Friday 4th July 2025

Wednesday 2nd July 2025

Monday 30th June 2025

 

Friday June 27th 2025

What a tussle as Sweet William blossomed in the Sunshine   as Danny & JW had to dig mighty deep.

Level after  18 they strode up the 19th hole. Eric thought he'd won it with Sweetie making a Double-Bogey with 2 shots..until they realised JW also got a shot with his Bogey so 1st was halved.  Unexciting 20th hole ( 2nd) as they remained level when Eric's Bogey equalled Danny's Par.

They strode onto 3rd Tee and hearts sank as JW deposited his ball onto the hallowed turf of the perfect 3rd Green and the writing was on the wall.

Danny had planned well ahead, when he engaged the services of Chartered Accountant John Wandless who  kept track of the 50 Shots that were shared by Eric & John Sweet.

Looks like it might get tougher as they are first pair into Semi-Finals

and 4 more tasty teams in top-half of draw yet to complete quarter finals

Well done to Eric and John  for putting up such a fight and for entering the Competition.

Eric celebrated at home in Beaminster, whilst Sweetie had to pay a fine for exceeding the parking limit of 2 hours beside  Shep's Burger-Van on the A30.

   Once those sprinklers on 12th got me, I couldn't see a flipping thing...

what were we playing anyway ?

Memorial Day

Brian Hodder Link - there are some lovely photos of Brian with his Family & appeal for Parkinson's, which sadly kept him away from us.

Remember, there is usually only one way we all get to leave the Seniors Section.

When we think of you on this Memorial Day - It's the image you create today that we will talk about tomorrow and the years thereafter !

Wednesday 25th June 2025

Bert Robinson at 89 3/4 and still winning silverware.

In a very long speech as the entrants enjoyed their first Christmas Dinner  of the year,  Captain Keefunt - mentioned the efforts he had made to include as many Past Captains as he could. Dave Mugridge is in the Caribbean;  Alan Chance was fighting medical issues; Norman is on Continent; Mick Aldridge has moved away; Ted Bryden no longer playing and Alan Davis & John MacOmish were not available, whilst  Mark Cording was....to be continued ..

As Keef's speech entered the 2nd hour - staff were clearing away the plates and enquired " how was the food ?" - as PSF subtly asked 'could anyone mange a few more lumps of gravy ?'..  but it was actually pretty nice.

Sliced Turkey with stuffing & gravy; Roasties, Cauliflower, Red Cabbage, Broccoli  topped off with a very large Yorkshire Pudding. 2009 Captain JKP was ridiculed when he suggested Yorkshire Pud was great with Syrup as it was basically just an inflated pancake - but he would appreciate any support from other that have sampled this delicacy.

As lights were going out, Keef thanked all the Captains for their service, saying how hard it was at times , like Herding Cats whilst working at a geriatric care home...

Bert was  unable to stay for Dinner as Captain resisted efforts to open and sample the Bottle of Port he had won  as a gesture of support.

A very nice day, well organised and without these gentlemen - The Seniors Section would simply not function.

..and John Baker   edges out Mark Kilpatrick in CST   Club Seniors KO to face Muggo in next round.

Contacted on his Jamaica Estate, 8 Handicapper Dave Mugridge muttered , over a crackly line " A'int no big Thing"

Tuesday 24th June 2025

Festival of St John the Baptist

Sorry to hear of 

the passing of 1967 Club Champion Brian Hodder last Thursday

Gents. Please see below an email I have received from the CST Offiice:

Just had a phone call to say that Brian Hodder has passed away, I think a lot of the seniors would remember him.  

Please see below details and the funeral arrangements.

Brian Hodder – passed on the 19th June

 Funeral – 7th July – 11:30am at Donyatt Church.

