Competitions

Again a well-attended third 2025 Colin Rolls Trophy round “Better Ball” took place at the ESTEC golf course on Sunday 11 May 2025. Eventually 31 players or 14 pairs and 3 single players enjoyed the nice sunny golf weather with temperature around 22 Deg. C. The best pair score was recorded by Geoff & Alexander with 48 St.P. followed by Clare & Ronny, Ben & Ton and Joe & Alan, all with 44 St.P. The best team score counting the two best score per team, was recorded by “Friday’s Men” team with 92 St.P. followed by the “Babes and the Boys” team with 88 St.P. then the “Mulligans” team with 84 ST.P. and finally the “Andy Caps” team with 72 St.P.. All pair and team results can be found attached as well as the updated 2025 CRT leaderboard.

Highlights:

In this year’s CRT-3, all 14 pairs scores between 34 and 48 St. P./pair and the average score for all 14 pair and the 3 singles can be reported to be 38.2 St.P. Finally it was fine to see 5 lady players participating, unfortunately the lowest number in 2025 CRT events (Greensome = 6 ladies, Scramble = 10 ladies).

Sunday 15 June 2025: CRT-4 Foursome

Please be ready for the final CRT event “Foursome” which will take place on Sunday 15 June 2025. Please contact your team Captain if you like to play. Team Captains to forward playing pairs to ‘Reno’, not later than Thursday 12 June 2025.

Your 2025 CRT organiser – Reno

Again a well-attended second 2025 Colin Rolls Trophy round “Greensome” took place on Sunday 13 April 2025. Initial we had 32 players registered (4 pairs per team) but unfortunately, 4 players from the Mulligans dropped out, so eventually 28 players or 14 pairs or 7 flights enjoyed the nice sunny golf weather with temperature around 16 Deg. C. The best pair score was recorded by Clare & Ronny with 43 St.P. followed by Ben & Ton and Ineke & Francis, both with 41 St.P. The best team score counting the two best score per team, was recorded by the “Babes and the Boys” team with 83 St.P. followed by “Friday’s Men” team with 77 St.P., then the “Andy Caps” team with 76 St.P. and finally the “Mulligans” team with 67 ST.P. All pair and team results can be found attached as well as the updated 2025 CRT leaderboard.

Highlights:

In this year’s CRT-2, 13 pairs out of 14 had scores between 32 and 43 St. P./pair and the average score for all 14 pair can be reported to be 36.4, somewhat better than the number of 34.1 reported in 2024. Finally it was fine to see 6 lady players participating, unfortunately out of the 4 drop outs, 3 were ladies. In the April 2025 Monthly we had 4 ladies to participate.

Sunday 11 May 2025: CRT-3 Better Ball

Please be ready for the next CRT events “Better Ball” which will take place on Sunday 11 May 2025. Please contact your team Captain if you like to play. Team Captains to forward playing pairs to ‘Reno’, not later than Thursday 8 May 2025.

Your 2025 CRT organiser – Reno

The following 2025 CRT rounds are:

• Sunday 11 May format Better Ball
• Sunday 15 June format Foursome

We had 30 player on the 2025 Colin Rolls Trophy “Scramble” start list for Sunday 16^th of  March 2025. Unfortunately one player got injured so eventually 29 players turned up for the first CRT events of the year. Each of the four teams had nominally 4 pairs playing which included 3 single players. The weather for the first CRT-1 was sunny with temperatures around 11 Deg. C.

The best pair score was recorded by Ineke and Francis with 49 St. P. followed by Garry/Piet with 46 ST.P. and Clare/Ronny with 45 St. P. The best team score counting the two best score per team, was recorded by the “Babes and the Boys” with 91 St.P.” followed by the “Mulligans” and “Andy Caps” with 87 St. P. and finally “Friday’s Men” with 81 St. P. All pair and team results can be found attached.

Highlights:

In this year’s CRT-1, the first 10 pairs had scores between 40 and 49 St. P./pair and the average score for all 16 pair flights can be reported to be 41.4, somewhat close to the number of 41,7 reported in 2024. Interesting here is that the pair average handicaps, number of strokes received, increased again in 2025 to 21.0 compare to 19.5 in 2024 and 18,4 in 2023!!! However as we nearly had the same group of player as in later years, we may conclude that the WHS is nice to most of us and possibly that we all got  one year older! Finally it was great to see 10 lady players participating, until now, other EGC events in 2025, only had one or maximum two ladies to participate.

Your 2025 CRT organizer – Reno

The following 2025 CRT rounds are:

• Sunday 13 April format Greensomes
• Sunday 11 May format Better Ball
• Sunday 15 June format Foursomes

Attached is a report on the 2025 Pea Soup Tournament, played on Sunday 23rd February 2025