The Shropshire

It was a bright /windy and muggy day for our latest outing at the Shropshire. After a poor last event Andy Whitt (Woody) was on fire by taking three of the four match day prizes. 13 points after 5 holes and 20 after nine, with nearest the pin in two on the 11th and a par with two shots on the 17th was the recipe for him taking three out of the days four prizes. Nearest the pin and nine points on the captains combo with a total of 39 Stableford points was a good days work for "Mister ever Present" . Second spot went to Craig W who only finished one shot back on 38 points. A blob on the Par 5 twelfth  was the difference from him taking top spot. Third spot went to another golfer who had a welcome return to form Tommo, another one shot back on 37. Good comeback considering he only had 3 points after 4 holes.

These were the only golfers to break par all but Associate Member Steve H who for the second event running came in with the highest score (40) this even after an 5 shot cut from last event.  A clutch of guys where just one shot over par on 35, headed by the fast improving Leitchy (Pictured above). His round started off very slow with only 6 points after 6 holes, but with a back nine total of 24 made up of a couple of pars the recovery sent him to top spot in the Division Three OOM. (after best of three events) Cam's second appearance of the season saw his consistency continue with another round of 35 points. A even 18/17 split over the two nines saw only one blob in each half for a feel good factor round. Steve W was the other who again started off slow with only 13 points after nine holes, but remarkably no blobs just six of the nine holes with one point. His back nine was 22 points ending with three pars and a birdie on the last four holes. Click here to see the days results and where you finished. Generally the scores where not as high as expected this might have been to do with the amount of strategically positioned bunkers which most golfers went into on many occasions resulting in our highest ever "Feature Fine" amount of £66 that equates to 132 and that's when we stopped counting. This was probably the reason for some below average scores from some of our more consistent golfers.

  Bunker Madness at the Shropshire. James L (Pictured Right) having the same trouble as many of the golfers today, finding it difficult to get out of the many strategically placed bunkers. The sand was very fine and grainy making anything but a full shot drop back in..