Competitions

Dear EGC Members,

Every year from May through July we play the Bedrijfsleague. A serious competition, but always played in a very friendly atmosphere, where we face teams from other companies. Each match is played in the late afternoon/early evening on a weekday, starting usually around 17:30. There are 4 home matches at ESTEC and 4 away matches played on outside courses. 6 ESTEC players will face 6 players from the opposing team in a 1v1 Matchplay game with full handicap adjustment.

The schedule for the 8 ESTEC matches is currently as follows:

09/05/2023 – Misfits (formerly Shell) vs ESTEC, 17:30 @ Bentwoud
17/05/2023 – ESTEC vs EPO, 17:30 @ ESTEC
23/05/2023 – EPO vs ESTEC, 18:08 @ Rijswijkse Golfclub
31/05/2023 – ESTEC vs PIT, 17:30 @ ESTEC
08/06/2023 – PIT vs ESTEC, 17:20 @ Leeuwenbergh
21/06/2023 – ESTEC vs BP, 17:30 @ ESTEC
28/06/2023 – BP vs ESTEC, 17:25 @ Kleiburg
12/07/2023 – ESTEC vs Misfits (formerly Shell), 17:30 @ ESTEC

This competition is open to all EGC members with a handicap of 36 and lower. If you have a higher handicap but still would be interested to play please contact me so we can see what is possible. Green fees and any post-match drinks + snacks are at the expense of the individual player.

A Doodle poll has been set up for players to register interest in participating in the team and providing their tentative availability for matches. We will use this for the selection of the teams each week. Ideally there are more than 6 players registered on each date to have some reserves. Anyone that registers their name in the doodle will be included in the team and we will try our best to give everyone that registers a chance to play a match:

https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/b6B2YkOb

The first match is already in 3 weeks so please register as soon as possible! Last year we did not manage to win the competition for the first time in years so we are very keen to regain “our” trophy.

All questions and comments regarding the Bedrijfsleague can be sent to erik.vanginkel@ext.esa.int

Best regards,
Erik & Vincent

Again a well-attended second 2023 Colin Rolls Trophy round “Greensome”. This time the weather was not with us but it stayed dry with temperature around 10 Deg. C. Altogether we had 35 players participating in 9 flights where each pair represented one of the traditional four teams. The best pair score was recorded by Andrew & Geoff with 42 St.P. followed by Alan & Rob with 39 St.P. and another 3 pairs with 38 St.P. The best team score counting the two best score per team, was recorded by the “Friday’s Men” team with 80 St.P followed by the “Babes and the Boys” with 76 St.P.,  ““Mulligans” with 74 and “Andy Caps” with 71 St.P. All pair and team results can be found attached as well as the updated 2023 CRT leaderboard.

Sunday 14 May 2023: CRT-3 Better Ball

Please be ready for the next CRT events “Better Ball” which will take place on Sunday 14 May 2023. Please contact your team Captain if you like to play. Team Captains to forward playing pairs to ‘Alex’, not later than Thursday 11 May 2023. Fridays Men Captain for this event will be ‘Brian Taylor’, I’m most likely away.

Your 2023 CRT organizers – Alex/Reno

What a nice start to the 2023 Colin Rolls Trophy  events “Scramble” the first of the year. Each of the four teams had 3 pairs playing, so a total of 24 player participated  in CRT-1. The weather conditions was fair considering this time of the year with temperatures around 9 Deg. C and it stayed dry! The best pair score was recorded by Geraldine and Henk with 47 St. P. followed by Francis/Marga – Piet/Joe – Klaus/Peter with 46 St. P. The best team score counting the two best score per team, was recorded by “Friday’s Men” with 91 St.P. followed by the “Andy Caps” with 90 St. P., the “Mulligans”  with 89 St. P. and the “Babes and the Boys” with 88 St. P. All pair and team results can be found attached.

Highlights:

This year’s CRT-1, fortunately resulted in fairly closed scores between 40 and 47 St. P./pair, much lower scores than in 2022 (with highest 57 St.P.!). The average pair scores for 6 flights of 2 were 43,8 St. P. (handicap 18,4) compared to 2022 numbers of 44,3 (handicap 20,0). The shotgun start at 11:00 was appreciated by all and later endorsed for the coming CRT events.

Sunday 16 April 2023: CRT Greensome

Please be ready for the next CRT events “Greensome” which will take place on Sunday 16 April 2023 with start at 11:00 hrs. Contact your team Captain if you like to play. Team Captains to forward playing pairs to Alex not later than Thursday 13 April 2023.

Your 2023 CRT organizers – Alex/Reno

The registrations for the 2023 ESTEC Golf Club Matchplay knockout tournament are now open in Challonge.com.

Please follow the link below to sign up for the event. A step by step guide is also attached. If you played last year, you do not have to make an account again.

https://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/W6U6EnQdEE

Sign up will be closed on Sunday March 12th 17:00, as the bracket will then be drawn (please note this is one week later than shown in the calendar)

The matches are played with handicap compensation, with a maximum difference of 18 shots (so maximum one shot given on every hole).

Let me know if you have any questions.

Garry