ESTEC Golf Club News

The King’s Day golf event started in the “best orange style” with the check-in hut decorated and Clare offering an orange ball to each of the participating players.

Altogether we had a fair King’s Day for golfing, little wind, some sun and temperatures around 12 Deg. C. This first EGC social event of the year, King’s Scramble, was played by 34 players in 8 different 4-balls teams and 1 late comers 2-balls team – using the red tees and from scratch. The best team score was recorded by Team 8 with a score of 56 or -2. Appassimento wine was presented to Brian Taylor, Peter Behrmann, Marga Harboe Sorensen and Joerg Callies. The second best Team score was recorded by Team 2, Mary, Willem, Claudia and John, with 59 strokes and a better back 9. Third also with 59, was Team 1, with Vincent, Beatrice, Rudolf and Christine. All team scores can be found attached.

Prior to the golf prize giving, Clare announced the winners of the best dressed orange player. Appassimento wine was presented to Dinah as the Lady wearing most orange and for the Men, the most original orange outfit winner was announced to be Carel “butterfly” Haakman.

Fortunately Clare also organized drinks to be available at the check-in hut so we never managed to move to ESCAPE afterwards. More thanks goes to everyone who provided snacks etc. for the check-in hut and finally, I hope all participants enjoyed the golf part, the social part and everyone’s company.

Your EGC Competition Secretary – Reno

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