8 November 2017



Christmas Cracker

The Seniors with a membership of more than 150 are in danger of being outnumbered by the Ladies in the Christmas Cracker on 27th November. Please enter before the draw is made on the 20th November.


CONGU CHANGES 2018
Changes to the CONGU UHS System have recently been announced. In view of the proposed introduction of the World Handicap System (WHS) these changes have been kept to a minimum and take into account some of the options likely to be adopted in the WHS, principal of which is to encourage players to submit more scores to their handicap record.
The changes, which come into effect on the 1st of January 2018, are: • Retirement of Club & Disability Handicaps – As a result of their low impact these have been removed and replaced by a new Category 5 for Men and Category 6 for both Men and Women, providing for a maximum handicap of 54.0 for all golfers.  Players will be able to maintain a Competition Handicap in all six categories.  Upward adjustment for all categories will remain at 0.1 and downward adjustments for Net Differentials below Buffer Zones will be 0.5 for Category 5 and 0.6 for Category 6.

 8th November Roll Up Report
2 from 3 Stableford

On a beautiful day after a slight frost  with a gentle breeze blowing ,39 Seniors played the 2 from 3 Stableford and one other played in the November Rolling Stableford .The scores were not as good as was expected , however one team came in with a score two points better than second place, however even with that score they failed to score a birdie.

No buggies after 24 hours of solid rain, so Tony & the Phantom Pro ( Ray), Ted, Mick A & Geoff walked the Top 9. Agreed change of Game with earlies as ground very soggy and threat of several Temp Greens, so all to count modified to 2 from 3.


Another first as Draw shown on TV
Anyone best pals with Graeme Johnson, maybe get some new cards printed as we have about 25 hand written ones. We are happy to pay for them.


There were7 Birdies paying  £2.75 per Birdie, paying out £0.92 per birdie per person.

Results as follows:

Position
Team
Score
Birdie
£ EA
1st
C.Basterfield /S.Pope /M.Hone
77

£6
2nd
A.Beale /M.Sanders /P.Dewar
75B9

£4
3rd
D.Mugridge /A.Chance /B.Robinson
75
1
£3.92
4th
B.Barrow /N.Clarke /R.Hall
73
1

5th
R.Davies /D.Taylor /G.Bareham
72B9
2
£1.84
6th
J.Wandless /N.Hill /G.Wallace
72
1
£0.92
7th
R.Forster /M.Arnold /B.Rees
71
1
£0.92
8th
M.Miles /I.Housham /E.Williams
70B9


9th
R.White /M.Burt /J.Siabi
70
1
£0.92
10th
C.Hiam /J.Pearce /R.Miller
68


11th
M.Leigh /N.Hodder /B.Singleton
67


12th
T.Hackling /R.Flower /A.Davis
63


13th
B.Heath /B.Hilson /P.Spencer-Farr
62





Phil Hunt played the November Rolling Stableford and had a N/R ( Numb Right Hand)- he looked freezing after all those months as a Golfing God in France.


Laying Turf in November...only in Somerset can ve do Zis !


The AGM is this Friday following a 15 hole Texas Scramble

The AGM starts at 1330 sharp.

The Seniors Annual Dinner will be held in the Horizons Restaurant this Friday evening 1900 hrs for 1930hrs.

R.J.S. 08.11.2017

Chris scored 20 on back 9 but it was all to no avail, says me hiding behind the camera !

Many Tee-Peg holders were ahead of the Markers, are we safe to ignore when on Matts ?