Cricket St Thomas Seniors 2

Just heard the sad new of the passing of one of our fellow Seniors Golfers. Ronnie Sutherland, whom we have not seen for a while, finally lost his  long battle last Night. I'm sure all our thoughts are with Linda and the family. Ever the character, Ron ran his Ice-Cream business right up to the very end. Lived life to the full, moaned about everything...but always had that wry smile to check if anyone was taking him seriously. Proudly showing his Guinness World Record for  a line of Whirly Vans Just heard from Clive that the larger than life ice cream king has passed away. Not being at the club knowing any current news it’s a real shock. Always a 100% chap with good direct banter…very sad. Away in Greece at the moment but when you get a funeral date I would be pleased to know ,but I suppose numbers will be restricted. Thanks John and if you are passing condolences to family please include me. Many thanks David Walgrove Captain busy moving his 45-Room mansion into 12 Containers so please excuse random actions from his support team and of course our Vice Captain. Wednesday 22nd - Summer Sizzler - Start Sheet posted in Internal Comps - so please be up nice and early to buy a raffle ticket and get to your Tee before 08:00 for the Shotgun Start. 3 extras have signed-up on-line to help fill the gaps, so putting my head on the block, would Richard Agar, Bob Dennett & Bryan Frost start on 7th Tee please.  Holes 7 through 12 had no starters. Nice hole as you will finish on 6th - please let us know if you want the Buffet ( £13.50). Remember there is no other Roll-Up on Wednesday ! I'll  check with Club on Monday to make sure they have not made any alternative arrangements. Three Man Texas Scramble 17-09-2021 Nett Twos 1 Bobby Dennett Nick Gabb Rod Stevens 55 2 2 David Asquith Ian Frost Jeremy Stephens 60 c/b 3 Maurice Arnold Roger Stone Eric Williams 60 4 Jeremy Blackburn Ian Thomas Roger Withers 61 c/b 5 Mike Hone Martyn Putland Ray Wilson 61 c/b 1 6 Martin Bargery Bob Barrow Ian Housham 61 1 7 Richard Forster Derek Gardener Chris Hiam 62 c/b 8 Barrie Heath Peter Spencer-Farr Ken Trott 62 1 9 Richard Agar Roger Davis Paul England 63 10 Ian Fielder Colin Ireland Andrew Rowland 64 11 Jim Lauchlan Brian Marsh Mark Saunders 65 c/b 12 Chris Gingell Nobby Hodder Rod Young 65 c/b 13 Chris Basterfield Richard Dines John Sweet 65 14 Sid Crisp Terry Hackling John MacOmish 66 15 Bryan Frost John Pearce Bob Rees 68 Bobby Dennett Nick Gabb Rod Stevens £7.50 each David Asquith Ian Frost Jeremy Stephens £4.50 each Maurice Arnold Roger Stone Eric Williams £3.00 each Twos Sweep Bobby Dennett Nick Gabb Rod Stevens £3.75 each Mike Hone Martyn Putland Ray Wilson £1.87 each Martin Bargery Bob Barrow Ian Housham £1.87 each Barrie Heath Peter Spencer-Farr Ken Trott £1.87 each Sorry - missed last2 and I know it's Rod Stevens, not Rob...I met Rod in Car Park and attempted to demean their performance by saying " I see you all failed to make Green on 13th"..to which he replied .."well I just took an Iron off the Tee & chipped in for a 2"....so I left... Food for thought... G & JKP went through Andy's Golf Prog for Sep thro Dec and identified a few items that we need to adjust due to Course maintenance, Trip to Turkey , clashes etc - we will run by Captain before updating. One that we need to get busy on is Next Wednesday - The Simmer Sizzler with the Ladies. The Club has allowed a Shotgun Start, which obviously affects other Golfers so we really need to make it worth it - ie clearing every tee for an 08:04 start. Currently we have just 38 signed up , which is 13 Teams of 3 and just 13 Tees occupied. There is no room for Seniors Roll-Up to take place etc. We suggest that Seniors not wishing to play with the Ladies and take part in the excellent Buffet - sign up anyway so that we can fill all 18 Tee Slots for the 08:00 start. We will find a way ( WhatsApp) to identify who wishes just to play a 2 from 3 Stableford for a separate Comp if required. So, pending approval from Captain / Vice - can you start signing up for Wed 22nd to help