The Captains Day competition has been played last Sunday November the 14th. The weather was a little on the cold side, but with light winds and no rain, so good golfing condition for the season.
The format was a classic individual stableford, and the scores were pretty good, we can feel the effect of the new course rating.
In 3rd place with 38 points we have Geoffrey Beckwith. Second with 40 points the always competitive Brian Taylor. but this time he fell short 2 points to Raffaele Tosellini who is the winner with an excellent 42 points !!!
On Sunday October the 24th, the Chairman/Captain challenge was played on the ESTEC course. The weather was nothing short of perfect, with low winds, and not single a cloud in the sky.
19 participants (one last minute drop out unfortunately) took advantage of the good weather, and joined this competition. The game format was a Fox hunt, a four balls better ball with the par set by the Chairman / Captain team (the foxes).
Carl and myself tried made our best to set the bar high, and have the foxes escape. The par differential was as follow:
Hole #
Differential
Hole #
Differential
1
0
10
-1
2
0
11
-1
3
-1
12
-1
4
-1
13
0
5
+1
14
-1
6
0
15
-1
7
0
16
0
8
-1
17
0
9
0
18
0
Pretty good score, but the foxes were nonetheless caught.
It was a tight race to top, with the pair Raffaele Tosellini and Tony van Rosmalen the winner with 38 points, one point in front of Brian Taylor and Reno Harboe-Sorensen 37 points. In 3rd place came Peter Behrmann and Barteld de Jong with 36 points, just catching the foxes.
See all the adjusted scores below:
Raffaele Toselini / Tony van Rosmalen
38
Brian Taylor / Reno Harboe-Sorensen
37
Peter Behrmann / Barteld de Jong
36
Nico Dettmann / Anna Carmio
35
Rod Allen / Marja Allen
34
Willem Borst / Nelly Borst
32
Alex Jeanes / Mary Gillies
27
Marga Harboe-Sorensen / Innike Aalbers
27
Congratulation to Raffaele and Tony!
The actual complete scores can be seen on Proware.
This past weekend we played the combined Walker Cup and Club Championship.
On Saturday under perfect conditions, sunny and almost no wind, we played the first round of the Club Championship and the Walker cup. We had a total of 36 participant, with 2 having to withdraw due to illness and abiding by the corona precaution.
On Sunday the second round was played in equally ideal conditions, just a little bit more breezy. 17 players were on the course (one player that had to withdraw in the morning due to illness).
Walker Cup results
The category 2 championship was won by Stephen Durrant with the great score of 40 stableford points (off 36, 41 off his full hcp), 6 points ahead of Ton Remmen, and 7 in front of Rob Jansen. In the process Stephen scored a very respectable 83 brut score that got him inside the cut line for the Club Championship second round.
Congratulation Stephen!!! Very well done!!!
Club Championship results
The Club Championship on the other hand was a very tight race.
After the first round on Saturday, Paul McNamara was at the top of the leaderboard with 65, just one shot ahead of Vincent Regis 66, and 2 ahead of Erik van Ginkel and Alex Jeanes both with 67.
On Sunday, in the 2nd round Vincent Regis stormed out of the gates with a first nine 30, one over par , and at that point was well ahead. But a series of mistakes at the beginning of the back nine, and some very solid play from Paul McNamara with 2 birdies, put Paul right back in contention after hole 15. It all came down to hole 18, and a bladed chip shot from Paul, to hand a short victory to Vincent by just one shot. Erik van Ginkel had a solid 2nd round but stayed 3 short of the lead.
So after 3 years of dominance from David Binns, the new Club Champion is Vincent Regis!
Best ladie, or to put it better, last ladie standing is Helma Nollen. Congrats Helma!
A Special thank you goes out to Ton Remmen and his team of green keepers, for setting up the course in a condition, that every player I talked to said was perfect. The fairways were immaculate, the greens were smooth and fast, and the pin positions presented a fair challenge.
The Matchplay tournament final has been played. After defeating Rob Jansen in semi final, Xavier Michalski was meeting Andrew Murrell that defeated Brian Taylor on his way to the final.
Andrew mercilessly crushed Xavier in a 6&5 victory, he is our 2021 Matchplay champion!
I’d like to thank all the participants for getting through their matches quickly, and especially for the good usage of the Challonge tool. This year the tournament was run with minimal intervention on my part, and concluded before the end of July, while usually it lasts until October. Well done everyone!!!
