Yet another year done in SMXIXHGS and another Ryder Cup managed. Again we played Marconi vs The Rest of the World.

Carden Park Cheshire course was the location again. It all came down to the final match with the Moss brothers drawn against each other, with the game finishing in the dark and Eric holing a 7ft putt for birdie to win the last and get a half for the ROW.

The latest standings for the Ryder Cup as a whole are below. Crooky still has the best average overall……. The Tommy Fleetwood of the society…..

A hot and sunny day in Haydock lead to some truly tragic 9 hole scramble scores – with a 2 over par winning

The afternoon had much better scoring with a wonderful win (and longest drive) by Graham Copsey.

Results:

• Graham 69
• President 71
• John 72
• Ian 72
• Colin 72
• Pete 74
• Jason 76
• Captain Mike – DNF bad back

A new course for the society. Played on a quiet sunny afternoon. The course is short but with some interesting holes and tight fairways.

John Shearn played the best with a truly massive drive on the back 9. Some considerable amount of sand on the greens with “ripples” made short putting challenging!

John beat Ade beat Graham

After some really close games, Marconi squeezed through on the last putt of the last match on the last green to win 3-2. That’s 5 in a row for Marconi, with the relatively new signings for ROW having mixed fortunes with Colin winning and Tom losing. How long can the ageing Marconi team keep up such good golf ??

The build up has started and The president split the 5 players in to Ryder Cup groups. Jason talked his team around and helped John and Ade feel better about themselves and their gold in general. SMXIXHGS members will know he had a lot of work to do. Graham and Paul started well and then fell apart whilst talking about collaboration, team work and a team that would not have a leader. Whilst they sang the Red Flag, I checked what this kind of society is called, and the dictionary says “Anarchy”. Marconi team will continue to follow the Dictatorship model. In the end, the medal results today at Portal Championship were;

John Shearn 71 nett
Jason Moss 77
Graham Copsey 78
Paul Kelsey 81
Adrian Levin 82

With very windy conditions a great day was had in the hilly fairways (and trees) of a course the society has not visited for over a quarter of a century.

Pete Sherlock won the day and completed his grand slam for the year.

Results:

• 69 – Pete S
• 75 – Frank
• 75 – John S
• 76 – Ade
• 76 – Tom
• 76 – John M
• 78 – Steve
• 78 – Captain Graham
• 79 – Mike
• 79 – Paul
• 79 – Pete L
• 82 – Colin
• 83 – Ian
• 88 – Pete D
• 90 – Jason
• 93 – Ron

A hot summers day for a change; some hot golf being played to complete the first round of singles matches

• @Tom Cartwright beat @Graham Copsey by one hole
• @Paul Kelsey lost to @Ian Crook on a second extra hole

A points competition was always played the results are as follows:

@Paul Kelsey 36
@Tom Cartwright 35
@John Shearn 34 (35hc)
@Ade 34
@Ian Crook 33
@Steve Nieman 27
@Graham Copsey 26

A bright sunny and slightly windy day in north wales. Jason beat John 4&2 in the singles match and the points scores were as follows:

@Jason Moss 39
@John Shearn 34
@Graham Copsey 34
@Ade 33

Singles update

Pete Dixon made a welcome return to the society on a hot and sunny day in Widnes

Mike beat the president in his singles match 2&1, and the captain Paul and Pete played out their own battles across what was a dry and clear course

Points results:

• Paul 33
• President 33
• Mike 33
• Captain 31
• Pete NR

Singles: