With the ominous black clouds fading away just in time for tee off, the Society enjoyed a pleasant early autumn day at Sweetwoods, with 9 two-ball, betterball teams setting out to compete for the prestigious GBH Trophy on a course in better condition than many of our golf games. The participants included a welcome guest and likely new member – Stuart Bourne. 

One secret partner was needed to even up numbers with the added complication for many being the need for a decision on which hole to play their joker. Alan Bigley won the virtual prize for decision making, by being the only player to birdie their joker hole, thus earning 8 points for his team on the 4th. Sandi and Kelvin, however, cleverly overcame the problem by not playing either of their jokers for the entire round. Rumour has it they were hoping to play them at the 19th and get 2 drinks for the price of 1.

In the unfortunate absence of the rest of the committee, Alan Bond and Chris Buck did a sterling job of deciphering the scorecards and the Hon Sec David valiantly stepped up to ensure a smooth presentation ceremony and run the Heads & Tails competition (once he had found his reading glasses!)

The overall results were as follows with the average individual score for the day (excluding joker) being 29.65.

GBH Trophy

A pairs competition with the best stableford score for that pair on each hole counting with the additional interest of a “joker” being available for each player on one hole, which will get double points. The result was: –

Place	Player	Score
Winners	Peter Cudmore and Alan Bond	49
Second	Rod Lunn and Ken Wapling	47
Third	Alan Bigley and Andrew Burnett	46

Individual Stableford

A secondary event played off full society handicaps excluding the extra “joker” points. The result was as follows: –

Place	Player	Score
Winner	Alan Bond	38
Second	Alan Bigley	36 (17 B9CB)
Third	Rod Lunn	36 (16 B9CB)

Nearest the Line  

Sandi Hoolahan – with a great shot splitting the fairway

Nearest the Pin  

Kevin Leftley with a cracker but sadly no birdie two!
  

Anorak moment of the day saw three players sharing seven birdies.  Mr Bigley having more birdies than Covid lockdowns – and we had plenty of them !! 

Player	Hole	Score
John Miller	3rd	4 on the par 5 (SI 8)
Alan Bigley	4th	4 on the par 5 (SI 2)
Andrew Burnett	6th	3 on the par 4 (SI 14)
Alan Bigley	6th	3 on the par 4 (SI 14)
Alan Bigley	8th	3 on the par 4 (SI 13)
John Miller	8th	3 on the par 4 (SI 13)
Alan Bigley	10th	3 on the par 4 (SI 9)

The next monthly meeting is at Seaford Head on the 19^th November–– full details nearer the time.