Competition Reports
Competition Reports
Men’s Sweep & Spring Meeting BB
Clapham Common – Rd 1 v Wycombe Heights
Result: Tie on 195 points, lost by count back
Home team (-2)
Dave Winter & Paul Patching
Toby Hunt & Paul Appleton
Tom Scarr & Dave Williams
Away team (+2)
Ian Smith & Graeme Syme
Richard Owen & Jason Loubser
Jon Cooper & Phil Flanagan
We were drawn in the first round against Wycombe Heights, who have a hill top par 70 course on the North Downs, just off junction 3 of the M40. Their course was almost the opposite of the Richmond Park courses, having lightening fast greens with plenty of borrow, numerous bunkers, lots of elevation changes, and very well drained.
Under these conditions our away team of Ian & Graeme, Jon & Phil, and Richard & Jason scored a creditable 95 stableford points, pipping the Wycombe home team by two points.
In the home leg, played on Dukes, our team of Dave Williams & Tom, Toby & Paul Appleton, and Dave Winter & Paul Patching notched up 100 stableford points, but were marginally outshone by the big hitting Wycombe away team, who finally got the measure of the very slow greens on the back 9.
As the overall result was a tie, the back 9 scores were calculated. Wycombe beat us both home and away probably due to their superior fitness (all those hills at Wycombe) and therefore go through to the next round, where we wish them all the best.
Men’s Qualifier & Spring Meeting Medal
Ladies
The first part of the Ladies’ Spring Meeting, the individual medal round, took place on 13th April on Dukes. Not so unlucky was Lynn Richardson who took first prize with a net 78. One shot behind in 2nd was Di Jackett who beat Joan Mulcahy on the back 9. Other prize winners were Molly Hood for the Best Back 9 (net 34.5) and Julie Smith for the Best Front 9 (net 40). Results…
The CSS increased by 3 (35 pts equivalent) and this was a Reduction Only round for handicap.
Men
Following scrutiny in the Handicap Secretary’s office, the prima facie winners have been disqualified under rule 6-6d for signing for wrong score at the 18th. Revised placings see Dave Winter & Paul Appleton the winners with 40 points, 2 ahead of Toby Hunt & Paul Grand. Results…
As holders of the Men’s Pairs Match Play Competition Kerry & Graeme will qualify in any account, so the disqualification will only affect this week’s sweep results and not the draw for this year’s competition. 2008 Draw…
White Webbs First Round matches
Both Teams A and B played their first round matches on this day. Team A was at home to Iver and Team B played away to Portsmouth, with mixed results. More…
Whitewebbs – Team A Rd 1 against Iver
Result: 3-2 Win
In the first round Team A was drawn to play at home to Iver on Saturday 12th April. Captained by Di Jackett the other 4 team members were Lia Donath, Veronica Mitchell, Cheryl Woodhouse and Ros Gray.
In a close fought match on Dukes, Richmond Park held on to win 3-2 and will now be playing either Hoebridge or Blue Mountain in the 2nd Round.
Well done Ladies!
Whitewebbs – Team B Rd 1 at Portsmouth
Result: 3-2 Loss
Richmond Park B team travelled to Portsmouth for the first round of the competition – against last year’s winners. It was a tough draw for Team B, consisting of Tracy Wright, Lorna White, Maureen Slade, Jayne Maxwell and Ann Gardner.
The match was played in wind and rain on a beautiful, challenging Portsmouth course in a closely contested match that went right up to the last game. We lost 2-3 but we all had fun and all played extremely well against tough opposition.
Well done to all the team especially in coming so close against a very good opponent on a difficult course!
Committee Notice
The Club Secretary Peter Harrington has issued a timely notice regarding the rearranged fixtures from 6 April and other tidbits. Details…
Qualifiers & Monthly Medals
Due to the fresh blanket of snow over the course there was no golf on this day. Sheena Harrington kindly submitted this picture over the Dukes course. Snow blanket…
The events for the day have been rearranged. Fixture changes…
Sweep
With the clocks coming forward an hour overnight, and early morning rain ceasing shortly before our first tee off time, it turned out to be a lovely sunny Spring day at the park for those who didn’t go on the Weekend Away.
Scoring was generally good with CSS being increased from 38 to 39 stableford points.
The winner with 40 points was Captain Richard Owen who earned a further handicap reduction to 12. Kerry Sargeant and Stuart Nash returned fine scores of 39 to finish 2nd and 3rd respectively – the former recording a birdie 3 at SI 1 7th. Results…
Sweep
Playing from the white tees for the first time, Paul Doran proved the worthy winner with 39 points (38 per CONGU recommended depiction of mixed results) and achieved a 2 shot reduction in handicap. Preliminary Results…
CSS computed as a Reduction Only round @ +3 (34 points).