Clearly inspired by his round at Stoke Park the day before, John Miller copes easily with the ‘Oddjob’ of seeing off his MGS contemporaries at Lamberhurst.

18 of us, including our welcome new member Will Wakefield, took to the well presented fairways and greens on a perfect day for golf, some with considerably more success than others.

Graham Meadows was the early leader in the clubhouse with an excellent 39 points, but ultimately had to settle for third place. Then Steve ‘Sparky’ Smith lit up the back nine with 24 points, to finish with 40 and take second place. Like the rest of us though, they were unable to match winner John Miller’s fabulous haul of 47 points, topped off by his second birdie on the 18th. (Although absent on the day, the Handicap Secretary has his spies everywhere and is preparing to cut, cut, cut as I write.)

Individual Stableford – Some very good scores with the results as follows: –

Place	Player	Score
Winner	John Miller	47
Second	Steve Smith	40
Third	Graham Meadows	39

John had good support from his teammates Alan Bigley and Will Wakefield, which enabled them to win the team competition with 84 points, just pipping the strong showing of Messrs. Howroyd, Burnett and Meadows with 83 points.

Team Competition – Best 2 scores from teams of t3 – results below:-

Place	Team	Score
Winner	Alan Bigley, Will Wakefield & John Miller	84
Second	David Howroyd, Andrew Burnett & Graham Meadows	83
Third	Frank Goulding, John Collingwood & Steve Smith	80

Nearest the Pin was won by Tom Bennett, bravely thwarting the Hon Secs’ suspicious attempt to ‘forget’ to add Tom to the list of attendees, obviously to improve his own chances of picking up a bottle of wine

Nearest the Line – Despite the cunning plan to give the shorter straight hitters amongst us (are there any….?) a chance of a prize, by switching this for the usual Longest Drive, it was still won by the ‘Big Gun’ Alan Bigley

Anorak moment – the day say 11 birdies including three from Andrew Burnett as follows:-

Hole	Player	Score
1st	Mark Hughes	3 on par 4 SI 13
2nd	Andrew Burnett	3 on par 4 SI 15
2nd	Frank Goulding	3 on par 4 SI 15
5th	Andrew Burnett	4 on par 5 SI 9
8th	Mark Hughes	3 on par 4 SI 5
13th	Kevin Leftley	4 on par 5 SI 14
13th	Alan Bigley	4 on par 5 SI 14
13th	John Miller	4 on par 5 SI 14
18th	Andrew Burnett	3 on par 4 SI 18
18th	Graham Meadows	3 on par 4 SI 18
18th	John Miller	3 on par 4 SI 18

Finally – there is no truth in the rumour that Mark Hughes left early, a broken man, having tried and ultimately failed to carry his two abject partners throughout the entire 18 holes. He insists he had a prior engagement which meant he could unfortunately not stay for the dinner and prize-giving. Sadly this meant he missed his team’s highlight of the day – Will Lunn’s triumph in Heads & Tails!

The next monthly meeting is at Sweetwoods on the 15^th October for the GBH Trophy which is a pairs competition.