Rollup Report Monday 22nd July 2019- Irish Medley

Rollup Report 22nd July 2019

Irish Medley 3-2-1 & Taunton Match

A very nice day to entertain our friends from Taunton & Pickeridge golf club. Literally a smashing day as I am sure John will have a caption on the blog. The match was won 4.5 to 1.5 (Hooray first win in charge). Thank you guys for giving a winning performance  ( my first as Captain). Unfortunately the big loser today was Derek Gardener who THOUGHT he had won a bottle of wine  for his very close to the pin shot on the 16th.

 Sorry Derek, I owe you one.

 (..now Frank ordered me not to publish this, as James had done such a great job..even told a joke..but a text from James this morning told me to use it, sorry Frank.)

Also a big thanks to Jeremy to step in for Mike light after having played 18 holes in the roll up.

 (Mike's Wife had taken a turn for the worst, he had phoned Club but message was not passed on)


James Siabi & Ian Fielder Won 1 up

Frank Martin & Mark Cording won 1 up

Barrie Heath & Dave Mugridge won 2 & 1

John Pearce and Martin Leigh Lost 5 & 4


Roger Davis & Jeremy Blackburn halved.

Derek Gardener & John MacOmish won 4 & 2

One of the Taunton Team was not so lucky as he looked for his ball OOB on 4th, just short of that tree on the right...…

Regards

James

With the Captain absent and the vice Captain and John Pearce otherwise occupied in a match against a visiting team, and Bob Barrow having a day off, it was left to the members to organise an Irish Medley. The 2004 Captain decided quite rightly to concentrate all his efforts on his golf .....

"Ok, put all the names on the blackboard and those wearing ties can go out first.

We'll play an R&A Medal as usual  and remember to doff your cap on seeing any Ladies on the course after reporting them to the Head Greenskeeper.

Any Aircraft overhead can be safely ignored as we are confident Gerry is finally on the run, God save the King."



…...which proved to be an entirely correct decision as he led his team to victory in a field of 10 teams.

So it was left to the 2016 and 2017 Captains to run the late rollup. They were drawn out last with Martin Leigh and Alan Teasdale who had been drawn to play the Rolling Stableford. On the 5 tee, John Pearce approached Martin and informed him that he was due to play in the match. Fortunately, Martin and Alan had scored exactly the same number of points on the previous four holes (nothing brilliant, I hasten to add) and Roger and I continued on our way with our new partner. Oh, how we wished we followed the example of the 2004 Captain.

There were 9 birdies, paying £1.65 per birdie per team.

				Score	Birdies	£ each
1	Ted Bryden	Paul England	Bob Rees	77		5.00
2	Dave Smith	George Willerton	Brian Marsh	75	2	4.10
3	Richard Hall	Chris Basterfield	Ken Trott	75	2	3.10
4	John Evans	Jim MacDonald	Bryan Frost	73	3	1.65
5	Roger Stone	Alan Teasdale	Nick Hill	69
6	David Taylor	Alistair Purcell	Clive Fisk	69	1	0.55
7	Nobby Hodder	Rob Laverton	David Asquith	66
8	Richard Forster	Maurice Arnold	Ian Housham	65	1	0.55
9	Gordon Brent	Jerry Stephens	Jeremy Blackburn	N/R
10	Andy Beale	Gordon Bareham	Martyn Putland	N/R

And finally from the Daily Telegraph 11^th March 1993

 

- such offers are rarely made these days

Nick Hill - 22/07/2019 14:43

..and Ray finally gets a piece of cake, more by accident than design really.  Penny had asked him how he got on with his Match against Phil, to which he replied "Piece of cake"..so Penny took this as a gentle hint about last Friday when Ray drove up to join the celebration and was told the course was closed and there was no cake...read Blog for last Friday if you don't know what the hell we are talking about...nothing unusual there then....