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Thank you to all who played at Swinley Forest yesterday. We had a good turnout of 37 Members and 19 guests. It was nice to see so many familiar faces, that have been absent from our meetings for a while, come back and enjoy the slopes of this lovely golf course with us.
We were blessed with warm, slightly muggy, weather and luckily the threatened thunderstorms held off for those intrepid enough to venture out for a second 18 holes after lunch. The course was in very good condition. The fairways were hard, allowing straight drives to travel a long way. Any wayward drives were swallowed up by the abundant heather and many golf bags went home considerably lighter as a result. The greens were fast and true, but were full of steep run offs and difficult to read undulations, ready to carry putts in unforeseen directions. The Starter tried to persuade several groups to play off the white tees, but after the difficulties faced by many off those tees last year, everyone played off the (far more forward than usual) yellow tees.
There must have been several players on very good form, as we had several who scored 40 or more points. The performance of the day was from Stuart Noakes who came in with an astonishing, personal best, score of 47 points!! Well played Stuart. A phenomenal score. You took all the (in jest) Mexican comments very well
After a very tasty 4 course carvery, our President, Graeme Hunt, gave a short speech welcoming everyone to Swinley Forest, complimenting the course, the service and the food, congratulating the winners and introducing our Sponsor, Oliver Harris of Lease Car Credit, to present the prizes. We are very grateful for his ongoing and generous sponsorship of this event.
Congratulations to the winners
Division 1
1st Place winning the Marsham Salver Nick Haigh 40 points
2nd Place winning the Mercantile Cup David Potts 39 points
Division 2
1st Place winning the Craig Trophy Stuart Noakes 47 points
2nd Place winning the William Glass Bowl Lloyd Baylis 41 points
Guests
1st Place Tristan Packham 41 points
2nd Place Mark Rogers 39 points
Division 1
NTP Nigel Baylis
Longest Drive Mark Rogers
Division 2
NTP Pawan Kenth
Longest Drive Ian Wilson
We have two clear leaders in the Aggregate Competitions – Nick Haigh on a phenomenal 119 points over 3 rounds in Division 1, and Stuart Noakes with 113 points over 3 rounds in Division 2. We still have two Majors left at Hankley Common and Walton Heath for everyone else to try and catch up.
Our next Member / Guest Day at Hankley Common is on Tuesday 9th August. There is still plenty of availability, so please could I encourage you to put your name forward to play, if you have not done so already.
Keep Well and Best Wishes
Paul
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