Week ending March 31st 2012

      Sunday March 25th. Each Sunday about a dozen Seniors play  a friendly competition. Some photos
      taken today can be seen below. The weather was glorious with endless sunshine.
     Ray Jones putting on 10th green with Frank Caroll and Richard Key admiring his style!

     

        Above Frank teeing off the 11th...nice follow through

    March 27th Four ball kitty competition:- Best 2 scores front 9 and best 3 scores back 9
      Once again superb weather and sunshine
         1. Stewart Poole, Den Murphy, Brian Mercer and Cliff Davies  109 pts
         2. Bill Hughes, John Kelty, Mike Griffiths and Tony Owens 106pts
         3. Peter Lynch, Graham Stokes, Bill Duncan and Gerry Wooster 102pts
 

       March 29^th Seniors Mexican Scramble

1           1. Barry Evans, Peter Fraser, Frank Harrington and Larry Birch 59.6

               2.  Reg Taylor, Irwin Elkin, John Kelty and Mike Griffiths 60

   

Week ending March 25th 2012

  

Tuesday March 20^th Seniors Kitty Competition. Format – teams of 4, 2best scores on first 9 holes and then best 3 scores on back 9! Weather was the best the Seniors have had all year!

          1. Geoff Morris, Phil Hughes, Reg Taylor and Bob Brown 108pts

2        2. Mike Hollings, Keith Jones, Malcolm Williams and Steve Beech 100pts countback

          3. Tony Harcombe, Steve Monk, Peter Fraser and Frank Carroll 100pts   

          Thursday Match 22^nd Seniors Texas scramble played in superb conditions:
           1.  Ray Martin, Joe White and  Barry Dare 53.2

          2. Geoff Morris, Stewart Poole, Peter Fraser and Brian Downes 58.7

          3.  Steve Monk, Mike Hollings, Mike Griffiths and Peter Almond 58.8

          4.  Don Wraight, Tony Owens, Bob Brown and George James 59

         One funny side of the Seniors Section is when members have senior moments!! Today 3 seniors’ members   

         turned up at Hawarden Golf Club early in the morning to play a match which was one week away! Once they

          realised their mistake they were able to get back to Clays in time to play in the Texas Scramble!!

           Below Cliff Davies playing Derek Lyon's drive into the 6th green . Nice follow through!!

        
        Below Ray Jones walking back very embarrased after having forgotten to put his £1 in!!

              

                   Below the usual noisy banter during prize presentations

         

Week ending March 17th 2012

  

March 13^th Seniors Annual Nearly St. Patricks Day incorporating the Ray Mortell Trophy

This very popular event was this year mainly organised by Peter Almond. The format was teams of 4 with each player’s stableford score being added together. From all the results the senior with the highest individual score won the Ray Mortell Trophy. This year this was won by Ray Martin with a splendid individual score of 41 points which included 5 birdies. Colin Brown, Seniors captain presented Ray with his trophy

The result for the Team event was as follows:-

Winners:-   Eifion Jenkins, Stuart Miles, Bill Parry and Derek Lyon with 133points. Each member was presented with a bottle of Irish Whiskey by Colin Brown the senior’s captain. Eifion had a superb round himself with 37pts and came second to Ray Martin

Second place went to Reg Taylor, Geoff Morris, Don Wraight and Harold Hughes with 127points and each member presented with a bottle of a well-known cream liquor.

The competitors all enjoyed a meal of Irish stew or chicken followed by ice-cream and apple pie.

Thursday March 15th Individual Stableford
  1. Barry Dare 41pts
  2. Ernie Willkiams 39pts on count back
  3. Bill Kelleher 39pts

Nearly St. Patricks Day March 13th 2012

     

March 13^th Seniors Annual Nearly St. Patricks Day incorporating the Ray Mortell Trophy

This very popular event was this year mainly organised by Peter Almond. The format was teams of 4 with each player’s stableford score being added together. From all the results the senior with the highest individual score won the Ray Mortell Trophy. This year this was won by Ray Martin with a splendid individual score of 41 points which included 5 birdies. Colin Brown, Seniors captain presented Ray with his trophy

The result for the Team event was as follows:-

Winners:-   Eifion Jenkins, Stuart Miles, Bill Parry and Derek Lyon with 133points. Each member was presented with a bottle of Irish Whiskey by Colin Brown the senior’s captain. Eifion had a superb round himself with 37pts and came second to Ray Martin

Second place went to Reg Taylor, Geoff Morris, Don Wraight and Harold Hughes with 127points and each member presented with a bottle of a well-known cream liquor.

The competitors all enjoyed a meal of Irish stew or chicken followed by ice-cream and apple pie.

                Below the lads in dining room awaiting their post competition food

  Below Ray Martin (centre) is receiving Ray Mortell Trophy from Seniors Captain Colin Brown (left) with
  organiser Peter Almond looking on

     Winning team below with their bottles of "Irish" From left to right...Derek Lyon, Stuart Miles, Bill Parry
     and Eifion Jenkins

Seniors events March 2012

   


   THURSDAY 8 TH MARCH STABLEFORD PAIRS BOTH SCORES

TUESDAY 13 TH MARCH NEARLY ST PATRICKS DAY

THURSDAY 15 TH MARCH [MOLD AWAY] INDIVIDUAL STABLEFORD

TUESDAY 20 TH MARCH INDIVIDUAL STABLEFORD [QUALIFIER]

THURSDAY 22 ND MARCH BEST TWO OF THREE.

