Friday 21st Feb 2025
Position of Treasurer
As of yesterday David Asquith took over the responsibility of Treasurer, I am sure you will give him your full support.
In addition to that
On behalf of the Cricket st Thomas Seniors Golf Members, I would like to express our sincere gratitude to Keith Branchflower for your service as Treasurer for the past 10 years. Your dedication and hard work have been invaluable to us, and we genuinely appreciate your free time and effort you've committed to managing our finances. We know it involved a significant commitment, and we thank you for your willingness to take on this responsibility for so long.
We wish you all the best in your future endeavours and hope you enjoy some well-deserved relaxation on the golf course!
Very best wishes and thanks
Keith Hunt Seniors Captain
[21/02, 16:14] Keith Branchflower: Thank you for the kind
words. Best wishes to David as new Treasurer.
Keith.
[21/02, 16:15] Roger STONE: Well done Keith, years of
dedication
[21/02, 16:17] Dave Mugridge: Thanks for all your unseen
help on the Competitive Team side of the Seniors Section - tough act to follow
[21/02, 16:36] Barrie Heath: Well done Keith, for your 10
years service to the seniors section.
[21/02, 18:30] Bob Dennett: Well done Keith 👋👋👋
[21/02, 18:43] James Siabi: Well done, Keith. Enjoy the
times you have released from your involvement with the seniors. Hopefully, we
will see more of you on the course
[21/02, 18:44] James Siabi: 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
[21/02, 18:56] Steve Holt: Thank you Keith. 👍
[21/02, 19:13] Andy Rowland: Thank you for all your work and
support, Keith🏌️♂️
Wednesday 19th Feb 2025
4BBB Medalford.
So, almost 40 Rolled Up for this competitive little 4-Ball Format. Team of 4 with 2 Playing 4BBB Medal and 2 Playing 4BBB Stableford.
So ideally, if Pair A carded a Nett 67 and Pair B scored 36 Points - the resultant A minus B would score you 31. Naturally Teams would like to score a bit lower than that, around 20 maybe.
Just to add to the mind-gymnastics, Andy Rowland - who thought he would be feeding Ponies in the New Forest by now - decreed we would use the Red Tees .
Thus , for example Hole 5 drops to a Par 4 and Stroke Index is 13 , but played from Red Tees which is a tad shorter. Into the wind & rain, this was a tough hole with average Medal Score of 5, with no shot then maybe a 6 for 1 point for the Stableford pair - it would add 4 points to you overall which is bad !
So as we sat drinking more coffee, we expected the early rain to pass through and enjoy a pleasant 90 Degrees.
Oh No.
The rain did ease for a while but kept returning. We got as far as 15th Tee when Klaxon sounded and course was closed . Low Cloud was just above our heads and visibility was drastically reduced. Greens Staff circulated telling us all to walk-in.
As you can see from the Draw, a 3-ball went out first, courtesy of the Phantom Pro. In a 4BBB, however, Captain had to get a little Clever.
Unlike normal formats, say a 2 from 3 the Pro would just count his score twice if it was needed. But in this format it does not work if he is on his own as Team A or Team B. So in this Format Player chosen as Pro ( 1st Name out) is in Team A AND Team B.
Captain tried very hard to conjure up a result, as the Earlies had done 18 holes and had a good soaking - but others ended on 12th. He tried to do a 12-hole but the cards were pretty unreadable and soaked. We had to put the 6 parts of our 2 cards into an envelope !
Monday 17th February 2025