Kaptain Keef

( Yes, I know it's Stover Day but too late to change, please let me know of any Canx ASAP)

Monday 23rd June 2025

CST lost 4&2 in some good matches on the infamous tight course at Vivary. Food and company were great. In our team we had 6 Vivary virgins who had various levels of success, so a good result away 

Passed Mid-Summer and days will start to get shorter...

Friday 20th June 2025

Thursday 19th June 2025

Hot, hot , hot

Today's Knighton Heath Cup result. 

CST 9½ Sherborne  ½

A brilliant result, apart from our lead player in the 1st game🤭7

Wed 18th June 2025

Canadian Greensomes

Thanks to Nick Gabb for processing the results whilst Chris enjoys a well-earned break.

Monday 16th June 2025

Amazing Win by Barrie and the boys at Honition, usually lose 6-0

Heath & Patten    Halved

Leigh & Shelley   L 2 & 1

Baker & Shorrocks   W  1 Up

Mugridge & Smith   L 2 &1

Jewell & Kitcher   W 3 & 1

Lauchlan & Peterson   W 6 & 5

Win for CST  3 1/2      2 1/2

He's done it again as John Tomney scores 5 points on 13th with a single swish of a gap wedge.

Partner Who

Dennett was most pleased to share the success.

Team Nett Results

1st William Hilson & Charles Summers 46 £12.00 each

2nd Ian Thomas & Robert Tuttiett      45 £7.20 each

3rd Eric Smallwood & Ian Frost              44 £4.80 each

4th Brian Marsh & Dennis Hussey 43

5th Terence Hackling & Jeremy Blackburn 42

6th Danny Dowell & Eric Williams 41

7th Roger Stone & Robert Barrow 41

8th Bob Dennett & John Tomney 40

9th Christopher Basterfield & Chris Hiam 40

10th Martin Bargery & Michael Hone 40

11th Martyn Hartley & Neil Cochran 40

12th Nicholas Hill & John Evans 39

13th Derek Gardener & Andrew Rowland 38

14th John Pearce & John Sweet 36

15th Paul England & Roger Williams 35

16th Nick Gabb & Terry Rutherford 35

Twos report

John Tomney 1 at 13th £16.00

Friday 13th June 2025

Thursday 12th June 2025

Weeks of planning & scheming by Captain & Jingell Bells came to a head as Penny was called up to the Club to say a formal farewell to the Seniors Section.

She was presented with a couple of signed cards ( yes we lost the original, then found it again) - and a rather stuffed envelope.

Being a public Blog, we don't like to quote numbers, but it was a rather stunning 40,000 little pennies of donations from as far as Portugal and Porlock.

Penny was rather stunned when she peeked into the sealed envelope.

Thank you all so much for the generous donations.

Penny has made a good start with cleaning contracts with a couple of Companies and also Private Clients. She is taking a well earned break in Portugal in a couple of weeks.

Wednesday 11th June 2025

Captain cancels Cannington Match today in a lightening moment

Well, what a beautiful day yesterday as we played a very competitive 3 from 4 at 100% Course Handicap - which had the high handicappers licking their lips.

JKP played with Jeremy ( rejected by earlies), Andy & Keefunt. We had what we thought was a very solid score, shooting 11 under Par- with Jeremy & Andy banging it miles down the middle and Keef bagging a hatful of Pars.

But what a surprise as we saw what others had done !

Due to a faux-pas by hurry-up-Hiam, Captain had to re-shuffle last 2 4-balls into three 3-balls with a phantom pro.

Ian Thomas was Pro in Jolly Roger's Team and he alone added 71 Points - that's 41 on his own and another 30 when needed on 11 of the holes.

I won't list them all, but on 2nd, his 4 for 3 was doubled, as was 5 for 3 on 4th; 2 for 4 on 8th; 3 for 3 on 13th; 5 for 3 on 14th;  4 for 3 on 17th and his coup-de-gras  on 18th was a Por Favor- 8 more points.

The Team had Three "Twos" on  8th, 12th & 16th

Gentlemen, we salute you 

Monday 9th June 2025