Away Match to Kirtlington Sign Up Sheet

The first proper match will soon be on us.

Kirtlington always provides a good test of golf, particularly the slopes on the greens, which of course we are not used to. Their hospitality is normally first rate.

So if you want to be included in the 12 man team please sign up on the sheet on the notice board

LAN-COM TROPHY POSTPONED UNTIL THURSDAY 8TH MARCH.



The Lan-Com is postponed until the 8th March.

If anyone needs to opt out of the competition due to the date change or can now participate let me know asap. For Example John A scratched from the competition, do you now want to play.


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There will be no organised game on Thursday as snow is predicted

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Therefore the next game will be the March Monthly medal on 6th March tee off 8.30 and we will be teeing off in handicap order, just for a change, lowest handicaps first. Next time probably lowest handicaps last, just so everyone gets a chance to play at the different times of the day.

If anyone wants to join this competition or scratch from it please let me know in good time so I can move the starting times

Tee Times are on the Tee Times Tab.

U-Boat - 1st Finalists

Roger Laban and Stuart Green beat Robin Day and Tony Daly 5 & 4 on Friday

They now await the winners of the other Semi-Final Chris Hatherly and Mike Smith Versus Doug Keen & Steve Harrison 

The next date scheduled for the U-Boat is 15th March.
The final is scheduled for the 26th March.

However if these dates are not convenient please rearrange by yourselves

Competitions W/C 26th Feb

I think we have all seen the forecast for next week, so depending on the conditions, I may well, make some changes, particularly regarding the Hot Toddy Trophy

Until the temperatures rise I will keep the start time to 8.30

Tuesday 27th Feb

This will be a Texas Scramble, 3 players, you know the rules
Followed by the Prize Givivng starting hopefully at 1pm


Thursday 1st March
Lan-Com Trophy
Start sheet on the Tee Times page

Winter Stableford Round 5

I was asked to put up the results on this blog of the above competition.
These should be e-mailed to you, either to your computer or phone.
If you have not set yourself up to get results in this way, let me know

Anyway here are the results

Division One Results	Points Switch to Gross Points
1st John Alexander(13)	34
2nd Geoffrey Mills(20)	31	''
3rd Chris Hatherly(11)	30
4th Stuart Green(20)	30	''
5th Michael Twyman(16)	30
6th Anthony Ward(11)	29	''
7th Roderick Rapley(15)	29
8th Ken Gregory(15)	29	''
9th Douglas Keen(17)	28	''
10th Patrick Marcks(20)	28	''
11th Peter Burdon(15)	26	''
12th Michael Smith(12)	26	''
13th Alan Lake(21)	20
14th Anthony Carter(18)	18
15th Alec Tyrell(18)	2

Division Two Results Points Switch to Gross Points   1st Brian Rollerson(25) 30 2nd Richard Gent(24) 29 3rd Ron Deacon(28) 29 4th John Watt(22) 27 '' 5th Derek Tidy(28) 26 6th David Butler(28) 25 '' 7th Barrie Black(28) 25 8th John Robinson(27) 25 '' 9th Barry Lund(24) 25 10th Patrick Hiles(28) 21 11th Martin Buckingham(26) 20 '' 12th Anthony Daly(27) 17 '' 13th William Howard(28)	2

Entering the Competitions.

Please also note that the system holds all scores for all competitions, whether Qualifiers or not and these will be reviewed now on a monthly basis and handicaps can be adjusted, so scores not added or incorrect scores in the system could affect your handicaps


There are still some people who are not sure of the procedure for entering the competitions.
The easiest way is to use the terminal on the far left of reception after you have presented your card at reception. If you are not sure ask.

If you do not sign in properly you won't be in the competition, irrespective of your score.

Most of the competitions we play in will need you to sign in and enter your scores

I know it is sometimes difficult to enter the scores in on the terminal in the Sports Bar. However, in future the winners will be decided on the entries in the system, so please persevere.
If you type in incorrect number in touch the number and you will see a box instead of the number typed in, you can then enter the correct number.

The IG system also records all of your scores and provides statistics of your performances, so it really is better to enter them in correctly

Any problems let me know

Another bitterly cold day in Witney.
A mixed bag of scores with a lot below 30 points
The players that rose to the top were Brian Rollerson and Mike Smith both with 37 points.

