Sunday 16 March 2025: CRT-1 Scramble, Report and Results.

We had 30 player on the 2025 Colin Rolls Trophy “Scramble” start list for Sunday 16th 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
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17 Mar, 2025 by Competitions

Salim Ansari’s book

Dear EGC Members

As many of you know, Salim Ansari is a long term EGC Member and active golfer. Now retired and golfing mainly in Spain and Austria, Salim has also found time to write a book. Heres what Salim has to say about his latest venture;

The novel, Adventures of a Golf Ball that I have written was inspired by conversations I had with some of you ten years ago. I had this idea of creating a character — a golf ball — that would be capable of telling its story. I put myself in the mindset of a golf ball and thought, “what tales would such a ball recount, if it could tell its story of where it had been and what it had seen?”

Admittedly, when I started writing the book I wasn’t sure where I would go with it. Was it going to be an adventure thriller or a book about golf? But then I drew inspiration from contemporary events shaping our world today. The political predicament we find ourselves in, the hi-tech pace in which things are developing, the consequence and impact of decisions taken in the ESA world. All of this shaped the story, which remains a work of fiction!

ESA and ESTEC are mentioned! You may recognise some of the characters in the book who are actually members of the EGC!  

I found empathy with some of our partners who, from one day to the next lost everything …. well, I’ll leave it to you to recognize those passages without sounding cryptic. 

Some of the golf courses mentioned in the book I have actually played—certainly all the ones in the Netherlands! My background and the high-tech industry also played a role in shaping the plot. And the ultimate technological product I imagined? It’s real—prototypes exist today. But I won’t say more; I don’t want to give too much away!

Lastly, I dedicated this book to one of our members who left us far too soon—a dear friend with whom I spent countless hours on the golf course: Bob Davis.

Enjoy the book. I would love to hear your thoughts! 

The book is on Kindle/paperback/hardcover at:

UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DDQXHPXX

NL:  https://www.amazon.nl/dp/B0DDQXHPXX

DE: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0DDQXHPXX

Salim will soon be sending a copy of the book to be placed in the Check – In hut, for you to take a look at.

13 Mar, 2025 by Announcements