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24th April 2008
Thunderstorms, lashings of rain, and everyone getting soaking wet ...... well the players who played before the society were. Bright sunshine and clear skies 5 minutes before first tee off! Hah!

A great turn out saw 21 players, 19 members and 2 guests, at SandMartins for another hotly contested trophy.

Not a lot of notable events from the course - the highlights being:

Frazer Webb trying to play his second shot on the 17th without one foot in the pond! Failing miserable and duffing the 2nd shot into the pond!

An amazing performance from Ian Turvill saw him score a monstrous 13 points - but the notable point was that he only used 1 ball for the whole round!! As Ian put it, he was never going to loose the ball, because he just couldn't hit it far enough to get into any trouble :-)

Darren Anderson's tee shot to the Nearest the Pin sent Darren of celebrating as he'd got inside the current marker. Unfortunately for Darren, the next person to tee-off, Kevin Gray, got 2 inches inside Darren.

And to the winners. Mark Harris grabebd the longest Drive, again! - he won it last month as well. Simon Park secured the Nearest the Pin in 2 shots, and Kevin Gray secured the Nearest the Pin (see how above). Well done to those 3 players for that.

But what about the main event? Well, unlike last month the winning score was respectable, with Michael Prevost securing the win with 33 poitns. Well done Mike. Second and third places were tight, with Tony Peters securing 2nd on count-back from Chirs Penfold.

You can see the the full set of results on the results page.

Order of merit is updated, but don't forget the rules this year means the merit does not include guests - only paid up society members are included. Handicap adjustments are also posted.

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27th March 2008
Wow, what a day! In more ways than one. Sleet and snow at the beginning of the week, loads of rain the day before, loads of rain the days straight after the event - but the Sun came out and bathed the day we played in barmy warm sunshine - and no rain!!!! Shame the standard of golf did not match the fine weather :-) More on that later though!

Another season starts, with what looks like another good set of courses being planned for this year - more details on dates and locations should be distributed very soon. Welcome to a few new members this year - Kevin Gray and Tim Phillips being the two who played this time - it's great to see friends of friends now being introduced to the society - lets keep that going and everyone should be keeping an eye out for potential players whether they end up being guests or members. Let's try and hit the 20 players mark for every remaining event!

What notable events happened out on the course?

As is traditional for us at Mill Ride there was lots of ""Barnes Wallis"ing being done. Peter Carfrae on the 10th, Chris Penfold on the 3rd and the 10th, and probably many more who did not own up to it! Not to mention the many people who failed to master the technique needed to complete the "Dambuster March"!

Mark Harris on the 12th getting involved in a bit of betting with his group. The bet was regarding the first to make a par in the group. Mark was desolate - not having even a sniff of a par all round - started the 12th by pulling his drive right and slamming it into a tree. 200 yards to go. Second shot pushed right, thinking it was miles wide of the mark. Only to get to the green and find his ball on the edge. Simple 2 putt and he'd secured his par.

Kevin Gray on his debut as a member started his round badly. Blobbing the first, he was just short of the 2nd green in two. A simple lag putt and a hole out would have got his round going well. Unfortunately, his lag putt was about 5 feet from the pin. So 5 feet away after 3 shots. 5 putts later he'd blobbed the hole!

Tony Peters digging his escape tunnel on the 2nd by virtue of being deep down in a pot bunker! As far as we know Tony's not quite made it to Australia yet, but he's still trying!

Peter Carfrae's invisible ball. Peter's tee-shot ended up in the light rough just off the fairway. 200 yards still to go. Taking out a fairway wood Peter went for the green. Unfortunately after what sounded like a well struck shot his ball was no where to be seen. The onlookers watching were searching the sky in front to see the flight, but his ball had vanished. No hook, no slice! Upon closer inspection the ball was found, 2 inches below where it was at the start of the shot! A topped shot and a bit of very wet ground explained it's disappearance.

Enough of the cock-ups - who actually did something right! Well actually no one did - actually that's not true, because we did have winners of the "skill" prizes. How much skill was actually involved is debatable, but Mark Harris stayed on the fairway to grab the Longest Drive, Paul Donlevy hit a simple Pitching Wedge to grab Nearest the Pin, and Chris Turvill came close with his second to grab Nearest the Pin in 2 shots. Well done to those players.

But what about the main event? Well unfortunately we have a bit of history made. The winning points haul is the lowest ever winning amount ever in the history of the society! Was the course difficult - well yes it is a long course! Were the conditions difficult - although being sunny and dry, the previous days rain had made the ground very soft - so yes there was some difficulty! Were these the reasons for the poor scoring - no idea! Was everyone just crap - probably!!

It was tight at the top, the top 3 only being separated by 1 point. Jim Samuel and Paul Donlevy both with 27 points, Jim beating Paul to 2nd by virtue of count back. Topping both of those by just one point was Frazer Webb. Frazer pulled off a dazzling score of 28 points, winning only by being less crap on the day than everyone else. Normally an event is won by skillful, good play from the best player on the day; today it was won by someone who managed to be only just a little bit less-crap than everyone else!! You can see the the full set of results on the results page.

Order of merit is updated, but don't forget the rules this year means the merit does not include guests - only paid up society members are included. Handicap adjustments are also posted.

5th February 2008
The minutes from the recent AGM are now available on the Committee page.

21st January 2008
Welcome to the Bunkers Web Site for the 2008 Season. The pre-season handicap adjustments have been calculated and are now available in the handicaps section. Very few players have had significant changes, most people moving up or down by less than 0.5 shots. Obviously those that were close to a .0 or .5 threshold are the ones to see a difference. Many people have moved up or down but it has not made a difference to the number of shots they receive once the figure has been rounded up/down as appropriate. Those who did not play more than 5 events in 2007 stay on their 2007 finishing handicap.