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.

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.

The weather was good with a slight breeze. it seems that the majority of the field scored 30+ points so well done.

Kim Jabbour had a consistent round of 22 points out and 20 back to lead the field by 1 point from Dave Cato and Sheena Harrington both on 41 points. Dave just edging into second place on countback. Apparently Sheena had an outrageous long putt for a 2 on the 10th hole. Chris Rudkin sailed round 20 points out and back with Mehmet Akdeniz was 5th with 19 out and 20 back. Very well done to the above

A decidedly chilly day with a nagging northerly for the Bank Holiday Plate – contrasted with unseasonable warmth during the week. Still dry with plenty of run for balls.

Scoring was good with Tom O’Hare the winner 6 up from Joan Mulcahy on a countback; 3rd was Brian McMahon 5 up ( Brian was 6 up on front 9). There followed 3 on 4 up – Lee Frost, Jenny Lawrence and Toby Hunt.
Women scored well – congratulations to Joan, Jenny, Elisabeth Piner and Seema Sandhu for being ‘up’ on the course.

Special mention to Craig Johnstone who scored eagle 2 on the par 4 3rd hole. -see attached ‘Tree’ report.

It was a glorious day for golf with clear blue skies, hardly a breath of wind and temperatures around 26 degrees. Perhaps it was a bit too hot for some which might explain the unusually high number of disqualifications for unsigned or unreturned cards!

Making hay while the sun shone was our winner Chris Jones. Playing off 20, Chris put together a very tidy round scoring 18 points on both 9’s. Chris didn’t card higher than a six throughout his round.
Hot on his heels in second place with 40 points was Pralab Barua (19). Pralab compensated for 2 blobs on his card with 2 birdies. Third place goes to Lee Frost (16) who headed up a posse of players on 38 points. Lee scored 17 points going out and his 21 points on the back 9 secured third place on countback.

A bright sunny day for the Coronation Cup – dry and plenty of run available.

Scoring was good with Alan Treacy on top form with 65 chased by Peter Abbott and Mel Dunn with 66s. Bernie McDermott again a good round of 67 along with Charlie Whiteman, Alison Chadwick returned anther splendid round with68 and the best woman score. Mel, 1peter and Bernie shared front and back 9 honours.

For the men this was first of the Top Dog competitions and points by division are attached. Due to a number being in Turkey, in the junior divsin only points down to 6th place depicted.

We thought Spring had sprung but Mother Nature had other ideas! Today we were playing the first round of the Founders Cup series and the early starters were met with the last knockings of the heavy overnight rain which had fallen throughout the south east. Luckily, it soon began to ease and the later starters only had to deal with a rapidly diminishing drizzle. However, there was a chilly breeze (quite blustery at times) which persisted all day long. That said, the Dukes course held up very well and there was hardly any surface water.

Winner today with an impressive 40 points was Alison Chadwick(27) who scored 18 points on the way out and 22 coming in despite blobbing the 12th hole. Just behind her on 39 points came Henry Lindesey-Bethune(10) and Dave Cato(18) with Henry winning on countback. Henry played a very solid round off the white tees scoring 18 points out and 21 in. Henry also had the second lowest gross of the day with 78; just one more that Naveed Manazir(6) who grossed an impressive 77. Dave scored 19 out and 20 back. He was rightly proud that he didn’t card higher than a six throughout his round. The eagle eyed amongst you may have spotted that unusually, all the top 3 scored more points on the supposedly harder back 9 than they did going out.