Club Championship & Monthly Medals - Season 2010-2011

Club Championships - Finals - 16 July 10

Report:-

Thankfully the weather was much better for the final on Friday and Sangster took full advantage of it with a superb three under par front nine.

Swanson started badly and lost the first two holes to par and was five down at the turn.

Sangster won the eleventh with a par to go six up and, despite losing the twelfth and fourteenth, finally won the championship at the fifteenth after Swanson tangled with the trees.

Both of the other finals needed an extra hole to decide the champions.

Dreaves seemed to be in control of the handicap final as he was three up at the turn but Rutherford fought back and the match was all square after 16 holes.

Runners-Up, Back LtoR:- Keith Dreaves, Alan Swanson & WJ Shearer
Winners, Front LtoR:- Walter Rutherford, Jim Sangster & Pat Valentine

Rutherford had to concede the seventeenth to go one down and looked down and out when over 50 feet away from the hole in two at the last with his opponent about twelve feet away. He holed out however and two putts by Dreaves saw the match going up the eighteenth where a par by Rutherford saw him home to relegate Dreaves to the runner up spot for the second year in a row.

After Shearer went two up after two holes and Valentine won the third there was never more than a hole in the senior final and it was all square after 16 holes.

Getting a shot, Shearer won the seventeenth but was unable to match Valentine's par at the last.

Disaster was to follow for Shearer at the nineteenth as, after hitting a fine drive, he pulled his second shot out of bounds allowing Valentine to claim the senior title.

At the prize giving ceremony in the clubhouse all of the champions were very complimentary about the condition of the course and the sporting way that all of the matches in the championships had been played.

It was a particularly emotional occasion for course record holder Sangster who won the scratch championship for the first time beating Swanson, his team partner in many Wilson and Ulbster Cup, matches in the process.

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