Victory in overtime for Dave and Chris

Well, the Fourball Knockout final went even further than the denoument of the President’s Putter ! Vice Captain Dave Lee with partner Chris Hills had to return today after almost total darkness had halted proceedings in their match with Max Penney and Jordan Foden at the 20th hole yesterday.
On the resumption, Dave and Chris sealed victory with a par on the 22nd hole.

“Can you see the pin, Dave ?”
“I can’t even see you, lets get to the bar”

Whiffer wins at 21st

Steve “Whiffer” Smith won a thrilling President’s Putter final today, defeating Mike Troup on the 21st hole.
Well done Steve and commiserations to Troupy in losing a desperately close match

Captain’s Prize to the Seniors

On Wednesday, 6th October 2010, the Captain organised a special competition for Senior Members, ‘Captain’s Prize to the Seniors’.  Prizes were given for first, second and third places in a Stableford competition, along with a new trophy donated by the Captain.

The seniors will now play annually for ‘The Captain’s Trophy’.

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Generation Cup

Twenty three pairs played in the Generation Cup on Sunday 12th September. This cup was presented to the Club by Peter Davies in 1999. Peter at that time was Junior Organiser and ever since then this cup has been keenly competed for by Dads and sons, Grandfathers and grandsons, along with members and juniors.

Results from Sunday 12th September:

1st Prize and Generation Cup was won by Paul Penney and Ollie Lane with 43 pts.

2nd Prize [ cpo ]  was won by Mike Stanyer and Logan Stanyer with 41 pts.

3rd Prize was won by Bob Plumb and Tom Lawton with 41 pts.

Charlie takes President’s prize with stunning 60

Not content with a 61 in the Humphreys Medal, Charlie Hill shot a stunning 69 - 9 = 60 to eclipse a full field in the President’s Prize today. Not susrprisingly, his margin of victory was five shots. This was Charlie’s second President’s Prize win, following his success in 2001.
The competition attracted 81 competitors, the largest field of the year and a totally full starting sheet. There was a large turn out also for the presentation, where Charlie was presented with a glass obelisk by President Dennis Troup to mark his win.

Full results:

Ist Charlie Hill 69 - 9 = 60

2nd Rick Ford 73 - 8 = 65

3rd Chris Hoyland 73 - 8 = 65

Lowest Gross Harry Sexton 70

Nearest pin on 13th: Charlie Hill
Nearest pin on 17th Alex Campbell
Nearest pin in two on 18th Harry Sexton [well he did nearly drive the green !]
Lowest net score on par 3’s Don Crawshaw

The President thanked everyone for their support on what was a very enjoyable day.

Captain’s Charity Day 2010

The 2010 Captain’s Charity is Crossroads Care, a charity that helps carers.
This year’s charity golf day, again organised primarily by Brian Foden, took place on Fri 10th September and raised the superb sum of £ 2,525.
The winning team was Harry Calder, Graeme Abell, Carl Edwards and Duncan McPherson with 89 points.

The winning team

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Harry wins the Challenge Cup

Harry Sexton again recorded a gross 66 nett 65 to win the Alderley Edge Challenge Cup, beating Norman Burns in a card play off.
His 66 follows a 66 in the August medal, and should secure the Scratch Salver.

Tom wins Jubilee Vase

Tom Lawton won the Jubilee Vase with a score of 39 points, and brought his handicap down to 2 in the process. Second was Rick Ford with 38 points.

Cheshire Boys beaten by Lancashire

Today we hosted our first Cheshire inter-county match, with Cheshire and Lancashire meeting in a mixed age boys encounter. Each team fielded four under 16s, four under 15s and four under 14s. Our own Tom Lawton made his county debut, winning his morning foursomes but unfortunately losing his singles match. Cheshire were soundly beaten, 13-5.

Tom Lawton drives from the first in the morning foursomes

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Charlie takes Humphreys Medal

Charlie Hill shot an incredible 73-12=61 to win the Harold Humphreys Medal by three strokes. Second was Tom Lewis on 64. Also on 64 was Craig Aston, who is showing good form after recovering from the broken leg he suffered in the winter.

Bryn Roberts had a unique end to his round, finishing 9,1, 7 !!!!

Vice Presidents’ Challenge Bowl

The weather was excellent and the course in super condition for this year’s renewal of the VPCB. Morning players certainly relished the conditions with Tom Lawton (69-4=65) and Andy Slater (72-7=65) in early. Although not eligible for the trophy and the watch yours truly somehow managed to get it round in 69 for a nett 62, to win the bottle of malt whisky played for by the VP’s.
Rick Ford came in with another 65, but unfortunately put one over the fence on 16 for a seven, and Luke Foden also had a 65, but Andy Slater took the trophy and the watch on a card play-off. Harry Sexton shot a gross 68, despite a 6 on the last, to come down to 1 handicap (it is some years since we had a 1 handicapper), and Tom Lawton also came down a shot to 3; these boys really are getting good !

The Captain thanked the Vice Presidents for the prize, and asked Brian Foden to come forward to make a donation to his charity. It would seem that his son, Luke, had managed to take 11 shots to get out of the charity bunker the previous week !! Fodder, why are you paying your son’s debts ??!!

After the formalities we settled down to watch the England - USA match. Whilst our greens were good the same could not be said for England’s Green !!

Jubilee Mixed Open 2008

This year’s Jubilee Open was played on Sunday 6th July.
There was a field of 80 golfers from 20 local golf clubs competing for some fabulous prizes.

The weather on the day was also mixed but fortunately there was no repeat of the previous year’s lightening which disrupted play.
Nearly 60 people enjoyed a carvery meal ahead of the evening presentation.
First prize went to Ron and Jill Blench from Macclesfield GC with 40 points.(Pictured below receiving the trophy from the Captain and Lady Captain)

2nd prize was won by Paul and Joanne Farley of Brookfield GC with 38 points.
3rd prize went to our own Captain and Lady Captain with 37 points (card count back)
4th prize was won by Roger Greenhalgh and Val Lewis of Sutton Hall GC also with 37 points
5th prize was won by the President and Lady President with 36 points.

Nearest the pin on the 6th was won by Angela Paton (1.36m).
8 couples scored 2s and David Williams of Wilmslow GC had a hole in one on the 8th!

The event also raised £110 for the Captain and Lady Captains’ charities.

Well done everyone!