ONE hundred competitors played on the Saturday in the Pro’s Weekend event at Mendip Golf Club.
A fine score of 44 points by high handicapper Matthew Branch saw him win the men’s event with Sean Thatcher 2nd with 42, Joseph Curtis 3rd with 41 and Andrew Robinson 4th with 40 after count back from Dale Rowe and Jim Scott.
The Ladies prize went to Susy Rudkin with 38 with Suzie Howe 2nd with 35 and Jinhee Page 3rd with 34.
The Ladies 9 hole event went to Eileen Masters with 20.
A further 57 played on the Sunday which saw a win for Clayton Merrett with 40 after count back from Steve Harris with Lee Callow 3rd with 38 after count back.
The Mens’ Captain’s Day saw 79 players compete in indifferent weather conditions and saw a win for Colin Wiltshire with 42, Rich Clifford was 2nd with 40 after count back from Paul Lewis. Sean Thatcher was 4th with 38 after count back from Alan Padfield, Eric Jordan and Andrew Thatcher.
A catch up on the Mens Avalon A team shows a first defeat of the season 1½-3½ against Oake, points coming from Baden Wilkinson/Jon Coates and a half from Kevin Keene/Nick White.
A draw away to Stockwood Vale followed with points from Rob Edney/Paul Lewis, Ash and Lee Swain( who was making his debut) and a half from Mens Captain Mark Necker playing with Jeremy Cooke who was also making his debut.
A 3-2 home win over Oake in the return fixture came with wins for Rob Edney/Paul Lewis, Kevin Keene/Nick White and Dan Allen/Jeremy Cooke leaving the Team still top of the table with 2 matches to play.
The Avalon B team completed their season with a hard fought for half with Long Sutton, points from Omar Aziz/Charles Roberts and Alex Gay/Colin Wiltshire and a half from Kerry Archibald/Team Captain Tom Rowland.
FourteenLadies played in a 9 hole competition which saw a win for Caroline Laws with 20 points on count back from Liz Rose. The Alliance B Team had a fine win 8-6 over Orchardleigh with wins from Lynne Vowles, Jenny Merrett, Carol King and Chris Down.Nearest the Pin went to Tony Scott with Kevin Carmody 2nd
The Seniors narrowly went down to a 3-4 defeat when visiting Saltford, wins from Paul Wood/Martin Sutherland, Nick Inskip/Tony Taylor and Roland Greenway/Gareth Collier.
This was followed by a 5-1 home win over Wedmore with wins from Steve Regler/Mike Tout, Steve Cox/Paul Godwin, Norman Squire/Martin Sutherland and Peter Rumming/Paul Wood and with halves from Gareth Collier/Simon Atkinson and Andy Frampton/John Scott.
The Seniors Avalon team completed their fixtures with a halved match away to Long Sutton. Wins came from Kevin Keene/Nigel Brokenshire and Steve Davis/Terry Carter with a half from Nick White/Andy Humphries. This leaves them in 2nd place behind runaway leaders Cricket St Thomas and hopefully remaining results elsewhere will leave them in the Promotion slot.
Twenty-one of Mendip’s Past Captains met for their annual get together. As usual it was a most enjoyable and social occasion which went on long into the evening.
The results are of secondary importance on a day such as this but the individual trophy went to Tony Taylor with 40 points and he together with Mike Snaith, Jim Scott and Colin Davies took the team prize with 91 points.
As is of custom the Mens Captain Elect is invited and who has the pleasure of providing the port! J
Jack Hayes at age 31 when he takes the reins next spring will become Mendip’s youngest Captain and playing off a handicap of 2 demonstrated what can be expected of him when he struck a 3 iron on the Par 4 17th tee into the middle of the green and sank the putt for an eagle two!! Tony Williams