First-4-Golf

I was pleased to receive an email from Paul Hogan who, with his father John Hogan, are instrumental in running the Winter league at Wrexham Golf club. This is the opening match of the winter series, and bodes well for the future with these two reporting results on a regular basis.

Coincidentally Paul featured as one of the winning pair last Sunday when, partnered by Ian Darlington, they assembled 43 points to lead by a point from Phil Tunnah and Danny Moore on 42 with Clive Griffiths and Andre Jones in third place on the same numbers. Duncan Fellowes, who has also been a stalwart of the organization, partneredJohn Williamsto fourth place with 39 points.

Phil Coleman resumes his mantle as press officer for the Vale of Llangollen veterans in informing me of last Sundays “draw for partners” event which attracted fifty nine players for this the first outing of the series. Played over thirteen holes starting on three separate tees, the winners this first week were Chris Spooner and Dave Roberts with 33 points. This score was replicated by second and third placed players who were ranked on the strength of the last five holes. Second came Bill Matthews and Gareth Edwards whilst Gary Wright and Brian Griffiths occupied third place. Fourth came Mike Hayhurst and Kevin Pennington with 32, and the tee pegs for the least good score of the morning were awarded to Scott Francis and Tony Mash with 24 points.

The Vets also competed in an individual medal event over a fourteen holes length course. Winner was Dai Thomas with 63 – 7 – 56 from second placed Del Williams on 72 – 13.2 – 58.8. Third came Vic Rogerson who submitted the exact same score as Del but with a less good few closing holes, thus the ranking order, with Dave (A.A.) Roberts in fourth spot with 80 – 15- 65.

Despite the very minor inconvenience of negotiating the road works near the entrance, Wrexham played a Mens’ Wednesday Stableford last week which witnessed a win for Adrian  Linford with 39 points. Replicating the score came second placed Steve Mackenzie with Mike Norton in third place with 38. Chris Wade was fourth with 37 followed in turn by Paul Norman on 36 and Mike Parsons on another 36 point card. Prizes were awarded to the top five competitors.

The Saturday Stableford featured a win for Andrew Harrington on 42 points which gave him a three point advantage over second placed Gary Murt on 39 and a further point over Andrew Hunt on 38. Tony Darlington was in fourth place with the better of five 37 point cards, the remainder going to Andy Bostock, Keith Fox, Paul Evans and Dewi Sides, all of the above receiving prizes in the competition.

 Derek Lyon of Clays reported on a couple of events from late December, firstly the Individual Stableford of 29^th which resulted in a win for Bob Brown on 42 points from second placed Tony Harcombe with 39 and Colin Brown on another 39 point card. Peter Lynch also returned 39 points with Mike Carding in fifth place on 37 and Stewart Poole sixth with yet another 37.

A little further back in December was a Seniors Individual Stableford which featured Ray Jones on the winners podium followed by Reg Taylor with the same 39 point total. Dave Lambert was in third place with 38 and Stewart Poole with 37 just beat Dave jones into fifth place with his 36 points.

The Seniors also played a Stableford in appalling conditions on 29^th December resulting in just twenty players braving the elements. Winner on this occasion was Ernie Williams with 40 points from Noel Jones with 39 and Andrew Mitchell on 38. Harold Hughes was in fourth place with 37 points, position determined by a count back over the closing holes.

Further to the Wrexham results earlier in the report, I now have available the results of Tuesday’s ladies’ competition which took the form of a three ball Am Am with the two best scores to count off a 7/8 handicap allowance.

Winners were Carole Jones, Jean Jones and Lynda Mellor with 37 points from second placed Jane Mullet Prandle, Ann Davies and Pat Whitehead with 36.