May 9th, 2024
Tuesday 30 April was the first Ladies Medal of the season, 25 ladies entered the competition, which was also a qualifier for the top 8 ladies to go into the Bunny Belmont singles Matchplay knockout competition. Division 1 was won by Hilary Ingram with net 79, second place was Vicky Eyre, nett 81, beating Claire Hutchinson, also nett 81, on countback. Division 2 was won by Susan Asquith, nett 79, Sue White came second with nett 86 and Lesley Southwell in third place with nett 87. Four Ladies played in the 9 hole Stableford competition, Ann McDonough winning with 12 points.
The first matches of the new season got under way this week in the Harrogate Union Inter Club League where Pannal took on Masham in an away fixture.
It was honours even at the end of the night in both the Singles and Fourball encounters. Will Caldecott and Callum Macnair prevailed in their scratch singles and Hunter senior suffered a very narrow defeat meaning the father and son combination of Craig and Oli finished on the losing side. In the fourball matches, Men’s Captain David Everingham and Club Pro Martin Padgett were winners by 2&1 but the biggest winners on the night were Alan North and Jon Clayton by 6&5. The other two pairs, Mike Smith and Jon Gregory and Ian Davison and Michael Flatley suffered narrow defeats.
Summing up at the end, First Team Captain Will Caldecott said, “an away point is a good solid start to the season as Masham is a tough place to go to get a result".
The next match is a home fixture versus Bedale on Thursday May 9th.
On a lovely evening on the 1st May we kicked off the first of the summer season of Captain's Nights. Played over 13 holes with Men & Ladies joining, the course looked very pretty in the evening sunshine.The results were a tie on 21 points for 2,3 & 4th place with Ian Webber coming out favourite on a countback ahead of Nick Brown & Sophie Jacob.The winner was Andrew Asquith with a splendid 25 points so he presented the winner’s prize to himself to the cry 'its' all been a fix' but he claims it wasn't.
The May monthly medal & Beanland Trophy was held on Saturday 4th May. The inform Tom Booth won Division 1 with a net 68, going out in 36 coming back in 38 with 2 birdies and 12 pars beating Callum Jonas by 3 shots. Sam Crawshaw won Division 2 with a net 65, going out in 38 coming back in 38 with 2 birdies and 10 pars beating Peter Melling by 1 shot. Chris Stoner won Division 3 with a net 70, going out in 44 coming back in 42 with 8 pars beating Chris Wragg in a card play off. There were a total of 17 two’s carded.
The Winter Foursomes final was played last Monday with a 3 & 1 victory for Men’s Captain David Everingham /Richard Goodall over Nick Brown/Jon Gregory. A tight match played over 18 holes just going the way of Everingham/Goodall in the last four holes.
