Wharton Park, a course we hadn’t played at for just over 10 years, was the venue for our 9th fixture of the season. The forecast was bleak with frequent showers predicted which fortunately turned into one shower of a couple of minutes on the early part of the course. Then the sun came out and we were treated to a nice warm day on a course that was challenging if you walking with some distance between green to tees on some holes. In the absence of current leader of Golfer of the Year, Jack Shaw, a few players had their eye on catching Jack at the top of the table.
The course was in great condition considering the lack of rain lately and we saw a number of good scores recorded, as we have seen so frequently this season. Richard Marsden took one of the nearest the pins but the second one becoming a rollover to Arscott as nobody hit the green on what proved to be a very tough hole. The Wooden Spoon was taken graciously by Roger Mole. 3rd place with 39 points was Aaron Gordon, who was outdone by his father, Stuart, who took 2nd with 40 points. The Winner was Simon Biddulph (41 points), with his first win in 5 years and only his 4th ever victory.
Golfer of the Year has changed considerably with Jack Shaw’s lead now cut to 5 points and 12 points separating the top 6 places, with only 2 fixtures to go.
Handicap changes see Simon Biddulph cut buy 1.22, Stu Gordon cut by 0.63 and Aaron by 0.5. A number of players gained up to 0.5 of a shot back.
Arscott is the next fixture on Sun 21st September, which ironically is Jack Shaw’s birthday.
