Mendip Golf Club, along with many others, is experiencing an unprecedented seventh month of rain, yet life carries on, as the first signs of the competitive season emerge.

Lists are now open for members to enter the summer KOs and the first Club Competition for men has taken place, a Triple Six Bowmaker event.

In fourth place, with forty points, were Danny Middle and Alan O’Leary. In third place, with forty-three points, came Hugh Glandfield and Chris Roe. Mervyn Vaughan and Tom Lowe were second with forty-four points, but the runaway winners were Peter Grafton and Sam Thatcher with an excellent forty-eight points.

The Ladies held their first eighteen hole event of the year, being an Arizona Shuffle Team event. The winners were Elaine Kitchenham, Gina Howard and Allison Rumming with sixty-five points, with the Outgoing Ladies Captain, Marian Speed and Karen Cookson, playing with the Incoming Ladies Captain, Anne Collins, who scored sixty-three points. In third place were Elaine P Richardson, Chris Olds and Diane Stanton with fifty-nine and with Carol Curtis, Elaine Richardson and Edwina Willis coming fourth with fifty-seven.

The Seniors held a Rumba Bowmaker with two and then three, then four to count. They played on a rare sunny day, the scoring was very high indeed from the full field of ninety-one competitors.

The day was completed by the competitors being treated to a Rumba demonstration and Cuban inspired cocktails!

On the course, there was a triple tie on 118 points which, after countback, left Alan Edwards, Philip Moores, Derek Strudwick and Peter Rumming in fourth place and Alan O’Leary, Paul Smith, Martin Myers and Andy Parfitt in third place. In second place came Brian Carter, Roger Wickett, John Parsons and Derek Bellew.

It has been some considerable time since Derek and John visited the winners’ enclosure, however they have both recently received some sympathetic consideration from the handicap review! However, not just winning but carding a twenty-one under par score of 129 came Seniors’ Captain, John Brooksbank, John Cross and Norman Squire and the recently elected Club President, Tony Taylor.

Following on from the Seniors’ Competition, the evening saw a Charity Quiz for Freewheelers, a motorcycle blood collection service. The teams had a most enjoyable evening with plenty of food, drink and laughter and at the end of the evening, £400 had been raised. The Quiz Winners, for the second year running, were the Wynns, with Foreplay taking the consolation prize. Huge thanks were offered to Clive Hennessy who organised the questions.

The Incoming Ladies Captain, Anne Collins, has announced that her charity will be Action On Hearing Loss. Anne has personal experience as her mother started losing her hearing at a very young age and Anne is all too aware of the problems that have to be faced every day.

The Pro Shop Nearest the Pin event was won by Peter Kivi with Mike Lill second and Gareth Collier third.

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