Well the wet weather certainly threatened our 3rd Competition of 2020, however the forecast was correct that it would improve and as I write this report I’m still amazed at how the course stood up to that amount of rainfall. A months rain in 2 days I understand yet the course was perfect to play
Sunday 13th September 2020 saw 17 Dabchick Society Golfers take on the challenge of Shrivenham Park, a mere 5630 yards even off the White Tee’s, huge scores were predicted by some pre round, however just like the recent US Open good scores were few and far between! Congratulations to our winner – Matt Reynolds with
Winners are grinners they say and I believe nearly a week on Simon Barrett is still ‘buzzing’ after his win last Sunday in our 1st Dabchick event of 2020. Huge congratulations Simon and a pleasure to witness the round, 41 points – I’m sure Sue will enjoy seeing the Shield around the house! But Simon
Ok so it’s not quite Christmas yet, but lets face it the Autumn has been pretty wet and dreary for lots of us, especially the golfers in our Society. The Christmas Cracker – Friday 6 Dec, 09:30 We are at Ogbourne Downs; the first tee-time is 09:30 so we can all get around in the
Our final ‘Major’ The Autumn Masters was held last Sunday (8th) at Newbury & Crookham Golf Course, our members were welcomed by beautiful golfing weather, but also as always appears to be the case with our visits to Newbury & Crookham a wonderful course in great condition, with a thought to next year selecting this
We did it again! Beautiful weather, a very fair course and some great golf were on offer at yesterdays Dabchick Society Shield competition held at Cumberwell Park. Cumberwell Park Golf Course was in superb condition, thank you to the 9 golfers who attended and I’m delighted to hear the favourable comments with regards the venue
Dabchick – Midsummer 2019 Results Firstly the weather was similar to most of the fields golf, some great spells of sunshine mixed with several small showers just to annoy people! However overall not a problem, a beautiful course and golf were on offer at the recent Dabchicks Midsummer Open event. The 2nd ‘Major’ of our
The final major of the year saw us back at West Berks. Anther first time Major winner, Richard Simpson with a magnificent 40 points will be joined by Nick Bowley on finals day. Player Points Richard Simpson 40 Nick Bowley 32 Clive Snashall 32 Paul Niblock 30 David Newham 30 Andrew Crozier 29 Darren Kirwan
Next Friday, The Wiltshire (Royal Wooton Basset) at 1:00 The Spring Cup sees us at The Wiltshire on Friday 15 April May for a first tee-time, 1:26pm. For full details of the course visit the Witshire website. Clive will be defending the trophy he won on a blustery day at Upavon last year, It was
(Much debate about handicaps was put to bed in the early day of the society – in 2001, with the addition of new members, this was issued for clarification – clear as mud?) The method used by the society organisers to adjust members’ handicaps is based loosely on the scheme employed by the English Golf