Kentish Gazette Canterbury & District
Eagle lands Lloyd medal
Steve Lloyd eagled the 18th to shoot a stunning gross 66 (net 61) for a four-shot victory in Canterbury Golf Club’s Style Cup men’s medal.
Lloyd birdied the second but dropped shots at the fourth and seventh before back to back birdies saw him reach to reach the turn at one under. Further birdies at the 14th and 16th took him to three under but he saved the best until last, chipping in from 10 yards for a three.
He said: “After I got to twounder at the 14th I started to feel nervous and had to tell myself to calm down and hold it together. “The 18th really capped it. I hit a really good drive but got a horrible bounce left into the trees. I tried to cut the second one but hit it too straight and it finished about 10 yards past the pin up the bank at the back. I hit a little 56 degrees wedge and it just caught the slope and ran down into the cup.’’
It was hard lines for Style Cup second placed Connor Bundock (h16), who missed out on countback in last Wednesday’s Midweek Stableford to Josh Bristow’s gross 65.
On Sunday he dropped six shots on the last four holes, including a triple bogey seven at the 16th for another second, beating Paul Stewart (h10) on countback.
Bristow scored eagles at the first and last in Wednesday’s Men Stableford for 38 points in his first home competition after a pressure cooker fortnight which saw him finish in the top10 in the Brabazon Trophy, the English Men’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship and then reach the last 16 of the Amateur Championship. Luke Mcintosh praised team-mate Peter Bundock’s “unbelievable” short game after they teamed up with Connor Bundock and Jack Reed to win
Monday’s Bank Holiday Team Waltz Stableford, with 118 points, winning by two from Paul Stewart, Benji Heaton, Russell Stannard and Liam
Holland.
Alyson Wreford scored a net 66 to pip defending champion Charlotte Launois by one shot to win the Ladies’ Mount Harvest
Cup medal on Saturday. Amanda Pilbeam birdied the third on her way to a levelpar net 71 to win the Ladies’ September Medal and, with it, the Connie Groves Rose Bowl last Wednesday. Richard Wallis fired six birdies and an eagle in a blistering eight under par 63 for 44 Stableford points to win the Southern Open Championship.
Great Britain and Ireland international Wallis, from Canterbury Golf Club, won from a starting field of 115 at the par 71 Paultons GC at Romsey, Hampshire last Thursday. He won by a single point from a charging Jordan Godwin (Rochester & Cobham Park GC), who had needed to eagle the last to catch the Canterbury teaching professional.
He won again the following day when he scored a five birdie, two under-par 67 for 38 points to tie for first place in the Langley Park pro-am, with Godwin and two other players.