Club Championship
Congratulations to Club Champion Ben Jones, whose winning score was 149. We heard plenty of reports of lost balls not only from the tee but from 2nd shots, showing how tough the course was playing. Ben’s strategy of hitting 3 wood off most tees played a large part in his victory, he hit driver only once on the 11th in the morning and this found trouble, he learnt his lesson quickly!
The first round of the Northamptonshire County Golf Club, Club Championship on Saturday turned out to be much tougher than the conditions seemed to be. The morning round was a non-qualifier with reductions only but this did not stop Ben Jones the eventual winner. His morning round of 74 was three shots ahead of his nearest rival and good enough to see his handicap cut to scratch for the first time. Ben’s afternoon round was only one shot more and he finished on 149 to become Club Champion 3 shots clear of Charlie Salter in second and four ahead of Tony Lord in third. Quite an achievement for Ben to finish well ahead of a strong field and to get down to scratch with the course at is toughest.
As part of the Club Championship, all the players are fighting to also try and win the George Mobbs Trophy for the best handicap score for the whole day. The winner this year continued with the advance of the youth of the Club with Charlie Salter winning the trophy this year with a net score of 146 – being one of the leaders in the net prize in the morning following a 74 Charlie did really well and improved in the afternoon with a net 72 to secure the George Mobbs Trophy.
Club Championship 2014 Results:
| Overall Position | Name | R1 | R2 | Total |
| 1 | Benjamin Jones | 74 | 75 | 149 |
| 2 | Charlie Salter (2) | 77 | 75 | 152 |
| 3 | Tony Lord | 78 | 75 | 153 |
| 4 | Jack Hall | 79 | 77 | 156 |
| 5 | Daniel Roberts | 77 | 79 | 156 |
| 6 | Harry Larkins | 83 | 74 | 157 |
| 7 | Jack Brown | 79 | 78 | 157 |
| 8 | John Evans | 83 | 75 | 158 |
| 9 | Ben Garrett | 81 | 77 | 158 |
| 10 | Ben Smith | 84 | 75 | 159 |
On Tuesday the Ladies played their Guthrie & Hollingsworth medal, Burna Forest was the overall winner with the familiar names of Louise Hemingway, Gillian Curley & Denise Bellamy-Walton once again at the top of the leaderboard – well played ladies!
Overall Winner Burna Forest 100-27=73
Division 1
Louise Hemingway 92-18=74
Gillian Curley 81-06=75
Sue McRae 96-19=77
Division 2
Denise Bellamy-Walton 95-22=73
Tamsin May 102-23=79
Di Saunderson 101-22=79
Division 3
Burna Forest 100- 27=74
Dawn Mallard 111-29=82
Janet Morris 113-29=84
| Fri 27 | Society | Skipton Building Society | 10.00 – 12.30 |
| Sat 28 | Competition
Social | Medal
Thai Curry Night | 08.10 – 14.00
19.00 |
| Sun 29 | Competition
Competition | Ladies’ Championship
Ladies’ Intermediate & Bronze
Competition | 08.00 – 09.00
11.30 – 13.30 |
| Mon 30th June | Team | Seniors vs. Ladies | 12.00 – 13.00 |
| Tues 1st July | Competition | Ladies’ Captain’s Day | 08.00 – 14.00 |
| Wed 02 | Society | Wooden Spoon Charity
Day 2 TEE START | 12.00 – 14.30 |
| Thur 03 | Competition | Medal & Coker Cup | 08.20 – 14.00 |
| Fri 04 | Society | Leamington Tennis Club Golf Society | 09.00-10.00
13.30 – 14.30 |
| Sat 05 | Team | Captain vs. Woburn | 12.30 – 13.30 |
| Sun 06 | Competition | Junior Stableford | 11.00 – 12.10 |
Juniors Club Championship
Sunday saw the both the 9 and 18 hole juniors play for their respective Club Championship.
The Junior Club Championship day was nicely supported by the players families, with the weather being ideal for spectators along with some low scoring.
Matthew Myers finishing off at the 18th on his way to winning the Junior Club Championship for the 4th time and making it 3 years on the trot.
| Name | Allitt Cup | Name | Score | H'Cap | Jones Cup |
| Matthew Myers | 72 | Daniel Brightmore | 88 | 23 | 65 |
| Charlie Salter | 75 | Charlie Salter | 75 | 02 | 73 |
| Ben Jones | 77 | Matthew Myers | 72 | +01 | 73 |
** Juniors**
Please will you email your contact details to the office or Mark (ncgcjuniors@gmail.com) as we had a couple of drop outs on Sunday who couldn’t get a message to us, Thanks
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TaylorMade visited last week for a fitting day thank you to all the members who came to try out clubs and support the afternoon.
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