On what was a rare sunny day recently, some of the Wells Juniors visited Mendip Golf Club for the Somerset Schools Championship.
Held at this time every year, it is turning out to be the ‘season starter’ for them. Junior Captain, Tom Roberts, Ben Cave Calland, Ashton Wylie, Freddie Lovell and Edward Higgs all played well – an excellent start to the season for all of them.
Wells’ Senior Men started the season away at Bristol and Clifton on a welcome spring day.
Piers Dalby and Mike Gee were five down before managing to pull back to all square before losing 2&1. Peter Leverick and Colin Wilde won one up, aided by a two on the par four eighth, where Leverick holed his second shot from 200 yards. Dave Hayward and George White won one up. White had a birdie net eagle on the par five ninth to win the hole and they were able to hold on to that lead until the end. Terry Pearce and Glyn Hallett won 2&1, but Wells lost overall, 4–3.
The match against Weston-super-Mare saw some quality golf. There were so many reports from all the games of chip-ins, long putts dropping and great shots. Len Sweales was looking for his ball at the back of the eighth green, (par five) to be told it was in the hole for a three, nett two!
Sweales had two other birdies and he and his partner, Peter Bartholomew, had a great front nine but still lost 2&1, such was the high calibre of the game. Richard Sheard reached the par five seventeenth in two and got a birdie, but only halved the hole after his opponent chipped in from off the green. Dave Hayward and his partner, Chris Strickland, twice halved par fives with birdies. Wells lost overall 5–1, the only Wells winners being Andy Williams and Ron Hancock.
Janice White