Great Upcoming Summer Maxitours events
Stockport Abacus Law Classic this Monday 17th- Last few spaces
Sandiway 25th -Full
Hesketh 3rd Sept -last few spaces
Knutsford JP and Brimelow Classic 10th -nearly full
Maxitours at Prestbury Golf Club
Prestbury Golf Club was the idyllic setting for today’s Maxitours event. This is a magnificent course with a terrific membership who were great to me whilst I enjoyed being a young assistant at the Club in the early 1990’s.
The new Prestbury green keeper seems to be doing an excellent job and his smooth and incredibly fast greens gave more than a few players the heebeegeebies. Several struggled on the undulating 9th green where the more intelligent players left themselves an uphill putt.
‘It was like putting down a car bonnet’ said Tim Spencer as he watched in horror as his srixon ball gathered speed and went sailing past the flag.
The threatening rain just held off all until Richard Williamson in the last group putted out on the 18th green at 6.30pm and then started to fall heavily as he put his clubs away in the car park. Everyone had a great day and went home happy and ready to watch the ‘Ringo Starr’ of the four majors- the USPGA Championship.
Kevin Barker told me today that he saw his doctor recently as was becoming obsessed about golf. He rarely went home at the weekends or evenings as he was working on his faults, and when he did go home he had a short temper followed by a state of manic depression because he was hitting the ball all over the place. In fact he was so frustrated he never talked to his wife after a round and when he did he just snapped at her. When I asked him what the doctor advised, he replied. ‘I’ve got to shorten my backswing’. Unfortunately he could only manage 36 points today playing alongside affable Scotsman Dave McCallum.
The golf course is designed really well and requires players to work the ball both ways. As record A’ level results were published most players unfortunately failed the tough Prestbury examination. Despite perfect golfing weather poor scores reflected the difficulty of this links. Paul Lord(5) and Barry Hornby(14) took 5th place with just 39 points! Steve Aspinall(9) and Barry Wellings(7) were also surprised and delighted to feature so highly in the prizes after they scored a battling 40 points.
The ‘shock of the day’ was the pairing of Knutsford Secretary Stuart Blake(6) and respected member David Kelly(11).They scored 40 points to earn them a career best 3rd place finish. Stuarts birdie on the tough 13th hole earned the likeable pair a healthy four points. -Well played.
Tytherington’s Jason Waite(12) teamed up with young Remy Hiller(6) and they started with four points after Remy made a classy eagle on the long par five. Jason showed his maturity on the closing holes as he parred the tough 17th and 18th to close out second place.
Today’s honours also went to a Tytherington pair as late entries Pete Cleaver(7) and Carlo Mysko(21) scored a wonderful 43 points. Skilful Macclesfield Plasterer Pete started well but was in danger of crumbling in the middle of his round. However he managed to smooth over the cracks and he played the four closing holes in level par. Congratulations- great golf!
Thanks to Matt Turnock who ran the first half of todays event as I was missing the cut in the National PGA fourball Championship at Carden Park. It was also great to see my old man play 18 holes for the first time in two years- legend, well done Dad.
