Tuesday 3rd. March 2015

Not only is Tuesday the day for John Courtney's Lan-Com trophy it is also the day for giving your monthly subs to Brian.
So - Please be familiar with the rules of the Lan-Com trophy (they are on the competition rules page of the website) and give your subs to Brian before he is off to the sunshine again. When Alan returns from the sun I will ask him to publish the updated Winter Stableford situation.

Thursday 26th. February 2015

Result of today's 4 Ball, Pairs, Better Ball:

28 people braved the elements today, with some impressive scoring at the top of the field:

1st.   - Barry Lund + Geoff Mills  46pts.
2nd. - Alex Tyrell + Richard Harris  45pts.
3rd. -  Gerry Collier + John Robinson  42pts.

The outstanding U-Boat semi-final was played today such that the final will be:
Dougie Keen and Richard Woodward v Dave Westman and Cliff Smith

The highlight of today's Prize Giving was the presentation of the Eric Clack trophy to Frank Hay (see below).
The Bandit of the Month escaped before they could be crowned but they have only earned a temporary reprieve - watch this space

Thursday 26th. February - Prize Giving

A reminder that February's Prize Giving will follow tomorrow's (Thursday's) 4 Ball competition.
Prize giving will include the first trophy of the year.

Hola Golf Amigos

Firstly - A big thank you to Barry for running the competitions and keeping everyone on the straight and narrow over the past 3 weeks. I might just take a holiday again soon!!

Secondly - Thursday's end of the month prize day event will be a 4 ball, pairs, better ball competition with a 2 tee start, DEFINITELY played off FULL HANDICAP. Playing pairs will be drawn at random from a group of eight as people roll up. There will be prizes for the best 3 pairs. Concurrent with this competition there is one U-Boat game to be played. I anticipate this teeing off at 08.24 subject to confirmation with the players.

Thirdly - By the end of next month we shall have played our first two inter-club matches (successfully I hope). Over the next couple of weeks I shall be asking members about the extent of their involvement in these social competitions. During the course of the season (19 matches) I hope to involve as many different people as possible and have teams organised well in advance of match days. I would really appreciate your help here.

Lastly - I have received the first entries for our Seniors Charity Open. This is published on the Golf Empire web site and I have copies of the entry / information form to distribute. Please try to be involved on Tuesday 11th. August, preferably with somebody from outside of Witney Lakes who can enjoy our course and occasion.

I look forward to seeing you on Thursday.

Results from the Eric Clack Memorial Trophy played today (24th Feb)

Overall winner of the Trophy is Frank Hay with 37 points.

Division 1.
1st Mike Smith 35 points
2nd Geoff Mills 33 points [CB]

Division 2.
1st Frank Hay 37 points
2nd Glyn Rees 35 points

Division 3.
1st Derek Tidy 36 points [CB]
2nd Richard Woodward 36 points

I have received complaints about slow play for today and last week. Please remember just a few simple procedures to speed up your play.

1. When walking up to your ball know in advance what club you are going to play.
2. Don't spend too long with practice swings and just thinking about the shot. Get into the habit of walking up to the ball and playing the shot within the first 30 seconds.
3. Please leave your trolleys on the exit path of the green.
4. Please score your cards on the next tee, not on the green you have just played.
5. Remember 5 minutes max when looking for a lost ball.
6. If there is a clear fairway in front of you and people are piling up behind then please let the next group through.

There are many more suggestions, but please speed up your play.

Thank you.



                  

Results from the roll-up individual Stableford played today (19th Feb)

The weather forecast today must have put off half the group, and as a consequence only 23 seniors turned up to play, of which only 12 fiinshed the 18 holes. For this reason we can only award three prizes for those that finished.

1st Brian Rollerson 39 points [CB]
2nd Richard Woodward 39 points
3rd Alex Tyrell 33 points[CB]
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Dave Westman 33 points
Derek Tidy 32 points [CB]
Geoff Mills 32 points
Mike Dawson 30 points [CB]
Barry Lund 30 points
Roy Williams 29 points
Mike Smith 28 points [CB]
Alan Jones 28 points
Bob Harvey 25 points

Congratulations to Bob Harvey who won the nearest-the-pin on hole 6 with a HOLE-IN-ONE.

