Competitions

27 players participated, really great that so many ESTEC players joined the competition.
It was a wonderful day, with a real Spring sunshine and it was pleasant warm. The course was in a good condition, however only 8 players managed to get a score above 30 Stb.

Anna Carmio won with 39 Stb, Wil Spangenberg became 2nd with 34 Stb and in 3nd place came Anna Hjortnaes with 32 Stb. Emmanuel Sabourin became 4th also with 32 Stb but 1 point less on the back nine.

Wil Spangenberg won the Longest from Red and the Neary was for Clare Bingham.
Emmanuel Sabourin won the Longest from Yellow and Alex Jeanes won the Neary.
all results can be found in Proware

Congratulation to the top 4 players, and thanks to all who joined the Spring Seasonal.
After the golf we were served a very nice diner, prepared by the cook at Zegersloot, see photo.
We can look back on very pleasant start of the Golf Season 2019.

Anna Hjortnaes

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.

After the March monthly last Sunday, the matchplay tournament bracket has been drawn.

New for this year, the tournament will be managed in a an online tool at challonge.com. The bracket and real time results will be visible for anyone at the below link:

https://challonge.com/egc_matchplay_2019/

Results of played matches are to be communicated back to me (vincent.regis@gmail.com)

Below is a reminder of the schedule:

Fri 31st May – Completion of 1st round and round of 32
Sun 23rd June – Completion of round of 16
Sun 28 July – Completion of quarter finals
Sun 22 Sep – Completion of semifinals
Sun 13 Oct – Completion of final

A copy of the initial bracket is attached

Good luck to all the participants.

Your Captain.

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