May thanks for your terrific support once again, yours in Golf, Tim
2’s £160 4 pr V1s or 9 srixons each Phil Vokes, Pete Cleaver, Jack Pryce, Andy Wilde, Iain Bartholomew, Kevin Hawkins, Anthony Grimley, Will Cockayne, Stuart Blake, Bob Sutton, Pete Maxwell, Dave McCallum, Mike Piggott, Steve Aspinall
| Prestbury | 12-Aug-2015 | |||
| Pos | Player pairings | Score | OoM | Comment |
| 1 | Pete Cleaver, Carlo Mysko | 43 | 12 | Cleveland wedge each |
| 2 | Jason Waite, Remy Miller | 41 | 11 | Tommy Hilfiger shirt each |
| 3 | Stuart Blake, David Kelly | 40 | 10 | Tommy Hilfiger shirt each |
| 4 | Steve Aspinall, Barry Wellings | 40 | 9 | Sunice shirt each |
| 5 | Paul Lord, Gary Hornby | 39 | 8 | Sunice shirt each |
| 6 | Brian Hopwood, Alan Pengelly | 39 | 7 | Dozen Taylor Made balls each |
| 7 | Jim Comerford, Bob Chester | 39 | 6 | Dozen Srixon balls each |
| 8 | Phil Vokes, Paul Dalby | 39 | 5 | Bobby Jones Bag towel |
| 9 | A. Wilde, J. Moon | 38 | 4 | Bobby Jones Bag towel |
| 10 | Nigel Dibble, Gary Christian | 38 | 3 | Bobby Jones Bag towel |
| 11 | Fizz Ahmed, Talat Mahmood | 38 | 2 | |
| 12 | Andy Stubbins, Jonny Walker | 37 | 1 | |
| 13= | Colin Roberts, John Rigby | 37 | ||
| 13= | Phil Smethers, Dave Stanhope | 37 | ||
| 13= | E. Stirling, K. Oakes | 37 | ||
| 13= | Pete Smith, Mark Green | 37 | ||
| 13= | John Jones, Dave Moore | 37 | ||
| 18= | Dave Marchant, Geoff Andrews | 36 | ||
| 18= | Jack Stanhope, Steve Mattinson | 36 | ||
| 18= | Munro Donald, Phil Hanson | 36 | ||
| 18= | Jack Pryce, J. Henderson | 36 | ||
| 18= | Frank Stapleton, Kevin Hawkins | 36 | ||
| 18= | S. Cuthbert, Colin Brazier | 36 | ||
| 18= | Nigel Eckersley, Graham Pike | 36 | ||
| 18= | Dave McCallum, Kev Barker | 36 | ||
| 18= | Gary Neiles, Joe Yates | 36 | ||
| 27= | David Wainwright, Martin Bramwell | 35 | ||
| 27= | Sam Leach, Mike Pigott | 35 | ||
| 27= | Majid Benyounes, Kal | 35 | ||
| 27= | Trevor Upton, Tony Taylor | 35 | ||
| 31= | Andy Taylor, Martin Firth | 34 | ||
| 31= | Anthony Grmley, John Buckley | 34 | ||
| 31= | Tim Spencer, Mike Saxon | 34 | ||
| 31= | Marcus Rigby, Dominic Rigby | 34 | ||
| 35= | Brian Greenbank, Keith Spencer | 33 | ||
| 35= | P. Norbury, R. Norbury | 33 | ||
| 35= | David Harlow, Bob Sutton | 33 | ||
| 35= | Richard Williamson, Rob Williams | 33 | ||
| 39= | John Hilditch, Iain Bartholomew | 32 | ||
| 39= | Dave Parsons, Geoff Sherburn | 32 | ||
| 39= | Archie Tahir, Irfin Ashraf | 32 | ||
| 39= | Richard Blackwell, Tony Jennison | 32 | ||
| 43 | M. Cheffins, Sean O’Connor | 31 | ||
| 44= | Mo Dar, Kevin Chisnell | 30 | ||
| 44= | Richard Sym, Ray Wigglesworth | 30 | ||
| 46 | Sue Malins, Jill Williams | 28 | ||
| 47= | Paul Kennedy, Wayne McNulty | 26 | ||
| 47= | Ron Sloane, Richard Banks | 26 |
The Abacus Law Classic at Stockport Golf Club.
Monday 17th August
9.00 Colin Roberts x4
9.09 Mark Williams x4
9.18 Ian King x4
9.27 Simon Conway x4
9.36
9.45 Brian Greenbank x4
9.54 Phil Vokes x2 John Berry x2
10.03 Mick Mahon x4
10.12 Ian Ainsworth x4
10.21 Dave Stanhope x4
10.30 Jack Coleman x4
10.39 Matt Cheffins x4
10.48 Anthony Grimley x2 Lewis marland x2
10.57
11.06 Pete Short x4
11.15 John Hilditch x2
11.24 Colin Baxendale x4
11.33 Lee Jevons x2 Dave Ellison x2
11.42 Geoff Underhill x4
11.51 Geoff Underhill x4
12.00 Bob Sutton x4
12.09 Brendon Leighton x4
12.18
12.27 Steve Wilson x4
12.36 Roy Ainsworth x4
12.45 Ray Jones x4
12.54 Geoff Allen x4
1.03 Ian Mathers x4
1.12 John Broadhurst x2 Richard Blackwell x2
1.21 Dave Chambers x4
1.30 David Hillier x4
1.39 David Hillier x4
1.48 Brian Hopkins x4
1.57 Ian Hales x4
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