Dartmouth Hotel, Golf & Spa, 17th – 20th October

With 2.5 years since our visit to St Pierre we finally got together again at a new venue near Dartmouth in Devon.

Clearly time is catching up with a number of us with some lacking a lung , others having had a heart scare, suffering back problems or breaking bones before the trip!!

I think that despite the adverse weather it was so good to meet up again.

Sunday, 17th October

The trip started bright and sunny with everyone enjoying the excellent Championship Course at Dartmouth. The opening team games finished as follows:

Rob Austen & Bruce Mercer won vs DaveScott & Martin Sykes 5/3

Pete Cosford & Paul Needle won vs Richard Edmonds & David Wain 4/3

Derek Craston & Steve Mulford won vs Nigel Wain & Sue Scott 

and lastly some success for the challengers with –

Phil Reay & Laura Craston losing to Peter Harris & Trina Brown

Spot prizes went to –

Sue Scott ntp x 2 on the 2nd

Richard Edmonds ntp 5th

Pete Cosford ntp on the challenging 18th and also Longest Drive on the 11th.

Monday, 18th October

Monday’s team challenge event was truncated by extremely heavy rain, but before the retirement to the clubhouse spot prizes were won as follows:

Phil Reay ntp x 2 at the 2nd, Pete Cosford ntp at both 3rd & 5th and Dave Scott longest drive at the 8th.

With 2s monies carried forward from 2019 and none achieved on Monday, the kitty for the Open at Dainton Park was well worth winning.

Tuesday, 19th October

Dainton Park was the venue for an eventful Open championship.

With the forecasted rains thankfully holding off, we faced a challenging, slippery course, with accompanying mizzle and sanded greens.

The winner was new girl (can we say that?) Trina Brown with 38 points followed by an interrupted round for both David Wain with 36 points and Sue Scott with 34 points.

Spot prizes were as follows:

NTP at the 8th Rob Austen

NTP x 2 at 13th Richard Edmonds

NTP at 15th (at last) Nigel Wain

and Longest Drive Richard Edmonds at the 16th

The 2’s club monies were divided between Nigel & Richard who both birdied the 17th hole.

With no qualifying golf on Wednesday the funds will be carried forward to day one in 2022

Having reported all that I should like to thank all those who stepped forward to help our injured friend Pete – getting him to hospital , back to base and home to Oxfordshire. It really makes me appreciate what good friends we have.

Plans are under way for spring so stand by for more news.