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OUT OF THE COMPETITION ALONG WITH THE PAIRING OF HARRY
FAIRCLOUGH AND JOSH SMEED. THIS SET UP A FINAL BETWEEN A FATHER
AND SON COMBINATION AND TWO PLAYERS WITH FAMOUS FILM STAR
NAMES. UNFORTUANTELY THERE WAS TO BE NO OSCAR ON THIS OCCASION
FOR THE PAIRING OF JACK HAWKINS AND JAMES STEWART. INSTEAD THE
FATHER AND SON SINGLE FIGURE COMBINATION MEANS THAT THE SUMMER
FOURSOMES PLATES WILL RESIDE WITH SIMON & MARK OSTROM.

AITKEN CUP AS A TROPHY OPEN TO ALL SECTIONS OF THE CLUB THIS
SINGLES KNOCKOUT ATTRACTED SEVERAL LADIES AS PART OF THE 82
STRONG FIELD. PLAYED THROUGHOUT THE SPRING AND SUMMER THE
COMPETITION RESULTS IN SOME HARD FOUGHT MATCHES. FOR LAST YEARS
WINNER ALAN BROCKWAY THERE WAS TO BE NO REPEAT OF 2016 AS HE LOST
IN HIS OPENING MATCH. THE QUARTER FINALS SAW JACK HAWKINS, JOSH
SMEED AND IAN WILSON DEPART WHILST IN THE OTHER MATCH IT WAS A
TWIN WHO DEPARTED IN THE GUISE OF NATHAN SIBLEY. THE SEMI FINALS
SAW THE DEPARTURE OF GEOFF MEADWAY AND ALSO OF DEBBIE TAPPLY
WHO TOOK SOME GOOD SCLAPS BEFORE GOING OUT AS THE LAST LADY
STANDING. THIS SET UP A FINAL THAT OBVIOULSY COULD ONLY HAVE ONE
WINNER AND FOR MIKE DE MELLOW THIS YEAR HE COULD NOT OVERCOME
TH FINAL HURDLE. INSTEAD HAVING BEATEN HIS TWIN THE WINNER OF THIS
HARD FOUGHT TROPHY IS JAMIE SIBLEY.

GOLFER OF THE YEAR BASED ON THE BEST NETT DIFFERENTIAL, WITH A
MINIMUM OF 10 CARDS RETURNED IN SENIOR COMPETITIONS, AND AWARDED
TO THE PLAYER WHO HAS NOT WON ANOTHER TROPHY. ALTHOUGH TWO
PLAYERS APPEAR ABOVE HIM THEY HAVE BOTH WON COMPETITIONS THIS
YEAR. SO IT IS WITH A NETT DIFFERENTIAL OF 1.32 THE WINNER FOR 2017 IS
PAUL RUSSELL.

HOLE IN ONE FULLERS HAVE ONCE AGAIN DONATED CHAMPAGNE TO HELP
THOSE PLAYERS WHO SCORED A HOLE IN ONE IN MEDAL TEE COMPETITIONS
THIS YEAR. WOULD YOU PLEASE WELCOME LINDA HEWER WHO SCORED
THE FIRST EAGLE ON A PAR THREE THIS YEAR ON THE SECOND, DENNIS
TH
WING WHO SCORED HIS ON THE 14 , AND FINALLY JACK HAWKINS WHO
ND
SCORED HIS ON THE 2 .

MISCELLANEOUS FOR TWO OF OUR PLAYERS 2017 HAS BEEN AN EXCELLENT
YEAR IN TERMS OF SUCCESS STORIES. IN EARLY AUGUST TOM ROBSON WON
THE MIKE SMITH MEMORIAL TROPHY A SCRATCH COMPETITION PLAYED AT
BROKENHURTS MANOR AND STONEHAM GOLF CLUBS WHICH IS COMBINED
WITH THE STONEHAM TROPHY WHICH BILLY MCKENZIE WON. BY EARLY
OCTOBER TOM HAD ALSO WON THE HAMPSHIRE ORDER OF MERIT AND LATER
THAT MONTH HE AND BILLY WON THE COUNTY FOURSOMES. NOT CONTENT
WITH THAT THEY THEN BOTH REPRESENTED HAMPSHIRE IN THE INTER
COUNTY FINALS AT TREVOSE GOLF CLUB WHERE THE TEAM TRIUMPHED
OVER THE OTHER THREE REGIONAL COUNTY QUALIFIERS.