Challenge Shield at La Serena and Presentation Evening
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in General Published: Friday, 16 October 09 - 06:02 PM (GMT +01:00) |
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The first Sprightly Crew Championship was held at a Serena on Friday 9 October 2009. Twenty One Members and guests competed for the Challenge Shield and Guest Prize along with Nearest The Pin prizes. The sun shone down on us all throughout the day and the course was in excellent condition. The course provided its usual challenges with all the lakes full to catch our balls!!!. Not all balls landed in the water as the roof of one of the buggies got the full force of one of Fred Swift´s shots (both the occupants were ok!!).
All the Nearest The Pins were won, much to my surprise given the length of some of the tee shots. Andy Thomas won two of them, a third by Juatin Orme and the final one going to Eddie Williams for a glorious shot which landed 17 METREs from the pin, disappointed that he was so close to a hole in one!!!! The nearest the pin in 2 was won by Tony Chatterton.
The Guest Winner for the Day was Eddie Williams with 32 Points. Third overall was Pip Hammonds with 29 points, second was Martin Edwqards with 32 points with the inaugural Champion being Ron Smith with a grand total of 33 points. Congratulations go to all the winners and a big thankyou to Andy at La Serena for supporting us in our first major tournament.
The Golfing Day was immediately followed by an evening function held at Chez Zoe on the Paseo in Puerto Mazarron. There was an excellent menu provided by Zoe and the wine flowed very freely all evening. A total of 50 members and guests attended in a small but intimate location. Following the meal the presentation took place for the end of season Championship plus the award of prize for the day. A sparkling speech was made by the Captain of the TSC, Chris Ashby, who gave thanks for those attending and for the generous donations received for prizes throughout the season and in particular for Huw Price who was not in attendance but gave his entire season savings to the event. Chris then gave an overview of the season and the support given by the members, non members who have supported our events throughout the year, but in particular to the WAGOGs who had played a significant part in social events.
Chris was then followed by the Chairman John Orme, who reiterated the thanks already highlighted by Chris and added his own personal thanks for support received, and he did not resign once during his speech!!!!.
John then proceeded to present the awards for La Serena and the recipients duly came forward to collect their prizes. There was one additional prize for the lowest score on the day which went to Gordon Pride. However as Gordon was a guest he could not receive the final award of the booby prize which was a Golf grip and shaft topped with a golf ball (to be carried by the winner in his golf bag for the next year) and lovingly called the ´Blind stick’. This was awarded, on count back, to Jeff Ruellan, a grateful recipient, who scored a total of 19 points.
John went on to present the prizes for the League Cup that had been competed for over the previous six months. In third place with an average of 34.6 points was Ron Smith; in second place on 34.8 points was Eddie Fry and the overall winner who had shown the greatest consistency was Chris Ashby with an average of 35.9 points. This concluded the presentations and speeches but the evening carried on with everyone enjoying the atmosphere and company.
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