Kentish Gazette Canterbury & District
‘I can’t believe it’
KEVIN KEEPS IT IN THE FAMILY WITH ANOTHER HOLE IN ONE AT CANTERBURY
Canterbury Golf Club’s Kevin Ashby kept his family’s astonishing run of aces rolling as he scored his maiden hole in one, at the par three 5th, on Saturday.
The previous Saturday Kevin’s cousin Mark Ferrett (WHS 11.8) had aced the same hole for his second hole in one in two rounds, having scored his first ace in 30 years of trying on the previous Thursday.
The last thing on Kevin’s mind in a Saturday morning friendly fourball with dad Phil and Gary and Miles Fitchett was that he would add to the family tally, with Mark’s father Gerry Ferrett also having two aces to his name.
After holing out with a hybrid, 14-handicapper Kevin said: “I can’t believe it, Mark’s just had two and now I’ve popped in with one.
“Never in my wildest dreams would I have believed that I would get one and it’s kind of crazy that we’ve now had three in the family in the space of 10 days.
“People don’t realise just how big an achievement it is, you’ve got professional golfers out there who never get a hole in one.”
Canterbury hosted a highly
successful end-of-season East Kent Evening League Jamboree on Tuesday, with Maidstone club The Ridge winning the overall team prize with a combined better ball Stableford score of 165 points in a field of 10 teams and 80 players.
Tenterden’s London Beach were second on 155, with EKEL Division 2 champions Canterbury third with 150.
London Beach duo Rob Sims (course handicap 9, 85% allowance) and Dan Penfold (5) won the pair’s prize, for best pair outside of the team winners, with a better ball 44 points.
They won on countback from Headcorn club Weald of Kent’s Martin Quinn (17) and Keith Maisey (19) and Canterbury’s
Steve Eeles (9) and Mark Lambton (5).
Canterbury teaching professional Richard Wallis won his third Pro-am running when he fired five birdies and an eagle in a seven under par 65, for 43 Stableford points, to win the inaugural Farleigh GC PGA Proam, at Selsdon, in Surrey, by one from Ben Talbot (Foxhills).
Bernard Disneur scored his best completed competition round since April, a gross 87 for 40 points, to win last Wednesday’s Men’s Stableford.
Bernard (20, 95 % allowance) scored 23 points on the front nine, with a birdie two at the 5th and added 17 on the back nine to win by one from Colin Shaxted (14), who scored gross 82 and looked set for victory until he ran up a triple bogey seven at the 15th.
Terry Smith (18) scored a gross 87 for 38 points to take third place in a field of 45.
Lady captain Alyson Wreford and former Canterbury member Lizza Berry (Royal Cinque Ports) scored 42 points for victory in Wednesday’s Ladies’ Invitation Day fourball better ball Stableford.
Wreford (15, 100% allowance) and Berry (18) scored 23 points on the front nine and 19 on the back to win on countback from Val Binns (11) and Gillian Bailey (Sene Valley, 37). Fran Fearn (22) and Kim Atkinson (Faversham, 17) scored 38 points for third place.
Wreford and Berry dovetailed well, Berry scoring with a four points birdie at the 5th, four pars and four bogeys and Wreford with three pars and five bogeys.
Clare Mills won her first competition since June when she scored a gross 92, net 75 to win Sunday’s Ladies’ Weekend October Medal in a field of seven.
Mills (17) won by a shot from Wreford, who missed her chance of victory by running up an eight at the 13th.
Mike Harrison sank a nervy four feet putt at the 18th to win Monday’s Seniors’ Gibson Cup bogey competition, on countback from Ian Cooper, with a score of +3 from a gross 94, net 67.
Harrison (27) was two points down after three but rallied and then scored at the 15th, 16th and 17th before holing his knee-knocker at the last while Cooper scuppered his hopes with a triple bogey at the 17th.
Andrew Kirkland (23) finished with +1 to take third place on countback from Robert Green (13), Terry Hancock (15), Colin Buttenshaw (16), Ray Lloyd (16), Les Elmer (10) and ninthplaced Kevin Fletcher (21) in a field of 66. Harrison said: “As I was standing over it at the last I thought, ‘This putt can be the difference between winning and losing’ and on this occasion it went in.”
Brinley Foster (28) scored 38 points for his first competition win at Canterbury in Sunday’s Junior Stableford, holding off Amos Brazier (8), who scored a gross 77, on countback.