us fill the bookings ( we can accommodate more if necessary as some Tees can easily handle a double start) -  remember it's the only game in town on Wednesday ..but you have to be up nice & early to get to your Tee for 08:00... Jurassic Challenge @ Lyme Regis A very nice and pleasant day at Lyme with 160 participants (20 teams of 8). A well organised event with lovely food served after the game. Team CST had a reasonable combined  score of 158 which was 4 short of 3rd placed team, 7 less than 2nd place and 13 less than the wining team. Our team scores were as follows Mugridge & MacOmish 39 Siabi & Leigh 38 Hinds & Thomas 36 and finally  Davis & Housham 35. To keep our next year's captain happy, must say he was robbed. He was under 2 ft from the flag at one of the par 3 holes and the last team managed to better that. Bad luck Dave. A dozen Titleist balls are not as useful as the bottles of wine you have been winning in out friendly matches so I wouldn't worry about it and suggest you put it out of your head. James Seniors Medford 15-09-21 Greeted by Fog and delayed start, but ended up with a beautiful day. More Picture & comments later. Thanks to Chris G for processing all the results. Many missing today with 8 down at Lyme Regis and others resting after Yesterday's tough Match in the Somerset Bowl  Med Ford Total Bob Barrow 35 19 16 £12.15 Chris Gingell 37 19 18 £6.75 Dickie Hall 38 18 20 c/b £5.40 Maurice Arnold 35 15 20 £2.70 David Asquith 36 15 21 Nobby Hodder 40 18 22 Terry Hackling 35 12 23 Peter Spencer-Farr 41 17 24 Paul England 37 12 25 Steve Holt 45 19 26 Rod Young 44 18 26 Mark Saunders 39 12 27 Barrie Heath 45 17 28 Bryan Frost 41 13 28 John Pearce 44 15 29 Billy Hilson 42 12 30 Eric Smallwood 48 14 34 Ian Fielder D/Q No card returned No Birdies so money added to Prize fund Barrie's Trolley heads up the hill on 13th... As you walk up third, new 1st Green dominate the sky Left side shows new 1st Green and right side shows massive clearance making excellent use of the  scrub land behind old 2nd green for new tee down to corner for what will be the 2nd hole with a dog-leg shape. Seniors September Medal 13-09-21 Div 1 Nett Birdies 1 James Siabi 66 £7.50 2 Martin Leigh 68 c/b 1 £4.50 £3.33 3 Paul Taylor 68 1 £3.00 £3.33 4 Roger Davis 71 5 Barry Keates 72 1 £3.33 6 Dave Mugridge 73 7 Martin Bargery 73 8 Stephen Atyeo 74 9 Gordon Brent 74 10 Bob Barrow 75 11 Roger Stone 75 12 Roger Williams 78 13 Barrie Heath 79 1 £3.33 14 Andrew Rowland 82 15 Ian Housham 86 Div 2 1 Neil Cochran 69 1 £8.00 £3.33 2 Jim Lauchlan 71 1 £4.80 £3.33 3 John MacOmish 73 £3.20 4 Martyn Jewell 73 5 Derek Gardener 76 6 Peter Spencer-Farr 76 7 Bob Rees 77 8 Tony Church 77 9 Keith Hunt 77 10 Sid Crisp 78 11 Richard Forster 79 12 Jeremy Stephens 80 13 Ian Thomas 80 14 Nick George 84 15 Stuart Pope 86 16 Brian Marsh NR Div 3 1 Andy Beale 74 £5.40 2 Ken Trott 77 £3.60 3 Bryan Frost 78 4 Nobby Hodder 79 5 Ian Frost 79 6 Eric Smallwood 80 7 Mike Aldridge 83 8 Eric Williams 86 9 Dickie Hall NR   SGU President's Trophy, held at Burnham and Berrow Golf Club CST decided to enter a team of 4 into the SGU President's Trophy, held at Burnham and Berrow Golf Club. The competition was played on Sunday, 12 September, off the Gold tees. Mark Cording, Roger Davis, Ian Hildred & Dave Mugridge formed the team, with the best 3 scores to count. There were 23 teams competing, with all ages eligible. Some teams were all scratch or better.  The CST team performed very well, especially as 2 of the team had never played B&B and the other 2 only in the distant past.  The team came 2nd overall, missing out on 1st place by 2 strokes. The team were presented with the Windwhistle Cup (rather appropriate). In the individual, Mark Cording came 3rd overall.    