A spirited eighteen turned out for the lively 50th Anniversary Plate, Texas Scramble at Alresford yesterday afternoon. The weather was dry and the course was presented in first class condition with almost no wind to challenge us.
We played in 6 teams of three with a competitive 17% of the combined handicaps to even things up off the yellow tees where par for the course is 69.
The winning team was John McCabe, Dave Cousins and Mark Jones with a very good net score of 60.2 and scoring gross 36 shots (35 par) going out and 31 (34 par) on the back nine including 4 birdies and just 2 bogies gross.
In 2nd place was Barry Tabor, Tarlock Bhambra & David Green with a net score of 66.5 and in 3rd place was Richard, Steve & Matt with a net score of 67.
Matt also won the Longest Drive and Nearest the Pin – well done Matt!
Unfortunately Tom, Mick & Dean were disqualified for playing the ninth hole twice instead of the eighteenth and Adrian gets the wooden spoon for going AWOL (having the wrong day in his diary?).
A special note of thanks goes to the organiser, our vice-captain Chris Swales, who did a fantastic job and made it an event to remember in the Hursley Golf Society’s varied Calendar for 2023.