A blustery day but pleasantly warm in the sunshine.
Richard Norden Had a very steady round of 5 pars 1 birdie on hole 18 and 1 double bogey on 16 and the rest bogies to amass 42 points. I’m sure that WHS will enjoy his score accordingly!! Lia Donarth was second on 40 points with her 6 pars and 18 out and 22 back. Peppe Monterosso was 3rd on countback 17 out and 21 back from Cheryl Woodhouise 18 out 20 back both having 38 Points. Giles Rawlinson raced around the front 9 with 23 points but found the back 9 less to his liking with 14 back 37 points total.
Overall the scoring was good with 29 players scoring 30+ points.

Women

A strange day weather-wise but it did keep dry and when the sun was out it was pretty warm, but that swirly, gusty wind did its best to make things challenging. 3 of those playing today aren’t shown in the attached results but it was one of the best turn-outs this year despite it being a bank holiday.

Last week’s top 2 were in the same game and if it had only been 9 holes today Reiko would have caught and overtaken Sheena and was the only one to play better on the front 9 with 20 points. Sadly as Sheena’s game resurrected itself hers sadly went the other way and Sheena amassed 23 points on the back 9 dropping just 3 shots to par.

Men

A windy but dry day for the (2nd) May Bank Holiday Plate; the courses had benefited from some rain during the week. The field was diminished due the Bank Holiday/ a number playing their KO matches.

Some excellent scoring on the back 9 (22 points) saw Rannesh Jansari 40 points the deserved winner on countback from Giovanni Caboni (20 out and back) .Toby Hunt held 3rd spot on his own with a skilfully crafted 39 points. 3 splendid 38s from Peter Abbott, Brian McMahon and Tom O’Hare followed with Peter heading with countback of 21 points on back 9.

A day which started with a light shower, brightened up then ended with very heavy rain and hail as the final group were approaching the 17th Green!! It stopped as we got near the 18th Green. The rest of the field got in OK.
Scoring was overall very good and Henry Lindesay-Bethune just beat Adrian Wells on countaback, both scoring 41 points. Henry had the best gross score 75 against a par of71, Adrian would have pipped Henry but for blob on hole 14 index 1 hole. Dave Cato continued his recent good form with 39 points on countback from Richard Owen and Mike Assender who also scored 39 points.
Well done to the three players who scored 2’s.

Women

Some good scoring out there today and interesting to note how many had better back 9s, the supposedly more difficult half or certainly the longer 9. But then again there was a lot of run on the ball, sometimes in crazy directions of course and the new depth of sand presented its own challenges in the bunkers.

Sadly for those at the top it means nothing until next week is done & dusted and whilst the groupings in the lower 30s might feel dispirited we all know how quickly things can change & good to see that almost everyone is playing next week.

No one entered the UKPCC qualifier.

Men

A slightly chilly start to the Summer Cup & UKPCC qualifier. A number found the course difficult to score on especially being off the white tees.
But Adrian Wells recorded a superlative round of 41 points 21 out, 20 back; Mel Dunn recorded 22 points going out in his excellent 40, Naveed Manazir and Peter Needham shared 39 points and in form Hawtree pairs high scorer Paul Green claimed front 9 of 23 points.

The good weather continues and the bounce of the ball is unpredictable at times. However, many scores were very good. 50 players battled around the course and most had a good time.
Richard Smith recorded the best gross score and won Division 1 by 3 shots. It took countback to decide who would be second and Mike Assender just pipped Julian James with Mike Horsthuis in 4th place.
In Division 2 Dave Cato continued his rich vein of form with his net 65. It included a birdie on the par 3 13th!!
2 shots back was Bill Norman with David Grace just edging Adrian Wells into 3rd place and also on net 68 was Chris Jones.

Women

Elisabeth is continuing her downward trend in terms of handicapping and can expect another cut tomorrow having played to an adjusted gross of 33.4 today………. Congratulations on the win today by 4 shots from Lia in second place.
With 4 women on duty for a Hawtree match the numbers playing were low for a summer month.

Men

Another sunny dry day with plenty of ball run for the May medal. Greens fast

In the senior division it was a day for the ‘Richards’ – Richard Owen returning a superb 60 dropping just 5 shots and with 3 birdies. Lowest gross =well done indeed. Richard Smith started with a 7 but improved all the way sharing back 9 honours of 35 with Richard Owen. Third came Richard Back with net 67 and front 9 honours of just 1 over par 36.

The junior division was headed by Cuneyt Sazer with a consistent 67 -42 gross in and out. Alex Catlow followed with 68 = back 9  nine shots less than front 9. Robin Thomas took 2nd on 69 – would have been better but for 8 and 7 on back 9.

9 players birdied the par 5 9^th.

This was 3^rd (of possible 8) round of the Grand Medal; in senior division Julia James leads 218 from Oz Doyle whilst in junior Gerard Ouattara leads 216 from Alex Catlow 224.