Colchester Golf Club’s Foursomes Cup

Adam Harper and Tom Rothery (both pictured below) rose to the top in Colchester Golf Club’s Foursomes Cup last weekend.

With sighs of relief that a competition could take place and a weather eye on the sky Harper and Rothery knuckled down and put together a solid card from their eight handicaps. Turning just three over par they set themselves up for the back nine.

This was the second time in recent months that this pairing had enjoyed success following their victory in the fun competition, three Clubs and a putter over the Christmas holidays.

Turning just three over par they set themselves up for the back nine where they started bogey, double bogey, bogey. Not the best of starts but they got it back together quickly and courtesy of a birdie on the par three 13th pared the last six holes to return a gross 77 which equated to a nett 69 and a victory.

Ernest Van Vredenburch (9) and Andrew Smith (8) returned a very tidy card showing nothing more than bogeys, giving them a nett of 69.5 to taking second place. They played two halves of gross 39s to keep just ahead of Calum McKenzie (12) and Dafydd Stephens (16) who took third spot with a nett 70.
Paul James Jackson (10) and Paul Smith (9) carded 70.5 nett to claim fourth place whilst Dave Blackmore and Stuart Watson, both playing off eleven, returned 71 nett to take fifth spot.

In the year’s first Saturday Walk-on-Stableford a small field saw Richard Hayes (12) take first place with 36 points. Stephen Dack also a twelve handicapper handed in a card with 35 points to snatch second place from Stephen Sheffield (34) who was placed third.