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Hawkstone 2021
What a belter of a weekend at Hawkstone once again, brilliant company, non-stop craic and far, far too many alcofrolics, what memories!
Playing the Hawkstone course twice was a stroke of genius in this flogger's opinion, as it is such a beauty and the greens were absolutely mint. And apart from a few spits and spots of rain on Sunday morning, we were blessed with some fairly decent conditions too.
The usual massive round of thanks again go to John Doyle, John Chapman, Bob Stewart and Graham Donnelly for making all of the arrangements and organising yet another hugely successful weekend.
Well done to everyone who picked up the NTP winnings, and special mention for Andy Fitz who won the Saturday Stableford Comp and 'Fast' Eddie Murray and Graham Don for winning the Sunday Pairs Comp.
Where to in 2022? Who knows just yet, but get saving up the alcohol units and get your name down asap!
Ps A personal thank you from Captain Dennis to our incoming leader for 2022, Darren White for some very kind words and special gifts given out on Saturday evening too
For the full album of Hawkstone photos click here
End of Season Prizegiving
...and so to the 2021 Season Winners and the First Division title went right to the wire of the final Event, however, for the second time in three years, the Winner of the First Division and 2021 Society Champion once again, was Colin Newell with 122 Points, with Les Hornby running him close on 119 Points and Bob Stewart finishing Third on 114 Points. Congratulations to Colin on an excellent Season and a great achievement with a punishing Handicap!
The Second Division title simply developed into a straight away blood feud this year between Father of the Bride and Son-In-Law! But the Winner with equal highest 127 Points and thanks to a superior 5th Highest score was Mark McNally, Colin Lewis taking him to the wire in Second place also on 127 Points and Vice-Captain Darren White Third with 118 Points. Congratulations to Mark on showing his new son-in-law Colin who's the Daddy!!
Individual Event Winners over the Season were:
Antrobus - Mark McNally, Grange Park - Toddy Hodson, Vale of Llangollen - Jeff Burgess, Lee Park - Darren White, Hawarden - Darren White and West Derby - Mark McNally.
The Team Winners of the Final Event 9 Hole Texas Scramble were Andy Fitzpatrick, Alan Dennis and John Doyle and the 'Yellow Ball' Team Winners of the Final Event were Bob Stewart, John Chapman, Andy Miller and Toddy Hodson.
P.s. A Wedding Gift Voucher was also presented to our own Colin Lewis for him and his new bride, Jess, and a bottle of Brandy was presented to the wonderful Mr. Bob Stewart in recognition of his upcoming 65th Birthday
For the full album of West Derby GC photos click here
West Derby GC, 22nd August 2021
Our final Event of the 2021 Season at the West Derby assault course, sorry golf course, was definitely a memorable one!
The weather behaved mostly following a bit of a soggy start with the usual Texas Scramble competition in the morning, followed by the afternoon 18, spiced up with the dreaded 'Yellow Ball' mini-competition, and of course the final push for the two Divisional titles which went down to the wire this year.
The Event day itself, however, was won by Mark McNally with an excellent nerve-holding 33 points, from Carl Ambrose with 32 points, who in turn squeaked ahead of Mark's newly acquired son-in-law, and close competitor for the Division 2 title, Colin Lewis, who also scored 32 points, but lost out to Carl on the back 9 count back
The three NTPs at £21 each were spread between Andy Miller, Peter Batey and player of the day, Mark McNally. There were also two 2s on the day going to Les Hornby and Andy Fitzpatrick.
And finally, that pesky plastic prize, Gertie the Goose, returned home with Captain Dennis, along with half a dozen 100% sh*tty golf balls, thanks to his returned score of 14 Points.
Hawarden GC, 1st August 2021
Our second trip over the Welsh border this season may have been slightly lacking in numbers, but a hardcore group of 15 made up for that with their enthusiasm on the hilly fairways of Hawarden GC.
At the upper end of the scoring, in 3rd spot, Andy Miller resumed his successful return from injury with a solid 29 points, but at the top of the pile there were two scores of 31 points returned by the ever consistent Les Hornby as well as our in-form Vice-Cap Darren White. However, with the superior back 9 score, and for a second successive event, the overall Winner was Daz (the lessons are definitely paying off!!) Well in Daz!
NTPs were won by big JR, Mr. John Robinson (for a second Event running), the ever smiling Mr. Colin Newall and a guesting blast from the past, Mr. Shaun Johnson.
And finally, our marvellous malleable mascot came home to roost at the Captain's table, as Mr Alan Dennis collected Gertie Goose for the first time since she was an egg, thanks to a blistering score of 12 whole points, together with a full mini Bagful of Golf Clubs Drink Stirrers.
For the full album of Hawarden photos, including a wonderful video of Mr. Dennis accepting Gertie Goose to a chorus of Dance of the Cuckoos click here
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