Quick update on the Club Champs this year.
Website updates have been sparse (as has the golf to be fair) but apart from hosting our Swindle handicaps worksheet, I don’t think the site’s being used or visited much these days so I’m starting to wind the site down but let me at least share a few words on the weekend’s endeavours...
Day 1 Club ...
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Some cracking scores this weekend in the face of some woeful weather.
The downpours last Thursday/Friday had wrecked the bunkers and clearly had seriously messed up all the hard work the greenkeepers had been putting into the bunkers. They were back to being fairly pretty decent (for what they are)... and now the rain has scraped all ...
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World Handicap System (aka "WHS") is supposedly landing at the beginning of November.
Going to be a big change... but a necessary one (and perhaps painful one to start) in order to standardise handicapping.
National Club Golfer is a good online golf magazine and they've posted a podcast of a beginners guide to the WHS.
It's about 30mins ...
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Captained by Jay, the scratch team lined up against Roehampton on Sunday as the Surrey Scratch got up and running for 2020. Pace wasn't great as you'd expect, but a reasonable decision between captains was made to put the single matches out in fourballs.
In handicap order, Mass and Dan D out first against their first pair, followed by ...
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After extensive delays, last year's summer pairs Competition was settled at the weekend between our boys Ross & Grant against the determined Pistol campaigners of Jay and Andy G.
Match report posted on behalf of Ross & Grant:
We finally got to play our long awaited Caterham cup final on Sunday afternoon.
After broken bones, ...
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Posted on behalf of Mr GeeAd
The swindle bet will be on from Sat and it produces a few challenges during the lockdown including there being no cash or change available at the club so all pay outs have to be divisible by £5.00.
There have been many discussions over the months on the swindle bet and I’ve decided to use the lockdown to trial a few ...
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As you will have seen from GeeAd's Swindle emails, fourballs are now allowed on the course along with sensible distancing in and around the clubhouse. So the Swashies' times are back on, in a pre-drawn format through Mr Adams.
On that, I hope all will join me thanking Graham for his work in both organising tee times and manually sorting ...
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Golf started for us last Thursday at Surrey National, with the club enabling member booking of 2balls from Monday after that buffoon Boris' confusing update.. Bit of a hectic start with everyone scrabbling around for their login details after the announcement, Chris and the boys fielding heaps of queries and questions for a busy few ...
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As we're dragging ourselves through lockdown, social distancing, and homemade haircuts we had some great news last week when Dan Tully proudly announced a new arrival into the household.
Wee Jack James Tully was born last week - mum and the lad all doing well. Huge congratulations from everyone at the club, another TullyMonster to be ...
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If those haven't seen yet, Surrey National posted the following on Facebook yesterday following Boris' statement:
UPDATE: Following the latest government announcement the golf course and clubhouse will be closed until at least Monday 13th April. Stay safe everyone!
Well, that's that for a bit then. Not a great surprise - but lets hope ...
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Caterham Weather (BBC)