Friday 17th January 2020 - 2 from 3 Discard

Friday 17th January 2020

2 from 3 Discard

..and a Sunday Morning update from the Eggs Dinner...

Organiser and personally handed every Lady a fresh white rose.

Norman, Sue, Diana, JKP, Alan, Rosemary, Mike & Sue 

Linda, Ron, Patricia, Keith, Gloria, John

Madeline, Bernie, Rose, Mike, Jill,  Malcolm - Tony & Sue Church couldn't make it.

Brian, Jenny, Alan, Stuart, Maureen, Marian & Bert

Malcolm the Master of Ceremonies 

Marian doing the rounds

Jenny & Alan, walked in fashionably late and were served in about 1 minute 30 seconds flat

Can I phone a friend ?....

and then it was a relaxing hour in the Coffee Lounge and carriages.

A Typical Eggs organized function and enjoyed by all. Denise, Katie, Ryan, Isla and Kevin the acting Head Chef looked after us well. A couple of minor hiccups with the meal orders, but to be expected with the re-shuffle out back.
The Eggs are a select group who play very early in the morning and usually number under 9, so often add a few 'Social members' to their bigger functions and we are all delighted to accept.

Burns Lunch update - Our apologies to those with next Friday's Lunch in their diaries, but we have decided not to proceed with the event.   Nothing had been booked with the Club and given the lack of time to  prepare all the paraphernalia, we don't have the resources to recover in time. The Good news is that we promise to put things right around  St George's Day ( 23rd April).

Even more good news is that there are plenty of Burns Suppers for you to attend in the area; such as Weymouth; Portland; Bridport; Eype Holiday Camp etc 

We thought we had even better news as Derek "Newsflash" Gardener says there was one advertised in the CST Newsletter - but after much research we feel he must be referring to the "Burgers Night" - Close Derek but no gold watch.

Much sympathy was expressed for Ian Fielder who has always had to look after his delicate eyes, but now has issues with them both, meaning he cannot drive or even read. Hopefully the problems are resolvable and he will be back with us shortly.


Report

Unexpectedly nice weather saw 31 ( 4 early birds and 29 late starters ) playing 2 from 3 discard stableford. A couple of points of concern came about that need mentioning. Firstly the early starters had 4 members and decided to play as two-balls and a Random Pro for each team. With the rules not clarified clearly to them that the pro scores 3, 2 & 3 on the first 3 holes and 3,2 & 3 on the last 3 holes which was decided with late starters. This left a two-ball in the later group, hence they had to start with a Random Pro. This has been said many times before but it seems that it is falling into deaf ears. In this particular case, the 2^nd team from the late starters finished just 4 minutes behind with the 2 ball been let through already. Only if one of the them had stayed behind to play with the rest, we would have had perfect numbers to play the games as planned.

With this in mind, I have informed the early groupings that if they are only ONE group, they will play their own game, leaving the late group to play unrestricted as far as the format goes.

Before we get back to today’s game, I like to thank everyone who took notice of our advice on slow play. In fact the first 5 teams finishing their rounds between 2hr 50m and 3hr 15min leaving slowest team on the course (the 6^th team) 3.5 holes behind. Must say it was a big improvement on previous rounds. Thank you, keep it up.

The winners today were the usual suspects who occupied the top 3 positions.

1^st Bob Barrow, Chris (star of the moment) Hiam & John (playing out of his skin) Evans

2^nd Mark (always on the winning side) Cording, Richard (steady) Agar & Alan Chance

3^rd Dave (always there or thereabouts) Mugridge, Mike (the dark horse) Hone & Eric Williams



                             Team                                                 Points          Prize Each

Bob Barrow, Chris Hiam & John Evans       (B9)              78               £4.50

Marc Cording, Alan Chance & Richard Agar                     78               £3.50

Dave Mugridge, Mike Hone & Eric Williams                    77                £2.00   



There were Six 2’s paying £0.88 per birdie per person

Bob Barrow, Chris Hiam & John Evans                          1                 £0.88

Paul England, Bob White & Peter Spencer-Farr               1                 £0.88

Dave Mugridge, Mike Hone & Eric Williams                  2                 £1.76

Norman Markby, David Asquith & Roger Davis              2                 £1.76

Bob Barrow	John Evans	Chris Hiam       *	78		33 pts 9 holes
Mark Cording       *	Mike Hone	John Evans	78	1	37 pts 14 holes
Dave Mugridge	Mike Hone	Eric Williams	77	2
James Siabi	Barrie Heath	Derek Gardener	75
Phil Dewar	Mark Sanders	Pro	73
Andrew Rowland	Chris Gingell	Pro	72
Peter Spencer-Farr	Bob White	Paul England	72	1
Steve Holt	John Pearce	Frank Martin	71
Roger Davis	David Asquith	Norman Markby	71	2
Jerry Stephens	Clive Fisk	Pro	69
Stuart Pope	Bert Robinson	Richard Hall	69

James Siabi

Captain

Captain was keen to advertise and support Captain's Drive-In a week Saturday , but on checking with Pro Shop all slots for the Golf were filled with a wait list. One idea that came up, to help avoid having 2 weeks with all those white markers down the 5th ( where people guess where each captain will hit  their  ball) - was to sit in reception and offer a free Golf ball to the youngsters for every 5 markers they collect. We have quite a few balls already, but if you have any half-decent ones lying around they would be gratefully received.
Hopefully this year, we won't need anyone running down the A30 to recover balls as happened in 2019....

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