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NOT SIGNING THEIR CARDS. DARREN GALBRAITH LED FOR MUCH OF THE
TH
DAY BUT LATER SCORES PUSHED HIM TO 6 WITH 39 POINTS. PHILIP
TH
HODGSON, S LEVEL PAR ROUND GAVE HIM 5 ALSO ON 39 POINTS. FOR
GEOFF MEADWAY, LEE CORNISH AND PAUL FULFORD 40 POINTS COULD
ONLY GAUIN THEM FOURTH TO SECOND. INSTEAD, COURTESY OF AN
UNSIGNED CARD THE WINNER OF THE FINAL TROPHY OF THE YEAR IS BRIAN
MITCHELMORE.

HARGREAVES TROPHY THE HARGREAVES TROPHY IS VERY MUCH FOR THE
PURISTS AS IT IS A KNOCKOUT PLAYED OFF SCRATCH. AS SUCH IT ONLY
TENDS TO ATTRACT PLAYERS WITH SINGLE FIGURE HANDICAPS AND A
DEGREE OF ASPIRATION. THIS YEAR 13 PLAYERS ENETRED WHICH IS
SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGE. A COUPLE OF THE EARLY FAVOURITES WHO
HAD DONE WELL IN THE CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP FAILED TO MAKE IT PAST THE
QUARTER FINALS. THIS SET UP TWO SEMI FINALS BETWEEN A FIVE AND A
TWO HANDICAPPER ON BOTH SIDES OF THE DRAW. SIMON DENNIS LOST HIS
MATCH WHILST THE EVER BUSY PHILLIP HODGSON GAVE HIS MATCH TO HIS
OPPPONENT. THIS SET UP A FINAL WITH A BIT OF A TWIST AS JAMIE
TURNBULL HAD ENTERED INTO A BET WITH JAMES HAWLEY THAT HE
WOULD WIN AT LEAST ONE TROPHY THIS YEAR. AS OF LAST WEEK HE WAS
STILL ONE TROPHY SHORT BUT HOPED THAT THE HARGREAVES WOULD WIN
HIM A POT AND THE £50 BET. UNFORTUNATELY FOR JAMIE IT WAS NOT TO BE
AND INSTEAD HIS OOPPONENT WALKED AWAY WITH THE TROPHY AND A
CONSOLATION £50. THE WINNER THIS YEAR JAMES HAWLEY. APOLOGIES.

TOWLER MIXED FOURSOMES A MIXTURE OF COUPLES SIGNED UP FOR THE
TOWLER CUP WHICH IS PLAYED AS A MIXED FOURSOMES. FOR SOME IT WAS
A HUSBAND AND WIFE, FOR OTHERS BROTHER AND SISTER AND FINALLY FOR
UNATTACHED MALE AND FEMALE PLAYERS. WITH SUCH A TOUGH FORMAT
THE ODD DOMESTIC MIGHT BE EXPECTED BUT REPORTS ARE THAT THE
LOSING PAIRS TOOK IT ALL IN GOOD SPIRIT AND NO DIVORCES ARE IMMINENT
FOLLOWING A POOR DRIVE OR MISSED PUTT. RICHARD WREN AND SISTER
ANNE EFFENBERG SUCCUMBED AT THE SEMI FINAL STAGES AS DID HUSBAND
AND WIFE COMBINATION OF STEVE AND JANET DOEL. THIS SET UP A FINAL
BETWEEN THE LONG STANDING MARRIED COUPLE GLYNN AND JANINE
CATTERALL AGAINST A NEW COMBINATION FOR 2017. ON THIS OCCASION
GLYNN AND JANINE BECOME THE BRIDESMAIDS AS THE NEW PAIRING WON
THE DAY. THE TOWLER MIXED FOURSOMES CHAMPIONS FO 2017 JAY
LAUNDON AND BELYNDA JAY.

SUMMER FOURSOMES 48 PAIRS SIGNED UP FOR THIS FOURSOMES
COMPETITION DESPITE THE SOMEWHAT PURIST NATURE OF THIS FORM OF
GOLF. THERE WAS A MIXTURE OF HANDICAP LEVELS WHICH MADE FOR
SOME HARD-FOUGHT MATCHES AS A HALF COMBINED ALLOWANCE MADE
FOR A REASONABLY LEVEL PLAYING FIELD. SEVERAL LOW HANDCIAP
COMBINATIONS SUCCUMBED AS THE SUMMER PROGRESSED UNTIL LATE
AUGUST WHEN THE SEMI FINAL STAGES WERE PLAYED. FOR TOM ROBSON
AND HIS PARTNER MATTHEW SLADE EARLY SEPTEMBER SO THEM GOING