A week of high scoring stablefords

A run of good weather and three stableford competitions in a row have resulted in some excellent scoring over the past week with the highest points coming from Myles Taylor (5) and Peter Dawson (22) in the Mid Week Competition, both players returning 44 points as the CSS dropped to 66. Myles took first place in Division 1 from Chris Edmond-Smith (16) in second on 41 with third place going to Gordon Day (15) carding 40 and pushing John Crosbie (10) in to fourth place on count back. In Division 2 Peter Dawson’s 44 was ample to take first place with Tim Deville (24) in second on count back from Norman Cramp (28), both players returning 40 points, fourth place went to Frank Gregory (25) with 39.

The Saturday Stableford had 38 entries, same as the Mid Week, with John Crosbie returning another plus 40 point round to take first place in Division 1 this time off of 9 handicap. James Sanders (7) also scored 41 points but lost out on the back nine with Steve Ryan (12) on 40. Kev Miles had the best score of the day returning 42 points off his 15 handicap to take first place in Division 2 followed by Cliff Sanders (21) second on 39 and Gary Holmes (16) third with 37.

On the Sunday Jim Whitehead took the honours in Division 1 carding 43 points off of 8 with Malc Williams (16) and Hugh Morrison (14) finishing in second and third places respectively, both players scoring 39 points. Richard Couse (17) finished first in Division 2 with 42 points ahead of Stephen Mew (24) in second on 37 and Chris Tansley (19) third on 36.