Kentish Gazette Canterbury & District
Askham sets the tone
Richard Askham, Mick Scott, Richard Scott and Colin Shaxted scored 88 points to win Canterbury Golf Club’s Easter Monday shotgun start April Bank Holiday team Stableford from a field of 23 teams and 92 players.
Askham, the Scott duo and Shaxted started at the eighth with two bogeys but then let rip with a combined five birdies and 20 pars.
They won by two from Seamus Gallagher, Sam Ripley, Matthew Stewart and Ben Arscott, who had two birdies in their total of 86 points.
Pete and Phil Johnson, Tony Place and John Shiel scored three birdies in their 84 points to take third on countback from juniors’ organiser Elizabeth Carlotti and her team of youngsters Matt Jones, Buddy
Woodbridge and Ben Holcroft.
Shaxted said: “It wasn’t a very good start with two bogeys on our first hole, the eighth, but Richard Askham birdied the ninth and made a good par for three points on the 10th and we got going after that.”
Mick Scott scored 40 points from a gross 79, net 67, to win Wednesday’s men’s Midweek Stableford.
Scott was out and back in fourover-par to win by one point from Steve Eeles from a field of 63.
Scott had a birdie at the ninth, three pars and five bogeys for gross 40 and 20 points on the front nine and came back in gross 39, with another birdie at the 13th.
David Kincaid scored 38 points from four pars, twelve bogeys and two doubles to take third place on count back from Stuart Forbes.
Richard Cook aced the second with a 7 iron during the competition for his maiden holein-one.
Canterbury blooded three new pairs alongside Richard Scott and Richard Askham as they beat Weald of Kent GC 4-0 in their first home East Kent Evening League Division 1 game of the season on Friday.
Matt Admans and Sunil Samarasinghe won 1 up, Derek Horne and Brian Gaston won 3&2, Scott and Askham won 2 up and Mick Scott and Jamie White won 5&3.
Canterbury were knocked out of the Kent Foursomes in the first round by West Kent GC at home on Sunday.
John Coupe and Shaun Pilbeam fought back from 2 down at the turn to halve the first match but Levi Johnson and Stuart Gray lost on the first extra hole.
Promoted Canterbury lost their first Invicta League
Division 1 match of the season 3-2 at Redlibbets in Sevenoaks on Saturday.
Connor Bundock and Chris Sherwood won 3&1, Brandon Ware and Nigel Fluet lost 3&2, Mark Lambton and Nigel Hylands lost 4&3, Jamie Bourne and Wal Kalinowski won 3&2 and Alan Bundock and Steve Eeles lost 2&1.
Tony Warman will represent Canterbury in the countywide Cecil Leitch 5 Club finals day at Canterbury in June after beating Liam Holland 1 up in the club final on Tuesday.
Canterbury’s Josh Bristow finished tied for 17th at two under in a field of 132 at Remedy Oak GC near Wimborne, Dorset on Tuesday
It was a big improvement from tying 68th on his rookie debut last week and he said: “It was exciting to win money as a professional for the first time.”
Louise Fairburn went from also-ran to winner in the space of four days with victory in Saturday’s ladies’ Weekend April medal.
New member Fairburn scored a birdie at the sixth in a net 68 to win by two shots from playing partner Heather Hardy. Jacqui Mount (10) scored net 72 for third.
Claire Wilson scored a birdie at the 14th in a total of gross 88, net 67, to win for the third time this month in Wednesday’s ladies’ April medal.
She won by three shots with her best 18 holes competition score and said: “That’s probably the best golf I’ve ever played.”
Diane Hollidge scored net 70 to take second on countback from Lizza Berry from a field of 18.
Georgina Carlotti led the way on a mixed two days of Kent Golf competitions for Canterbury juniors.
Carlotti scored net 69 for second place in the girls’ Kent Golf Spring Meeting net competition at West Kent on Monday and followed up with fourth place net in the second Race to St George’s East Kent qualifying mixed event at Hythe Imperial GC on Tuesday, scoring a net 65 after her playing handicap was cut to 25.
Ben Holcroft, 11, said “I feel amazing” after winning his first trophy, the Junior O.K.S. Cup on Sunday.
Holcroft had nothing worse than five double bogeys on his card in his competition best, a gross 93, net 61, to win by nine shots from Claudia Carlotti, who held off third-placed Elsie Miller on countback from a field of 10.