Captains charity tree and bunker passes

As we are now getting back to playing regular golf, please don’t forget to get you Captains Charity Tree and bunker passes either with cash from Tim or Jenny or by bank transfer on the enclosed information. Many Thanks Tim and Jenny.

Vets continue where they left off last year!

Congratulations to the Vets M4 winter league team who topped their group and now progress forward to the knockout stages.

In their first match of the John Ling the team had an emphatic 5-0 home win against a strong Betchworth Park team and will now meet Clandon Regis or Burhill in the next round.

Charity Quiz Night

A huge thank to all those who attended the Charity Quiz night in aid of the Captains Charites. Thanks to your generosity we raised £420.

In a keenly fought Quiz the team “You are Sold” narrowly beat “The Absolutely Maybes” by one point with Ken Bridgeman’s “The Presidents” team picking up the prize of being the “lemons” on the night.

Many Thanks again

Tim and Jenny

Yuletide

Fifty nine festively dressed golfers took part in the Annual Yuletide mixed stableford competition in glorious weather for the time of year. The course was in great condition and is a credit to the course manager and his green staff.

The overall competition was won by Sylvia Kempsall with 38 points with the second best placed lady being Jane Van Egmond with 33 points. Tony Leslie won the Men’s sections with 37 points, Charlie Hwang was second with 36 points and Nealle Higgs was third (on countback) with 35 points.

There were prizes also awarded for 2’s on the day and these went to: Ed van Egmond, Jane Van Egmond, Tony Leslie and Alex Rhodes.

A huge thank you to everyone who brought a prize and bought raffle tickets. The raffle raised £375.00 for the Captains Charities.

Thirty six members then tucked into the Yuletide lunch where Keith Stinson was awarded the prize for the best festive dressed golfer.

Jenny and I would like to thank you all again for your support and wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Vets Christmas Lunch

Twenty eight (14 pairs) bold and intrepid golfers took part in a fun greensomes competition before the all-important Vets Christmas Lunch! The competition was won by Malcom Wakerley and Steve Harcus with 39 points, with Ulrich Vosloo and Colin Whitaker a very creditable second with 36 points followed by in third Place (on countback) Chris Curtis and David Rowling with 35 points .

There then following a very noisy and wine filled lunch attended by 32 Vets. Nick Taylor was presented at the lunch with The Vets Knockout Trophy (pictured) which he won in a very hard-fought match with Dave Sparkes.

The lunch ended with the usual joke telling session with the winning joke told by Malcolm Walker in his best West Country Accent earning himself a bottle of scotch. The Vets captaincy reins were then handed over to next years Captain Brian (Raff) Rafferty.

Merry Christmas to all from Tim Smith departing Vets Captain!

Paul Lowe

Following the sad passing of Paul Lowe last month, a big thank you to all the members for their kind and generous donations to honour Paul and I am please to inform the members that we raised £400 to donate to the Royal Marsden in Paul’s memory. Our thoughts are very much with the family at this time.

 Tim Smith, Club Captain.

Captain's Drive In 25 November

Jenny and I would like to thank everyone who came to support us at the Captains Drive in on Saturday.

Thanks to you all for raising £183 for our charities, The Grace Dear Trust and Epsom Riding for the disabled, by trying to guess the lengths of our drives!  Ian Larter successfully guessed Jenny’s distance of 134 yards and Malcolm Walker Tim’s drive of 164 yards.

It was a great fun day in the sunshine and 23 teams took park in Texas scramble. The winners were: David Mundy, Lee O’Conner, Robert Russell and Paul White with a nett 54 winning on countback from Daniel Boland, Lorna Dolinska, Michael Lloyd and Ed Van Egmond with Steven Collier, Michael Gledhill, Nick Keen and Shaun Walsh in third place with a nett 55.

After the presentations Steve Northeast presented the Firefighters Charity with their cheque for £4,169 raised last year. Sue Choularton had already given her cheque to the Kidney Fund the previous week at their AGM.

Once again, a huge Thank you and we look forward to many great fundraising Events in the coming months!

 Best wishes, Tim and Jenny