Competitions

Sponsors
Day – 2019

The annual EGC sponsors’ day was held Saturday 15th
June. There was a very good attendance of 40 players in 8 teams.

The Sponsors’ teams were represented by Hoek Hoeveniers, Aurora,
Serco with 2 teams, Serco 1 and Serco 2, Gallery-Color. There were 3 teams from
the EGC, The ESTEC Committee, ESTEC Ladies and ESTEC Retirees.

It had been raining a lot the night before and in the early
morning, so it was doubtful whether we could play or not. Luckily the rain
stopped around 10:30, and after the last check of the course around 12 o’clock,
it was decided that we could play, with the only change the wintergreen on hole
3. In the afternoon the weather was pleasant with a little sunshine.

The Sponsors Day competition.

The competition, teed off 13:00 and with 10 flights, and we still
managed to finish around 16:30.

The team result was decided on basis of the sum of the best
three individual Stableford scores per team. The 1st and 2nd team got a prize. Additionally, there were prizes to the best 2
men and the best 2 ladies in the individual ranking. The prize for the best man
and lady was generously donated by Hoek Hoeveniers. The prize for the second
best man and lady was donated by Serco. Thanks for sponsoring these prizes.

The Team competition result

	Team competitions results
1	Serco Team I, Geraldine, Tony, Willem, Ben, Raffaele	109
2	Ladies Team, Anna Hj., Clare, Elly, Anna C., Jenny, Ingrid	105

The individual competition
results

	Men’s competitions results			Ladies’s competition results
1	Tony Rosmalen	43,		1	Anna Camio	40
2	Ton Remmen	39, b9:21		2	Elly Davis	33

Following the tournament there was room for a drink at the
bar awaiting the prize giving, and at 18:00 the “Walking Dinner” was served in
ESCAPE Dance room. The dinner was provided by the Escape catering service, and
again, very well organized. Many thanks to the chef and the serving staff who
helped during the evening.

In summary, it was a
very enjoyable event.

The organisers,

Anna & Kjeld

The 11th ESA Cup has been played last Friday on Rozenstein golf course and Saturday on ESTEC golf course. The weather wasn’t kind, with gale force winds and rain, but that didn’t prevent all the brave participants from competing in a friendly atmosphere.

We had a great dinner in Rozenstein’s restaurant on Saturday night.

Individual results
Raffaele Tosellini the best individual over the 2 days, managed to score an impressive 40 stableford on Saturday, that he backed up by a 29 on Sunday in ESTEC. That was enough to edge by a single point, a solid performance from Paul McManamon, 33 in Rozenstein and 35 in ESTEC.

The best individual lady is Clare 55 total, beating Anna Hjortnaes by 3 points.

Team results
The teams ranking, taking the 3 best scores of each day, is the following:

1st ESTEC team 6 (Paul McMananmon, Gijs Tan, Kjeld Hjortnaes, Garry Gould)

2nd ESTEC team 1 (Mary Gillies, Erik van Ginkel, Vincent Regis, Sylvain Prezelus)

3rd ESTEC team 4 (Domenico Mignolo, Joe Pereira, Rob Jansen, Brian Taylor)

4th HQ (Alberto Novelli, Pierre Bouige, Raffaele Tosellini, Rafael Lucas)

5th ESTEC team 3 (Alexander Foing, Helma Nollen, Anna Grethe Hjortnaes, Tony Rosmalen)

6th ESTEC team 2 (Hanna Jones, Andrew Murell, Klaus Ludwig, Geoff Beckwith)

7th ESTEC team 5 (Ignacio Sanchez, Alex Jeanes, Clare Bingham, David Collins)

8th ESOC (Sascha Ricken, Frederic Schmidt, Dirk Kuijper, Kevin Lloyd-Jones)

9th ESAC (Mark Kidger)

Neary winners

Rozenstein neary hole 3 Hanna Jones

Rozenstein neary hole 12 Kjeld Hjortnaes

Rozenstein Longest ladies hole 17 Hanna Jones

Rozenstein Longest Men hole 17 Alex Jeanes

ESTEC nearly hole 1 Andrew Murell

ESTEC nearly hole 9 Rafael Lucas

ESTEC longest ladies hole 2 Hanna Jones

ESTEc longest men hole 3 Alex Foing

Complete individual results

Complete team results

Next year the ESA Cup will be organised by HQ.

