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Houghwood GC, 28th April 2024
After a false start at Chester, the season finally got underway at Houghwood! Our group of 19 hardy hopefuls were all hoping to blow the golfing cobwebs away, lessons and practice sessions were in the bag, and higher Handicaps all gave an air of great optimism to the proceedings, scores in the mid 40s were surely possible weren't they?
Houghwood, or should it be Toughwood, had other ideas! It's a very hilly course, there was a strong breeze and it was quite chilly too, all factors contributing to a difficult starter for all and so scoring ended up being extremely modest to say the least!
Just 14 points covered all returns, but as anyone who's seen Highlander knows..."There can only be one!" and the Houghwood Highlander with a score of 31 points clutching his bulging ball sack was Mr John Roche! Brilliant stuff, well done John!!
NTPs were won by Mike Towell, star man John Roche and winning two NTPs in his short pants, Peter Batey (God love him, he doesn't half make his Dad proud), and this Event's Captain's Draw cash prize went to the man who could do no wrong on the day, JR, for scoring a very decent 19 points on the Front 9. 2s were also scored by Mike Towell, Gary 'Wig' Chappo and my lad, young Mr. Batey.
And finally, thanks to all those hundreds of balls whacked on the range and watching countless hours of YouTube tutorials, with a score of 17 points (maybe they were snooker videos?), our moulded mascot was presented to a triumphant Mr. Danny Parr.
For the full album of Houghwood photos and videos including the longest slo-mo of Colin Lewis' swing to send you to sleep as well as Danny getting dirty with Gertie click here
Rearranged Events
FIXTURE REARRANGEMENTS
Dear all, Mr Doyle has performed nothing short of a miracle to reorganise the Season and keep us with 6 Events.
CHESTER
Chester has been rearranged for Sunday 22nd September 2024 and will now be our Season finale Event, the usual all dayer of Texas Scramble, 18 holes pm, evening meal and presentations.
The cost is slightly higher than Wrexham unfortunately, but we think it’s a small price to pay extra to save the Season. It will be £92 for the full day.
WREXHAM
The Wrexham Event date remains the same, ie Sunday 11th August, but it will revert to being a usual 18 hole Event @ the usual £50. They have put their prices up significantly, but Mr Doyle has negotiated them down to £51.50, however, the Society will handle the shortfall this time.
CHESTER PAYMENTS
Payments received for this Sunday’s cancelled Event at Chester will be credited and paid against your next attended Event. I’ll keep a record of everyone’s credits.
Some have in fact even already paid for Houghwood, and in that case I’ll roll your credit forward again.
We trust everyone will be ok with all of the above, a massive vote of thanks goes to John for sorting this, he does a massive amount of work behind the scenes which deserves a big round of applause!
Chester Event Cancelled!!
The first Event at Chester is officially cancelled guys.
John’s been in touch with the Club and due to the amount of rain we’ve been having, at this moment, only 8 or 9 holes are open for play. It is highly unlikely that it would be fully open on Sunday as more rain is forecast this week.
So, we’re not messing about and to give everyone fair warning we’ve decided to cancel it.
John is looking at options to reschedule later in the year, and we’ll keep you updated.
Handicap updates
The Handicap committee (Fitzy, Daz & Jeff) have reviewed everyone's handicap and with the target of making everyone competitive (as much as we can) we have adjusted quite few. The 2 Division winners have both come down (sorry Skipper) but the majority have gone up 1 or 2 shots. All new members will have their handicaps reviewed after the first 2 games and adjusted to suit.
We are also introducing a change for this year to help everyone remain competitive. Any player that finishes outside the top 3 on the day will get 0.5 of a shot back. Your handicap with then be rounded up for the next game essentially giving you an additional shot. If then at the next game you again finish outside the top 3 you will get another 0.5 of a shot back but wont gain a shot for the next game, and so on. So in the case you don't finish in the top 3 at any game you would essentially get 3 shots back (to a maximum handicap of 28) over the season.
Hope this is clear but i will explain face to face at our first game at Chester.
Cheers Fitzy
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