We were treated to a beautiful day for golf – virtually constant sunshine and hardly a breath of wind.

In Division 1, Toby Hunt (playing off 13) triumphed with a gross 77, net 64. Toby played a very solid round going out in 41 (including a birdie on the 4th) and coming back in 36. His score was also the lowest gross of the day. In second place we find Sheena Harrington (16) with a gross 81, net 65. Sheena’s round included no less than 10 pars. 3rd place went to Lee Frost (13) who grossed 80 for his round which meant a net of 67. Lee’s round included a birdie on the 14th.

In Division 2, the plaudits go to Sookkyung Park (33) with a gross 99, net 66. Sookkyung made her way round the course very steadily scoring 52 on the way out and 47 coming back. Second on the day was Colin Price (21) who went out in 47 and came back in an excellent 41 for a gross of 88, net 67. In third and completing a good day for the Harringtons, came Peter H (25) who shot a 93, net 68. Peter went out in 50 (despite an ugly 9 on the 7th) and came back in 43.

The Midweek Grand Medal Trophy is played over 8 rounds with the best 5 counting. Today was the sixth round. The updated standings are attached. Division 1 is still led by Julian James with 362. However, Julian is the only player in the division to have reached 5 rounds and he’ll be looking over his shoulder at the chasing pack who’ve completed four rounds. Toby Hunt, Dave Cato, Richard Owen and others are all poised to challenge.

In Division 2, Peter Fisher has consolidated his substantial lead with his combined score of 346. As things stand, he’s comfortably clear of David Grace on 358 and Graham Cull on 359. However, Peter Harrington has completed 4 rounds for a total of 280 and a couple of good scores over the remaining rounds could yet see him throwing down a big challenge.

Women

A much nicer day weatherwise than we were led to expect; a touch breezy at times but very warm when the sun made it’s occasional break through the clouds that at times looked rather ominous.

Congratulations to Bella on her second outing with the Sunday group and making the most of it with her net 65 beating Jenny by 1 shot. Playing to 28.6 another good handicap cut beckons for Bella returning her to her lowest recorded handicap.
A few of us had cards marred by one or two rather large numbers – which WHS will probably cut back for many overnight.

Men

Manly cloudy and dry except for a little drizzle at end of play for the July medal.

Outstanding score of the day came from Rannesh Jansari with a net 54 playing off 17 at 3 over par – probably his best round ever. His round included an eagle 3 at the par 5 9th. WHS will apply an Exceptional Scoring Reduction overnight. Well done Rannesh! Behind him in Second Division was Richard Prosser with excellent 67 and then Secretary Peter Harrington with a glorious 65.
The First Division belonged to Jonathan Evans 64 with consistent 37s in and out. Tom Simpkins’ glorious 65 gained second place – just 35 back 9.; Greg Wright gained 3rd with his 66 which included a 1 over par back 9.
After 6 (of possible 8) rounds in the Grand Medal, Richard Owen leads First division 347 from Oz Doyle 348 and then Mel Dunn 349. The Second Division is now headed by Rannesh by 11 350 from Gerard Ouattara361 then Nigel Ward 362.

Despite some threatening dark grey clouds, we only had one tiny little shower hardly worth the name.
Winds were light and the course was in excellent condition in the main – especially the greens.

Winner today with an excellent 40 points was Cheryl Woodhouse (playing off 27), second with 38 points was Nestor Egue (26) and third, also with 38 points was Michael Pham (27). There were similarities between all three rounds. They all made a net eagle on a par 4 (Cheryl on the 4th, Nestor on the 8th, Michael on the 1st) and all three managed at least 18 points on both the front and back 9’s.

The men had a choice between white or yellow tees today and 12 chose white while 32 chose yellow. Interestingly, the top three men all played off white. Perhaps there’s a lesson there for us more cautious types – fortune favours the brave!

We had extra challenges today in the form of Nearest the Pin competitions for both the men and women.
The winners were:
Women:
NTP in 2 on the par 3 7th Sheena Harrington
NTP on the par 3 10th Hilary Casey
NTP in 2 on the par 3 16th Jayne Maxwell
NTP in 2 on the par 4 18th Jayne Maxwell
Men:
NTP in 2 on the par 4 2nd Julian James
NTP on the par 3 7th Graham Cull
NTP in 2 on the par 4 9th Nestor Egue
NTP on the par 3 10th Richard Back
NTP in 2 on the par 4 15th Angus Robertson
NTP on the par 3 16th Justin Wildman
NTP in 2 on the par 4 18th Trevor Brown

Winners have a choice of ‘balls or booze’ and the club will be in contact to find out which they prefer.

Women

It is fair to say that there was a fair amount of both good & not so good play between the leaders as a number of re-loads were required, although none ended up in play. On the first hole 2 of the contenders fired their tee shots under the bush on the left, but by some luck could both get a club to their ball rather than having to take a drop.

Joan brought a lead of 4 into the game but this had dropped to 2 after the front 9 and Sheena scrambled her way to a back 9 of 44 to finish with a 3 shot lead over the 2 rounds and take the championship. Susan also made up ground on Joan with both of them finishing on 185. Susan taking the runner-up spot courtesy of her better round today (93 to Joan’s 98).

