Bit of a moody day weather-wise for the 2019/2020 Ryder Cup Finals Day. Course very wet still but quite playable, but the showers during the round certainly didnt help. Competition was full-on though, the 4 qualifying teams all putting out teams for mixed Swindle groups of stableford. Individual placings of scores going ...
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Another Swindle Ryder Cup year and another draw... same as last year.
Both teams favourite fixture I'm sure and today saw a cracking match between Swashies and Originals. We were very luck with the weather, we all assumed the rain and wind would prove nasty. We had the wind, which really picked up for 20mins towards the end of ...
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Damp and mild over the weekend, and Saturday saw four Ryder Cup teams playing with the Pistols having their off week.
Greens and course conditions both soft. Certainly better than last week when the Sunday comp were faced with frozen greens the whole round compared to Saturday. Shame the Order of Merit points were awarded - you ...
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Posted on behalf of The Original's Skipper, Mr G Adams
This was never going to be an easy match for us, clearly PK’s the strongest team of the five. But we had a plan and it almost came off. We lost 10-6, but it could have been so much worse.
JC was still struggling with a chest infection and would rather have not played and Rob Hance had ...
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Early 8am start for the 2019 Ryder Cup finals day on Saturday. 15 groups setup across the 4 Swindles, each match featuring a different Swindle member with final Stableford group placings scoring a 3, 2, 1 or zero.
A fantastic Spring day for us all; shorts and t-shirts for most. A sunny day, barely a cloud in the sky, the course ...
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Last Saturday Team Captains Dan Mason and Rob Hance both put out very strong teams for the always-anticipated head-to-head between our Swindle's two Ryder Cup teams. Clubhouse berforehand seemed all very practical and clinical to be honest, no unnecessary bravado and wild adhoc bets flying around. Perhaps lets call it 'quiet ...
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Four teams in the competition this year, the pairs of matches are being played on specific weekends. Unfortunately, in the past they have not been the quickest matches so lumping them together makes sense. Saturday saw the first frost of the Autumn and a bitter easterly wind bought the temperature right down. At least it stayed ...
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Posted on behalf of Vice-Capitano 'Beef' Austin
Really fresh Saturday morning with some ice still on some parts of the course and a few slippery tee boxes. The course was looking really good for nearly November!
New head green keeper has made a instant improvement to the course, not just the fast true greens but also some run off areas and second ...
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A fantastic day's weather saw the Swashies pip the Pistols, Early Birds and Originals in today's Ryder Cup Final.
Last year's campaign saw us start the Finals Day quite far back (which looked dodgy to even make the day at one point), but despite just winning the actual day, it wasn't anywhere near enough to get close to the front runners ...
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Posted on behalf of Originals Captain Simon C.
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Game on
After rescheduling our Surrey 5s match due to the recent snow we had to move the Originals / Swashbucklers match back one day to the Sunday. Both sides manages to get teams together and it was game on!
The weather was dry, cloudy but wet ...
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Caterham Weather (BBC)