Just 27 members and 6 guests took part this month. The ground conditions were very wet which made setting up and packing away more challenging than usual – so a massive thanks to all who helped – and resulted in the course being reduced to 6 stands.
Firstly, welcome to our 2 newest members: Richard Hill and Doug Hodgkiss. Thank you for joining and supporting the Club.
This month was the annual Pairs Handicap competition, where a random draw takes place to see who’s paired with who, and also the 3rd round of the 2022-2023 Winter Series.
The highest score in A Class was achieved by Chris Clark with a quite superb 53, B Class was won by Chris Samuel on 46 and John Hughes topped C Class with 43.
Well done to everyone, this month the scores were less spread out than usual.
The competition was very tight in the Handicap Pairs, with just 4 clays separating the top 5 pairs. In first place and winners of the John Tarryer Cups this year were Ian Young & Matt Oldland with 136.4, just beating the next highest total of 136.0 by Steve Keane & James Faulkner. The full results can be viewed here .
The position so far after Round 3 of the Winter Series is here
| A | Clark,C | 53 |
| Faulkner,J | 49 | |
| Oldland,M | 49 | |
| Horrod,J | 46 | |
| Saich,Peter | 45 | |
| Willett,A | 44 | |
| Collins,M | 40 | |
| B | Samuel,C | 46 |
| Blackwell,A | 45 | |
| Keane, S | 41 | |
| Warrington,R | 38 | |
| Hill, R | 37 | |
| C | Hughes,J | 43 |
| Thackery,M | 42 | |
| Young,I | 42 | |
| Garland,P | 40 | |
| Flanders,C | 39 | |
| Duncan,C | 38 | |
| Spooner,P | 38 | |
| Parish,I | 37 | |
| Turner,R | 31 | |
| Hulme,S | 27 | |
| McCarthy,M | 27 | |
| Webb,J | 24 | |
| Hodgkiss, D | 20 | |
| Nettle,J | 19 |