Alex Jeanes

Sunday 24th
March 2019 produced some good golfing weather, sunshine, a cool 8-10C
(depending on when you played) with a one-club westerly breeze keeping
matters on the cool side.

The 4 CRT
teams each produced 5 playing pairs for the Scramble round, giving 20 pairs
arranged in 10 flight of 2 pairs. Start times were from 10:00 am to
13:00. The scramble is fun but a slow format, needing a good 4 hours for
the slower players. The handicapping rules, changed in 2017, demanded
that each pair played of the exact handicap (strokes received) of the better
player with the lower handicap. This is to avoid too much banditry with good
players getting a boost from a high handicappers. No of course nobody in
our club would exploit such a strategy would they? The short answer
is YES, all captains would welcome the opportunity, hence the rule. This change in strokes received caused some interesting conversations and various people played from the red tees for the first time.

It was great that some new golfers participated and enjoyed themselves even playing in their first competition.

The format
is (or should be), well known. Each player in a pair takes his or her shot ,
the pair select the better of the two and then both play on from there, placing
on the fairway and a knee-drop in the no-fairway areas. The format is not
qualifying.

The results
on the day were not bad, yielding a maximum score of 44 Stableford points and a
minimum of 27. The best score ( 44 from Clare Bingham and Rob Jansen) and
the second best (Salim Ansari and Gary Gould) of 43 ensured Clare’s Babes and
the Boys the first place on the day with 87 points. The other three teams
all had lower scores but were all very close to each other. Reno’s
Fridays men had 82 to give second place, Marja’s Mulligans had 81 and
Alex’s Andy Caps are in 4th place on 80. Obviously an
interesting source of inspiration and effort for the future rounds with
everything to play for to prevent the magnificent trophy residing for the
second year running in the Sassenheim den of the B & B’s.
Interesting the B&B’s deserved their first place with an average pair score
of 41.1 Stableford points. The median score (equal scores above and below
was 39 points and the mode (the most popular score) was also 39.
The standard deviation was low (for golf events) at 4.4 and the average score
just below 38 points.

Thanks to Rod for putting together the results and providing the report.

The Colin Rolls Trophy 2019

Introduction

This is a four-leg (scramble, greensome, better ball,
foursome) team competition. The Competition,
previously known as the EGTEC is named after it’s founder and long standing
club member Colin Rolls.

This is the most popular competition in the club and is a
great way for beginner golfers to get experience playing with more experienced
golfers. The formats are mainly fun with
maybe the exception of the final round where a pair plays one ball. The events mean you can end up playing shots
from new places and having a lot of fun.

Nominally a team submits any number of flights of 2 golfers per leg with the
scores of the best 2 flights making the team score. Players can participate in
the legs that they wish to and do not need to play all. The main purpose of the competition is to
have fun and to help less experienced golfers learn more about competitions.

The four rounds are on Sundays:

24 March Scramble
14 April Greensomes
26 May Betterball
9 June Foursome

New players should contact the organisers Alex Jeanes (alexjeanes@aurora.nl) and his deputy Rod Allen(r.allen@ziggo.nl) who will organise the
most suitable team for you trying to ensure a fair balance of players per team.

Any Club member is entitled to set him/herself up as a team
captain and to recruit team members, usually with some loose sort of theme.

The organisers help to ensure that teams are balanced by
the allocation of new players to teams. So if a 5th team is formed for 2019 all new participants will join that team.

The competition is sponsored by Aurora who provide the
prizes and hence there are no competition fees.

The Captains of the teams
are

Clare
Bingham – The Babes
& the Boys

Marja
Allen – The Mulligans

Reno Harboe-Sorensen – Friday’s
Men

Alex
Jeanes – The Andy Caps

Other
captains and teams are very welcome

The last round of the Colin Rolls Trophy 2018 was played on another good day. The standings were quiet close so every point was important. Foursomes is the hardest format and the best scores were 34 points by both Nely Borst & Hanna Jones (The Muligans) and Erik van Ginkel & Tony Rosmalen (Babes and Boys). The Mulligans other score was 33 points by Vincent Regis & Paul McManamon. There were 3 flights scoring 32 points, 2 from Fridays Men Brain Taylor & Carel Haakman and Dave Collins & Bob Harris plus from Andy Caps Elco Fritsche & Alex Jeanes. Anna & Kjeld Hjortnaes scored 30 for Andy Caps second score and Joe Pereira & Piet Hillebrand 29 for the Babes & Boys second scores. This left the final standings extremely close as follows:

Andy Caps 220
Babes and the Boys 219
The Mulligans 218
Fridays Men 205

Reno presented the Colin Rolls Trophy to this years winners the Andy Caps:

A big thanks to everyone who played, 43 people on the Final Round and it is great to see the excellent spirit in the club on all 19 holes.

Thanks to Rod Allen for compiling the statistics.

The Colin Rolls Trophy Better Ball event was played on a
nice sunny day on Sunday 27 May. There was a reasonably good turnout and
a good reception in Escape when he scores were announced. The Andy Caps scored slightly better and increased
their lead to 3 points above the Babes and Boys in
second place. The Mulligans are a further
5 points behind and Fridays Men lagging in 4th place.

We are looking forward to the final round, format Foursomes
on 10 June with a shotgun start at 13:00