Captain Chris Buck warmly welcomed the society to Sweetwoods on a lovely day for some fun and frolics on Captains day (yes frolics and not what Keith shouted when miss hitting his tee shot on the 4^th which sounded similar !)

We had 27 players (28 would have been ideal) with a warm welcome to Scott Wightman joining us for the first time. The condition allowed some heavy scoring to occur, for some anyway. The average stableford score for this event was 31.70 – second highest of the year so far. Micky with a very questionable handicap for a part-timer edged out Kevin (no gimmies or else) Leftley on count back only.  

The putting competition that followed saw Mark Hughes, Phil Taylor and Rod Lunn holing one of their two putts on a tricky sloping fast green.  A good bit of fun to end the round.

As rare as hens teeth Pete Smith scored a remarkable 10 points on the stroke index 2 4^th hole with a birdie off a 23 handicap giving him 5 points (double to 10) with his joker having been played !!

Also worth of note was another excellent round from Biggers Bigley scoring a gross 76 just four over par for his round which is a very high standard of golf indeed.

A big thank you to Captain Buck and Hon Sec Mark Hughes for organising the competitions and prizes for the day.   A good fun day was had by all on a course we should keep visiting on a regular basis. 

MGS Foundation Trophy

This event was played off full society handicaps with all players “putting out” this being a silverware event.  Each player could play a joker on one hole which doubled the stableford score achieved on just that one hole : –

Place	Player	Score
Winner	Micky Mann	45 (B9CB24)*
Second	Kevin Leftley	45 (B9CB 20)*
Third	Mark Hughes	44

* Both players played their joker on the front 9 

Team Competition 

The team event was the single best score counts on the first 6 holes best two scores on the second 6 holes and all three counting on the final 6 holes (usual adjustment for the teams of 4).  The winners were as follows:-

Place	Player	Score
Winner	Alan Bond, David Howroyd, Phil Taylor & Rod Lunn	81
Second	Kelvin Paterson, Mark Hughes, Peter Cudmore & Richard Hannam	80
Third	Micky Mann, Kevin Leftley, Keith Townsend & John Miller	78

Nearest the Line  – 3^rd Hole

• Alan Bigley – pretty much on the line and a country mile down the fairway

Nearest the Pin in Two  – 10^th Hole  

• Rod Lunn –  two cracking hits

Nearest The Pin – 17^th Hole   

• Graham Meadows with a peach.

Birdies

Twelve Birdies on the day as follows: –

Player	Hole	Score	Yards & Stroke index
Alan Bigley	3rd	4 on the par 5	533 yds SI 8
Phil Taylor	3rd	4 on the par 5	533 yds SI 8
Kevin Leftley	4th	4 on the par 5	466 yds SI 2
Peter Smith	4th	4 on the par 5	466 yds SI 2
Alan Bigley	4th	4 on the par 5	466 yds SI 2
Peter Smith	5th	2 on the par 3	129 yds SI 18
Micky Mann	8th	3 on the par 4	316 yds SI 12
Jerry Watkiss	8th	3 on the par 4	316 yds SI 12
Micky Mann	12th	3 on the par 4	363 yds SI 13
Kevan Gill	13th	4 on the par 5	499 yds SI 5
Alan Bigley	16th	3 on the par 4	288 yds SI 15
Phil Taylor	17th	2 on the par 3	117 yds SI 17

Player of the Year standings:

The player of the year competition i.e awarded to the player with the best four stableford scores across the year is hotting up (current best 4 average below with 7 events played !!):-

NB: the handicaps and player of the year are the pure 18 hole stableford scores i.e. today’s additional joker points are excluded in both calculations.

Player	App	Best 4 Av
LUNN, Rod	7	38.50
MONTAGU, Rob	6	37.50
LEFTLEY, Kevin	6	37.25
TAYLOR, Phil	6	37.00
HUGHES, Mark	6	36.75
BURNETT, Andrew	5	36.00
MANN, Michael	6	35.75
GALLIFANT, James	6	35.00
BIGLEY, Alan	6	34.75
SMITH, Graham	5	34.75
TOWNSEND, Keith	7	34.50
BOURNE, Stuart	7	33.50
HANNAM, Richard	4	32.50
CARROLL, Joe	5	31.50
CUDMORE, Peter	5	31.50
WILLMOTT, Tony	6	31.25
HOWROYD, David	6	31.00
PATERSON, Kelvin	5	30.00
BUCK, Chris	4	29.25
GILL, Kevan	4	29.25
MEADOWS, Graham	4	28.00
SMITH, Peter	4	26.75
MILLER, John	4	25.75
LUNN, Will	4	20.75

The societies next event is scheduled for FRIDAY 16th August at a society favourite Cooden Beach. This will be a popular event so do get the date in your diary and let’s hope for some more great weather.