The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
Spalding Golf Club’s stellar 2nd team continued their amazing season by adding the county crown to their South Lincolnshire Scratch League title.
They achieved their latest accolade by defeating their counterparts from the North Lincolnshire side of the league, Pottergate Golf Club from Lincoln, 4-2 in the county handicap league final.
Played at Spalding’s Surfleet course, the format saw six pairs per team, face off in betterball matchplay contest.
Hosts Spalding lost the opening two games, but won the remaining four to take the trophy for the very first time in the club’s history.
Winning pairs for Spalding were Chris Ward and Calum Walker (4&3), Richard Laud and Mark Jones (5&4), Lawrie Haley and Chris Hancock (1up) and Steve Camm and Chris Moxon (2&1).
- The October monthly medal competition, the last of the season, was played in heavy showers throughout the day.
Consequently, only about half of the 128 entries registered a score.
It wasn’t a problem for junior member Edward Brand (77-9=68), who won the 0-14 handicap category with a nett 68, one stroke better than Andy Grimwood (69-0=69) and Dan Hines (70-1=69), both with nett 69.
Talented 15-year-old Brand, who played off 13 at the start of the season, is now down to six handicap after some exceptional scoring in recent competitions.
Other leading scores in this category came from: 72 – Richard Parker, Calum Walker; 73 – Mark Mitchell; 74 – Stephen Baxendale, Stuart East, Trevor Horrocks.
Andy Grimwood won the category best gross score prize with his superb 69.
Another talented junior member, 16-year-old Lewis Wright (86-15=71), won both nett and gross score prizes in the 15-28 handicap category with his 86, nett 71.
All one stroke behind were Johnny Walker (93-21=72), Simon Goemans (90-18=72) and John Goode (87-15=72) with a nett 72.
James Carles completed the leaderboard with a nett 74.
- In another summer knockout competition, Wayne Wallace (three handicap) is now the proud holder of the Massey Cup, after beating Lloyd Chatham (2) in a high quality matchplay final.
Wallace, who has had an outstanding season, was 1up at the turn and it was nip and tuck on the back half.
That was, until a birdie three from Wallace on the 17th hole for a 2&1 win was good enough to take the trophy.
