Monday, 14 August 2017

WM Ryder Cup Weekend

Saturday 5th August and it was the West Malling Ryder cup weekend, Europe (Lady Captain ) against USA (Club Captain).

The teams were drawn and the rules and team colours were agreed and off we went.

The format for Saturday was Hurricane course , 4BBB matchplay - this apparently caused some confusion but everyone entered into the spirit of the weekend and all had great matches and great banter - until the rain came!! What a shame!!  The results were announced and Europe were leading by 1 game - very close - and we then decided to do a live draw for Sunday!!

As someone said to me "Live draws don't work out - that's why they are so funny" - well funny isn't the word I used when Roy and I couldn't keep track of the draw!!

So we did a semi live draw in the fact that we sat down and got the draw done - thank you to Kim and Lindsay who did all the work.

Sunday was a 2 ball Texas Scramble and the weather was lovely so off we went on the Spitfire course.  This is such a fun format and you could hear laughter all around the course. We came in to baguettes and roasties while the results were verified.  Again it was really close and the winning team was Europe winning 6-5 over the weekend.

As Roy provided the prizes we raised £240.00 over the weekend and also £8.00 for fines for going in our bunkers. Thank you so much everyone for your great support and generosity.  51 people played in this and I think it is fair to say this is a great addition to our mixed competitions.

Please keep looking at the mixed board as we have lots of competitions coming up.

Gill

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