Results from Stunning Stockport

Maxitours results from Superb Stockport

It was another ‘day in a million’ for the full field of Maxitours competitors who turned up at Stockport Golf Club. Clear blue skies and barely a breath of wind meant a hugely enjoyable day was had by all.
‘Those greens are amazing for this time of year’ was the main sentiment echoing around the grand Stockport Clubhouse as the happy teams returned their cards.

I need to apologise to last weeks surprise winner and top bloke Howard Baker who was only referred to as ‘Baker’ in last weeks report (which mainly focused on his more talented partner Steve Lowe.) Today Howard was brought back down to earth as he had to settle for a lowly 27th place playing alongside Pete Cleaver.

Steve Roberts(5) played great golf when won the Cheshire Amateur Championship at Bromborough in 1981. After a successful business career away from golf he declared to his delighted partner Frank Gill on the 1st tee today that he had ‘come out of the wilderness and am back to playing my best’. Their 31 point haul was just good enough to earn them a top 50 finish. ‘He might have come out of the wilderness but his ball was certainly in it a lot today’ said a frustrated Gill.

Many quality golfers have played the beautiful Stockport course, indeed in the 1920’s Harry Braid, JH Taylor, Harry Vardon and Sandy Herd played an exhibition match at Stockport, between them they had won the Open Championship over 18 times! Bob Sutton, David Kelly, Jonty Geake and Dennis Bamford between them have won the Knutsford Tuesday morning roll up over twenty times. Today they had their own little exhibition match and there was a truly incredible variety of shots played by that particular four ball.

Scoring was tight in todays event and Mark Wheeler and Dave Murphy narrowly took fourth place ahead of Iain Bartholomew(3) and John Hilditch(11).

Ron Atkinson’s son in law, Ross Sellors(12), teamed up with John Buckley(11) from The Mere. Sellors parred his final four holes and his strong finish earned the Mere duo a career best 4th place.

Chris ‘also ran’ Hegarty(8) never delivers the goods. Today he teamed up with Cheshire haulage legend Rueben Fielding(12) who transported him around the course in style. Hegarty was really motoring and he incredibly birdied the 14th, 15th and 18th holes and the two top blokes drove off with second place.

Taking todays honours were Mark Kilgallon(16) and Brian Gibbons. Both players contributed 9 times in an excellent team effort, however Kilgallons birdie on the 17th really gave them some momentum after a slow start. Well played chaps!

Thanks for your support once again today,
Yours in Golf,
Tim

Nearest the Pin 16th Dave Woodhead Dozen AD333s
Nearest the Pin in 2 on 18th Dave Whaley Dozen AD333s

2’s £100 3 pro V1s or 6 srixon AD333s each

John Hughes Rod Price Denis Bamford Mark Wheeler Dave Woodhead John Royle Martin Firth Malc Brownhill

Stockport	25-Nov-2013
Pos	Player pairings	Score	OoM	Comment
1	Mark Kilgallon, Brian Gibbons	45	12	Titleist carry bag
2	Chris Heggarty, Reuben Fielding	43	11	FJ Aqualite shoes
3	Ross Sellors, John Buckley	43	10	FJ Shirt
4	Mark Wheeler, Dave Murphy	42	9	Cleveland Dual conopy Umbrella
5	John Hilditch, Ian Bartholomew	42	8	Dozen rocket balls
6	Phil Vokes, Paul Dalby	41	7	Titliest Mitts
7	Richard Blackwell, John Hilton	41	6	Cleveland Mitts
8	Pete O’Neill, Jim Driscoll	41	5	Titleist Cap
9	Geoff Haynes, Terry Davison	41	3	over 60’s winners-fj shirt
10	Jason Waite, Steve Lowe	41	2	Srixon Cap
11=	Jimmy O’Reilly, John Reilly	40
11=	John Hughes, Ian Singleton	40
11=	Russ Brooks, Mike Brown	40
14=	Dave Antrobus, Dave Harlow	39
14=	Phil Smeathers, John Anderton	39
14=	Pete Holmes, Rod Price	39
14=	Pete Tinkler, Dave Herbert	39
14=	Martin Firth, Andy Stubbens	39
14=	Geoff Sherburn, Paul Bolton	39
14=	George Maxwell, Dave Woodhead	39
14=	Paul Kuiper, Mark Woodhead	39
14=	John Killoran, Malc Burton	39
23=	Carl Bolus, Jim Beeston	38
23=	Charles Herbert, Mark Marshall	38
23=	Ian Trow, Keith Coxon	38
23=	Sean Kirkby, Karl McKinney	38
27=	Colin Baxendale, Keith Thompson	37
27=	Tony Rains, Tony Fox	37
27=	Jonty Geake, Dennis Bamford	37
27=	Russel Humphries, Bernard Fee	37
27=	John Stubbs, John Royle	37
27=	Joe Stanley, John Horsley	37
27=	Howard Baker, Pete Cleaver	37
27=	Lewis Marland, Alf Shillitoe	37
27=	Mike Spencer, Joe Kirwan	37
36=	Ian King, Darren Whittaker	36
36=	Malc Brownhill, Graham Brownhill	36
36=	Alan Clough, Ian Ainsworth	36
36=	Richard Palmer, Keith Fitzhenry	36
40=	Colin Roberts, John Rigby	35
40=	Tony Doidge, Mike Cocker	35
42=	Ruel Spence, Mike Barron	34
42=	Ivan Masterson, Alan Dowd	34
42=	Frank Hindle, Tony Wilson	34
42=	Nigel Comsty, Phil Parry	34
42=	Bob Sutton, David Kelly	34
47	Derek Ashford, Dave Whaley	33
48	Bob Sinclair, Kevin Burt	32
49=	Dave Parsons, Chris Leonard	31
49=	Steve Roberts, Frank Gill	31
49=	Steve Rimmer, John Little	31
52	Stuart Hall, Derek Hollinrake	30

Vale Royal start times
WEDNESDAY 6th December
£25 inc bacon buttie
1a Neville Dennis x4
1b Geoff Haynes x4
2a Mick Mahon x4
2b Dave Blood x4
3 Nigel Compsty x4
4a
4b Liam Harrison x4
5a John Stubbs x4
5b Gav Dixon x4
6 Dave Parsons x4
7a Jason Waite x4
7b Pete O’Neill x4
8a Sean Kirkby x4
8b Jim Caldwell x2 Richard Blackwell x2
9 Charles Herbert x4
10 Colin Roberts x4
11a Mark Wheeler x4
11b Ian King x4
12a Malc Wells x4
12b Phil Vokes x4
13 George Maxwell x4
14a Wayne Colclough x4
14b Lewis Marland x4
15a Mark Robinson x4
15 Iain Bartholomew x4
16 Steve Roche x4
17a Lee Tilley x4
17b Lee Tilley x4
18 Alan McNicol x4