Kitty competition and Hawarden match result September 14th from Mike Healey and Steve Monk

Gentlemen - where do I start? Firstly - today's kitty comp organised and resolved, once again, by Steve Monk (Thank you). They held an individual Stableford comp between themselves and the winner was Bill Kelleher - 36 points (£5.00) and Bob Brown - 33 points(£2.00) was second - pipping Steve Monk with the same score on countback. At the same time, Malcolm Williams organised sixteen Seniors to do battle against a reasonably strong Harwarden team. The handicaps and matching of pairs went very smoothly and all of the tees got away on a positive note. After a dreadful weather forecast and early morning rain, we were extremely fortunate to have cloud cover and warm conditions. The course played very well until......we all met with the sand piles on the greens across the back 9 holes. The tining and sanding had always been advertised on the calendar for these two days and was expected but it just took the shine off what was a very good team game of golf. Clays ended up taking the result 4 and a half matches to 3 and a half and we remain unbeaten for the entire season (both home and away) so far. Three twos were scored during the match on the 2nd and 5th holes - all by Harwarden players. We have one more team match a week on Thursday against Mold away. Malcolm has taken the list down and will inform players of playing partners in due course. Today's match was followed up by Hayley's magnificent carvery plus sweet and a good time was had by all. Coming back to the sand..... members of your Senior committee debated the futility of a Stableford Qualifier this coming Thursday (see calendar) given the condition of the greens. We will therefore play a Multiplier kitty comp this week (Thursday16th) and move the Qualifier to Tuesday (28th). ALSO - The tally draw is moving back to roll-up before 8.45am(draw) and be prepared to play at 9.00am from the same three tees (1st,14th,16th) starting this week. I