Good afternoon all,

Slowly but surely the season is starting to come to an end, fortunately the weather for September so far has been fantastic, so it is not all doom and gloom and with the Ryder Cup only two weeks away it looks like being an exciting conclusion to an excellent season.

The Captain's Fours

Last Saturday saw a good field of 64 players compete in the popular Captains fours event, a mixed event with a Captain in each team, with the best 2 Stableford scores to count on all holes except the par 3's where all scores count.

The team of John Sowden, John Davison, Jackie Wellington and Lawrie Smith came top of the pile with an impressive 97 points, each winning a club logo sweater. Sharpie thought he would gate crash the photo as it's the only way he gets in the presentation party these days!

Ladies Stableford/Stevenson Trophy

A very close battle in this weeks event for the ladies, with Sue Williams and Kim Wildman tying on 37 points, closely followed by Priya Bhatia on 36 in Division 1, Sue taking top spot after a countback, in Division 2 Angela Darby came out on top with 36 points, just ahead of Catherine Loddo and Alexandra Johnson with 35 points.

LPGC Finals day

Next Sunday sees the first finals day held at the club, all of the club's Matchplay finals will be played on the same day, players and times as follows:

• The Simpson Huggins - Les Clarke/Dave Grannell v Simon Jones/ Ian Baker 8am/1pm
• The Mixed Foursomes - Alieen/ Alan Kershaw v Phil McBrown/Priya Bhatia 8.10/1.10
• The Scratch Singles - Stuart Williams v Mark Haffenden 8.20/1.20
• The Club Championship - Max Jordan v Matt Hervey 8.30/1.30
• 17-24 platter (18 holes) - Paul Coley v John Benson 8.40
• The Veterans Cup (18 holes) David Peach v Gordan Hayward 8.50
• The Midweek Matchplay (18 holes) Sergio Navarro v Simon Dickens 9am
• Ladies Scratch Plate - Sarah Graf v Angeli Khanna
• Ladies Silver Scratch - Juliet Underwood or Sarah Miller v Teresa Russo

Good luck to all those competing!

The worst day of my life!

Having played several Captain/Pro matches this season, and so far our record has been been good, with only losing 2 matches, once with Geoff Speck and the other with Homi, so Alan Pestell and I were unbeaten, last Sunday we were due to play Andy Craig and Peter Kilford, obviously looking for revenge from the 5&3 drubbing they had received from Geoff and I earlier this year. Pete unfortunately had to pull out at the last minute and Andy brought in super sub Daz Field, this shouldn't have been too much of a problem as I had been teaching Daz and was fully aware of his capabilities!!

So off we went with Andy receiving 9 shots and Daz getting more shots than a gun fight in Afghanistan, I didn't realise people got more than one shot per hole?.... It soon became clear that I had underestimated my teaching abilities and had overnight turned Daz into a single figure golfer as he scored 21 points on the first 9 to be 1up, this increased to 2up after another 4 nett 3 on 10, we clawed one back at 12 before Andy's birdie nett eagle at 14 sent us back to 2down, halves at 15 and 16 and yet another 4 nett 3 from Daz at 17 saw the torture come to an end! 42 points and a horrible grin said it all!!

Ladies Classes

We have opened up dates for some ladies tuition, £50 for a 6 week course on the following dates:

Tuesday 30th September at 10am - BEGINNERS (open to members & non members)
Tuesday 30th September at 11am - IMPROVERS (open to members & non members)
Wednesday 1st October at 11am - NEW LADY MEMBERS (members only)

For those that are interested, please drop me an email on paul.sherman@foremostgolf.com or call the shop on 0208 650 1663

Just a reminder

There will be major drainage works on the 11th hole starting on Monday 15th, the hole will be closed for the early part of the week while this essential maintenance is being undertaken.