The course had weathered heavy rain in the week (closed for a day) and there was an autumnal nip in the air with increasing wind.

A good turnout of 60 for the first round of the Autumn Stableford and the wind limited scoring performance.

In the senior division there were 4 37s with Iker Lanzargote the winner on countback from Joe Goncalves, Brian McMahon and Henry Lindesay- Bethune. Henry and Richard took the front 9 honours with 21 points.

A super round from Avi Murphy clinched the junior division 38 points with plenty (2 blobs) in reserve; chasing her were Tom Laybourn and Duncan Taylor with 37s; special mention to te leading 36 scorer Abdullah Almasoud who score 22 on the back 9.

All to play for in round 2 next week….

Overnight rain continued into the morning dscouraging most from playing. Well done to the 7 who stuck with the conditions esp. to the winner Tom Texido with 34 points and front & back 9 honours (16 & 18); just 2 behind with another fine round was Richard Norden 32 points

There was much rain overnight but fairways still reasonably firm and odd green soft; the weather forecast had deterred a number and in the event 34 competed with just 5 mins sprinkle for the Silver Jubilee.

Winner on the day was Gerard Ouattara with an excellent 64 off 20. A couple of super 67s chased with Gregory Jean-Baptiste the winner on countback from early leader Tony Kopczak. Paul Green, Toby Hunt and Richard Smith had very creditable 68s.

Paul Kamerling’s 71 proved enough for him to win the overall (best 4 from 5 Jubilees) Anniversary Cup on 281 – 3 from Peter N. Harrison and 1 from Charlie Whiteman and Toby Hunt. Well done Paul!

Our Kelso Hamilton team of Russell Stewart and Brendan Sullivan are this year’s winners of the Surrey Kelson Hamilton competition!
Their path to the final began back in February at a very cold and wet Surrey National with subsequent victories at London & Scottish, Dulwich & Sydenham, Banstead and Cuddington.
Their east section final was against Walton Heath Artisans which was played at The Drift.
On Sunday 22 September they made their way to Clandon Regis to play The Drift who won the West section for the honour of Overall champions.
A magnificent result made all the more remarkable having played all their matches away from home.

Congratulations Brendan and Russell!

A chilly start for some but otherwise great conditions for golf – dry, not too hot and with sunny periods. Greens had sand-banded and fairways overseeded.

It was greensomes stableford for 25 pairs which can produce some high stableford scores and today was no exception. The winning pair stayed on the leader-board throughout – team Hayden and Perkins who just won 43 points on countback last holes from team Grand and Whiteman.
4 pairs followed with 42 points – Teams:
Peter N. Harrison & Hall
Richard Smith & Doyle
Harrington Almasoud
Owen & Katte
Well done for the 2 eagles on 15th to Dun & Mellish and Ali & Fulham.

And to Jagger and Jean-Baptiste for 24 points on back 9.

It was a sunny, albeit windy and cool, autumn day and most players stayed dry during their round.

This medal round was played in two divisions, with Handicap adaptations for men playing off the white tees and for the women.

Gina, our habitual early starter, won the day in Div 1 handsomely with a score of 71 net.
Russell and Naveed (who had the best gross score!) follow with 3 and 4 shots behind.

Div 2 was taken by RichardN (with a net score of 69), again with a 3 stroke advantage over runner-up Charles, with Gerard and Teddy following 1 and 2 strokes behind him.

After some heavy overnight rain the course generally had less run and bounce  = with the greens significantly slower. Dry with sunny intervals that developed.

Scoring generally was above average for the Golden Jubilee. The winner, Tom Simpkins had a fantastic 63 off 19 – 41 gross out and in – and is rewarded with an ESR of -1. 2 behind on glorious 65 was Chris Mellish dropping just 2 shots on the[whites]  difficult back 9. Best woman Sali Davies took 3^rd place with 66 on countback from Tom Laybourn. Mike Assender took  front 9 honours on level par 35 [off yellow] whilst Kerry Sargeant and Umran Ali shared back 9 honours from yellows =37’.

This was 4^th of 5 Jubilees paled so far – just Silver left. Mike Assender and Paul Kamerling are currently tied 293 for the lead whilst Peter N. Harrison and Katharina Katte are tied for 3^rd 304 (and next Charli Whiteman and Kerry Sargeant also tie 5^th -305. Best 4 from 5 counts.

For the men this was 6^th out of 7 comps for the Top Dog  (just Lissaman 3 clubs & Putter plus results of the 2 matchplay KOs left):

Senior division

Little change on leading positions with Will Balakrishnan leading 28 from Alan King 20 and Kerry Sargeant now 18

Junior division

No change with leader Gunnar Sundberg 18 from Richard Inglis16 but Tom Simpkins advances to 3^rd with 12 points from today to 15 just 1 ahead of Peter N. Harrison.

t was a bone dry Prince’s course on a golf-friendly warm windless day.

Winner of the Fred Hawtree Cup was Peter Miller, finishing 5 up, two clear of the field, +3 on the front nine and +2 on the back nine. He may have rued his two pick ups but they didn’t matter. Last year the winner, Mitchell Cohen, finished 7 up, and perhaps the difference in scoring today was the greens, heavily worked on by the greenkeeping staff.

In second was Jose M Gomez. at 3 up by countback, from Teddy Holt and Richard Marriott. Mike Assender came in in 5th, leading those on 1 up by countback.

33 cards.

A hot, sunny and humid day as forecast for the September Medals.

Women

Another small field for the Autumn meeting (aka September) medal and looks like the conditions suited most. Very impressive 2 on the very long par 3 13th from Katharina. Can’t think that the women have recorded many of these on that hole.
A birdie 4 on the 7th, alongside 5 pars all helped Susan to 1st place with a great 65. Her gross 83 was her lowest round on Prince’s for just over 2 years.
2 shots behind on a 67, Deb is showing the result of lessons and is her best result for 4 years on Prince’s!

Congratulations both, and WHS also agrees that you played really well, Rewarding both of you with cuts of 0.9 each.

Men

Good scoring generally.
Best in senior division came from Richard Smith and a glorious 65; Richard was one under par for back 9 with 2 birdies, Just a shot behind was Kerry Sargeant 67 – Kerry had a purple patch with consecutive birdies at 15 and 16. Richad Owen also had 67 being nipped on countback.
In the junior division Onursal Soyer was best with 66 beating Peter Harrington and Julian James 67s Peter would have been better but for an errant drive at 3rd for an 8 and Julian completed a superb back 9 37.

This was the 7th round [6th played – July abandoned] in the Grand Medal and with just 1 round left:
In the senior division just 3 have completed 5 rounds so Richard Smith leads 343 from Kerry Sargeant just 1 behind 344 then Paul Kamerling 357. In the junior, Nigel Ward 342 leads from Tony Kopczak 360 with 2 others having played 5 – Ian burgess 375 and Gerard Ouattara.