Author Archive: Gary Tubb

Podium Spot for Princes Risborough Golf Club – Best Places for a Sunday Roast in Bucks – Bucks Free Press

"Lots of votes for this one. If you fancy a scenic dining experience Risborough Golf Club is the ideal place. Set in the rolling Chiltern Hills the restaurant is renowned for servicing “superb value Sunday lunch” in a relaxed and friendly setting where everyone is welcome."

Kiera Gillies, Bucks Free Press.  Click here for details.

From everyone at Princes Risborough Golf Club...

Thank you to Nick and his team; Luke, Julie, Sarah, Ed and everyone involved in creating such a "relaxed and friendly setting where everyone is welcome".

Thank you to Jake, John and everyone involved in making our golf course views so spectacular.

Thank you to Trish, Belinda and team for the "superb value Sunday Lunch" - absolutely amazing and just £9.95!!

What a great team!!

Second place Aldwickbury stunned by PRGC in CBL classic! the results…

Princes Risborough hosted Aldwickbury Park in the final home match of the regular Chiltern Breakfast league season on an unusually cool early September Saturday morning yesterday. Aldwickbury Park have been regular visitors to PRGC over the years and are past winners of the Chiltern Breakfast League so they have form and can play really solid golf. On this occasion they arrived with an exceptionally strong team and a very determined look about them. They were holding down second spot in the division and a good away win at Princes Risborough would have given them a chance of getting in to the season ending play offs either by topping the division or securing the overall best runner up spot across all three divisions.
In the away match earlier in the season our team played really well and secured an excellent 3:3 draw on a course where Aldwickbury Park are pretty much serial winners. That form continued into the home match on Saturday and our boys responded to the challenge of the day by playing some really good golf against a team replete with single figure handicappers. The result was another 3:3 draw so there is nothing to choose between the two teams in 2019. 
Neil Martin and Gavin Adams led the team off with an excellent 4&3 win closely followed  by Cliff Pearce and Pete Major with a 3&2 win and then Bob Darvill and Richard Aldridge with a 1 Up win. So three in the hut and three wins. Captain John Verrall and Steve Wagerfield came unstuck on the 18th green where some unfortunate putting led to a 1 down loss to be followed by vice Captain Craig Whitworth and gentlemen Jim Findlay who had the misfortune to play an on fire pair and lost 4&3. So 3:2 it was and all were waiting for the last match in. In this match Barry Woledge was playing with Matt Enfield who was making his debut in the CBL League team and they were up against a tough pair. Having held the match to one down at half-way, Barry and Matt then went three down with 6 to go so were up against it. The fightback was on and it came such that on the 18th tee the difference was back to 1 down. Barry and Matt could not quite secure the birdie needed for the half to win the match overall but fought to the very end.
Very well done to the team and particularly Matt who played exceptionally well on his debut.
The upshot is that having only secured 5 points Aldwickbury Park will not head the division and are unlikely to make the play-offs this year! As for us, our 5 points mean we now head Weston Turville at the foot of our divisional table so need a good performance away at their place in the last match of the season next Saturday 14th September to secure a mid table league position.

LADIES & SENIORS CHARITY BINGO – 27th SEPTEMBER 2019

I am pleased to announce that Rosie Brand, the Ladies Captain and Brian Fowler, Seniors Captain, have asked me to run another Charity Bingo evening for their respective Charities.

In April this was a very successful and fun event and raised a substantial sum for Charity.

The next event is on FRIDAY 27th September and tickets go on sale this week and are available from Rosie, Brian and me.

If you want to join in the fun would you please let one of us know and we will sell you your tickets, which must be bought in advance so that we can keep a record of the numbers.

The details are:
• Cost £12 - which includes a buffet and 6 games of Prize Bingo.
• There will also be 6 games of Cash Bingo - tickets to be purchased on the night.
• Start time - Eyes down at 19.30 prompt.
• Bingo Dabbers can be purchased on the night.
• There is of course a bar where you can buy your drinks.
• Bingo Lingo essential!

Hopefully you will be able to support this event.