Dave Mugridge  SUMMER SIZZLER WEDNESDAY 22nd September  The Seniors and Ladies are getting together for a 3 ball Bowmaker on Wednesday 22nd September. This will be a shotgun start at 8.00am, followed by a Buffet lunch at 12.30pm. Cost is £12.50 per head. There are still plenty of spaces available, and entry is via the CST club computer system. There will be no roll up on the day as all tee times up to 12.30 pm have been allocated to this competition. Draw for teams will be carried out next weekend, get your entry in quickly if you want to play golf on that day CAPTAIN'S REPORT ON TEIGN VALLEY AWAY FRIENDLY 10 SEPT 2021  Our opponents opted for an unusually early tee time, with an hours drive ahead, we set off just after 8am.    Good job Jim and Ian did so as they had arranged to meet at Exeter with Ian then showing Jim to the course, as he did not know where it was.   In the bar last week there were conversations about the quickest way to get there and Ian's input was aired.    The pair got there early and were trying on shoes in the pro shop, just about to buy a pair, when the pro asked what time they were teeing off.   Ian slightly surprised answered we are with CST for the match, the pro then informed him that there was no match today at TEIGNMOUTH.    Hastily they made the 40 minute journey to TEIGN VALLEY in 24 minutes with Jim nearly being sick.   Not only that but they then had to make the return journey via Teignmouth to pick up Jim's car,     Aye, well now the name's Lauchlan...not Laughlan !!! As for the golf, all but a couple of our team had never played TEIGN VALLEY and everyone was complementary thoroughly enjoying the day.   It is basically divided in two by a road with the first part winding its way up a fairly steep hill, not surprising as you are in Dartmoor National Park.   It takes about 7 holes to go up and one very long par 5 to come down,   The second part is flat and follows the River TEIGN as meanders it's way to TEIGNMOUTH  about 20 miles away across the rolling Devon hills.    The clubhouse is very modern and the owner has just started rebuilding the Hotel that used to adjoin until it was burnt down 8 years ago.   Definitely a course to play if you haven't so far.       There were a couple of unusual incidents which got people scrabbling for the rule books, which it looks ended even as one went in our favour but these are just friendly matches.   The food was excellent a choice of Roast Chicken or Ham Egg and Chips with chocolate brownie and ice cream to follow, a round of golf all for £13.00, plus the petrol and golf shoes if the shop was still open on your return visit.   The result.   CORDING & ROWLAND.              WON 4&2 POPE & DAVIS.                             LOST 6&5  THOMAS & LAUCHLAN.           LOST 2 DOWN...Down the A30..then Down the A380... HONE & GARDENER.                   HALVED HEATH & PAOLONI.                      LOST 4&2  MUGRIDGE & SPENCER-FARR.  WON 1 UP  OVERALL 3 1/2 to 2 1/2 LOSS   Mark     Two From Three Discard 10-09-2021 Pts 1 Albie Benaim Roger Withers Sid Crisp 68 c/b 2 Keith Hunt Eric Williams Chris Andrews 68 c/b 3 Nobby Hodder Richard Agar Ian Fielder 68 c/b 4 Bob Barrow Maurice Arnold Bryan Frost 68 5 Nick Gabb Roger Williams Dickie Hall 66 c/b 6 Ken Trott Bob Rees Chris Basterfield 66 7 Brian Marsh Terry Hackling John MacOmish 61 8 Albie Benaim Roger Withers Sid Crisp £6.90 each Keith Hunt Eric Williams Chris Andrews £4.60 each There were no Twos or Birdies so all money paid into prize fund  CG Wednesday 8th September 2021 Individual Stableford ..as others were taking care of Summer Knockout business with Our Captain and Interesting Davis challenging the highly successful pairing of  Hodder & Hall for the right to challenge Ian & Jim to be Summer KO Pairs Champions. We passed them going down the 15th, immaculately dressed in Team Colours with the match still very much alive.. We'll keep you in suspense..and let the Captain announce the results..... Looks like 27 attended the 2 Roll-Ups, with a little dissent outside claiming 'chaos & lack of organisation' -  but inside the locker room all looked well in control and it was only those outside that  had issues..maybe as Pro Shop had advised some to sign up on the roll-up sheet and fill the early slots. Chris G & John W had it all under control for the usual 08:45 Draw, with new Member  Roger Williams making an appearance. I personally witnessed Ian Fielder rummage in the box for his card, so was surprised after the draw when his said 'Where's my card'..which we found still in the box, so merely added him at the end. Then someone was looking for Ian Frost to go over to 16th be he was nowhere to be found. ..have you worked it out yet ?.....I.F.   had pulled out   I.F. Card  so in fact Ian Fielder was included in the Draw under the name of Ian Frost...  ..ok..I guess you had to be there... Seniors September Stableford 08-09-21- Chris Gingell. Div 1 Pts Birdies 1 Danny Dowell 39 3 £6.50  + £6.00 2 Chris Rudling 38 £3.90 3 Martin Bargery 38 £2.60 4 Roger Stone 36 5 Barry Keates 35 1 £2.00 6 Gordon Brent 34 1 £2.00 7 Paul Taylor 33 1 £2.00 8 Bob Barrow 32 9 John Wandless 31 10 Ian Housham 31 11 Andrew Rowland 29 12 Barrie Heath 23 13 R Williams 23 1 £2.00 Div 2 1 Norman Markby  40 £5.40 2 Keith Hunt 38 £3.60 3 Derek Gardener 38 4 Neil Cochran 37 5 Brian Marsh 34 6 John MacOmish 29 7 David Asquith 28 8 Terry Hackling 27 9 John Pearce 19 Div 3 1 Richard Agar 39 £6.00 2 Paul England 34 3 Ken Trott 33 4 Ian Fielder 28 5 Eric Smallwood 26 6 Clive Fisk 25 JKP Birthday today. (74) .as I sat at desk this morning..found my Steroid pills ( untaken) for Wednesday..wonder if that was why I could barely make it around the course yesterday..and that horrible score..guess I'm not cured yet. Course Improvements / Re-Design Hopefully you all got Steve Hill's comprehensive update on the Course Improvements, with lots of beautiful pictures explaining it all on the notice board.  Steve has now ( or just about) fully departed from Metaltech as is to become a gentleman of Leisure like ourselves..so we will probably see a lot more of him around the course, playing hopefully. He was true to his work on the new holes No.1 and No7 with half a dozen pieces of heavy machinery moving 100's of tons of material between the 1st & 2nd for the new Green & Tee and also twixt 6th & 17th  for the Green & tee - but it will be some time in the future before we are on them. In 2023 we will have 11 Holes this side of the road, which will make a nice little round for those wanting a quick game. So as you walk up the current 6th, there will be a dog-leg right to new Green and then new tee for shot to old 6th Green which will be a nice little Par 3. Three Man Yellow Ball 06-09-2021 After a huge amount of discussion about the new rules on yellow ball the 5 later teams eventually got on the tee. We had decided to play as per the instructions so every player had a yellow, but if it was lost then no one could use theirs on the next hole and obviously the person who lost it didn't have one to use on subsequent holes. Our team of Mike Hone Nobby and myself made a great start with Mike playing two great shots to be near the bell in 2, and that's where the trouble started. So we were down one yellow ball and struggling for the rest of the game. The cards were all placed in the Seniors box so await the results from our scrutineer. Welcome Rob, I'm Colin..may I apologise in advance.....   Fairly warm out there today as our short Indian summer arrived. New member Rob Coombes submitted a card for Handicap playing with the last group after I relieved him of his £3 seniors membership contribution.   Thanks to Chris G for collating the results below:- Regards Norman
			Pts	Birdies
Bryan Frost	Derek Gardener	Martin Leigh	132	1
Ken Trott	Ian Housham	Rod Stevens	127	1
Bob Barrow	Andrew Rowland	Richard Holmes	114	2
Norman Markby	Mike Hone	Nobby Hodder	109	1
David Asquith	Gordon Brent	Neil Cochran	102	1
Colin Ireland	Eric Williams	Richard Agar	97
Ian Frost	Roger Withers	Jeremy Stephens	96
Dickie Hall	Bob Rees	Bill Hilson	81
Bryan Frost	Derek Gardener	Martin Leigh	£4.80	each
Ken Trott	Ian Housham	Rod Stevens	£3.20	each
There were no Twos recorded so Birdies were used
Bridies Sweep
Bryan Frost	Derek Gardener	Martin Leigh	£0.66	each
Ken Trott	Ian Housham	Rod Stevens	£0.66	each
Bob Barrow	Andrew Rowland	Richard Holmes	£1.32	each
Norman Markby	Mike Hone	Nobby Hodder	£0.66	each
David Asquith	Gordon Brent	Neil Cochran	£0.66	each

