Mixed Noticeboard

Sunday April 3^rd Spring Starter with a meal and presentation and the draw for the Barbara Ames knockout

 possible date…Sunday May 8^th/15^th Mixed Exchange with a meal after at Ellesmere or other Manchester Club

Sunday July 3^rd - Centenary Trophy with evening presentation 

Sunday July 31^st - Jubilee Trophy Open/Invitation

(please flag this up to any golfing friends as soon as possible to try to get a good field. It is on Golf Empire) 

Friday September 9^th Mixed Away Trip to Padeswood and Bulkeley Partners of members are warmly invited to join us

Sunday November 20^th Winter End of Season with a meal and presentation to the winners of the Barbara Ames Trophy.

New this season!!

Friday Informal allcomers nine hole competitions for anyone 

April 29t, May 27th, July 15th, August 26^th, October 21st, 

tee times from 4.45/5.00pm on BRS

We look forward to you joining in

Blessed by an extremely mild November day, and just enough light, the mixed section held its last event of the year. A good turn out enjoyed a nine hole better ball competition and winners were Olwen and Mike Davies, closely followed by Celia Berent and Mr Vice Captain Pete Woods in second place. Nearest the pin winners were Mo Monk and Mike Davies.

Mr Captain, John Deakin, ably assisted by Lady Captain Anne Thornber presented the prizes together for the last time, and the winners of the Barbara Ames Mixed Foursomes also received their trophies and prizes. Runners up were Rob Booth and Mo Monk, but the winners, after a closely fought final were Brian Foden and Lisa Burns. They will be put forward into next year's county Mixed Foursomes Competition as Alderley Edge Golf Club's representatives, so we wish them luck in advance!

Warmly and enthusiastically made welcome by the staff at Holywell, twenty eight hardy golfers braved the wind and the sheep to enjoy an afternoon of golf and a two course dinner, just for the fun of it. There were prizes galore, with Mr Vice's team coming out top (accompanied by LVC Celia Berent, Karen and Brian Pennington), with the Ricketts and Roberts' team coming in second. Collecting the best scores on the par threes prize was Team Thornber with Sandra Smith and Mark Walker. Nearest the pins were Graham Davies (with blow by blow detail of his achievement) and Keith Beckett.

It was a great day, very relaxed and good fun. Whilst there has been slow take up of the Sunday weekend informal competitions so far, perhaps those participating at this event will carry their enthusiasm into the next season and the Sunday mixed will become a really popular event?

A fine turn out of nearly sixty members competed for the honour of winning The Centenary Trophy, the summer mixed Major Board competition. Tales of close shaved putts and lost balls were shared in the spike bar, but one of the ladies obviously avoided too many of these to record a score of 39 points and come in as winner for her first Board Competition.

Congratulations to Julie Ricketts, who now sees her handicap drop by three shots! Second place went to Dave Lee with 37 points, who also went home a little richer due to having a two...well done Dave. Third place went to Tom Lawton, playing off scratch, with a creditable 37 points on a count back.

Thanks were extended to Lady President Jean Walker for effectively publicising the competition, the Professional, Charles Le Sueur for setting up the prize table and for Liz McGuire and Alison Roberts for doing the cards.

It was a shame that more participants did not come along to the presentation to support Mr Captain and congratulate the winners, however, Mr Captain appreciated the presence of those who were there!

The next mixed event is the informal Sunday competition on July 12th

It was a close call, with the score in at three wins each, but it was Lymm with the happy face as the final fourball returned to the club house with the win for the visitors, making the result 4-3. All the matches were played in a very friendly but competitive manner, despite a few testing pin positions on the second and the seventh to keep us on our toes. Mr Captain was struggling with an injury and had brought in his proxy, Dave Lee, who along with Valerie Hornsby registered one of Alderley's wins, which John was very quick to claim as his own! It is a really enjoyable knockout competition to be a part of, and it is a shame that we won't be advancing further, but we wished Lymm every success in future rounds.

Thanks to Rob Booth and Jean Walker for their organisation and to Duncan, Matt and Jenny for serving us with a seam bustingly delicious carvery.