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IF YOU PLAYED OFF A HANDICAP OF NEARLY TWENTY
FOR NOW HE CAN TRULY BE CALLED A HUSTLER
THAT MAN WE ALL KNOW AS PHILIP TUSLER

FOR WE ALL PLAYED FOR THE ULTIMATE PRIZE
WHICH IS WHY THIS POEM IS NO SURPRISE
THE POETS CUP AS MANY WILL HAVE HEARD
WILL GO TO THE WINNER, BY NAME CLIVE BIRD

CAMERON TROPHY PLAYED ON THE SAME DAY AS THE POETS WITH THE TOP
FOUR GOING THROUGH TO A KNOCKOUT . TWENTY PLAYERS DECIDED TO
ENTER TO GET A SECOND CHANCE OF A TROPHY ON THE DAY. PLAYED OUT
AS A HANDICAP EVENT IT WAS MARK OSTROM AND MARK WILLCOX WHO
LOST OUT IN THE SEMI FINALS. THIS SET UP A MATCH BETWEEN A MEMBER
WHO WORKS AT PLAYING GOLF AND A MEMBER WHO WORKS.
UNFORTUNATELY THE WORKING MEMBER, HARRY FAIRCLOUGH, WAS
UNABLE TO ARRANGE A DAY TO PLAY AND AS A RESULT IT WILL BE SIMON
OSTROM WO WINS THE CAMERON TROPHY.

STREET BOWL PLAYED NOW AS A STABLEFORD COMPETITION IN LATE JULY
THE 152 PLAYERS FROM SATURDAY WERE JOINED BY NO FEWER THAN 34
MORE ON SUNDAY. WHILST EAGLES WERE NON- EXISTENT THERE WERE
PLENTY OF BIRDIES WHICH CONTYRIBUTED TOWARDS OVER 12% OF THE
PLAYERS BREAKING PAR. FORTY POINTS WERE NEEDED TO GET IN THE
PRIZES AND TWO PLAYERS FOUND THEIR BACK NINES INSUFFICIENT TO TAKE
A VOUCHER PLACE. PETER HALL, LEE ROBBINS AND ANDREW BERKS ALL
SCORED 40 POINTS TO TAKE THE MINOR PLACES. DENNIS WING WENT ONE
BETTER WITH 41 POINTS AND THE BEGINNING OF A PURPLE PATCH. BOB
FEAR COULD HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN FOR THINKING HIS 42 POINTS MIGHT
HAVE MEANT HE PICKED UP THIS IMPRESSIVE TROPHY. HOWEVER, IT WAS A
PLAYER WHO NOT ONLY SHOT A SIMILAR 42 POINTS BUT ONE THAT WAS
EQUIVALENT TO A 69 GROSS. THIS YEARS WINNER DAN CORNISH.

PLAYING FIELDS CUP AS JULY DREW TO A CLOSE WITH LITTLE SIGN THAT
THE REAL SUMMER HAD ARRIVED ANOTHER MEDAL COMPETITION WAS THE
ORDER OF THE DAY. NINETY BIRDIES WERE RETURNED ON VARIOUS CORE
CARDS BUT IT WAS AN EAGLE THAT ATTRACTED THE MOST INTEREST. THAT
RAREST OF BIRDS ON THIS OCCASION WAS SCORED BY THE PREVIOUSLY
MENTIONED DENNIS WING WHEN HIS FIRST SHOT FOUND THE CUP ON THE
TH
14 . WITH ANOTHER 22 PLAYERS BREAKING PAR THE SCORING TO GET IN
THE PRIZES REQUIRED VERY GOOD GOLF. THIS WAS ANOTHER OF THOS
EVENTS WERE THE CSS DIFFERED FROM SATURDAY TO SUNDAY BY ONE
STROKE. PETER BADGER HAD ONLY JUST GOT USED TO PLAYING OFF A 10
HANDICAP FOR THE FIRST TIME FOR MANY A YEAR WHEN HIS 4 UNDER PAR
SCORE GAVE HIM SIXTH PLACE AND DROPPED HIM BACK TO 8.9. NIGEL
STRUTT WENT ONE BETTER ON 5 UNDER WHILST ROY ROGERS MADE
FOURTH PLACE HIS WITH A SIX UNDER SCORE. DANIEL AYRES WAS DOWN
TO THE MID 60s NET WITH HIS 7 UNDER BUT COULD ONLY BAG THIRD PLACE.
IT WAS LEFT TO TWO 9 UNDER SCORES REPRESENTING A NET 62 AND NET 63.