CST Seniors v. Honiton

 

As Captain Covid was suffering from Tendinitis in his wrist. Vice Captain was called on to deputise and lead team from the front.

The match was played on the hottest & stickiest day for some time, which lead to one of the opposition players feeling unwell and being rescued by Cyd (in a buggy) from the halfway hut. All were glad to refresh themselves at the end of the round.

The course is starting to firm up & play in its familiar summer conditions of fast and bouncy, which caused some trouble for the opposition as tee shots bled off fairways  into the sticky rough, which caused further problems.

This led to an overall match result of:

 

                                CST 5 Honiton 1

 

Individual match results:

 

Dave Mugridge & Roger Davis won 2&1

Barrie Heath & Keith Hunt won 5&3

Ian Thomas & Jim Lauchlan won 7&6

Chris Gingell & Roger Stone lost 2&1

Bob Dennett & Barry Keates won 4&3

Roger Hinds & Edmondo Paoloni won 3&1

 

Both Nearest the Pins were won, Keith Hunt winning the home prize, getting very close at 16 & getting his 2.

An excellent performance, giving the Vice Captain a 100% record

 

Dave Mugridge

Canadian Greensomes 03-09-21

                        Nett Twos

1 David Asquith Jeremy Blackburn 63 c/b 1

2 Bill Hilson John Wandless 63

3 Bob Barrow Ian Housham 65

4 Sid Crisp Ian Frost 68

5 Dickie Hall Bob Rees 69

6 John Macomish Brian Marsh 71

7 Jeremy Stephens Roger Withers 75

8 Richard Agar Bryan Frost 78

9 Ian Fielder Ken Trott N/R

David Asquith Jeremy Blackburn £5.40 Each

Bill Hilson John Wandless £3.60 Each

Twos

David Asquith Jeremy Blackburn £4.50 Each

Compiled Chris G

 

              Captain's Report on Friendly Match 

      V. VIVARY PARK FRI 03 Sep 2021

 

Vivary Park are always competitive both Home and Away and their teams featured towards the top of the leader boards in both the Charity Invitational Day and the Texas Scramble.   This also meant

several of them had recently played at CST.    Playing on a tree lined course also holds no fear for them, so we knew this would be a close match.    Their handicaps were also on average well above ours and several in the 30's, perhaps a reflection of quite how narrow Vivary is and of course it gets narrower by the year.   For the record we got trounced away earlier in the year one of our worst results. 

 

The weather was perfect for golf hazy sunshine with a slight breeze and occasionally quite hot.  .   Conducive to good golf and most of the groupings had very close matches, except two match ups..

 

Mark Cording & Derek Gardener.           Won 1up

Barry Keates & Roger Stone.                 Halved

James Siabi & Chris Gingell.                  Halved

Roger Davis & Barrie Heath.                  Won 5&4

Paul England & Keith Hunt.                    Won 7&6

Dave Mugridge & Peter Spencer-Farr.   LOST 1 Down

 

RESULT BEING A WIN 4-2

 

The nearest the pin was on the 16th and for first time in many matches it was NOT WON by Dave Mugridge.   So congratulations to BARRIE HEATH for what must have a been a great tee shot to get inside The Captain's effort.  

