Captain & Pro After our resounding victory the previous week, Phil and I were looking forward to this week’s challengers of Dave Paterson and Shaun McGowan. We took an early lead as Phil and I were the only ones to finish the 1st, the 2nd and 3rd were halved until 2 shot Paterson won the 4th! My outrageous putt on 5 took us back into the lead before Shaun arrived on the 6th with a 4/3 to level the match. Two shot Paterson won the 7th with his 5 nett 3, halves at 8 and 9 before our 3 was good enough to win 10 as Dave and Shaun struggled to reach the green in 3 shots. We halved 11 after Shaun’s self-confessed laser like 7 iron went to 6 feet but not such a laser like putt, Shaun and Phil halved the 12th in 4/3 before Dave gifted us 13 with 3 putts from 10 feet. Halves at 14 and a 4 at 15 was good enough to be 2up with 3 to play, 4’s at 16 and 17 were good enough for halves and a 2&1 victory.
Guildford Alliance I was very fortunate to be invited to play in The Guildford Alliance Winter Pro Am Series last week by club member Jason French. The Alliance has been running since the 1920’s and plays all of the top courses in Surrey, Berkshire and Hampshire in a 3ball pro-am format. Last week’s event was played at The New Zealand club, a course I had never played before. We managed to score 127 (-9) as a team to win the team event by one and my individual 67(-1) shared 1st prize in the pro event to make it a very successful alliance debut! Next stop, Swinley Forest!
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