Yellow Ball competition September 28th 2023. Report from Mike Healey

Where was Agnes? She simply did not appear, leaving us a pleasant morning for our Yellow Ball competition. 28 members signing in gave us 7 x fourballs and was perfect for our 4,5,4,5 format. Having avoided both wind and rain, our next problem was leaves. I am assured that the groundstaff have already had blowers out, including this morning but there was necessity for ball hunting on numerous occasions.We will have to deal with this over the forthcoming weeks and make the most of the autumn weather. The October calendar will be released this weekend with one change already. Next Tuesday (3rd Oct) will be a Pairs Betterball instead of Pairs - Both to Count. Back to today - the score varied due to certain groups losing their Yellow Ball and the cognescenti all know what that means. We did not hold a ballsweep and there were two prizes in total: Yellow Ball Result: First: Richard Collier, Steve Monk, Ian Ketland and Alan Barnsdale - 164 points Second: Stuart Miles, Barry Evans, Bill Kelleher and Alan Bottomley - 157 points Jon Falcus, Mike Drake, Damian Atkin and Don Wraight came a close third with 155 points.