A benign autumn morning created pleasant golfing conditions despite the soaking the course has had recently.
Overall scoring was good, Bill Hardcastle winning with 20 points. Melvin Cannell and George Langlands both returned 19 points and could not be separated on countback to share second place.
We were pleased to be joined by a recuperating David W who walked the course offering some positive advice to a grateful Tony Kinder.
Despite recent monsoons and the necessary maintenance the course is a pleasure to play. Gordon Fisher again hit a purple patch returning 24 stableford points. Chris Beaumont, Brian Taylor and Ken Davie all tied on 21 points with Ken edging the countback. Gordon and Ken birdied 9 and 8 respectively.
Well done also to Ken for his winning 48 points in Tuesday's Senior stableford.
23 players enjoyed a lovely autumn morning-some even enjoyed the golf. Conditions really suited Richard Edmonds who returned 21 points.
4 players returned 19 points, Ian Tate taking second on countback from Eric Ward, Melvin Cannell and Chris Beaumont.
24 TAMS turned up despite foggy and cold conditions. Tony Kinder and Melvin Cannell both returned 20 points with Tony taking the countback.
Brian Taylor and Steve Farrar both birdied the 9th.
Next week sees the start of the winter stableford.
21 TAMS enjoyed a wonderful late summer morning which was reflected in some very good scoring-does playing with only 5 clubs help to focus the golfing brain? As usual the winner will be announced [hopefully] at our Xmas lunch.
Bill Hardcastle birdied 8.
Despite the attraction of a Stableford comp at Monktonhall 18 players enjoyed a benign Autumn morning. George Cunningham continued his recent good form returning 20 points for first. George Langlands reversed recent poor form returning 19 points for second place, squeezing past Steve Baczkowski on 18 points.
Birdies were recorded by Roger Key at 9 and Wilson Struthers at 7 [ 3 inches from an ace].
Next Thursday is a 5 club stableford for the Ken Bowie Salver.
Fortunately the heavy overnight rain forecast did not happen tho' the rough was still like a water feature! Scoring was impressive with Steve Farrar returning 24 points for first with Eric Ward second on 20 points. Bill Hardcastle birdied 7.
Congratulations also to George Cunningham who won the Seniors Trophy on Tuesday.
22 players braved a very wet course and persistent rain to play for Roddie's Gavel. Scoring was difficult but there were a couple of good results.
Winners will be announced at the Xmas lunch.
Its congratulations to our oldest TAM, 93 years young Steve Baczkowski, who eased past young whippersnapper Sandy Macfarlane after countback, both on 20 points. George Cunningham was third also on 20 points.
Steve finished with an impressive 5 points on the 9th. Worthy of a ball alone!
A reminder that we play a 5 club stableford for Roddie's Gavel next week.
Despite the threat of thunder storms and no broadband 25 player rose to the challenge. Ian Tate scored an impressive 22 points for first. Ronnie Watt, Bill Hardcastle and Graham Mackie tied on 21 points and after countback Ronnie and Bill could not be separated so shared second place.
Ken Davie birdied the first and Graham Mackie the 7th.
A pleasant-ie dry an calm!-summer's morning encouraged 23 players to the course. John Napier continued a good run of form to return 21 points for first place. Bill Hardcastle shaved second place from Melvin Cannell on 20 points.
19 players braved a wet forecast which turned out to be not so wet.
There were several good scores in the 20's, Steve Farrar taking first with 23 points, Sandy Morris a close second with 22. George Langlands birdied 7.
We were pleased to be joined by Club Captain Gavin Carruthers. Gavin had agreed to a ceremonial raising of the new Club flag sponsored by the TAMS. He was joined at the flag pole by founding member Jim McAuslin and other TAMS. Gavin kindly expressed his and the Club's appreciation of the support given by the 'oldies '.
15 hardy [fool?] TAMS decided to face the morning monsoon. Not all completed 9 holes and at least another 6 stayed in the lounge for coffee!
The wet conditions obviously suited ex Fire Chief Richard Edmonds who returned 23 points closely followed by Chris Beaumont on 21 points. Excellent scoring in the deluges.
Birdies were also recorded at 7 by Richard and by Graham Mackie.
TAMS are pleased to sponsor the new Club Flag.
A pleasant morning with the course in good condition encouraged 26 TAMS out before we welcome back our block tee times next week. Thanks to Sarah and the office for their work in making the new arrangements.
Tony Kinder had his best ever outing scoring 25 points, emulating Sandy Macfarlane's score from last week. Well played Tony.
Birdies were recorded at the 7th by David Wallace and Tony Kinder and at the 9th by Sandy Macfarlane and George Langlands.
4 players returned 22 points including Steve Baczkowski, our young 93 year old, who had a 5 pointer at 9, as did George Langlands.
Graham Mackie and Ian Quigley were the other 2 members of the '22' club. On the countback George sneaked it from Steve by one point, Ian and Graham being a further point behind,.
Steve's 22 points at 93 must warrant a ball at least.!
25 played but there were 3 NR's because of some confusion about current rules.
Conditions were excellent reflected in high scoring. Sandy Macfarlane romped home with 25 points, George Cunningham a close second on 24 points.
It was good to hear that Bill Hardcastle is safely back from Australia but is in quarantine-hopefully not for long.
23 TAMS returned to competitive golf with a stableford challenge yesterday. Conditions were excellent reflected in some good scoring.
Ken Davey and Sandy Morris tied on 23 points but Ken's 2 birdies made the difference on the countback.
For some a crash course on stableford rules was necessary which added to the fun.
By now all of you will have given thought to how you will prepare yourselves and your families for the onset of this disease in our community.
With regard to the TAMS and to our golf, given the age profile of our players and the near-certain infection of some members of our community, we believe that it is incumbent on all of us together to take sensible steps to mitigate the risk of infection from this disease.
Accordingly and after consultation with some of our players, we have decided that for the foreseeable future we will proceed as follows:
(i) We will continue to play on Thursday mornings at our usual time.
(ii) We will not mark and submit cards and therefore will only play for the pleasure of each other's company.
(iii) We will not collect weekly subs, though we may later ask for voluntary donations, given that the TAMS makes annual charitable gifts.
(iv) We will not congregate as a group in the clubhouse after playing for our customary reflection on the ills of the world.
After missing 3 Thursdays 16 players were pleased to welcome a frosty but wonderful winter/seemed like spring morning.
Scoring was impressive 6 cards returning 20+ points. Top of the list was Jim Pettigrew with 24 points. Warner Hardie shaded Ronnie Watt for second place both scoring 22 points. Birdies were recorded by Ian Tate at the 4th and David Wallace at the 9th. No-one held the green at the 7th.
On a glorious morning we had 23 starters.
The course was playing long and the greens were just difficult which yielded rather poor scoring with the average being about 14 or 15 points.
However as always some rose to the challenge and our clear winner was Wilson Struthers with 18 points as well as an excellent birdie on the 9th.
George Cunningham was second with 17 points despite having got lost somewhere and arriving after the presentation where Ian Tate had been awarded second on 16 points on countback from Sandy Macfarlane.
Ken Davey was nearest on the 7th.
We sent some photos from the lounge with our best wishes to Jim Walker who is recovering in hospital from a stroke.
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