2014/15 December 19th Round 9:
West Malling Golf Club - The Christmas Cup

As regulars will know this is a great day and usually the Captain and his Vice Captain, will keep you all plied with hot mince pies & Port & Brandy at the halfway stage.
VERY IMPORTANT: Please remember your WRAPPED SECRET SANTA GIFT (approx £5-10 value).
Please make a special effort to support this day, I am not sure there will be buggies as it is weather dependant, please check with the course directly.

West Malling Golf Club Trottiscliffe Road West Malling Kent ME19 5AR 01732 844785 www.westmallinggolf.com Coffee and bacon roll 08:00 18 holes of golf, first tee 09:00 Dinner and presentation 15:00 3 course xmas dinner. Price £31 (£24 non-dining)

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Order of Play

Group 1	Graham Gove, Graham Nunn, Pete Tweddell.
Group 2	Paul Damper, Mark Parsons, Peter Gray.
Group 3	Simon Muir, Trevor Woods, Graham Gordon, Steve Tothill.
Group 4	Bryan England, Barry England, Mike Edwards (G), Roy Goodhew.
Group 5	Kevin Steel (G), Roy Gale (G), Dave Catchpole, Dave Elham (G).
Group 6	Dave Elseworth, Tim Grimes, Dave Swinbank, Martin Verga (G).
Group 7	Ede Arude, Ian Rowan, Geoff Mills, Adam Arude (G).
	# = non-dining, (G) = guest, (B) = Buggy

Captain's Match Report

Thanks to everybody who attended the Christmas round and those who also stayed for dinner and presents. We just about got away with the weather. The torrential rain stopped in time for us to grace the first tee. The course though muddy in places, I thought held up quite well considering the amount of rain we've had recently.
Now to the scores... Best guest was 'won' by Martin Verga with 39 points, however Martin magnanimously said that Roy Gale playing off 8 scoring 35 points was more deserving of the honour. So well done to both Martin and Roy for carding impressive scores.
The top ten was rounded off by a score of 28 points of which three people carded, however it was Graham Nunn who pipped it on countback. In fifth position on countback against two others who also had 31 points, Peter Gray took the Division Two title. The Division One title was also decided on countback, Paul Damper beating Roy Goodhew, both had 32 points. With a return to form, the Division Three and overall outright winner was Dave Catchpole carding 37 points. This means, Dave is top of the Champions League tree at Christmas and is going to take some beating in the New Year at the last 3 rounds of the season. Good job Catch!
A big thank you is in order for Peter Barrett for helping out at the half way house serving alcohol and nibbles. Also big thanks to Bryan England for performing some cracking tunes at the end of the day.
I hope to see you all in January at Faversham, have a great Christmas.
Captain Pete

Results

Division 1 Paul Damper 32 points Division 2 Peter Gray 31 points Division 3 Dave Catchpole 37 points Overall Dave Catchpole 37 points Best Guest Roy Gale 35 points

Nearest the pin (Hole 3) Graham Gove Nearest the pin (Hole 7) Dave Swinbank Nearest the pin (Hole 9) Pete Tweddell Nearest the pin (Hole 16) Ian Rowan Nearest the pin (Hole 18) Mark Parsons Nearest the pin in 3 (Hole 12) Roy Gale