Scott Wightman wins the Mayfield Cup with 41 points on just his second appearance with the MGS
A fabulous day in terms of the turnout and the weather for our trip to the seaside. Light winds stripped the course of its main defence allowing some very good scoring to take place on this popular course with the membership.
A good field of 28 competed for the Mayfield trophy in only its second year of being competed for. Scott Wightman fended off very strong rounds from Messrs Bond, Collingwood, Bigley, Miller & Smith (S) winning the day with 41 stableford points.
Alan Bigley should be mentioned with a gross 74 round which is just 2 over par – 3 birdies, 11 pars, 3 bogies and a double bogie made up his card – I fail to do that well in my dreams!
Mayfield Cup
This event was a stableford competition played off full society handicaps with the top three being: –
| Place | Player | Score |
| Winner | Scott Wightman | 41 |
| Second | Alan Bond | 40 |
| Third | Alan Bigley, Johnny Miller, John Collingwood & Peter Smith | 39 |
Team Competition
The best three scores from the teams of four counted for this event. With individual scores of 39,39,39 & 35 this team of four unsurprising won the team competition.
| Place | Player | Score |
| Winners | Rob Weavers, John Collingwood, Alan Bigley & Peter Smith | 130 |
| Second | Graham Meadows, Alan Bond, Andy Williams & Andrew Burnett | 127 |
| Third | Keith Townsend, AJ, Phil Taylor & Kevan Gill | 117 |
Nearest the Pin (12th Hole 159 yards).
Tony Willmott hitting a nice smooth shot to the pin.
Nearest the Pin in Two (5th Hole 306 yards).
Kevan Gill hitting his second close and walking away with a very solid par.
Birdies
Fourteen birdies on the day as follows.
| Player | Hole | Score | Yards & Stroke index |
| Andrew Burnett | 2nd | 4 on the par 5 | 462 yds SI 12 |
| Alan Bond | 2nd | 4 on the par 5 | 462 yds SI 12 |
| Chris Buck | 2nd | 4 on the par 5 | 462 yds SI 12 |
| Phil Taylor | 3rd | 2 on the par 3 | 154 yds SI 16 |
| Alan Bond | 4th | 3 on the par 4 | 357 yds SI 8 |
| Micky Mann | 5th | 3 on the par 4 | 306 yds SI 18 |
| Graham Smith | 7th | 2 on the par 3 | 159 yds SI 14 |
| Alan Bigley | 8th | 4 on the par 5 | 475 yds SI 6 |
| Phil Taylor | 10th | 4 on the par 5 | 444 yds SI 11 |
| Andy Williams | 10th | 4 on the par 5 | 444 yds SI 11 |
| Andrew Burnett | 11th | 3 on the par 4 | 394 yds SI 1 |
| Alan Bigley | 12th | 2 on the par 3 | 159 yds SI 13 |
| Alan Bigley | 15th | 4 on the par 5 | 478 yds SI 7 |
| Mark Hughes | 18th | 4 on the par 5 | 482 yds SI 9 |
That takes us to 55 birdies for the year so far plus an eagle – that is good going
The societies next event is scheduled for THURSDAY 19th September at the Royal Ashdown Forest (West) Course usual details will appear in due course from the Hon Sec but get the date in your diary.
