Terrific upcoming Maxitours events!
Next Friday 16th May North Manchester Team of 4 £20- great condition

Thursday 22nd Hopwood Team- nearly full

Tuesday 27th Sandiway Pairs–nearly full

Thursday 5thJuneDunhamForest Pairs– nearly full

Maxitours at Pleasington

A windswept Pleasington was the beautiful but testing setting for today’s latest terrific Maxitours event. Many thanks to Manager Chris Williams and his team for their hospitality today.

Pleasington Golf Club has impressively large and very expensive patio windows. I thoroughly enjoyed watching some interesting short game action as I was able to look out over the huge 18th green during the course of the day.
Peter Griggs did a terrific Doug Sanders impersonation as he missed a simple putt which would have taken Jim Caldwell and himself into a career best second place. ‘It was pathetic’ he muttered to himself as he sat teary eyed in the corner of the bar gazing deep into his orange squash.
Iain Bartholomew left both his putts short ‘These greens are excellent, but they are not as quick as Augusta’ he commented loudly, adding ‘did I tell you I went to watch the Masters this year?’.
Music fan Mike Mahon faced a tricky chip onto the green off a tight lie and he looked increasingly concerned as his thinned approach hurtled towards the double glazing. He started singing his favourite tune of the 90’s ‘Oh sit down, Oh sit down, OH SIT DOWN!’

In today’s event the scoring was very average. Ian Neilson from Shaw Hill played the round of his life however he was devastated to leave a 9 inch put short of the hole on the 10th. ‘The green was slower than I thought -and it was a little bit uphill’ he explained to his shell shocked partner Mark Birtwistle. Their 41 points was good enough to take third place.

Alistair Brown from Mere played alongside his happy and wealthy pal Barry Hawley-Jones. Ex European Tour Pro Alistair is now a respected amateur and he still has great ball control. He was known as one of the straightest hitters on the tour. He is still so straight last week his playing partner Barry told him to lay up to a stream crossing the fairway ‘I’m going to run it over the bridge’ replied arrow straight Brown. Today as others were fighting the wind he carefully caressed his ball around the breezy course to earn the classy partnership a first ever Maxitours podium finish.

Taking today’s honours were Bramall’s Ian King and Darren Whittaker. They were the first match out and had a stunning 25 points on the front nine. As the wind picked up and the first showers fell the likeable duo scrapped their way to an inward 18 points to take first prize. Well played chaps!

Thanks to all players for your support today.
Nearest the pin 16th Chris Lee Doxen AD333s
Nearest the pin in 2 on 18th Phil Ashcroft Dozen AD333s

2’s £97.50 3 pro vs or 6 srixon AD333s John Hilditch Norman Davies Barry H-Green Colin Brazier Callum Barrow Brian Hopkins Steve Cuthbert

Pleasington	07-May-2014
Pos	Player pairings	Score	OoM	Comment
1	Ian King, Darren Whittaker	43	12	Cleveland Rescue Club each
2	Alistair Brown, Barry H-Green	41	11	Galvin Shirt Each
3	Iain Neilson, Mark Birtwistle	41	10	Dozen Z Stars each
4	Norman Davies , Jordan Francis	40	9	Dozen Z Stars each
5	Archie Tahir, Mo Rafiq	40	8	Dozen Soft Feel
6	Iain Perkins, Greg Fee	40	7	Maxitours shirt each
7	Tony Robinson, Phil Ashcroft	40	6	Dozen AD333s
8	Jim Caldwell, Peter Griggs	40	5	top seniors: Maxitours shirt each
9	Iain Bartholomew, John Hilditch	39	4
10	David Alcock, Ben Alcock	39	3
11	Lewis Marland, Alf Shillitoe	38	2
12	Jon Buckley, Mike Ormrod	38	1
13=	John Farnworth, Richard Palmer	38
13=	Martin Firth, Andy Hockenhull	38
15=	Joe Kirwan, Dave Keen	37
15=	Steve Rimmer, Tony Fox	37
15=	Phil Vokes, Barney Ross	37
15=	Brian Hopkins, Alan Pengelly	37
15=	Steve Parle, Gary Parle	37
20=	Mick Mahon, Tony Wilson	36
20=	Chris Lee, Tony Woodford	36
20=	Paul Dalby, Paul Sherlock	36
20=	John Anderton, Steve Mattinson	36
20=	Colin Brazier, Steve Cuthbert	36
20=	David Smith, Paul Baxter	36
20=	Gary Garner, Mark Green	36
27=	Dave Barrow, Callum Barrow	35
27=	Tony Gee, Steve Davies	35
29=	Guy Hall, Keith Coxon	34
29=	Russell Humphries, Bernard Fee	34
29=	Mike Dobson, Craig Barker	34
29=	Paul Kennedy, Duncan Cheslett	34
29=	Mike Stevenson, Pat Keenan	34
34=	John Stubbs, John Royle	33
34=	Phil Wise, Joe Stanley	33
34=	Eddie Jordan, Paul Gaskell	33
34=	Paul Woodbine, Pete Keena	33
34=	Doug Edmunds, Jason Dorton	33
34=	Bernard Wood, Andy Moon	33
40=	Bill Parkinson, Gordon Warke	32
40=	Tony Rains, Pete McMahon	32
40=	Gary Garner, Mark Green	32
40=	Simon Helmsley, Al Demmy	32
44=	Jack Coleman, Anthony Bloor	31
44=	Tom Wilson, Chris Dykens	31
46=	Brian Greenbank, Nigel Jenkins	30
46=	Richard Blackwell, Peter Freeman	30
48	Ray Royle, Terry Day	29
49	Ted Ellis, Ken Swarbrick	28
50=	David Wainwright, John Kennedy	27
50=	Tom Dobbins, Chris Ernill	27
52	Tom Costly, Stewart Cragg	25

Start times at North Manchester

AM AM Friday 16th May
10.00 Jim Caldwell x2

10.10 Phil Vokes x4

10.20 Colin Roberts x4

10.30 Ian King x4

10.40 Neville Dennis x4

10.50 Archie Tahir x4

11.00 Ian Ainsworth x4

11.10

11.20 Lewis Marland x4

11.30 Richard Blackwell x4

11.40

11.50 Roy Sinclair x4

12.00 Simon Poucher x4

12.10

12.20 Gary Garner x4

12.30 Andy Stubbens x4

12.4

12.5

1.00

1.20 Danny Ritchie x4

1.30 Charles Herbert x4

1.40

1.50 Dave Crowther x4

2.00

2.10 Dave Hillier x4

2.20 Dave Hillier x4

2.30

2.40 Lee Tilley x4

2.50