Wishaw Golf Club seems to be becoming common ground with the sought after hole in one! This summer has seen a string of the glorious “1”, with many occurring in individual strokeplay competitions, much to the disgruntlement of the Insurers. Matthew Smith, Jim Dowling, Ian Atkinson, Martin Stokes and Bob Biddle have all achieved a competitive hole in one this season to the fortunate benefit of those in the club house bar at the right time!!!
Ian Atkinson achieved a hole in one on the 12th hole whilst playing in the Midweek Medal today. Drinks are on Ian!!!!!
Josh Hughes won the Directors’ Rosebowl with a 5 and 3 victory over Ian Nicholls in the Final last week. The rosebowl is a tough major to win with competitors having to qualify from a medal event to proceed to the knockout matchplay rounds. Congratulations to Josh for a great win, and also to Ian Nicholls who then went on to win The Littlewood Cup days later.
The Open takes place on Saturday 10th September. This is a great opportunity to invite friends who are members of other golf clubs to come and play wishaw in competition on a fun day. Entry forms are available in the club house. Please don’t leave it too long to enter. The earlier you enter the better chance you have of getting your preferred tee time.
The Junior Team have now completed 4 fixtures, winning 3 with just one defeat away to Moor Hall.
The Scratch Team go into the last game of the season away to Gaudet Luce with a real chance of promotion and perhaps even winning the division. The team have won there last 3 games and currently lie tied 2nd in the division. Good luck to the team for their final match this Sunday.
The Summer League came to a dramtatic end with Steve Gibbs & Andy Wosket taking the title by just 1 point from Ray Hayes & Joe Lawlor. It went down to the final event with Ray & Joe finishing fourth and Steve & Andy fifth in the scramble format. Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all those who took part in the revamped Summer League. I hope you are all looking forward to next years league.
The Summer League is now at the midway point, with 4 of the 8 events played. Leading the way is Steve Gibbs & Andy Wosket on 21 points, closely followed by Steve Smith & Adrian Matthews on 18 points. With only the 5 best results of the 8 events counting for the league, it is still all to play for.
Steve Harris & Ian Oliver won the Event 1 Greensomes, Steve Smith & Adrian Matthews won the Event 2 Betterball, and Steve Gibbs & Andy Wosket won both the Event 3 Scramble, and the Event 4 Aggregate.
Event 5 is a straight Foursomes format on Wednesday 6th July.
Following one of the most closely fought championship in years, Ben Stokes birdied the final hole to to take the title with a 146 gross for the 36 holes. Ben and Ian Atkinson were tied for the lead after the first round with a pair of 74’s. Steve Gibbs, Steve Mayor and David Sarson were only a shot away with opening 75’s. But in a dramatic final round run in, Ben clinched victory from Ian by one shot, hitting a 72 to finish on +6.
Karl Randall took the Nett Championship with two rounds of nett 68 off 14 handicap.
Overall, the club championship was a great day all round. A fantastic competition, and lots of fun had by all at the evening BBQ run by Andy Wilson & Tom Downey.
The Summer League 2011 begins Wednesday 1st June. You can register from 3pm onwards. This is a pairs league run over a series of 8 events played wednesday evenings throughout the summer. Please look at the diary or the competitions board for all the dates. The best five results will count towards your league total. Players require 6 qualifying cards on the day of their first event played to enter.
Josh Hughes won the singles knockout tournament following a close final with Sophie Thompson. The match was all square after 18, and went down to the 2nd extra hole. Congratulations to both competitors for playing a good match.