TUESDAY 27 TH MARCH HAWARDEN [AWAY] HOME PAIRS.

THURSDAY 29 TH MARCH MEXICAN SCRAMBLE.

Week ending March 10th 2012

      

Golf result for Tuesday 6th March 2012 Individual stableford. (16 players)

1st Bill Duncan 35 points

2nd Mike Carding 34 points

3rd Graham Stokes 33 points

 

For those not in the above competition Clays Seniors played Holywell Seniors and lost 7.5 to 4.5

Photo from Florida via Rodders

     From the left it's Mike, Nigel and Don, already kitted out ready for a dare devil
   flight, which they survived, in an open canopied bi plane circa 1930, at Flights 
   of Fantasy in Florida. 

Week ending March 3rd 2012

     Tuesday February 28th St. Davids Day Competition.
      This was a new event and a Past Seniors Captain Roy Jones sponsored the trophy for the event
      Some 51 Seniors competed in the individual Stableford Competition
      The winner was John Kelty with 42 points followed in second place by Peter Fraser with 40pts

      Afterwards Colin Brown presented the new trophy to John along with £5 each to seven players who
      had 2's. John Kelty was included in those seven. The weather for the day was very warm and playing
      conditions good. Some photos of the day below starting with John and his trophy

                                     Above John receiving Trophy from Roy along with Colin.
                    Below Geoff Morris on the 11th fairway after taking his 2nd shot to the green

        

      Senior Medal March 1st 2012
      Division One
       1. Larry Birch 82-17-65
       2. Don Wraight 77-11-66
       3. Bill Kelleher  80-11-69

      Divison Two
       1. Geoff Morris  88-21-67
       2.  Peter Fey  88-20-68
       3. Peter Fraser 90-19-71

Week ending February 25th 2012

    Tuesday February 21st Pairs betterball Stableford

        1. Mike Carding and Graham Stokes  50pts

        2. Nigel Moore and Ernie Williams  48pts

        3. Roy Jones and Peter Lynch 47pts

        4. Maelor Davies and Derek Lyon 46pts

      Thursday February 23^rd Seniors Stableford team competition/teams of 3. Format was best score for 1^st 6 holes plus best 2 scores from 2^nd 6 holes followed by all scores from last 6 holes. As you can see the 

      geese are back

1.  Ernie Williams, Peter Fey and Peter Fraser 87pts
2. Keith Jones, Steve Monk and Joe White 78pts
3. Bill Hughes, Steve Monk and Joe White 78pts
4. Stewart Poole, Frank Carroll and Harold Hughes 74pts
5. Tony Jackson, Maelor Davies and Ray Martin 72pts

   The weather for the competition on Feb 23rd was superb, warm and sunny. Some photos of the course 
    and the geese- above,  can be seen below.It can also be seen from the tally board that a large number of Seniors
    turned out, in fact some 54

 
            Lou Bush below on the 11th fairway. Above Rodders enjoying the sunshine when applying footware

                  

    

Week ending February 18th 2012

    YELLOW BALL COMPETITION  FEBRUARY 14TH
    1 ST TONY HARCOMBE, EIFION JENKINS, MIKE HOLLINGS & DEN MURPHY 173 PTS.
    2 ND MAELOR DAVIES, BARRY DARE, IRWIN ELKIN & JOE WHITE 171 PTS.
    3 RD STEWART POOLE, NOEL JONES, RICHARD KEY HAROLD HUGHES. 167. PTS.

   February 16th Stableford best 2 scores from teams of4 with some 46 players competing

    1. Peter Lynch, John Kelty, Ray Jones and Phil Hughes 93pts
    2. Ray Martin, Tom Mara and Brian Jones  92pts
    3. Graham Stokes, Tony Owens, Barry Dare and Peter Fraser 90pts

 

   Today several notable events. Peter Lynch off a 19 handicap had a hole in one at the par 3second

   hole. Peter used a 7 iron to record the 2nd ace of his golfing career. Brian Jones had an eagle 

   2 at the par 4 7th hole using a driver followed by a 3 wood into the cup. Well done to both 

   members. The weather today was superb for the time of the year. Long may it last although I

   doubt it will !!

   Picture below of Peter to record his ace

     

Clay Seniors events February 2012

  

Clays Seniors events February 2012

Date	Event	Comments
Tuesday February 7th	Mexican Texas Scramble
Thursday February 9th	Stableford Pairs/both scores count
Tuesday February 14th	Yellow Ball
Thursday February 16th	Best 2 scores of 3 stableford
Tuesday February 21st	Individual Stableford
Thursday February 23rd	Pairs Betterball Stableford
Tuesday February 28th	St. David’s Day	Format TBA
Thursday March 1st	Medal	Pay in shop