Cricket St Thomas Seniors 2

16^th September 2016.           2 from 3 Stableford (Discard)

Blustery conditions greeted the 24 players for todays roll-up with another 12 playing in the match against Teign Valley.  All regular tees were back in play after the tree surgery at the 18^th.

The winning team was Dickie Hall, Terry Hackling and John Wandless  had to discard 10 points from their total and  still won by 4 points.

Terry Hackling scored 21 points on the back nine.

There were 5  birdies each paying £2.40 per team

Richard Hall	Terry Hackling	John Wandless	73 points	£5.00 each
Bob Rees	Colin Ireland	Brian Anderson	69	£3.00 each
John Wallis	Mike Burt	Mike Hone	65   and 1 birdie	80p each
Roger Withers	Andy Beale	Phil Dewar	63
Bob Barrow	Bim Morfitt	Trevor Dobson	61 and 2 birdies	£1.60 each
Paul England	Keith Branchflower	Mick Aldridge	61 and 2 birdies	£1.60 each
Maurice Arnold	Iain Rowland	Phil Hunt	59
Jerry Stevens	Ron Sutherland	Gordon Hughes	55

Normal handicap reductions apply.

Two played in the Monthly Rolling Stableford with Clive Fisk scoring 30 and Geoff Dean  26 points.

Many thanks to Farmer Bob who organised the draw and scrutinised the cards.

Mondays roll-up is a 3 Ball Stableford Bowmaker.

Keith Branchflower

Third place Team seen here on 5th after guided tour of Mike's new Mercedes...
Geoff Dean just photobombed the picture and was busy earning over  1.44 points a hole in his own personal quest.

From Roger Stone:-



Match vs Teign Valley Friday 16th Sept

In good weather although very blustery CST Seniors had
a good win against Teign Valley Seniors .




Barrie Heath / Lyndsey Gage  HALVED

Alan Chance / Stuart Pope  WON 2 and 1

Roger Stone /Billy Hilson   WON 6 and 5

George Wallace /Ian Fielder   WON  3and 2

Keith Potter /Brian Frost LOST 2 and 1

John Pearce / John MacOmish LOST  2 down



Result: CST 3 1/2       Teign Valley  2 1/2
 That's 6 straight wins in succession


Beautiful Buffet with Beef, Pork, Turkey, Quiche and so much more.
Matches these days as so much more casual as you are met with Bacon Butty & Coffee on arrival and this meal at the end and much less formality.

Billy Hilson was on Top Table and obviously had a good Crack with the visitors. Their 9-Handicapper who was still reeling from their massive loss said 'I've never been insulted by a Golfing Hobbit before "

and apologies to J-Mac & co for their DQ Wednesday.

Apparently they had 3 beautifully written cards as per Roll-Up but hastily re-wrote them back in the Club House onto 1 card to help Farmer Bob with adjudication.

I saws the cards today to verify...so apologies to all 3 for casting aspersions on their names.

Had a phone call from our German friend yesterday. His name came up on my phone as 'Reiner Winkler' as the phone rang. I picked it up and answered 'Gutten Tag Herr Winkler (with a V) - to which he replied "Who is that ?" -remember it was him that rang me !

Anyway we had a long chat about his Fish Tank & Birds that have all now gone and his eyes are much improved with new cataracts. He went to see the Doc about a chest cough and the X-ray revealed cancer in his lungs. He was offered Chemo, which didn't want. He asked the Doctor how long he had without intervention and he was told 'Months' - so he is now having Chemo and hopefully will be with us a lot longer - you see I told you he would have it wrong !
He did also mention he has lots of old Windwhistle Shirts etc if anyone wants them.

Stuart ran into Ken Trott at the Beacon Centre in Musgrove yesterday.  He has been missing for nearly a year and is suffering from severe skin cancer.  His wife is also very poorly with bowel cancer. having got my attention, Stuart quickly changed the topic and told me how he had won their match single-handedly by finishing Par-Birdie Par , what a man.

Thanks for all the little reports that enabled me to screw them all together for today. What a great little section we have up there.

I'm still trying to work our Roger's joke about a hunter in Southampton who was in Dire Straights and crashed his landrover. He needed 2 new knees so got them  from a cheap surgeon that used road-kill Monkey parts - but only charged him 1 Penny , but I'll wait till Nobby comes back to explain.

JKP