Great turn out with 10 for lunch and 13 playing in the afternoon. A very good effort from those who travelled from Somerset, although Terry Davidge had to as last year’s back-to-back winner for the Fairwater Cup!
Final results:
1st Greg Whalley 35 points,
2nd Gary Hector 33 points,
3rd Terry Davidge 32 points
This year we fielded a strong team including Callum Taylor who is a local
member of burnham off a 1 handicap.
We played the buckthorns in the first round and won 3-0. The second round we lost 2-1 to Lloyds TSB who had a good side after beating the Navy in the morning.
Another year another well organised event by captain Gary Hector for arranging the weather conditions and pulling the team together, especially back-to-back with the Brent Knoll Bowl. This year we were back at Deal for the first round (it would be good for the draw to be kind on OTGS and have us play at Sandwich for a change) against Marlborough. Marlborough are a good team ranked 17th over the last ten years performance versus Taunton’s 61st place. Taunton lost 3.5-1.5, however, it should be pointed out that three pairs went down the 18th so the score line doesn’t really reflect how close this match really was.
On to Princes for the 1st round of the Plate against Stowe which Taunton won 2-1, however we lost in the 2nd round to Ampleforth 2-1. We were on our way home Friday night, frustrated once again!
Team consisted of: Gary Hector (C), Pete Whalley, Greg Whalley, Richard Willacy, Iain Westwater, Matthew Pyke, Mark Jenkins, David Higginson, David Morgan, Martin Knight.
I have some great news, Peter Whalley has just won the 2011 Minehead & West Somerset GC Club Championship. Two fine rounds of 74, 72 to finish with a +2 total was enough to give Pete a 3 shot winning margin. It is great effort for Pete to produce his best golf of the season at the biggest event , Pete started the event on a 6 handicap so to shoot 10 under his handicap in 2 rounds shows how well he played, and also to beat some very good golfers at Minehead.
The picture emailed across by Pete shows his great sense of humour which we are so pleased to have in the Scratch Team and no doubt a future Scratch Captain in the years to come! Pete commented that he used his experience of pressure at the Hewitt to compose himself down the stretch at Minehead 🙂
A great time to achieve this what with more good players becoming available for the Brent Knoll Bowl and Hewitt teams this cements Pete’s place in the team as we don’t have any other club champions past or present (well not until James Holl starts playing!)
Skip.
1st Round vs Wrekin Lost 2.5/0.5
Plate vs Ampleforth Lost 2/1
Top pair David Morgan / Martin Knight managed a win and half in the results, well played to them.
Other players; Geoff Boyce, Tony Howe, Richard Norris, Brian Priddy & Gwyn Morgan
A society team played Old Honitonians at Saunton GC on Friday 1st July.
Result 5-0 win for the Old Tauntonians.
Players
Goeff Boyce / Matthew Pyke bt Richard / David 3 & 2
Terry Davidge / Tony Howe bt Brian Jones / Kit 5 & 4
Richard Jowett / Peter Dowsett bt Stuart & Hamish McGregor 6 & 5
Goeff Hayes / Tony Small bt John Palin / John Pagliero 2 up
Gill Jowett / Tony Dowsett bt Mark & Pat Hunt 6 & 4
Well done to all that played in the lovely weather!