the empress open / results
CROOKHILL PARK SOUTH YORKSHIRE
Saturday 24th may 2008 and 12 members of the golfshake crew attended the first cup of the empress series the lucky winner was to be presented with a 22in resin golfer on a nice wooden base with the empress open emblum nicely present on the front.
the course was in quite good condition given a municipal run buy the local council, the members all gathered together in the club house, had there soup and sarnies tea and coffee, collected there little goodie bags and started making there way to the first tee and putting green.
on the first tee all member watching and mister hawkins hit a great drive straight down the middle just right of the large tree starting the day with a par well done!!!
where on the second and the wind is coming from various directions quite difficult dog leg to the right, lined trees all the way down push or pull and trouble was awaiting, comment of this is to be a tuff day.
nearest pin was won by ian banks hole three a raised tee approx 150ish yards shooting on to an elevated green. his best shot of the day though had to be his chip in on the third for a net eagle from 60-70 yards out.
longest drive was won by malcolm fell not one of golfshake members with a drive over 250yards
team event was won by team two on count back with a combined score of 31 equal with team one.
main event
winner ian banks
gross 76 net 71 scoring 35 points
2nd allan bostock gross 82 net 74 points 32
3rd daniel buckley gross 90 net 77 points 29 team 2
4th paul hindhurst gross 94 net 83 points 25 team 2
5th harry irving gross 100 net 85 points 25 team 2
6th malcolm fell gross 97 net 82 points 24
7th peter deeming gross 97 net 83 points 24
8th stephen felton gross 105 net 83 points 24
9th graham tweed gross 100 net 84 points 24
10th tim stretton gross 101 net 85 points 22
11th tim hawkins gross 105 net 89 points 22
12th paul cook gross 101 net 89 points 22
13th stephen ridge gross 114 net 93 points 20
14th peter wilson gross 109 net 91 points 20 team 2
hope fully every member had a wondeful day and congratulations going to
ian banks the first empress open winner and hopefully he will be avalible to attend next year and defend is title
Reply : Wed 28th May 2008 10:30
Cheers Paul, great day out.
Would just like to thank you for the flattering description of the first drive and very diplomatically omitted that the drive from the second tee went 10 yards left into the bushes.
Reply : Wed 28th May 2008 13:33
Cheers mate, particularly enjoyed the roast potatoes afterwards, never seen so many.
Reply : Thu 29th May 2008 00:28
Too true Paul, if we got them all perfect it would be boring wouldn't it! Pretty impressive seeing Ian and Al going for the drives though.
May make an effort to get up to your neck of the woods more often if you're up for a game, only took 45 minutes to get home - and an hour up in the pre-bank holiday traffic. Cracking little course and even the cider swilling locals kept quite when we teed off!