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

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 3^rd November

Golf will also be played on Sunday with 1^st 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 28^th 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.

Barcilon Cup Weekend – Ladies Results…

Barcilon Cup and Club Championship – The Results….

Gentlemen

Many thanks for participating in this years club championship over the past weekend. Saturday was probably the hottest day of the year and the heat certainly tested some of us to the limit. Sunday was cooler and in many ways an ideal day for golf.

I think we all agreed the course was in excellent nick and John/Jake had set the pins up to provide us all with some real challenges on the greens. Some of years were able to deal with that and others-well that's another story.

Please find attached the full Results schedule for the combined competition:

Barcilon Cup winner and Champion Golfer: Cliff Pearce
Runner up: Bob Darvill
Handicap Champion: Richard Bennett
Divisional handicap winner: Graham Blackwell

Very well played by these four gentlemen of Risborough. Cliff and Richard will be both be making a first time appearance on the honours board and that is a delight to see.

Once again many thanks to John and Jake for sorting the course and to Nick and the house team for all the clubhouse support and usual high quality F&B.

Neil will process the two rounds for handicapping purposes and you will see those results published in due course.

Well played.

Barry

Hole in one on the 8th!!!

PRGC Hillman Trophy team reach the last 32!!

We cannot remember the last time the Princes Risborough team lost at home in the CBL but it happened yesterday. Richings Park sent over a very strong team and our team must have had an off day as we succumbed 1:5. Our lead pair of Gavin Adams and Neil Martin performed well and won 4&3. Cliff Pearce and Alan Jackson fought to the very end but were giving away too many shots and fell at the final hurdle 1 down. Our other four pairs lost.

The conditions were tough with a gale blowing and John having put out the championship pins made it a real test for all golfers on the day. Clearly, the Richings Park players responded better than we did-it must be all that jet draft they have to deal with down at Heathrow airport??

On a positive note our Hillman Trophy singles team beat Wokefield Park and are now in to the last 32 of this, the biggest competition in the BB&O. They have an away fixture at Tadmarton to manage on 07 July so good luck to them.

As for the CBL, we play Wycombe Heights at home in next Saturday 15 June and I am sure the team will bounce straight back.

Author Archive: Gary Tubb

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