See you in Paris in 2020 !!!

The Final round of the Colin Rolls Trophy 2019 was played on Sunday in weather much better than endured in the ESA Cup a day earlier. Yet again there was a good attendance of 40 golfers but the balance per teams was not quite so even ranging from 3 to 7 pairs per team. All participants received a sleeve of golf balls from the sponsor Aurora.

The Foursome format is often a challenge as each flight shares one ball. This however is beneficial to allow a shotgun start. Six holes had 3 flights and one hole had 2 flights which allowed for a good pace on he course as there were 2 free holes.

There was a wide range in scores with the exceptional score of 38 by Nely Borst and Hanna Jones of The Mulligans, followed by Joe Pereira and Ronny Boer with 35 points from the Babes and Boys. Both of these scores were important to the overall standing as the Mulligans moved from 4th place to 2nd on 293 points and the Babes and Boys were this year’s winners on 300 points. Friday’s Men also had 293 points coming 3rd and last years winners Andy Caps slipped to 4th place on 289.

Alex had great pleasure to hand the Colin Rolls Trophy to Clare the captain of the Babes and Boys

Then the Babes and Boys celebrated with their prizes a bottle of wine each.

Reno kindly put together the full results below. Happy golfing for the rest of the year.

The third
event of the Colin Rolls Trophy 4 event sequence is the Betterball. This
involves individual teams of 2 members playing for the honour of the four main
teams: The Andy Caps, the Babes and the Boys, Fridays Men and the
Mulligans. Betterball involves the individual team members playing their
own ball and recording the “best” Stableford score for each hole. Add the lot
up for 18 holes gives that individual team’s score. The 2 best scores
form the score for the team. 20 individual teams took part with
tee-times 10:00am to 13:20.

Sunday 26th
May was sunny, coolish for late May and with a brisk Force 4 SW breeze (helping
on hole 3) freshening later to F5 or F6.

Despite the
wind scoring was brisk with the top score of 44 Stableford being posted by the
Andy Cap’s Alex Jeanes and Elly Davis. The Fridays Men produced a 42
down to Brian Taylor and Georges Gourmelon and there were also two scores of 40
(Piet Hillebrand and Joe Periera for the B & B’s plus Dave Collins and Rod
Allen for Fridays Men). The fair Mulligans had no less than 3 scores of
39 (Nely Borst / Ineke Aalbers, Hanna Jones / Helma Nollen and Margaret Baston
/ Jan van Haarlem). Good scoring!

Two teams
were joint winners with 82 points: The Andy Caps and Fridays Men. Joint third
was the lot of The Babes and the Boys and The Mulligans with 78 points.

The overall
placings are getting interesting: The initial runaway lead of the Babes and
Boys has been whittled down to 4 points. The B&B’s still lead on 236
but Fridays Men are snapping at their heels on 232. Three points behind
that score are the Andy Caps on 229. The delightful Mulligans are a
full 10 points behind the leaders and need a miracle to claw back this margin
with only one event remaining. Not so for Fridays Men and the Andy caps are
also in the race.

It looks to
be an exciting prospect for the Foursomes to be held on 9th June
with a shotgun start at 13:00, assemble in Escape from 12:00.
Flights to be announced approx. 12:30. After the round prizes for the
best score in each event and for the winning team(s) will be awarded. And
of course the final overall winning team will get the magnificent trophy – the
wonderful Waterford bowl to conclude the CRT 2019.

The
betterball event had a lot of social clout judging by the Escape crowd at the
end of the betterball, for the usual refreshments.

Further
details are available from the team captains: Andy caps (Alex Jeanes), The
Babes and the Boys (Clare Bingham), Fridays Men (Reno Harboe-Sorensen) and The
Mulligans (Marja Allen). If you are inspired enough by this riveting
report you may wish to join the CRT or even start your own team. If so please
contact the organizer and sponsor Alex Jeanes (email: alexjeanes@aurora.nl).

Thanks are
due to the organizer and sponsor, Alex Jeanes of Aurora, the team captains, the
loyal players and of course the founder, Colin Rolls.

Write in
your diary / journal / schedule: CRT 2019 final Foursome Competition; 09th
June 2019, Escape from 12:00 for a shotgun start 13:00.

Rod Allen