Kentish Gazette Canterbury & District
Scorer’s golden eagle!
Jason Scorer chipped in for an eagle as he and Dean Petch snatched victory by one shot from Pete Johnson and John Shiel in Sunday’s greensomes Bill Cryer Trophy at Canterbury Golf Club.
Starting at the 10th, Scorer and Petch were only three-over-par before running up a double bogey seven at the 18th but they bounced straight back with the eagle three at the first.
They dropped only three more shots in a gross 77, net 65, to squeeze out Johnson and Shiel who birdied the first, third and fifth in a two-over-par gross total of 73, net 66.
Alan Bundock and Anthony Grove had three birdies, nine pars, five bogeys and one damaging double at the 17th in a gross 75, net 67, to take third position from a field of 38 pairs.
Scorer said: “The eagle at the first definitely won it for us. We were a bit deflated on the first tee after the 18th, so getting an eagle down there was a big turning point.
“We took my drive and Dean hit a cracking 3 wood just to the right of the green and about 20 yards short.
“He said ‘You need to land this
just on the back of the bunker, just let it run down to the flag’ and I did, so a big cheer went up when we saw that drop.
“It was brilliant to win, we were elated.”
Canterbury’s Bradley Cook and his team did their homework and were rewarded with a 5-0 win at Cherry Lodge on Friday in their third round-robin group match.
England and Kent Ladies’ Seniors captain Angela Jones, Jen Rutherford and Fiona Cameron played the Biggin Hill course on Monday and Canterbury captain Ali Ord said: “Their
feedback was invaluable.”
Jones and Cameron both scrapped out wins at the first extra hole, Ord claimed a 6&5 victory, Caroline Collins won 2 up and Rutherford won 3&2.
Catherine Hinds and Heather Hardy have qualified to represent Canterbury in the regional final of the England Golf Australian Spoons National Stableford foursomes competition.
A haul of 39 points saw them win the club qualifying event on countback from Lorraine Townsend and Ann Lake to qualify for the next stage at
Haywards Heath in Sussex on Monday, August 1.
Patrick Goode scored two birdies and Simon Mount birdied the first as they, Chris Stephens and Brian Whybrow totalled 92 points to win Monday’s Bank Holiday 1,2,3 Team Waltz Stableford competition.
Starting on the 16th, they finished with three pars for nine points on the 15th to win by one from Brian Gaston, David Simmons, Nick Miller and Stephen Zachry.
Aston Moy, Paul Davis, Connor Bundock and Ken Small scored 90 points for third.
Stephens said: “Simon’s eagle putt just lipped out at the first but Pat dropped a putt from 12 feet for a birdie at the sixth and, on the 14th, his second shot was to about a foot.
“The highlight was our last hole, the 15th, we got three pars for three pointers on that one, it was brilliant.”
Paul Jefferson chipped in for a birdie at the 12th to help rack up 40 points and victory by two from Steve Robson and Matt Admans in last Thursday’s Club Midweek Stableford.
Jefferson said: “It feels amazing, I think I won something years and years ago, but I haven’t won anything since.”
He put that right from a field of 31 with his best competition score since 2015, a gross 80, net 67, scoring 19 points out and 21 on the back nine with his birdie, three pars and five bogeys.
Josh Bristow took another step forward in his rookie professional career when he finished twounder-par and tied for 28th place from a field of 154 at the Clutch Pro Tour Trentham Classic at Trentham, near Stoke-on-trent.
Dan Cooke finished 35th from a starting field of 132 in last week’s Welsh Men’s Open Stroke at the Play Championship at the par 72 Ashburnham, near Llanelli.
Canterbury lost their East Kent Evening League side match 3-1 at Etchinghill on Friday but the Canterbury Juniors beat Faversham 2.5-0.5 in a home Srixon Junior foursomes League match on Saturday.
Georgina Carlotti and Matthew Jones won 7&5, Max Smith and Claudia Carlotti halved on the 18th and Elsie Miller and Buddy Woodbridge gave one shot to their Faversham opponents and won 2&1.
Christina Carlotti, 10, 11-year-old Ben Holcroft and Brinley Foster, 15, made their Canterbury debuts in a 2-1 defeat at Sittingbourne on Sunday in the four-ball, better ball, East Kent Junior League.