The Raffle - Seniors Charity Open Tuesday 11th August 2015

Just a REMINDER from my earlier post last week. If you have any full bottles of booze, unused golf gear, etc that you would like to donate to the Charity Open raffle, then please let me have your goodies on Tuesday 14th July at the roll-up. I am away in the match on Thursday so please don't bring the items then.

Many thanks - all in the aid of AIR AMBULANCE.

VC

The Coming Week

Tuesday 14th. July

Roll Up - Barbers Pole Competition. This is the stableford competition introduced by Alan Lake last year. Tees are alternatively red then white and par figures and stroke indexes have been adjusted accordingly. All handicaps are reduced by 3. A Barbers Pole scorecard will be provided and will need to be used.

Thursday 16th. July

Roll Up - Individual Stableford Competition and
Match - Away to Kirtlington. Please see the Matches section of the website for the team sheet. The first tee time is 10.00 and a multiple tee start is being used, so don't be late! Dress code is smart casual.

Thursday 9th. July 2015

Following today's second round the results of the Seniors Section Championship are:

THE CLARET JUG (lowest gross score): Terry Edmunds - 163

THE BENNETT CUP (lowest net score):  Brian Rollerson - 140

THE BILL GRAVES TROPHY (lowest net score by a player aged 70 or over):  Brian Rollerson - 140

Many congratulations to the trophy winners.

The divisional results for today's round are as follows:

Division 1
                Terry Edmunds - 70
                Mike Smith -       73 (CB)

Division 2
                Frank Hay -     71
                Eric Wearing - 72

Division 3
                Brian Rollerson - 74
                Pat Hiles -            75 (CB)

Championship Trophies

There will be 3 trophies to award after Thursday's second round of our Championship:

The Claret Jug (presented to the section by Rae Comley) will be won by the player with the lowest overall gross score.

The Bennett Cup will be won by the player with the lowest overall net score.

The Bill Graves Trophy will be won for the lowest overall net score by a member aged 70 or over.

Good luck to everybody in contention

Tuesday 7th. July 2015

The Section Championship is a gross score competition. The leading scores after round 1(of people who are playing on Thursday) are:
Terry Edmunds - 85
Mike Smith -       86
John Alexander - 89
Brian Rollerson - 90
Alex Tyrell -        91
Dave Westman -  91
James Barnatt -    92
Andy Wright -     93
Doug Keen -        95

In the usual way there are also prizes based on the net scores for today's round for each division.

Division 1
                Mike Smith -   72 (CB)
                Roger Laban - 72

Division 2
               Andy Wright - 73
               Gerry Collier - 74

Division 3
               Brian Rollerson - 66
               Bob Harvey -       72

There was more than the usual 'good natured' grumbling about slow play today!! A Championship, strokeplay game is inevitably going to be slower than other forms of play. However, we all need to be aware of the progress of other groups on the course. We need to put into practice the old maxims of:

• play a provisional if you may not find your ball
• don't all go looking for one ball, particularly if you should be playing yours
• be ready to play as soon as it's your turn
• if your group has fallen a clear hole behind and the group following you are waiting, then let them through

Let's see if we can't have a smother passage for more groups on Thursday.

The tee times for Thursday are now published on the Tee Times section of the website.

The team for next Thursday's match away at Kirtlington is now published on the Matches section of the website.

Result of today's match at Stowe

It shouldn't be allowed! For the 4th. time this season we were beaten 3 1/2 to 2 1/2 with 3 of the 6 matches being halved. On the positive side, another thoroughly enjoyable day at this delightful venue with excellent hosts. Thank you to all the Witney players who took part.

Results from today's (2nd July) Individual Stableford

Division 1. scratch..19

First: Roger Laban [44]
Second: Dave Williams [43]

Division 2. 20..22

First: Colin Baker [37]CB on last 6 holes
Second: Bill Ford [37]

Division 3: 23..28

First: Barry Lund [37] CB
Second: Roy Williams [37]

You had to be a cool dude today to win. Clearly playing to par was not enough. As for the VC he should have got up earlier!