Men’s Golf Report Week Ending 9th February 2020

The Midweek results

Tuesday’s event saw a field of 25 players out contesting a stroke event.
The winner was Bob Cullen (13) with a fantastic nett 65 from Allan Agar (15) with a nett 70. Ball rundown went to nett 75 on a countback. The nearest the pin on the ninth was Trevor Wright and the second shot on the eighteenth was Steve McMahon.

The Wednesday twilight competition had a stableford event on the front nine with thirty-one competitors. The winner was Shaun Wade with 20 points from Rod Sargent also with 20 points on a countback.

Thursday’s event saw field of sixty-seven golfers fronting the starter for the regular Stableford event in warm and humid conditions, along with two competitors in the gold event.
The winner of Division One was Mick Grimes (15) with 38 points from Dan Robertson (+2) with 37 points. (three under the card)
The winner of Division Two was Trevor West (23) with 36 points from Ross Vaughan (25) with 35 points.
Ball run down went 34 points on a countback.
The Gold event was won by Geoff Lowry (20) with 30 points.
Nearest the pins were Trevor Wright on the third, Dan Robertson on the seventh, Michael Cooksey on the ninth, Rob Dundas on the twelfth and Domingo Diaz on the sixteenth. NTP second shot on the eighteenth was Mick Grimes. The NTP third shot on the fifteenth was Tony Pridham, whilst the NTP third shot on the seventeenth for handicaps 12-23 was Don Clutterbuck. The NTP third shot on the tenth for handicaps 24+ was Warren Shepherd. There were two rabbits for the day, and they were Adrian Smith and Steve Chisholm.

The Weekend Results

The Millott family enjoying the day on Saturday

Saturday’s event was the annual Millott’s Family 3 person Ambrose competition. With a field of 72 players a great day was had by all.
The winners for the men were the team of Mark Jones, Jimmy Herridge and Tony Morse with a nett 54.67.
Runners-up were the team of Mark Bettany, Mal Edwards and Mic Davis with a nett 57.33.
The mixed and ladies winners were Donna Sedgman, Nick Jones and Dan Robertson with 57.17 nett, with the team of Jenny and John Koraus with Steve Bolitho the runners-up with 60.5 nett.
Ball run down went to nett 60.5.
Nearest the pins on the par threes were on the third Rob Pratt, on the seventh was Ben Millott, on the ninth was Paul Lange, the twelfth was Mark Jones and on the sixteenth was Rob Pratt. Closest second shot on the eighteenth was Casey Briggs. The closest second shot on the sixth was Jimmy Herridge. The mixed/ladies NTP was Jenny Koraus on the sixteenth.

A few notes of upcoming events.
Saturday 15th February – Open Stableford
Saturday 22nd February – Open Par
Saturday 29th February – Open Stroke – Monthly Medal, Rnd 1 Bill Reardon Matchplay, JN Pickering
Sunday 1st March – Mansfield Hospital Day 3 person Ambrose 11.30am shotgun start

By Phil Conway