First-4-Golf

Just over thirty one years ago, the then secretary of Wrexham golf club, Major Peter Hume, made an inspired choice of assistant secretary when he interviewed and appointed Pam Oldfield to the position. With her background in banking, and attention to detail regarding the club day to day accounts, she rapidly became an indispensable part of the club team.
Last week after assisting thirty one captains and seven secretaries, she retired from the club Office. At the annual general meeting she was presented with a cheque from the golf club, a fresh water pearl pendant from the Past Captains, a Life Honorary Social membership and the applause of all the members who appreciated her efforts over such a long period of time.
We all hope that she enjoys along and happy retirement.

It was distressing to hear of the vandalism that occurred at our neighbour club, Clays last week when opportunists broke the retaining chain to several stored buggies and drove them along the back lanes into the fringes of Wrexham town. The damage was considerable but it is the sheer mindless act of stupidity that annoys all golfers and reasonable persons alike.
The results of the past fortnight starting with the seniors Kitty competition which attracted forty three players to the event. John Hughes won the day with 37 Stableford points from Bill Hughes on 36, Keith Jones with 35, Stewart Poole on 34 and the club president Roger Hudson in fifth place with 34. Den Murphy was in sixth place with 33.
The seniors played an individual Stableford a little earlier in the week which featured Den Murphy in the lead with 38 points from Bob Shotton on 37 and Andrew Mitchell third with 35.
The seniors played an away match at Hawarden last Wednesday, and even though the bad weather rather spoilt the day, it held off adequately for Hawarden to take home course advantage and win by 8½ to 3½.

The seniors have enjoyed a vigorous winter league this season and last Sunday was no exception. Winner this week was Michael McHugh with an excellent 43 points to win by eight points from Wyn Williams with Paul Fell third on another 35 but ranked on countback.
The senior March Stableford went to John Hughes with 37 points from second placed Bill Hughes on 35 and M K Jones on the same numbers.
The club Saturday Winter league was played as a non qualifier and resulted in a win for Paul William Jones with 39 points from second placed Andy Evans on 37. Howard Lloyd was in third place with another 37 point card.
The final offering from Derek this week was for the Shop Stableford played last Sunday. Winner was Stuart Rogers with 37 points from Colin Brand on 32 and then Mike Davies with 31.

Wrexham golf club meanwhile were playing the last of their Sunday morning winter league game on a draw for partners basis but arranged with the proviso that none of the leading players are allowed to be paired together. On a sunny morning with a brisk breeze the three leading pairs this week were only separated by a countback as all achieved a very creditable 43 points.
Winners this week were Alan Harris and Phil Tunnah followed by Dave Chadwick and Brian Moffett and then Paul Hogan and Andy Wynne.

In the individual rankings Paul Hogan achieved the almost impossible task of gaining 55 points out of a possible 60 over the ten weeks that the event has run. He led from week two and was rarely challenged winning buy six points from Oli Hughes and Phil Tunnah in that order, both with 49 points.
Jumping from eighth place to fourth came Brian Moffett on 47 with Richard Rawlings in fifth place with the same numbers.
The event had been run and results published by Alan Harris and I am grateful to him for his up to date recording of the event.