Results from the Winter Stableford Round 4 played today (17th Feb)

Division 1

1st J. Barnatt 37 CB
2nd M. Steward 37 CB

Division 2

1st D. Long 38
2nd F. Hay 37

Division 3

1st J. Robinson 36
2nd B. Lund 31


A list of the final results and handicap adjustments is on the notice board in the temporary changing room. These results are also available on HowDidiDO .


NOTE. The game on Thursday 19th February is a Roll-up Individual Stableford with a nearest-the-pin on the 6th hole. Prize a sleeve of balls.

Results from Eric's Game played today (Thursday 12th Feb)

Division 1
1st Paddy Marks 18
2nd John Alexander 19 (CB)

Division 2
1st Dinger Long 16
2nd Alan Jones 17

Division 3
1st Derek Tidy 15
2nd John Robinson 16

The team through to the final of the U-Boat from today's match is Richard Woodward and Doug Keen. There are still two other teams to do battle for the other place in the final.

A reminder about the game on Thursday 12th February.

The roll-up is Eric's Game. This is an individual game, played off the yellow tees, with the following rules.

Front 9 - Strokeplay score minus half your rounded-up handicap.
Back 9 - Stableford score taking your handicap for each hole into consideration.
Result is the difference between front 9 and back 9 scores.

Example. If you have a handicap of 23, half of this 11.5, rounded to 12, the arithmetic might look something like this:

Gross strokeplay score 45 on front 9. Result 45-12 = 33
Stableford score 18 on back 9. Final result for game 33-18 = 15.
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There is also one match in the U-Boat semi finals being played at 9.00 am between Richard Woodward and Doug Keen VS John Watt and Colin Baker

Results from the 4s, 5s and 3s team game played today (10th Feb)

This game was extremely close at the top end with three teams coming in with 90 points. Since the rules being played today varied from the norm, there is no surprise that at least one team would get the arithmetic wrong! I can think of one member (no name) who would say straight away disqualify the team they didn't follow the scoring convention. Funny how what goes around comes around!!!! Since all the individual scores for the team in question had been written on the card it was no hardship to re-calculate the result.

1st Gerry Collier, Doug Keen and Kevin Timms [90 points - CB on the last 6 holes]
2nd Barry Holmes, Alan Jones and Ron Feasey [90 points with CB on the last 9 holes]
3rd John Alexander, Dave Williams and Andy Wright [90 points]

U-Boat Round 2 Teams still to play

I have arranged a 9.00 am tee time (off 1st tee) on Tuesday 10th February for the following players.

Alan Lake & Malcolm Saunders vs Colin Baker and John Watt
(please contact each other before next week so that you are all aware of the tee time)

Roll-Up Tuesday 10th February

As for the majority of Seniors we are playing a 4's, 5's and 3's Team Game for the roll-up. This is a variation on the normal game such that all 3 team members score on the par 4s, 2 score on the par 5s and 1 scores on the par 3s. As usual it is a Stableford format with full handicap allowance.

Brian will be collecting monthly subs from all those that evaded capture last week!

Please don't roll up before 7.45am, since I will have not opened up the Sports Bar.

Results of February Medal

Division 1

1st Malcolm Saunders 71
2nd Jim Postles 74

Division 2

1st Kevin Timms 72
2nd Alan Jones 73

Division 3

1st Bob Harvey 72
2nd Barry Lund 73

The overall medal winner for February is Malcolm Saunders. His handicap has been adjusted accordingly.

A full list of results for the medal can be found on the Seniors' Notice Board inside the temporary changing rooms. An updated list of handicaps has also been posted.

Snow Policy

Well done to all those seniors who turned up today to play golf only to be informed that the course was closed. At least the company and coffee was good!

Apparently the policy on snow is as follows.

"If the course has a sufficient covering of snow, such that the greens cannot be played on, then the golf course will be closed until the conditions improve".

If in doubt about the condition of the course you are advised to 'phone Witney Lakes Course on 01993-893011 before setting out for a game of golf.

Course Closed

The course is currently closed due to a covering of snow on the greens.