  Not only did the Vice Captain not get the wine but he also lost his match, 

albeit by one hole, but this is notable as it is a very rare event.    

Well done the whole team as we continue the sections match play form, which has been pretty consistent and good this year.     We still have NINE MATCHES this year and the cost is still only £15 for Bacon Roll & Coffee; a hearty one course meal with coffee and a friendly but competitive round of golf.   Surely in today's world excellent value, so more and different names on the sign up sheets would be good.   A lot of work and time goes into these annual matches and it would be a great shame if they were to come under threat.     Given the noise levels at the dinner tables all who play thoroughly enjoy these matches so if you are new to the section or not played in a while come and join the fun. 

 

Mark Cording

Knighton Heath Cup Quarter Final

 

CST Seniors contested the Quarter Final of the Knighton Heath Cup at CST on Thursday afternoon against a strong team from the Isle of Purbeck.

When your lowest handicap players are receiving up to 4 shots from the opposition, you wonder if you might have a bit of a struggle. When the 1st five results were in, things were not looking good as we had only won 2 of the matches.

However, the 5 heroes at the end of the team won all the remaining matches to give a 7 - 3 victory to CST.

Danny Dowell lost 2&1

Dave Mugridge won 4&3

Roger Hinds won 2&1

Bob Dennett lost 4&3

Steve Southgate lost 2 down

John Wandless won 5&4

Mark Cording won 2&1

Chris Gingell won 3&1

James Siabi won 3&2

Roger Davis won 5&4

We now await the draw for the Semi-final.

Well done Team

Dave Mugridge

News Updates:-

Alan Davis:-

Alan looked somewhat better today, Day Five, after a couple of rather miserable days being on a saline drip and oxygen.  Today he aspired to dizzy heights and had a little soup and yogurt for lunch, and progressed to orange squash rather than plain water.  He is still in the "Hospital Property nighty though."

He very much appreciates all the kind thoughts and messages received, thank you to everyone.

With best wishes,

Rosemary Davis.

..and from Roy our Professional...

Hi John, I hope the Seniors Open was a success today. Please can you put a message on your Seniors page.
I could do with more support from the seniors regarding lessons. I had 6 x 30 mins lessons last month from members! Luckily I had the visitors looking after me. The same 3 seniors turn up every week for group coaching. It's £7.50 for an hours coaching and unlimited balls.
Many thanks
Roy  07437 190581

TODAY AT 10:00  why not start right away, just turn up and join them - and every Thursday at that time...

..as they say in the adverts..Use Him or Lose Him...

Seniors Open 21st September

..early leader board

Team in 18th place boasted 244 Years experience for the three Octogenarians.

     another Birdie for Stuarts trio aas they make a "2" on the 9th

..but Steve had already chipped in for a "2" on the 2nd...

..which was swiftly followed by and 8-iron to 3rd green that crept on at the left side and smoothly glided down towards the pin for yet another birdie...

    Bob, Roger & Richard admire Roger's new £47,000 Buggy after recent upgrades....

    Captains Team down the 5th....a long way to go...

     Trio with History of winning these events...Chris, Paul & Nick

     Bob & Roger paying the price for leaving Richard 2 drives in the last 3 holes....

More pictures and updates as there are still several hours of play to complete..but the Cake Stand looked good, thanks for all those donations once more...and of course the raffle prizs.

Vice Captain has posted Team for the Knighton Heath Cup @ CST.

Thursday 2nd September in External Comps

Captain has posted Teams for Honiton  (H) on 6th Sept and Teign Valley (A) on 10th..but before that he needs 3 players for Friday against Vivary as per below...

Can’t post the team for THIS FRIDAY AT HOME TO VIVARY AS WE ARE 3 SHORT. 

 SIGNED UP

Cording

Mugridge

Davis

Gardener

Gingell

Paoloni

England

Spencer-Farr

Keates.

