Winter Eclectics

With the Winter season now drawing to a close, the Winter Eclectic final results have been concluded.

Roy Thompson Sunday Winter Eclectic.
Huge congratulations to Alex Rhodes 🥇 on winning the Roy Thompson Sunday Winter Eclectic with a nett 56, 1 shot ahead of Steve Northeast  🥈 and Jack Law.

Rushton Bridgeman Vets Winter Eclectic
Congratulations to Steve Northeast 🥇 on winning the Rushton Bridgeman Vets Winter Eclectic with a nett 56, David Sansom 🥈 nett 60 and David Rowling 🥉 nett 61.

Roy Lambdin Saturday Winter Eclectic
Congratulations to Matthew Jones on winning 🥇 the Roy Lambdin Saturday Winter Eclectic with a nett 52, George Ashwell 🥈 nett 53 and Alex Rhodes third nett 55. Going into the final day a 3 shot lead was closed to within 1 shot by a solid round from George Ashwell with Matt holding on for the win.

Keith.

March round-up

2nd March - Kelso Hamilton
Congratulations to Tim Smith and Ian larter who have kicked off the year with the first of the knock out matches by beating Guildford at home. Won 3-1. 

22nd February - Scratch
Despite putting out a good team in the scratch match against Camberley Heath, we lost 3½ - 1½. Camberley Heath put out an exceptionally strong team and unfortunately we also had to concede home advantage by playing at their Club. It was a good result given the team they put out and a change of venue.

15th March - Surrey 5's A Team
Well done to Neil Higgs and his team for winning a very close fought match at home against Wentworth. Stephen Conlon going down the 19th to secure the win. Won 3-2.

16th March - Surrey 5's B Team
Following on the next day, the Surrey 5's B team picked by Chris Reed had a convincing win over Clandon Regis away. Won 4-1.

17th March - John Ling
As the current holders of the John Ling, a great start was made in defence of the trophy with a home win against Chipsted. The team won 4-1.

23rd March - Finke Cup
The first Trophy was played for at the start of the season with a good field entering the 4BBB Finke Cup. The team scores were extremely close with the winners being Tony Leslie and Ed van Egmond with a nett 43, beating Nigel Timms and Jake Portch into second place on count back with a nett 43. (Count back going to back 9, then back 6 and back 3 before splitting the winners), with Steve Northeast and Tim Smith in third place with a nett 42 again on count back.

Well played everyone, Keith.

Charity Quiz

A big thank to all those who attended the Charity Quiz night on 31st January in aid of the Captains Charites. The annual Captains Charity quiz was once again well attended and we raised a grand figure of £662.75 to be shared between both the Captains Charities.

The well deserved winners (from a team of only four) coming from the team headed by our own F&B manager Ben Moran, ability supported by Kristina Moran, Lynn Moran and Andy Moran.

We would like to thank our Tim Smith for once again being a great host and quiz master with his glamous assistant Ian Larter, and the staff for putting on the food and keeping everyone topped up during the evening.

Many Thanks

Keith & Camilla.

Christmas Pudding Competition

Thankfully, after Storm Darragh trying its best to put paid to the Christmas Yuletide event the previous Sunday but failed, we held the Mixed Christmas Pudd (Texas Scramble - Shotgun) on Saturday 14th December.

With a strong full field of 88 members taking part, it was great to see so many new faces taking part this year.

The handicaps being based on (25%/20%/15%/10% from lower to higher playing handicap) and standard Texas Scramble rules.

The winners with a score of 51 were Bradley Halford, Simon Hooper, Matthew Jones, Shivantha Thambirajah.

Second place with a score of 55 went to Tade Akinbiyi, Ben King, Kieran Manser, Colin Solly.

Third place with a score of 56 went to John Allchurch, Paul Cooper, Dan Mansfield, Robert Russell.

Thanks go to Tim Smith (Competitions secretary) for continuing to update the teams during the week and Camilla Mott (Lady Captain) for arranging the prizes.

Our thanks also go out to all those who provided raffle prizes for the Captains Charities and all who took part and hopefully enjoyed themselves. It was great to see a full clubhouse after the event.

Presentation to Grace Dear Trust

As my final act as last year’s Club Captain, it gave me great please to present Graham Dear from the Grace Dear Trust with a cheque for £5,000 raised last year at this year’s Christmas Pudding Texas Scramble.

Graham said a few words and thanked the members and said that the money would be going to Chessington Community college to fund a counsellor once a week for the children. I would also like to thank all the members for their generosity and support in raising this money.

Now let give our full support to this year Captains and raise a load more money. 

Cheers, Tim Smith

Vets Christmas Lunch

Ten teams (40 vets) limbered up and after the obligatory Miguel Angel Jimenez stretches took part in a fun wave competition before the all-important Vets Christmas Lunch! 

The competition was won by Chris Lawler, Alan Williams, Ian Adams & Graham Wood with 88 points, Second place was Alistar Watson, Mervyn Wynyard, Steve O'Hara and Ed Van Egmond with 85 points and third place was Roger Singleton, Brian Rafferty, Kevin Conlon & Matthew Bush on 84 points.

A special mention to Ed Van Egmond for another hole in one this year on the 15th.

As the Club Captain I just wanted to thank Raff (Brian Rafferty - outgoing Vets Captain) for putting on a fantastic Vets Christmas Lunch event. It was great to see everyone enjoying themselves after the golf at the lunch with some friendly banter. The Vets round up for the year was well received with numerous prizes provided by Raff and great to see the Trophy's won during the year. Well done and hopefully another good year for the Vets in 2025.

Merry Christmas to all from Keith Stinson - Club Captain.

Yuletide

The club Captain’s would like to thank everyone who supported the club in the Yuletide event either by playing, attending the lunch or both.

It was very much touch and go due to the prior weeks rain and Storm Darragh whether the event would go ahead but thanks to the Green Staff, we were able to play. Sadly the weather had reduced the field, but thirty six golfers then headed out to take part. Hopefully everyone enjoyed themselves.

Well done to Neale Higgs with 35 points and winning on countback (top 5 all having 35 points), second place was Simon Hooper and third place Steve Northeast.

The top lady golfer was Jane Northeast with the top four ladies separated by 2 points.