1st Charity Golf Day was a great succes

I organised my first Charity Golf day in Nottingham last week in support of the Lymphoma Association, which thanks to the great turn out, genoristy of sponsors and genoristy from those donating, I managed to hit £1500 in money raised.

Unusally for me the sun was shining all day and I think all 14 groups of players thoroughly enjoyed the day, company and the golf and added to the success of the event.

After the first 5 groups had finished it was looking like local club member Jim Lunn would occupy the top spot with a steady round of 36 points. That was until Mark Robbins arrived back with a fantastic score of 43 points and the cries of B*****.  

Four groups later and another 43 points saw Mark knocked off the top spot on countback by Stuart Laws.  Stuart's round was also the lowest gross of the day with a 75 off his 11 handicap.   The debate will now start on whether Stuart is now a SFG (Single Figure Golfer) with a 1.2 drop to an exact handicap of 9.9 but the obvious playing handicap of 10.

The best group went to group 6 of Scott Malty, Steve D'Arcy and Neil Booth.  A notably mention goes to Maisie Morris who played her first full 18 hole round and went round with 21 points, a fine achievement.

The top 10 results are as follows and further scores can be found on the events page via http://www.golfshake.com/golf/view/5745/scores/

We also held a 6 hole putting competition with a £1 entrance fee which as usual becmae another hotly fought battle.

After everyone had taken part it came down to a putt off between 4 golfshakers over 3 holes; Tim (31 putts) Hawkins, Stu Laws, Dave Ley and Kev Shearsby.  After several attempts and putt offs nothing could seperate Dave Ley and Stu Laws who decided to share the title and shuck hands.

But with a trophy on offer and additional prize one final putt was need in a sudden death nearest the hole from 40 feet.  With a building audience gleefully cheering on Dave and Stu how would they handle the pressure ?

Stuart took the first putt and ......................  it DROPPED IN!  With Dave coming up short Stuart also walked away with the Putting title and to quote Al Bostock 'bet he's glad he came in the van to take away all his prizes!'

The 40 footer on it's way in:

Finally, and anyone who knows me and my short game it will hopefully make you laugh. The local paper attended and I was asked to play a chip shot for a photo but whilst avoiding another person, avoiding the photography, hitting it high plus looking up at the camera and laughing!  How is that possible?

I'm still waiting for the official photos but you can have a few at my results below, not sure about the laughing face more like a grimace!

So a final thanks most go to everyone who helped on the day, sponsors for the generous prizes, everyone donating prior to the event, golfers for taking part, Eddie Pape for donating a Spa Treatment at the Fountain in Doncaster and Bob Haynes for donating an GPS.

For more photos visit: http://picasaweb.google.com/darren.ramowski/CharityGolfOct2009#

Until next time.

Darren.

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