The Abbey Hotel & Golf Club

Our latest event saw a mixture of reasonable scores and far to many bad ones. The course played long probably due to the vast amount of rain we have had in the past week or so. Craig W the societies lowest handicapper found no problem with the course notching an impressive 39 points for his gross 82. Nine pars a birdie proved to be the foundation with only one blob on the 17th spoiling the card. Paul Newsome secured third spot with an exact par round of 36, not a blob in sight and no score over six was the reward for his accurate round. The vastly improving Woody secured second spot for the second event running with another par round of 36. No blobs on the card was the foundation for this solid round. A couple of sloppy putts and a bit of bad luck was the difference from top spot.

Bez was one shot further back and secures his top spot in division one. Four golfers then posted their best scores of the year. Gez N notched a respectable 35 points, with two blobs on the card, both on par three's. His sloppy start of 3 points after 3 holes was the shortfall to a winning score. Darren G's 35 was a solid display from start to finish. A blob on the third and a couple of ones on 5 & 6 stopped this from being much better. John H and Rick B both posted 34. John started off with a blob then two pars in four holes helped him towards his front nine total of 17, which he matched on the back nine. Ricks par on the first was not helped with back to back blobs on the 2nd and 3rd, another blob on the fifth was cancelled out with a par and birdie on the next two. His back nine saw no blobs but far two many one point scores to trouble the leaders.

Twelve of the thirty field had day they would like to forget all posting les than 30, to all get an extra increase of 0.3 for the "30 point rule". How fortunes change, it was only May when Chris Shaw was winning by a mile with 45 points, but today could not hit a barn door. His start did not help with 6 straight blobs (See card). 6 points after eleven holes was never going to help. A mini comeback with nine points on 3 holes from 12 to 14 was only short lived as the last four holes only yielded a single point. Captain Pete posted his worst score ever on home soil with a weary 23. The round did not feel as bad as it looked, but a broken 7 iron on the first, followed by 3 off the tee on 4 out the next 6, playing the wrong ball and flying in the out of bounds all went towards 13 points after 14 holes.10 points on the last four holes did not even make this a respectable score. Fellow committee member and normal mister consistent Dale G also had a bad day notching a below par 28 his lowest score since April 08. Three blobs and six single points score did not help. Only two pars and a sloppy finish turned this into a below consistent round of golf.