The Handicap Cup did go to Joan with her net 147 4 shots ahead of Susan on 151.

With a field twice the size of the first round of the CC, an alternative stableford was set up to give them something to play for. Seema continued her recent good form to win with 35 points from Lia on 34. With a sweep entry fee, monies were paid into their purse accounts.

Men

Mostly cloudy and breezy but dry for the final round of the Club Championship.

For the scratch (gross results) the First Division shows last year winner Will Balakrishnan again winner on 145 (2^nd round 76)– well done again. 8 behind was Richard Back153 (2^nd round 82) and Richard Smith (2^nd round 75).

Second Division winner is Suhail Salim 175  (2^nd round 88) from Nigel Ward 177 (2^nd round 93) and Charles Haines 182 (2^nd round 90).

Scoring analysis for front 9 confirms 3 over par 38s for Richard Smith, Paul Kamerling, Mel Dunn and Jonathan Evans, best back 9s 1 over par 37s for Richard Smith and Will Balakrishnan. Well done all.

The net for the day shows for First Division the winner with excellent scoring as Richard Smith 65 on countback from Paul Kamerling also 65. In the Second Division the winner by a shot was Richard Young 68 from Jonno Mclean and Charles Haines both 69s.

Women

Numbers which were never high were further depleted when we woke to rain and the prospect of showers continuing through much of the day. As is often the case all we experienced was the occasional light & passing shower much to the annoyance of those who cancelled..

The dowsing of the course in water yesterday definitely had an effect on how it played today but a quick look at last year’s scores for the first round show they weren’t that much lower (except for Silvia of course!)
Joan played a very consistent round with 2 pars, a birdie and a 4 (on the 13th) on the par 3s that helped.
She can probably expect a .4/5 cut overnight as one of her higher scores drops off and goes into round 2 with a 4 shot lead over Sheena with Susan just 1 further back and a commanding lead in the handicap cup.

Men

A little early rain but otherwise dry for first round of Club Championship.

In the scratch championship The First Division is headed by Will Balakrishnan 69 from Richard Back 71 and then Mel Dunn 76 and Greg Wright 77. Some excellent golf -Will was 1 under gross 34 for front 9 whilst Richard scored 5 birdies on the back 9 30. Will’s front 9 included an eagle at par 5 9th .
‘In the Second Division Nigel Ward leads from Robin Thomas 86 (Julian James 85 and Dan Ballantyne 85 ineligible for Club Championship (not booked for round 2/ not enough Sunday Comps played).

In the net results (for Handicap Trophy) Richard Back, Mel Dunn are tied for First Division with 65s. In Second Division Nigel Ward 69 leads from Robin Thomas 70.
Sweeps by division as per attached -special Championship rules not applicable.

It was another fine day for golf – not as hot as some days recently but comfortably warm nonetheless. There was a moderate breeze which intensified as the day went on and definitely had to be factored into one’s thinking on the later holes. Scoring was solid rather than spectacular and all the top places were only separated by a couple of points.

Winner today with 38 points was Richard Marriott playing off 28. Despite 2 blobs on the front 9, Richard still managed to score 18 points going out. He then scored an impressive 20 points on the way in which was joint highest back 9 score of the day. Congratulations Richard, an engraved salver will be heading your way in due course.

Countback had to go down to the last three holes to separate second and third spots. Just coming out on top was Jeremy Prescot (31) who pipped Mehemet Akdeniz (22). Jeremy had a very solid round for his 37 points scoring 18 out and 19 back. He picked up points on all but one hole.

Mehmet’s round didn’t start promisingly when he picked up on the first. Despite blobbing the 8th as well, he still scored 18 points going out and 19 on the way back to mirror Jeremy’s points tally.

Richard Prosser (20) took fourth place and is probably frustrated not to have finished higher. His front 9 tally of 22 points was the best of the day. But things came down to earth with a bit of a bump on the way in when he only managed 15 points which included an ugly 9 on the 14th.

Top woman today was Jayne Maxwell (20) in 5th with 36 points. Jayne managed to score points on every hole which is no mean feat especially on Dukes.

Ged Quinn (22) was the highest placed finisher (7th) to play off the white tees. All the prize winning men played off the yellow tees and indeed only five men in the entire field decided to brave the white tees.

Not quite as hot as recently with a breeze. For the ‘JQR’

New member Alan Boyd heads the results with 44points off 17; his final card for qualifying for RPGC competitions.

The winner on a back 9 countback was Alison Chadwick on 41 points from Richard Hanna in the last game. Well done to both esp. Alison for a great back 9 of 23 points. Very well played to Richard Smith 40 and Aidan Hurley 39. AIdan kept a 6 off his gross 74 card – and picked up an eagle on 3rd hole. Michael Pham and Doreen Dolby also had excellent 39s.

This was 4th event in the men’s Top Dog and in the First Division Richard Smith 15 leads Joe Goncalves 14; in Second Division it’s Michael Pham 20 from Charles Haines 13.