Stone

Siabi

Heath.

 It’s disappointing that even with our current good form we are scratching about for teams.

Mark        cordingsales@aol.com  07309 044006

.so as promised above..the total from just the Auctions was...

THE AUCTION RAISED £2136.50 

..plus the Raffle, Tee-Sponsorship, Halfway House and other donations...

As promised, Seniors awoke to bright sunshine..but unfortunately that was Senior Ballesteros and Senior Olathabal in Spain...over here it felt like 10 degrees and pretty nippy..but the warm sunshine did arrive eventually.

Nice to see Ian Fielder back playing with new nuclear eye-drops helping his vision. He scored on 11 holes making a major contribution to their score.

Where were you all you dirty rats !!!!

Martin looks delighted with his drive as in the background..Gordon can be seen just ahead of Chris in the Summer Knockout Match...and that's just how they finished, on the 18th hole.

At 08:45 Golfers gradually arrived, Chris G had everything set up for us, also did the results and calculations which was much appreciated. Vice captain had already slimmed down our Tee-Times, but in the event we only needed 4 of the Dozen left..which was rather strange for this fun format.

Two From Four Stableford 30-08-2021
					Pts	Birdies
1	Bill Hilson	Ian Fielder	Martin Leigh	Norman Markby	88	1
2	John Pearce	Martin Bargery	Ken Trott	Douglas Oliver	84
3	Barrie Heath	Nobby Hodder	Steward Seery	Roger Hinds	81
4	Ian Housham	Bryan Frost	Bob Rees	Richard Agar	69
	Bill Hilson	Ian Fielder	Martin Leigh	Norman Markby	£4.00	each
		Twos/Birdies
	Bill Hilson	Ian Fielder	Martin Leigh	Norman Markby	£2.00	each

 

    Roger Hinds back with us  but  finished 3,3,4,5 against the leaders 5,6,5,5 and drifted down the leader board.

It was all downhill for Bob Rees and his group as they managed just 2 points on the 1st hole and after 9 holes they were already 10 behind the leaders.,

Great front 9 from Mr Bargery & Co..but disaster from 14 through 18 cost them what should have been a winning score...

Health Update:-

How soon things can change in the Seniors Section...Pictured above is Alan Davis, holding his winnings from The Sinners amassing 155 Points in the Charity 4BBB..

....where is he now ?...

His Wife, Rosemary writes...( after I requested details)...

Alan has had a Urostomy which involved removing his bladder . They also removed the remains of his prostate.  They were prepared to do the op because he is fit and healthy and Taunton Hospital said his heart could cope with the antiesthetic.  He is in Exeter Hospital because that is where the trained team and robot are.  All the staff are exceptional.

Yes, he did well at the charity day and was looking forward to several other events, but presumably they had a cancellation for last Friday.  So his wings are clipped for the next three months.

When he is home and getting better, but not allowed out anywhere, we will welcome visitors .

Sunday Update:-

He looked a little better this afternoon, his blood pressure was done while I was there and it was much better than in the morning apparently.  The staff looked rather relieved.  Day 2 is always dodgy.  He was allowed a little jelly at lunchtime and there was the possibility of a little soup at teatime.  Oooohhh!  He even allowed me to take his photograph.

The staff at Exeter are all terrific.

With best wishes,

Rosemary Davis.

Seniors Open Texas Scramble Wednesday 1st September 

Cakes, etc wanted for the Half Way House, get baking all you budding entrants to the Great British Bake Off.

Also raffle prizes, all proceeds to Captain’s Charity SURE, let’s keep the donations coming in.

Wanted…… playing partner for Rod Young and Ray Wilson… Iain Rowland has had to pull out due to injury…. THANKS JKP FOR STEPPING IN ( don’t forget the Victoria Sponge)

Seniors & Ladies Summer Sizzler Wednesday 22nd September 

Entry now open on the club computer for late summer competition with the Ladies Section.

3 Ball Bowmaker Shotgun start at 8.00am followed by Buffet Lunch.

20 teams consist of 2 seniors and 1lady, first come first served, and if there are excess entries a reserve list will be drawn up.

Get entering!!