Overall Brian won on count back to get his name on the Eric Clack trophy and Board

Mike did have the honour of winning the bottle of wine donated by Pat Hiles

Division One Results	Points Switch to Gross Points
1st Michael Smith(12)	37
2nd Michael Twyman(16)	36
3rd Geoffrey Mills(20)	33
4th Bob Kirkwood(17)	32
5th Anthony Ward(11)	31
6th Malcolm Saunders(21)	31
7th Ken Gregory(15)	30
8th Alec Tyrell(18)	29
9th Douglas Keen(17)	27
10th Peter Burdon(15)	26
11th Patrick Marcks(20)	25
12th Roderick Rapley(15)	24
13th Alan Lake(21)	23

Division Two Results	Points Switch to Gross Points
1st Brian Rollerson(25)	37
2nd John Watt(22)	32
3rd Ron Deacon(28)	30
4th Richard Gent(24)	27
5th Cliff Smith(24)	27
6th David Butler(28)	26
7th Nigel Pitchforth(28)	19
8th Martin Buckingham(26)	19
9th Anthony Daly(27)	17
10th John Courtney(28)	16
11th Patrick Hiles(28)	16
12th Brian Floyd(30)	12
13th Barry Lund(24)	2

Seniors v Ladies Wooden Spoon 28th March

The Ladies section enjoyed their Christmas Match against the Seniors so much the would like to play us again.

The idea is to play for the Wooden Spoon Trophy that has not been played for some time. In fact I don't know the rules, perhaps someone will enlighten me.

The date would be the Wednesday 28th March before Easter so I am sure they will bring some cakes for the occasion.

We need 10 men strong and true for this match. I will put a sign up sheet on the board. First come first served an all that!!

Hi there

Quite difficult conditions yesterday with the wind ripping around. It always seems to me, if you allow for the wind the ball goes straight and when you don't the wind takes it.

Its still a story of the two Johns Alexander and Watt. Yesterday John Alex pulled out all the stops and recorded a very good 35 points, albeit with some blast of blasphemy. A great  considered back 9 of 20 points. which elevated John Alex to 103 points, John W was not able to increase hi 3 round score and is now second with 100 points
So now to the final round which will be played on Tuesday 20th March and it's not all over yet.
John Alex lowest score of the 3 that count is 32, whereas John W's is 27, so 31 points would take John W into the lead if John Alex does not improve his score.
Waiting behind on 99 points are Doug Keen whose lowest counting score is 28 so a 32 points haul might take Doug to the title. Also on 99 are Chris Hatherly, Stuart Green and Brian Rollerson all of who have a lowest counting score of 30. Other players still with a chance to take the top spot Alex Tyrell, Martin Buckingham, Richard Gent and Dave Williams

Current position and score below;

Winter Stableford 2017/18
	Name	Round 1 26th Oct 2017	Round 2 23rd Nov 2017	Round 3 19th Dec 2017	Round 4 9th Jan 2018	Round 5 20th Feb 2018	Accumulative score
1	John Alexander	32	31	36	0	35	103
2	John Watt	27	25	35	38	27	100
3	Douglas Keen	39	28	26	32	28	99
4	Chris Hatherly	32	30	0	37	30	99
5	Stuart Green	35	26	28	34	30	99
6	Brian Rollerson	33	0	28	36	30	99
7	Alex Tyrell	35	32	31	30	29	98
8	David Williams	33	0	34	29	0	96
9	Martin Buckingham	42	21	30	21	20	93
10	Richard Gent	25	31	32	29	29	92
11	Ron Deacon	28	32	30	28	29	91
12	Tony Ward	0	0	30	32	29	91
13	Rod Rapley	33	26	28	0	29	90
14	Michael Smith	30	33	26	24	26	89
15	Eric Wearing	30	0	25	34	0	89
16	David Butler	36	26	0	24	26	88
17	John Robinson	25	30	28	29	25	87
18	Peter Burdon	28	22	0	33	26	87
19	Ron Feasey	28	22	30	28	0	86
20	James Barnatt	23	0	32	30	0	85
21	Kevin Timms	27	0	32	26	0	85
22	William Ford	21	24	30	26	0	80
23	Barry Lund	0	27	0	26	25	78
24	D. J. Alan Jones	23	23	31	0	0	77
25	Cliff Smith	31	22	0	22	0	75
26	Geoff Mills				33	31	64
27	Gerry Webb	32	30	0	0	0	62
28	Roger Laban	0	26	0	32	0	58
29	Derek Tidy				26	27	53
30	Richard Harris	26	25	0	0	0	51
31	Roy Williams	0	0	28	23	0	51
32	Alan Lake	0	27	0	0	20	47
33	Barrie Black	0	20	0	0	25	45
34	Nigel Pitchforth	22	19	0	0	0	41
35	Brian Floyd	0	21	20	0	0	41
36	Tony Daly	0	0	24	0	17	41
37	Bob Kirkwood	0	0	0	35	0	35
38	Peter McNamara				33	0	33
39	Andy Wright	32	0	0	0	0	32
40	Mike Twyman					30	30
41	Rod Bowls	0	29	0	0	0	29
42	Ken Gregory					29	29
43	Clifford Surman	27	0	0	0	0	27
44	Mike Dawson	25	0	0	0	0	25
45	Stephen Aldren	0	24	0	0	0	24
46	Graham Simpson				23	0	23
47	Graham Haynes	0	22	0	0	0	22
48	Pat Hiles					21	21
49	Paddy Marcks					20	20
50	Tony Carter					18	18
51	Bill Howard					16	16
52	Stephen Harrison	0	15	0	0	0	15