Junior Captain's Drive-In
The sun shone down on this years’ Junior Captain Taylor Yates as he launched into the season.
"This year as Junior Captain I am looking forward to representing our section. I hope we can continue to build and develop the Juniors here at Stamford, taking our great reputation to the next level. I’m also looking forward to defending our BMW Challenge victory from 2013".
Good luck Taylor!
Summer is underway
The first 18 hole Monthly medal took place on Saturday 29th March. A full sheet was supported, including unfamiliar faces reappearing - otherwise known as fair-weather golfers!
Div 1
Winner: Chris Lees 81 – 12 = 69 nett (cpo)
Runner up: Kev Duffy 75 – 6 = 69 nett
Div 2
Winner: Keith Walker 84 – 13 = 69 nett
Runner up: John Grainger 86 – 14 = 72 nett
Div 3
Winner: Paul Traynor 88 – 19 = 69 nett
Runner up: Tony Smith 90 – 19 = 71 nett
Sunday 23rd March
Fighting off a reasonable field was Pete Wilkinson. He managed 42 points over 18 holes to win by a shop comp record of 7 clear shots!
Congratulations on a splendid score Pete!
Winner: Pete Wilkinson – 43 points
Runner up: Iain Starkie – 36 points
3rd Place: Phil Easter – 35 points
As always, 100% of competition entry fees will be divided amongst the prize winners and added to accounts.
2’s payout – 12 balls per two!
Dunham Forest Trophy
The Dunham Forest trophy is a prestigious trophy of which the best 6 golfers in the club and the Professional play Matchplay format against another club. For more information you can click here
It wasn’t the start to the season we had in mind, with a defeat in the preliminary round of the Dunham Forest Trophy. We were drawn away at Greenmount Golf Club, located in Bury. The short 9 hole course certainly played in the favour of the home side, although the Match was 3-2 to Stamford with 2 games left on the course. Youth member Josh Ainscough and Assistant Pro Andy Earlam were both making their debut appearance for the team. Josh took his opponent down the 1st extra hole but failed to convert the point for Stamford which left the pressure to the Professionals. Andy was filling in for myself as I was unavailable, making his debut on short notice he took his opponent to the 17th hole to be beat him 2 & 1.
Its an old cliché in golf and we all like to take advantage of the saying...“There’s always next time”
