Gladiolenmiddag Results: 2022-23

Gladiolen Dinner: Tuesday 25 July 2023 at 18:30 hrs.

On behalf of Willem our 2023 Gladiolenmiddag organizer, this note just to announce that the last 2022-23 Gladiolenmiddag will take place on the 25th of July, followed by a  Gladiolen Dinner at “Heinde en Ver”, Noordwijkerhout, at 18:30 hrs, for a fixed price of 37,50 Euro/person. Please contact Willem for dinner registration – and just turn up at ESTEC for the usual Tuesday golf event.

Gladiolenmiddag 2022/23: Report and Final Results.

The 2022/23 Gladiolenmiddag was played 37 times between September 6th 2022 and July 25th 2023. Here we had 30 different player participating, resulting in a total of 400 players on Tuesday’s or an average participations of 10,8 players/week. Out of the 30 players, 6 played only once! The most frequent player was Willem Borst (our organiser) who played 36 times followed by Henk Wapstra with 34 times and Barteld de Jong with 28 times. The best Tuesday average score was on June 27th 2023 with 37,3 Stp, and the worst on September 6th 2022 with 28,2 Stp. The average Stp for all 400 players, for the total period was 30,3 Stp.

The overall Gladiolenmiddag 2022/23 winner was Ben Smelting with 6 wins, followed by Carel Haakman and Ton Remmen with 5 wins. So many congratulations to Ben who also had the highest average score of 34,1 (based on minimum 10 times played). Further individual performance can be seen in the attached table.

Finally also our appreciations goes to Nely Borst, our earlier organiser and now Willem Borst for being and continue as Gladiolenmiddag organiser. Also Henk Wapstra financial work are appreciated and all deserve a BIG THANK YOU.

The new Gladiolenmiddag period will start on August 1st and continue until end of July 2024.

Reno

Autumn Seasonal – Rijswijkse GC – report and results

On the 1st of September, the Autumn Seasonal was played in Rijswijkse GC. It was a beautiful sunny day, if a bit windy. 14 players participated. The course was in good condition, in spite of the long dry period we have had. It showed: there were some really high scores, so high we would almost talk of bandits…..

The meal afterwards was good, and the prize giving quick. Clare Bingham came in 3rd with 36 Stbf points for the third prize, Vincent Regis with 37 Stbf was 2 nd, and Valerie Thirkettle-Kaiser came 1st with a whopping 43 Stbf.!

We have to mention that Marja Allen, with a handicap of 41, had to play of 36 as we do in most competitions. She came in with 30 Stbf on hcp 36, but had she been allowed to play off her real handicap, she would have had 37 as well, which would have knocked Clare off the 3rd prize.

The nearies were won by Alan and Valerie, the longest by Valerie and Brian.

There was a bit of a discussion about the winter seasonal, planned in Almeerderhout on the 15th of September. Several of our players would not be available on that day, and it was agreed that I try to postpone it to mid-October. Watch Proware for a new entry and stay tuned for the announcement.

Detailed results can be seen in Proware:
https://estec.prowaregolf.nl/match/results/id/903

Captain’s day 2022 – Results and Report

Sunday August 28, was Captain’s Day on the Estec Golf Course. It was a beautiful sunny, but a bit windy day. We had 26 players for a shotgun start.

We went round in 3 hours, which shows how little waiting there has been. The flights followed each other smoothly. The scores were quite good as well.

There was a neary for all on hole 1. It must be mentioned that no lady managed to hit the green… but both Vincent Regis and Raffaele Tosellini did, Raffaele was closest to the pin.

On hole 3 was the longest for the men, also won first by Vincent, and improved by Raffaele. Raffaele thought his length might have given him the advantage…

The ladies longest was on hole 7, first marked by Christine Sanders, a new member of the club, and then improved by your captain, Helma Nollen.

The best Lady was Marja Allen with a  score of 40 stbf points and a handicap of 41.7. And the best man was Rob Jansen, also with a score op 40 stbf points and a handicap of 25.5.

After the competition the aperitif was offered by the captain, and then a wonderful walking dinner was served.

All in all it was a really nice day!

Detailed results can be seen on Proware:
https://estec.prowaregolf.nl/match/results/id/929