Cricket St Thomas Seniors 2

 Wednesday 4th November 2020

Lockdown Scramble

4 Man Texas Scramble

The course is immaculate; the weather reminiscent of a Mediterranean winters day and due to be set fair but the irony is as of now we can not play golf.  

Today the field totalled 56 and we were delighted to have four late entrants Messrs. Bryden, Robinson, Aldridge and Hiam, no doubt owing to buggies being allowed. 

Good decision ( Capt & Vice ) to change to 4-ball Scramble as tee-Times were at a premium , Course was extremely busy with other members desperate to get one last round in before Lockdown II.

The winners showed every other team a clean pair of heels, winning by 4 shots, which in this format is a fair whipping.   For those teams whose scores were not so good, yet achieved a 2, will be disappointed that 8 other 2`s reduced the payout to 77pence each.

However,  a special mention to Messrs. Campbell/Dewar/Davis/Smallwood as they managed a brace of twos.

 

1	D. Dowell	R Stone	J Pearce	P Hunt	67	56.7	1x2
2	D. Mugridge	S. Crisp	B. Frost	R. Dines	68	60.7
3	P. Taylor	I. Housham	R. Rees	R. Agar	69	61.0	1x2
4	M. Cording	S. Holt	M. Miles	A. Benaim	71	62.4	1x2
5	A Campbell	P. Dewar	A. Davis	E. Smallwood	72	63.4	2x2
6	B. Heath	J. Twose	P. S- Farr	N. Hill	72	63.5
7	I Hildred	D. Gardener	I Thomas	M. Arnold	71	63.7	1x2
8	G Brent	M Leigh	M Hone	C Ireland	71	63.9
9	N Gabb	M Dawson	S Pope	G Willerton	74	64.5
10	C Gingell	I Griffiths	R Young	N Markby	71	64.5	1x2
11	R Davis	R Forster	M King	N Hodder	73	65.8	1x2
12	N Cochran	E Paoloni	D Asquith	D Hall	76	66.7	1x2
13	M Sanders	J Blackburn	P England	J Sweet	77	67.0
14	T Bryden	B. Robinson	M. Aldridge	C Hiam	79	68.7

( funny how we focus so much on handicaps, and nearly always the gross scores align to the nett scores) 

1^st  Place £28.00 per team

2^nd Place £16.80 per team

3^rd Place £11.20 per team

So keep well and we hope to be able to reconvene in early December.

 

Mark Cording

Vice Captain

 

 

    Unlike some of our more competitive Seniors, Danny & Roger focused on getting in Phil & JKP Drives in wherever possible, even though it cost a couple of bogies..you cannot grab the shots offered by a 54-Handicapper, without managing the challenges.   Typical was the 10th hole, where Phil just about made the cross-ditch and Roger asked Danny if he could still make the green in 3 ( 2 more shots).

What we didn't expect was Danny to put his 2nd shot ( 3rd for Team) - 6 feet from the pin..for Phil to sink the putt for par.    Roger thought there were 2 Phils on parade, the front-9 Phil was somewhat erratic with the driver as he strove to get one in. The back-9 Phil was relaxed and hit some good shots , coincidentally just after his last drive was taken on 11th.

 

 We did hear mutterings about that old chestnut - slow play again. We were in the earlier bunch who basically came up  behind  a 2-ball of the 08:50 slot who seemed to be having lots of trouble, then there was a large gap behind us . I wonder if you are all aware of the new write-up for Texas Scrambles that was pinned to the Starter Hut, but will be in the 'Golf-Format' page once Chris G and his team catch up with all the various formats.

We found it very speedy for the first person to arrive at the chosen ball ( which you should be able to decide pretty early) - to mark it and get set-up to play the next shot. Very helpful if you have people in buggies who are ahead of the walkers.  No real need to touch the other ball, but it's OK to do so if on a closely mown area , as in preferred lies. In the past, we always had to play after the player of the chosen ball arrived - but you can do it any order now.  In our game, is was usually Danny or Roger's ball we played after the Drive, so Phil and I had often  both played on before they even arrived. Even more useful when putting as the two lower handicappers could learn from our putts..on the rare occasions that we missed of course.....just saying.... !