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| Tipple on the Tee |
lively smoked whiskey provided by last months Away Day winner John Smythe. Then it was onto the long course with first tee off time with a mix of 3 and 4 balls.
The first hole at Broome Manor is a long par 5 that starts off downhill with a large bunker and a number of ditches and hedges to navigate. Predictably quite a few of us ended up in one or the other.
The course was in very good condition, always a surprise that this is a public course and not a members club.
As long as you could miss the ditches which crossed over at strategic points, stay out of the deep, well placed bunkers and avoid the patches over very long grass (only an issue if you went well off line) there were plenty of scoring opportunities.
It was definitely a game of 2 halves with 4 TOFS members scoring over 20 points on the front 9 and a completely different group of 4 TOFS golfers scoring over 20 on the back 9.
In the end there were 9 total scores of 36 or more and 16 scores over 30 points.
The results were as follows:
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| Chris Malin |
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| Andrew Shepeard |
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| Alex Fraser |
In joint fifth place with a score of 38 points were Graham Harding and Arthur Strain
But there was a 3 way tie for first place with 39 points between myself (Rob L), Simon Jones and Alex Fraser. So we went to countback over the back 9 holes and in the end the 1, 2, 3 was:
Alex Fraser – 39 points (23 on the back 9)
Simon Jones – 39 points (21 on the back 9)
Rob Lindley – 39 points (16 on the back 9)
So Alex wins £15 plus a sleeve of balls, the TOFS trophy and a beautifully printed winners certificate!!
Alex joins John Smythe and Rob Lindley as winners so far receiving a 2 handicap reduction for the remaining Away Days for this year and he also gets to supply the tipple on the tee for next time.
Hope you all had a good day.
Rob.
