A lovely day, possibly the last really good one of this summer, saw 24 players compete for this pairs competition with the added interest of a joker being played on one hole by each player which doubles their stableford points for this pairs competition.

An interesting day with a few events to note.

• The owner of a nice new brown car was giving a statement about a big dent in the door.  They reported “I had been watching these golfers for a while and was confident that the middle of the fairway was the safest place to be !!”  Graham S hitting a cracker down the middle of the par 5 hitting the car full on and bouncing back 20ft.
• You are excited and adrenaline is pumping as you are playing your joker on a short par three where you have the potential of three points for a par doubling up to 6 for the GBH Comp.  You hit your first and it disappears into the jungle never to be seen again.  You despondently hit a another from the tee (your third) to see it bounce and roll across the green and dropping into the cup for a three and 6 GBH points going on the card for Peter Smith.
• Imagine what would happen if a “no gimmies” champion missed a series of 12inch putts?  They say that turkey’s would not vote for Christmas but will the vice-captain continue to vote to putt out?  
• Also of note was our Treasurer hitting their partners ball whilst they were playing their joker scuppering any chance of a big score !

Team Competition 

Worthy of note is the Lunn’s amassed 7 extra points using their jokers to perfection to get within a point of the eventual winners.  However, Hannam & Mann “ham and egged” well with one or the other doing well on almost every hold – it was on only one hole that they scored the same number of points so wasted nothing!!  

Place	Player	Score
Winners	Richard Hannam & Micky Mann	49
Second	Rod Lunn & Will Lunn	48
Third	Frank Goulding & Mark Hughes	46

Individual Stableford

David Howroyd had an excellent round of golf achieving the best individual score by a couple of shots. This was played off full society handicaps without the double points joker score counting: –

Place	Player	Score
Winner	David Howroyd	37
Second	Peter Smith	35 (B9CB 19)
Third	Micky Mann	35 (B9CB 16)

Nearest the Pin in Two (15th Hole 280 yards).   

Phil Taylor – with a good drive and excellent chip and run up to the whole takes this prize.  No birdie though!!

Nearest the Pin in One (6^th Hole 144 yards).   

Graham Smith with cracker to within 3 feet.   Again, near but no cigar in terms of converting the birdie.

Birdies

Six birdies on the day as follows.

Player	Hole	Score	Yards & Stroke index
Micky Mann	3rd	4 on the par 5	473 yds SI 12
Kevin Leftley	13th	3 on the par 4	329 yds SI 7
Phil Taylor	15th	3 on the par 4	280 yds SI 15
Chris Buck	16th	2 on the par 3	120 yds SI 17
Stuart Bourne	16h	2 on the par 3	120 yds SI 17
Richard Hannam	17th	3 on the par 4	345yds SI 13

The societies next event is scheduled for THURSDAY 17^th October at Westerham.