The Club's Results
FaT vs. BPBC Golf Challenge, May Term 2007
A golf match held at Cambridge Lakes pitch & putt, between Black Prince and First & Third.
Sun 6th May
Match Report
I'm beginning to think that golf is an old man's game. Certainly it seems to represent Black Prince's most likely opportunity to beat the young guns of First and Third. Having said that, I don't think this year's scoreline was necessarily a fair reflection of the relative quality of the teams on show.
The day looked to be starting well for BPBC, as both fourballs teams made light of the windy conditions to take early leads. But Dean and Tanner quickly warmed up to win four holes in a row and ensure that the fourballs matches were shared. Black Prince then closed out both foursomes matches, to take a 3-1 lead into the singles.
As has been the case in all the fixtures so far, a 3-1 lead left things nicely poised for the five singles matches. As I followed the matches round the course I could see holes being traded and leads changing hands, and the victory was not confirmed until Richard Bullock holed out on the seventh to win the penultimate match. The final 7-2 scoreline makes it all look a bit easier than it was.
I'd like to extend my thanks to everyone who played, especially to Lynsey for captaining the FaT team. Notable performances were put in by Bullock and Ingram for Black Prince, for winning both their matches, and by Will Dean for only dropping half a point for First and Third.
I was also delighted to see the expansion of this fixture to include a women's match and (because of a rash of shoulder injuries) an adaptive category. Hopefully, in the future, we will continue to have more female members of the club than injured ones, so this is an advance call for more women golfers to play next year (and fewer one-armed ones).
Mike Goodson
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First and Third golf team
Garrod/Wood lost to Glass/Goodson (5 & 4)
Garrod lost to Fisher (3 & 2)
Tanner lost to Bullock (3 & 2)
I'm so looking forward to next years 're-match'. Just hope I'm not paired with a university golfer again!
Thanks for a great round Rich!
BPBC golf team
Summers/Fisher lost to Dean/Tanner (2 & 1)
Summers' successful par putt on the first was brilliantly captured by our one-armed paparazzo, and by the fourth we had built on that start to lead by two.
Jim played a great tee shot on five, finishing in the heart of the green. His par there began a FaT winning sequence which lasted for four straight holes and earned them a 2&1 victory.
Thankfully for BPBC, our other fourball showed rather more promise and delivered the goods.
Glass/Goodson beat Garrod/Wood (5 & 4)
Jon and I (rather by luck than design) managed to put together a perfect bit of fourballs play, dovetailing our successes and cock-ups beautifully for the first five holes. Bryn and Henry showed later in the round (and later in the day) that they were of comparable skill to us - we were just a bit faster out of the blocks.
Fisher beat Garrod (3 & 2)
By the time we had played the seventh, scores had held steady without being spectacular (no bad thing - at least they weren't spectacularly bad!). A couple of pars on my part, plus a couple of (narrowly) missed puts from Bryn had concluded the tie 3&2 in BPBC's favour.
By the end, we had racked up 32 and 40 strokes respectively... hopefully a standard allowing the lead singles match to hold its head up high against most of what was to follow.
Bullock beat Tanner (3 & 2)
I hit one or two of the tee-shots right of the green. The ones I hit straight, I had to watch in disgust as they sailed through the back of the green, my sand-iron tee shot on the 5th hole almost finishing in the ditch about 20 yards beyond the back of the green. I did manage in stopping it on two of the greens, well below what I'd expect from a maximum of 140 yards out. Sadly, my chipping wasn't that great either, and, although I was generally getting it in the vicinity of the hole, I was often leaving 8-12 foot putts to save par. Thankfully, the greens at the Lakes are surprisingly good (better and quicker than my home course greens for example), and my putting was good enough to make some of those putts.
It could have been much closer, Jim missed a 3-ish footer for par at the 6th which would have halved the hole, and you can't help thinking if some of my mid-range putts hadn't dropped, it could have been close all the way to the end.
<h4>Match Details</h4><p><pre> FOURBALLS 2&1 W. Dean & J. Tanner 1 - 0 A. Summers & G. Fisher B. Garrod & H. Wood 0 - 1 J. Glass & M. Goodson 5&4 FOURSOMES A. Blacklay & J. Tanner 0 - 1 J. Shepherd & J. Bevan 5&3 H. Wood & M. Sargeant 0 - 1 C. Ingram & R. Bullock 5&3 SINGLES B. Garrod 0 - 1 G. Fisher 3&2 H. Wood ½ - ½ M. Byrne W. Dean ½ - ½ J. Shepherd J. Tanner 0 - 1 R. Bullock 3&2 M. Sargeant 0 - 1 C. Ingram 3&1 <b>OVERALL MATCH SCORE 2 - 7</b> </pre></p><div align="right"><font size="-1"><a href="#top">^ top</a></font></div><hr>
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