Kind Regards
Al

CBL – Our First Trip to Shendish Manor… the results

On 31st August we paid our first ever visit to Shendish Manor, an interesting little golf course over Hemel Hempstead way. At 5641 yards the course is not long but it is quirky and it is evident that local knowledge is a very useful attribute when it comes to playing match play golf. Following a major water leak the irrigation system had been turned off so the greens were somewhat more solid than we are used to at home.
The match was closely fought with Pete Major and Mike Stevens securing an excellent win whilst Graham Enfield and Neil Terry secured a good half point. Of the remaining matches two were lost 2&1 and one 3&2 and all three were closely contested and could have gone either way. In the other match the Shendish Manor pair had a player deliver a 10 under handicap round of golf and there is not much you can do about that except smile!!
The food and beverage were excellent and an enjoyable day was had by all despite the result.
We have two more league matches to come in the next two weeks: at home to Aldwickbury Park next Saturday 07 September and away at Weston Turville the week after.

WAGS “WIND UP”- November 3rd 2019… what you need to know

Long Live The Black Flag

To all our WAGS players and guests.

This year we are going to revert to the good old days and have our grand Finale at PRGC on Sunday 3rd November

Golf will also be played on Sunday with 1st Tee Time at 09:30. We have block booked the course.

 

So far, we have entertainment lined up for the evening by way of Al Jenkins (Guitarist) who will take us through the ages of music . Arrive at the club for 7:15 PM for a pre drink.

Prize giving will commence at 7.45 PM -8.15 PM

Food on the evening will be a mixture of Chilli, Curry, Atlantic Prawns, and Salad with various additional tit bits. There will also be a selection of cheeses available afterwards.

 

The cost for the evening will be £16.00 for Wags members (that includes your Wags 18 holes) and £19.00 for guests and partners.

Any guest that wishes to play golf will have to pay an additional green fee.

We will be collecting monies from Wednesday 28th August.

Please book early.

 

I will be putting up a list for names to be entered which will need to be confirmed as soon as possible so numbers can be confirmed for food.

Already looking forward to this evening and thank you all so far for taking part.

Regards

 

Graham & Richard

Results of the Summer Pairs are in… how close was that!!

Results are as follows;

Richard Caldicott & Pete Major -  43 points (24 points back 9) Therefore Winners due to better back 9.

Gavin Adams & Neil Martin – 43 points (23 points back 9)

Maurice Dempsey & John Tubb – 41 points

Alan Jackson & Alan Caldicott  – 40 points

Brian Fowler & Bob Darvill - 39 points

Graham Blackwell & Richard Aldridge – 38 points

Dennis Mawby & Mark Tubb – 38 points

Barry Woledge & Craig Whitworth – 35 points

Cliff Pearce & Peter Wright – 34 points

Dave MacKenzie & M Watt – 31 points

PRGC CBL triumph on a day of national sporting glory…

Sunday 14th July will go down in history as one of the greatest ever sporting days in the United Kingdom. At Lords the England and Wales cricket team won the ICC world cup for the first time in what was undoubtedly the best one day match ever played!! At Wimbledon, Roger Federer and Novak Jokovic played out the best (or maybe second best?) men' s final ever with the result going to a 5th set championship tie break. At Silverstone, Lewis Hamilton once again cleaned up in the British Grand Prix and in Liverpool all the home nations teams successfully negotiated the early rounds of the Netball World Cup.
Whilst all this was happening, the real event was taking place at Aldwickbury Park where the Princes Risborough CBL team secured a brilliant half in the match against a very strong Aldwickbury Park team playing on their very challenging home turf.  Leading off, Neil Martin and Gavin Adams secured their now almost customary win 4&3 whilst following up behind Bob Darvill supported by the returning Barry Woledge secured an excellent 2&1 win over a fancied Aldwickbury pair. The half was then secured by Gentleman Jim Findlay playing with Steve Wagerfield who, had very kindly stepped in at short notice as a replacement. These two delivered our best win of the day 5&3 thus winning the money and securing the result as a halved match 3:3.
Our other 3 pairs all experienced the strength of the Aldwickbury Park club and suffered an early defeat, mostly caused by at least one of the opponents rising to the occasion and playing well below handicap. That is match play golf of course but as a team game it all evened out.
To secure a 3:3 halved match away from home at a long and tough course like Aldwickbury Park is a great achievement and certainly re-sets our ambition for the rest of the season. We have three matches back to back at the end of August/early September. Our first ever visit to Shendish Manor, the return match at home to Aldwickbury Park and the final match of the season against our local neighbours Weston Turville, away. There is all to play for and the and the team are to be congratulated on bouncing back from the shock home defeat by Richings Park earlier in the summer.