After heavy overnight rain Glendale closed both courses and they will remain closed on Thursday.

Extremely windy for the Champagne Chase – well done to all for completing course. The tree near 12th green off drive from 10th succumbed however – see pics below but fortunately nobody injured.

A sparkling 35 points from Julian Jame won the day n such conditions – one ahead of a 34 uncorked by Mel Dunn’ Mel took 1st 9 honours wth 18 whilst Julian and Paul Kamerling shared back 9 with 19. Paul took 3rd position 32 points on countback from Richad Owen.

For the women, Elisabeth was a clear winner with her 31 points from Alison & Sheena both a long way behind.

Paul and Umran Ali returned 3 birdies.

As is tradition, the prizes are donated by the women’s section with prizes to the top men & women.

Women

Safe to say there’s generally something to work at in the next 3 rounds of the eclectic with no one making it into the 30s today. But both Joan and Deb were closest, finishing on 29 apiece with Joan pipping 1st place on the back 9.

… & we only managed 10 pars between us but lots of triple+ bogeys!!

Men

Dry but muddy for 2nd round of Winter Comp. Greens were noticeably faster than of late.

Scoring was not easy but Brian McMahon came out top of the senior division with an excellent steady 37 points, being chased by Paul Kamerling. Mel Dunn and Iker Lanzagorta all with 36 points. Iker took front 9 honours with 20. Umran dropped just 2 shots to par but ‘blobbed’ the 4th.

Tom Simpkins was the runaway leader of the junior division 42 points; Tom secured back 9 honours 23 points and will see handicap reduction from 17.1 to 15.9.5 points behind was James Anderson then Julian James in last game 36.

4 birdie ‘twos’ recorded all at par 3 10th.

The Winter comp now sees Greg Wright the senior division leader 77 from Umran 74 whilst Tom has a one shot lead 77 from James Anderson.. And in round 1 of the Duke’s Eclectic Tom leads 70.4 from Paul Kamerling 73.0. Many show as NRs due ‘blobbing’ at least 1 hole.

The weather held fair although the ground was rather muddy from recent rain.
The net scores for Division 1 were very close but Toby Hunt won on countback from Bill Norman, Alan Treacy and Russell Stewart who all had a net 71.
Only two players got below net 70 in Division 2 Brian Ransom with a 68 and a sparkling winner Adrian Wells with a net 63. James Deissler just beat Julian James and Alex Braun on countback for third place.

Women

Alison was the winner today with 34 points today, with Jenny in 2nd place on 32. She put her win down to quite a few one-putts which made the score look better than the actual number of shots required to get to the green.

Those who had a drink after the game all agreed that the going seemed to get tougher as the mizzle came down, hands got cold and clothes got wet.

Men

As during the week, it remained grey and cloudy although with a bit of drizzle developing.

Some excellent scores with 43 points winning in both divisions.

Oz Doyle was the winner in the senior 4 over par for front 9 and shared front 9 honours with Umran Ali 22 points. Close on his heels was fine 42 from Greg Wright – 21 in and out; 4 good 40s headed by Alan King followed by Paul Green, Richard Smith (just 3 over par gross) and Justin Wildman.

Abdullah Almasoud headed the junior with his 43 points and took back 9 honours 22 points. Good consistent 40sfollowed from James Anderson and Robin Thomas.

Overall, there were 17 birdie 2s with 10 at the 4th.
Round 1 of the 8 round winter competition reflects these results and first of 4 Eclectic rounds on Prince’s attached sees Oz leading 66.5 from Richard Smith 66.6 and Umran Ali; bottom of report shows many NRs due’ blobbing ‘one or more holes.

Good conditions for today’s comp, with mown fairways, albeit on the small side. The clear winner was Bill Norman with a fabulous 41 points, including 22 points out with a birdie on 9. Second was Chris Rudkin on 38 points, with birdies on 7 and 16, and I was 3rd on countback, also managing 22 points out. 4th was Jose Manual Gomez on 36 points and 5th, Henry Lindesay-Bethune on 35 points. Mitchell Cohen came in in 6th in the final money placing. Sweep is £54

Early running in the Mid-week Winter Comp puts Adrian first, Brett second and Alan third after two rounds.

Women

With mud underfoot the women decided to forgo the chance to play a medal round on Duke’s and opted for the first team event of the year.

Well done to Susan, Angela, Cheryl and Jenny who were the winners with a gross 80, net 71. The winning team had a strong start with 4 pars in a row, and then had 8 more pars in the round and no double bogeys. No team managed a birdie today. They say beware the injured golfer and this team had 2 returners from breaks that have kept them away, Jenny has been back a few weeks but it was Angela’s first since April.

Men

A grey still day for the November medal; no rain but the mud stuck to shoes and trolleys in clods.

Richard Smith won the senior division medal with a glorious 65 – well done and handicap set to reduce by a full shot; 2 66s followed from Richard Inglis and John Perkins. Good 67s followed from Toby Hunt, Hieu Van and Justin Wildman.
Richard took first 9 honours gross 36 and Umran the back 9 with 38;

In the junior division it was the very very early clubhouse leader Berie McDermott who held on to with an amazing 61 – 41 gross out and 42 back. Bernie earns an ESR of -1 and handicap set to reduce to 19 I think.

Giovanni followed with a skillful 66, then Charles Haines 68 with Charlie Whiteman and Sean O’Sullivan 69s.