1. Michael Carnell  36 pts
2. Irwin Elkin 34pts 
3. Fred Court on countback 33 pts

Seniors/Vets Trophy competition July 17th 2018

This annual competition was played as stroke play.

Before the results are posted Derek wants to describe why he got such a record high score! He came in 42nd place with 120-24=96.
On the 3rd hole on which he gets 2 shots his third shot landed about 20 metres in front of the green. Easy shot onto the green perhaps but his 9 iron was shanked leaving his ball in the bunker on the right handside of the green. As many Seniors know Derek does not like bunkers! It took him till his 13th shot to get out! ..."a hamlet moment!"   From there he managed to end up with a 16...yes 16! However once Derek got back to club house he heard another Senior managed to get a 14 on the same hole.

Results as of July 19th

1. Frank Rodenhurst  80-13-67
2. Martin Povey 79-12-67
3. Paul Jeffs  81-14-67
4. Jonathan Falcus 79-12-67
5. Andrew Mitchell 83-15-68
6. Maelor Davies 89-21-68
7. Graham Bryne 92-23-69
8. Alan Bottomley 88-18-70
9. Chris Jacques 78-7-71
10. Dave Lloyd 94-23-71

Waltz kitty competition July 12th 2018

For the first time for weeks we had rain as the Seniors put their tallies up but it stopped after about 20 minutes and cleared up for the remainder of the morning.

Event was played as teams of 3 balls and 4 balls but prizes awarded only for 4 ball teams
Results as follows:-

1. Andrew Mitchell, Fred Court, Joe White and Bill Hughes  85 points
2. Alan Pocklington, Colin Evans, Harold Hughes and Reg Taylor  77 points

Some photos of the day below

Some of the lads on their way to 16th tee as rain came down.

View from inside Derek's buggie as the rain started by 1st tee

Path alongside 4th tee

View down 4th fairway

Pond on 7th fairway surprisingly full 

Cliff Davies on 5th green. Many of the greens looking good despite lack of rain!

Derek's buggie gave up on the 18th fairway. No way would it start. Russ came out with a replacement and even that would not shove it out of  the way. Thank you Russ for prompt attention. Cliff  Davies keeping guard!

Reg Peacock's County Captains Day at Clays July 9th 2018

County Captains Day 2018 @ Clays Golf Club on 9^th 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 12^th 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 18^th 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 12^th and in 2 on the 18^th which concluded a long but enjoyable day.

Kitty competition Stableford July 10th and Match at home vs Aldersey Green 2018

Those not in the match against Aldersey Green played an individual stableford.

1. Tony Owens  40 pts
2. Michael Parks 35 pts
3. Nigel Harris  34 pts
4. Joe White 34 pts
5. Dilly Jones 33 pts
6. Bill Hughes 33 pts

Don Wraight Seniors Captain reported that Clays won the match by 7 matches to 2. Hayley served a nice meal  of roast beef and cold fare followed by chocolate pudding and ice cream....yummy.

Seniors Medal plus 9 hole stableford qualifier July 5th 2018

Results:
Medal Division one:

1. Nigel Davies 80-14c-66
2. Martin Povey 80-12c-68
3. Colin Brown 88-17c-71

Nigel went out in 39 and back in 41  carding 1 birdie and 9 pars

Medal Division two:

1. Cliff Davies 85-24c- 61
2. Robert Jarvis 89-20c-69
3. Neville Bassett 97-27c- 70

Cliff went out in 42 and a back 9 of 43 recording 1 birdie and 4 pars

9 hole Stableford Qualifier results:

1. Godfrey Thomas  20pts
2. Derek Lyon 19 pts
3. Irwin Elkin 16 pts

One feature today was the large number of white butterflies especially in the bunkers and around the greens....often trying to land one ones ball as one attempting to putt.

Butterflies in the damp sand in bunker to right of 3rd green

View of dry fairway looking back down 3rd fairway

Putting on 4th green with Baz Evans, Bill Hughes and John Kelty

Dry 4th fairway looking back from 4th green

Individual Stableford July 3rd 2018

Thanks to Steve Monk for the following report

Although 40 seniors were away playing at Ruthin today, there were still 
a further 20 at Clays to play in an individual stableford competition
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The weather was perfect and some good scores were posted. Results were:
1st - Bob Jarvis with 42 points.

2nd - Stewart Poole with 38 points.

3rd - Joe White with 37 points.

4th - John Kelty with 36 points (on countback).