A busy week at Freshwater culminated in the Arthur Ford Quaiche played for on Sunday 26th July, the stableford event was a close run thing with Rick Penn (12) running out the winner with 38 points. Second place went to Kevin Garrett (5) on 37 points; Richard Frost (6) took third 36 and Steve Orchard (10) finished fourth with 35 points.
On the Saturday Club Captain Barry Hunter entertained ninety members to golf and a meal for his Captains Day, the golf side of things being an 18 hole better ball stableford with numerous prizes for the various combinations of players with an interesting sting in the tail. On the 4th and 18th greens the Captain had two holes cut one of which being tricky enough to warrant double points, the fourth for example was dead flat on three sides but had a 4ft drop if you went beyond the pin and more than a few players ended up putting off the green by being a tad too ambitions.
Combine that with players partaking of a drink or two with the Captain and his wife on the 14th meant that a good time was had by all and the prizes for nearest the pin on that hole were well earned, with Gail Brown taking the ladies prize and Barry’s son Big Al taking the men’s. Nearest the pin in two shots on the 9th was won by Sammi Keen for the Ladies and Simon Smith for the men, who rumour has it, drove through the green and had to wedge back!
In the Ladies event Jan Smith & Janet Hurd came second with 38 points losing out to Anne Smith & Liz Morris by three points. Sue Keen and Ryan Harmer managed to sneak 2nd place in the Mixed category on count back over the last 3 holes from Bob and Jan Godden, with first out Tina Raymond and George Thomson winning with 37 points.
The scoring was some what higher in the men’s with father and son pairing of Robbie and George Faulkner taking first place with a massive 49 points ahead of Nick Punter and Dave Wright on 47 points.
The Veterans medal played on Friday 24th had a small entry due to poor weather but still had Chris West (13) shoot a creditable 69 considering the conditions with second place going to Seniors Captain Brian Whelan (28) on 72.
To get the school summer holidays off to a swinging start a Junior Stableford was held with Steven Cooke (12) and Kasey Tuckey (8) both coming home with 35 points but pride of place went to Connor White with 39 points reducing his handicap to 26.7. This week also saw the first fixtures in the round robin section of the Junior Matchplay Championship with in form Connor White losing out to Lucy Burke, while Steve Cooke beat Lucy’s brother James and Breandan Ashby lost to George Faulkner.
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