Dartmouth Golf Club men’s section

And so the adventures at Dartmouth continue. The best day of the year greeted the players for the midweek stableford, so good scores were expected writes John Garner.

Sid Davis started well; a handicap of 26 would suggest that he was inconsistent, but he played very consistent golf on the front nine to score 21 points and he was at peace with the world – and then came the back nine.

He scored one point on holes 10-13, and was last to tee off on the 14th.

Sid is very deliberate with his tee shot routine and al­ways takes a practice swing.

As he followed through with it, he hit the ball off its tee, knocking it some five feet into the rough.

Unfortunately that was deemed to be a shot and he never recovered from that and only scored nine points on the back!

The mighty Birss man was at it again, taming the course with his thunderous drives, but out of nowhere he blobbed the 16th which cost him a place.

Mark (Chino) Collins must have heeded previous advice and swung with ease and grace to score 38 points.

He thought he had it in the bag with that score, that is until Mike Griffiths walked in to pip him to the post by two points.

Mike has been playing well of late and has featured in the top three regularly. His 40 points sent Mr Collins back to Glastonbury with much nashing of teeth!

In first was Mike Griffiths 40, second Mark Collins 38, third Andy Birss 37, fourth Ian Metchette 37, fifth Rob Waye 37, there were two twos Paul Durrant on the 18th and Andy Birss on the fifth.

On Saturday the monthly medal and Sandbanks Trophy, combined with the Lombard Trophy qualifier, was played.

It’s always a challenge to play a medal format off the white tees here at Dartmouth and it always favours the bigger hitters out there.

So it proved on the day; Chris Eddowes, Ed Mitchell, Andy Birss, Andy Lennon and Mario Aresti are all single-figure golfers, so it comes as no surprise that they featured in the prizes.

Paul Brown’s adventures continued, the best of which was on the 17th. A cracking drive left him only 130 yards out, but seven shots later he picked the ball out of the hole and all he wanted to do from there back to the clubhouse was fight the world...

So in the gross catergory, first was Chris Ed­dowes 78, second Ed Mitchell 81, third Andy Birss 84, fourth Andy Lennon 85 and fifth Mario Aresti 87.

In the net, first was Ed Mitchell 72, who goes down one shot to eight; second Chris Ed­dowes 74, handicap four; third Andy Birss 74, down from 10 to 9; fourth John Garner 77 and fifth Andy Lennon 78.

There were five twos, Andy Birss on 18, Ed Mitchell on 3, Mike Griffiths on 3, Joe Turn­er five and John Wood on 18.