The weekend of 15-16 July saw the AC advanced tournament being contested on our lawns. The tournament attracted a high quality field, with 6 out of the 8 players having a minus handicap.
The weather promised to be pretty dire, with rain and 40 mph winds forecast for Saturday afternoon, but in the end, we only lost about 20 minutes to rain over the whole weekend.
All those who had lunch commented very favourably on the high standard of the catering, so well done David Long (Saturday) and Phillipa, ably assisted by Sandy (Sunday). Your culinary skills were greatly appreciated.
The games were contested in a friendly spirit and all players won at least one game. The clear winner was Philip Eardley (far right in photograph), who won all six of his games. He had a net hoop score of 102, which is an average result of +17. Very impressive!
Several players attempted to do a triple peel, and while some players achieved three peels in one turn, no one succeeded in pegging out in the same turn.
After I award the trophy to Philip, he said that he was very impressed with the quality of our lawns. I find that first-time visitors often say this.
There was one mishap on Sunday. Mike Porter came into the club house saying “I finally managed to hit something”. Unfortunately it was one of our coffee mugs.
