Harris Hat of Glory – 2022 revealed!

Preparations for this year’s big event continue with the big reveal of the trophy that will be contested for later in August. Speculation regarding the design and colour scheme is always a hot topic amongst contenders and bookies alike, and the adoption of a beanie (instead of the usual baseball cap) for the last championship raised more than a few eyebrows. This year, however, sees a return to the traditional cap. As ever, the important question remains, whose head will be wearing this fine cotton wonder come August 22nd?

Dorset Golf Resort, April 2022

There were 12 participants for the early April visit to the Dorset Golf resort.

3 of the four planned rounds were completed with the weather claimimg the final day.

Sunday saw a team event on the Lakeland and Parkland 9 s at the home course

Team Trina Brown, John Pritchard, Martin Sykes and David Wain came out on top with 76 points with Christopher Wain hoovering up the spot prizes being NTP on 7th & 17th, NTP x2 10th and the longest drive on the 16th. As he did not have his skirt on he missed out on the ladies prize which instead went to Sue Pritchard. No birdie 2s were scored.

A delayed start to Monday saw a switch to the Woodland/Parkland combination with players finding the opening 9 a “marmite” experience – personally I liked the challenge but that cannot be said for all – particularly David.

Team JP/ Martin/Chris won with 74 points followed by Peter David & Sue P 72 and Reg Trina and Nigel completing the line ups 

Chris only took the longest drive on the 11th. JP took the NTP x2 & NP on successive holes 5 &6 with Sue P NTP on 17th and Trina the ladies longest drive. Sue & Martin took a liking to the woodland 4th to share the rollover 2s pot.

Tuesday took us to Wareham for the Open Championship where no one had played the flat ? (according to David) layout 

This was won by Chris with a score of 36 points followed on count-back by Rob Austen 32 Peter 32 and Reg 31.

Spots went to Martin and Sue for longest drives on the 6th NTP Rob 11th & Chris 15th deferred from 4th where no one got on to the green which also happened to the NTP x2 on 17th.

Peter chipped in for the only 2 on the 11th.

Overall, a successful get together and we move on to August with the main trip returning to Cornwall.

Spring Tour – agenda at The Dorset confirmed

Peter has confirmed the following tee times for this trip.

Sunday 3rd April – The Dorset 12:36pm 

Monday, 4th April – The Dorset 09:56am

Tuesday, 5th April – Wareham 11:15am

Wednesday, 6th April – The Dorset 10:12am

Late Summer Tour – Venue and Dates confirmed!

Peter has confirmed that the visit to Lanhydrock has been booked for 3 nights commencing on Sunday, 21st August.

The usual package of accommodation, breakfast, 2 course dinner (supplement of £5 for a third course ) and golf, together with kitty contribution is included. Cost for this package is £365 for a shared twin room and £395 for a double. A deposit of £100 each to confirm your place is sought and I have a target of the end of January to firm up on numbers.

The golf has been arranged as follows:

Sunday 14:00 and Monday & Tuesday both at 10:15 at Lanhydrock – followed by a visit to Looe on Wednesday at 11: 00.

In addition Peter has arranged to use our outstanding vouchers for golf at The Dartmouth to book tees for up to 19 players on Thursday 25th at 11:35 (including 3 buggies reserved).

Please let Peter know if you would like to join him this year.

We look look forward to a better 2022.

Birthday Boys Bash – Sunday, 20th February

Peter has booked The Springs for the traditional gathering in February. Tee time is 10:30am at a cost of £30. Please let Peter know if you’re able to join us.

Spring Tour – Sunday, 3rd April – The Dorset

Peter has provisionally booked a return visit to The Dorset with the usual format of three nights with 4 1/2 rounds of golf. Cost is £350 per player (£300 non golfer). Please let Peter know whether the date/plan works for you.

Dartmouth Voucher for Golf

Peter is also thinking of arranging a “runaway weekend “to make use of our Dartmouth voucher in say May/June/July. Initial thoughts are on playing Dartmouth on the Saturday with another venue on the Sunday. Once again, please let Peter have your feedback on your preferences regarding this idea.

A winning debutante!

This year’s champion golfer is Trina Brown who scored an excellent 38 points around Dainton Park in less than ideal conditions.

Trina is pictured below receiving the “Harris Hat of Glory” and Champion’s Jacket from previous winner Dave.

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.