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Our Autumn Festival meeting
was held at Fareham Woods G C on Friday 12th September 2003. As
you are aware, each meeting has a separate Captain who nominates a Charity.
The Captain of the Day this time was Bob Aldis, and the figure raised for charity
by lost deposits, fines, donations, and an auction of items kindly provided
by Beryl and Mike Bennett was an extremely fine £600.£300
of this goes to the Captain of Fareham Woods nominated Charity, with the other
£300 going to Bob’s nominated charity. Unfortunately, I have forgotten both
their names , probably due to EGD (Excessive Guinness
Disease).The results
of this meeting were:-
|
Winner |
Prize |
|---|---|---|
| Grey Jacket Winner | Patrick Cunningham | Grey Jacket + Golfer |
| 1st on the day | Jeff Jenkins | Large Shield |
| 3rd on the day | Max Hake | The Yellow Cardigan |
| 4th on the day | Sue Wright | The Red Waistcoat |
| 5th on the day | Bob Cullen | Putter Trophy |
| 6th on the day | John Owen | Golf Picture |
| 7th on the day | Paul Reeks | Shield |
| Best Guest | No guests so no guest prize. It wasn’t returned anyway along with a lot of the other prizes! | |
| Best Golfer | Patrick Cunningham | Bag Trophy |
| Best Intermediate | Jeff Jenkins | Intermediate Trophy |
| Best Novice | Alan Russell | Novice Trophy + Large Golfer Statuette |
| Arsehole of the day | Mark Smith | Turd Trophy |
| 2nd worst | David Stevenson | The Watch |
| 3rd worst | Huw Bevan | Darts Trophy |
| 4th worst | Graham Ferris | Wobbly Golfer Trophy |
| 5th worst | Nigel Dennis | Wobbly Golfer Trophy |
| Worst Golfer | David Stevenson | Broken Club Trophy |
| Most blobs on a card | Mike Ebery (6) | Pin Head Torch |
| Nearest the pin (with a stunning iron shot!) | Paul Reeks | Iron Trophy |
| Longest drive (with a stunning drive!) | Paul Reeks | Lynx 8.5 degree Driver Trophy |
| Shortest Drive | Mark Smith | Glasses Trophy |
| Most complaints about everything | Huw Bevan | Old Grumpy Golfer |
| Poppet Prize | Bob Aldis | SWT Tie & Shirt |
| Scruffiest Player | Nigel Dennis | New Buffet Hat |
| The Oscar | Huw Bevan | An Oscar |
| Team Winners (72 points) | John Owen |
Golfer Trophy Golfer Trophy Golfer Trophy |
| Team Second (69 points) | Paul Reeks Patrick Cunningham Alan Russel |
Nothing at all Nothing at all Nothing at all |
| Worst Team (48 points) | David Stevenson Nigel Dennis Graham Ferris |
Beer Glasses Beer Glasses Beer Glasses |
A big problem at this meeting, and generally a very disappointing thing was that only half of our trophies were returned this time. Some of these have been with us for some time now and others have been donated by colleagues over the years. Last meeting, we had 24 players and everyone won a prize. This meeting even standard prize winners went away with nothing! I don’t want to appear School Masterish about this, but please can everyone who still holds prizes from our Spring Meeting (and before!) please arrange for them to get too the present winners. They are not for retention, we play for them each meeting! (I bought 9 golf statuettes three years ago for the team prizes – we now have 3 left)
Major gripe over.
The Captain for our next meeting will be Patrick Cunningham, who will be ably assisted by his Vice-Captain (after hearing Patrick’s opening speech on Bob’s behalf – Bob unfortunately had chronic toothache – made after 10 seconds notice, I think we are in for a very long breakfast at our next meeting. Can I suggest that we meet at 4.30am for a 9.30am first tee-off time? I know that this will make breakfast a bit rushed, but I thought that any earlier could be difficult for our members from Weymouth)
My thanks, as always, go to everyone for turning up, paying deposits, giving donations, paying fines, etc., and hopefully everyone there had a good day! My special thanks go to Graham Higgins for all the hard work he always puts in as Hon Treas and organiser; to Mike Bennet and Beryl Bridgman for arranging for some auction items; to Paul Noon and Nigel Dennis for acting as Treasurers on the day, and just before; and to Steve Eastman for arranging the day with the club.
The next meeting will be arranged once the Hon Treas has come back from his latest junket, and once Brian Pink has confirmed his bird-watching holiday dates.At the rate he is going, nobody else will need to be fined next time to reach the target for the next charities!
Hopefully I will see everyone soon, and thanks again. If it wasn’t for your generosity and warped senses of humour the Golf days would not be the fund raising and well attended successes they have now become.
Regards
PAUL