January to March events

As i have not started this blog until April this a brief recap of events since January.
January we played at Ashley Wood a course near Blandford which for the time of the year was in great condition. Shiner was the overall winner and duly received his prizes. I can't remember if one of his prizes was a cut in his handicap or who won the nearest the pin and longest drive prize. The after golf food was excellent and considered by most to be one of the best meals we have had whilst doing the rounds.Suffice it to say that we had another great day for the 12 that played, the weather being kind to us and the course in great condition for January.

We held our annual AGM  as we always do with  the January Golf Outing and  as usual it was stated that we had some money and we had booked some fixtures for 2012

February saw us at Ferndown Forest, a course that we have not played since the society was formed in 2005.Unfortunately the course had only just been taken over by anew owner and the previous one had taken all the tee markers, hazard markers and mowers with him. in spite of this they had done  remarkable  job in posting temporary signs etc and had managed to cut the greens.the winner of the day was Ken Hann who i played with and he thoroughly deerved it.
The apres golf food was good and given afew months when the owners have had a chance to make more improvements all round it will be a good place to play

March we had our biggest turn out for some time. it was good to see some old faces and some new who we hope will join us again.
For anyone who has not played the Isle of Purbeck before it is a tough course but has spectacular views over Poole harbour. We wer blessed with fantastic weather again . Both the Davis boys wearing shorts which was not a pretty site and was an excuse for some poor play by some players. the scores on the day were not brilliant but the day was won by newcomer Robin Smith who once played off 28 but no longer thanks to Jeff the Handicapper. We also had a team competition which again was won by Robin, Mike Powell and Mike Downs. Robin was also extremely lucky to have won a trophy - The Swingle Tree Tankard. If we can locate any more of our trophies we will present them at future events.

Anyway the next event is at Weymouth, we haven't been able to play here for some time as they stopped societies playing on Fridays but this has obviously now changed back to how it used to be. Hope to see you all here and any more new members will be welcome.
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