Kevin Garrett Millenium Winner 2009

Freshwater Bay Golf Club’s Presentation Evening saw the President Peter Sheard and Captain Barry Hunter hand out sixty cups played for throughout the year. Kevin Garrett received the Millennium Trophy, awarded by the Captain, for outstanding service to the Club having served on Committee for three terms as well as taking on the roles of Competition Chairman and Junior Organiser.

The Ogle Tankards, best six Veterans Stablefords in the year concluded the day before with Peter Marsden picking up four points in the final round to win by a single point on 214. Dennis Smith finished second on 213 and Jim Payne third on 210.

The Veterans Stableford itself was convincingly won by John Davies (15) with 42 points ahead of Peter Cooper (15) in second on 40 points and Peter Scott (21) sneaking third place on count back from Gerry Bolton.

The first midweek competition of November was a Three Two One Stableford won by Gerry Bolton, John Herbert and Ray Cooke with 78 points, second place went to Ken Bebbington, Mike Dowsett and Ivan Butt on 74 points.

7^th November saw a usual Stableford with Division 1 going to Rick Penn (10) with 39 points and Kevin Miles (14) second on 38 points while Kevin Garrett (4) finished third with 37 points holding off Cedric Jones on the back nine. In Division 2 Gordon Day returned the best round of the day with 41 points off of his 15 handicap, second went to Gary Holmes (16) on 38 with Chris Tansley (18) third returning 35 points.

The Sunday Par was played in difficult conditions with Nick Riby (12) coming home the winner on plus 2 ahead of his nearest competitor Gary Holmes (16) on minus 2.

The most recent Mid Week Stableford saw some excellent scoring with Peter Cooper taking the honours in Division 1 with an excellent 44 points off of 14 handicap, Chris Tansley (18) was second on 42 and Wally Shennan (15) third with 41 points. The scoring in Division 2 was almost as good with Bob Godden (21) finishing first with 41 points ahead of Peter Marsden, also playing off 21, in third with 40 points.

This Sunday’s Stableford saw Derek Wright (4) finish first on 40 points ahead of two players on 37, Dennis Smith (19) taking second place on count back from Nick Punter (12) in third.

Eight up for Deville in Mid Week Par

Keith Wright picked up the Millway Cup for the best medal rounds played through out summer with a consistent return of 358 for the five rounds, father and son Gary and Steven Cooke fought out for second place with experience giving way to youth, Steve finished 2^nd on 367 – 7 shots ahead of his father Gary on 374.

A series of Junior events were held through the half term week starting off on the Monday with a visit to Bramshaw for the Manor Masters with best place achieved being 9^th from the five player contingent. The first of the Junior Qualifiers on Tuesday saw Steven Cooke (11) in first place with 39 points reducing his handicap to 10 ahead of David Hartley (16) in second on 37 points. On the Wednesday Ryan Harmer (9) scored 38 pts to cut his handicap to 8 with Steve Cooke (10) finishing second on 37 whilst the Medal on Thursday saw Steve take the honours with a 68 ahead of Conor White (21) with a 69.

Division 2 of the Mid Week Par Competition was won with the obscene score of 8 up from Tim Deville (23) with Ray Cooke (19) second on 4 up and Dave Cooke, no relation, third 3 up also playing off 19. Division 1 was slightly more sensible with Kevin Garrett (5) picking up first place with an excellent 5 up, Geoff Smith (17) finished second 3 up on count back from John Davis (16) also 3 up.

The last competition of October was a Three Ball Scramble won by father and son Les and Stephen Mew joined by Steve Sargeant with a nett 57.65, a mere 0.35 shot ahead of Miles Oldershaw, Barry Hunter and Geoff Smith in second with Graham Wells, Chris Tansley and John Burke in third place wit a 58.15.