{"id":3570,"date":"2025-05-25T18:18:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T18:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2025-06-27T12:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T12:01:33","slug":"hgs-2025-event-1-test-valley-april-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/?p=3570","title":{"rendered":"Test Valley &#8211; April 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First event of the season and it struck me that the British weather is much like a golf player\u2019s game, it\u2019s exceedingly rare to get all aspects as you want it in one go; whilst we had a plenty of sunshine and acceptable warmth, it was the wind that was on hand to ensure our season opener had its customary elemental challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, I think we\u2019d all take those conditions if offered and whilst the course was firm and the aforementioned wind was brisk, it was a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon\u2019s golf with decent scores recorded with a few nameless exceptions to prove the rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone got around in great time, so well done all; I briefly wondered if Nigel\u2019s compressed tee times played a factor in this but then that would be turning a&nbsp;<s>cock-up<\/s>&nbsp;administrative error into a master-stroke and as he\u2019s already top of a leaderboard, let\u2019s not give him any more kudos.&nbsp;&#x1f61c;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joking aside, huge thanks to Nigel again for organising, his event kick-off messaging was well put and worth repeating in the hope we continue as we started: \u201c<em>Please keep up with the group in front, play ready golf and pick up when you&#8217;ve run out of stableford points.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to all our winners, it was a pleasure to play alongside our winner Dave Cousins, ominously for us all, he left quite a few out there<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Category<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Winner<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Stableford Score<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Event Winner<\/td><td>Dave Cousins<\/td><td>36 (19 inbound)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Event 2<sup>nd<\/sup><\/td><td>John Taylor<\/td><td>36 (18 inbound)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Event 3<sup>rd<\/sup><\/td><td>David Green<\/td><td>34<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Nearest the Pin<\/td><td>Adrian Crossley<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Longest Drive<\/td><td>Simon Nash<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"406\" height=\"256\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3571\" style=\"width:530px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image.png 406w, http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First event of the season and it struck me that the British weather is much like a golf player\u2019s game, it\u2019s exceedingly rare to get all aspects as you want it in one go; whilst we had a plenty of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3595,"href":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions\/3595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}