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CONVENTIAL PAR 5 EAGLE FOR ALEX ELMS AND AN UNCONVENTIAL PAR 4
ST
SCORE OF 2 ON THE 1 FOR ANDY WOOD. HAVING SAID THAT NERVES WERE
CALMED ONLY 8 PLAYERS ACTUALLY BROKE PAR DESPITE THE FORMAT AND
IT BEING THE MIDDLE OF JUNE. PHILLIP HODGSON’S ONE OVER PAR GROSS
OFF A 2 HANDICAP WAS CREDITABLE BUT ONLY GAINED FIFTH PLACE. JAMES
HUDSON PRODUCED A SIMILAR 37 POINTS FOR FOURTH PLACE WITH DAVID
BELL GOING ONE BETTER FOR THIRD. UNABLE TO FIND ANY REASON TO
DISQUALIFY THE WINNER YOUR SECRETARY/MANAGER
HAD TO SETTLE FOR SECOND PLACE WITH HIS 38 POINTS. IN ACTUAL FACT
THE WINNER WAS SO FAR AHEAD OF THE REST OF THE PLAYERS THAT A DOPE
TEST WAS EVEN CONSIDERED. ON A 9 UNDER SCORE OF 45 POINTS THE
ROEDA WILL DESERVEDLY REST WITH THIS YEARS WINNER, ALEX EWART.
SENDS HIS APOLOGIES.

JEWELL TROPHY SMALL TROPHY BUT A LARGE FIELD PREPARED TO COME
OUT ON A FINE DAY IN JUNE TO CONTEST THIS MEDAL COMPETITION. EIGHTY
BIRDIES HELPED SEVERAL PLAYERS ON THEIR WAY ALTHOUGH OVERALL
SCORING WAS QUITE MUTED. WITH 6 D/Qs AND 30 N/Rs THIS STILL LEFT A50
PLAYERS IN WITH A CHANCE AND HARVEY SIMS BEGAN A RUN OF GOOD
SCORES WITH A NET 69 FOR SIXTH PLACE. A NET 68 BY SIX HANDICAPPER
MARK WILLCOX GAINED FIFTH PLACE AND WAS MATCHED IN FOURTH BY
JAY LAUNDON. A ONE UNDER PAR GROSS 71 FOR A NET 67 GAVE THIRD
PLACE TO JOSH SMEED WHILST PHIL ANDREWS MADE HIS SIX UNDER 66
GOOD ENOUGH FOR SECOND. HOWEVER, A NET 65 MEANS THAT FOR THE A
NEW NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE HONOURS BOARD, UNDER THE JEWELL
TROPHY IT WILL NOW READ ROBIN THOMPSON.

CHARITY SHIELD FOR MOST OF US A SATURDAY IN EARLY JULY PROMISES A
DAY OF GOLF FOLLOWED POSSIBLY BY A DRINK AND A BITE IN THE CLUB
HOUSE AFTER OUR ROUND. FOR THE CAPATIN IT IS INSTEAD A LONG DAY OF
MEET AND GREET AND DISPENSING FOOD AND DRINKS TO A HUNGRY,
THIRSTY BUT GRATEFUL GROUP OF PLAYERS. WITH A HEAVILY LADEN PRIZE
TABLE AS AN INCENTIVE THIS STABLEFORD COMPETTIION HAD JUST UNDER
160 PLAYERS COMPETING. STEPHEN D GILL WON DIVISION 3 WITH 41 POINTS
WITH CLUB PRESIDENT GEOFF WITTE SECOND WITH 37 POINTS. DIVISION 2
SAW TWO SCORES OF 41 POINTS FIGHTING FOR TOP SPOT AS KEN YOUNG HAD
TO SETTLE FOR SECOND PLACE BEHIND RICH MANCHIP. DIVISION 1 SAW
THREE SCORES OF 39 POINTS AND AFTER COUNT BACK RESULTED IN SIMON
DENNIS PLACING THIRD, JASON POPE SECOND AND DAVID LIGHT TAKING
THE BEST PRIZE. THE OVERALL BEST SCORE AND THE HOLDER OF THE 2017
CHARITY SHIELD WITH AN EXCELLENT 42 POINTS IS A PLAYER WHO IS
CURRENTLY ON HOLIDAY HAVING FAILED TO PERSUADE HIS WIFE THAT THE
PRIZE GIVING WAS MORTE IMPORTANT. THAT PLAYER IS PETER LAWRENCE
WHO SEND HIS APOLOGIES.