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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 of35 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 2rd 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 lads 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.

A bright but chilly start with some wind for the Easter plate ; but it remained dry again.
Scoring was generally good but Justin Wildman was the clear winner with on astounding 41 points; his 21 on back 9 included 5 pars and a birdie. Best woman was Seema Sandhu with an excellent 39 (21 out 18 back). A couple of points behind on 37 were Paul Kamerling, Alex Catlow, Bernie McDermott and Elizabeth Piner. Women scored the only birdies at 10th – Alison Chadwick and Elisabeth – well done!

The Princes course was in good condition but the wind made scoring rather Tough at times. Keeping the ball on the fairway was the order of the day.
Russell Stewart showed us all how to do it with a 4 Up score. His gross score of 80 was helped by parring holes 17 and 18. Alex Braun had a chance to equal Russell but had an 8 on 18 to drop to +3.
Only 5 players beat level rounds.

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A grey and cooler day than of late for 2nd round of the Grand Medal; fortunately any rain came after play.

Scoring was generally good with an excellent 63 from Tamas Ladacs to take the senior division on the day. Tamas was followed by a 65 from Simon McKnight (lowest gross on the day) and 68s from Raymond Esin and Alan Treacy.

In the junior division Bill Norman and Brian Ransome were the leading lights with 64s followed in turn by Jonno Mclean, Bernie McDermott and Sean O’Sullivan who returned 66s.
Front 9 honours went to Simon [2 over] whilst back 9 to Aidan Hurley [1 over].
In the Grand Medal series comp, Raymond Esin 137 leads Tamas in the senior whilstGerard Outtara and Richard Hanna are currently tied 141s.