1st Round Win for Stoneleigh’s Men

In the first round of this year’s Mail on Sunday National Golf Club Classic, Stoneleigh’s men had been drawn away against Whitefields Golf Club. As the Whitefields representative failed to make contact with Neville Gardner (our team Captain) by the designated date, Neville claimed home advantage by making the first contact. So it was that we played the away match at Stoneleigh on Saturday 28th January!

The team contained two stalwarts from our victorious 2009 team and three players making their Mail on Sunday debut. That said all five players have regularly represented Stoneleigh in the scratch league – so Neville was confident of a strong performance from the lads.

Luke Brown led the way and did a great job. Despite a shaky first tee shot Luke managed to win the first and was always ahead in his match, the final result being a 4&3 victory.

Second off was Dave Parsons against the Whitefields captain. Dave boomed his first drive away and that seemed to unnerve his opponent. Dave took the first three holes and relentless good play saw him finish his match on the 11th green – a comfortable 8&7 win.

Will Smith showed his MoS experience by playing sub par golf which was too good for his opponent. A 4&3 victory meant that we had won the match, but Stoneleigh victories didn’t end there.

Mark Woolerton also took an early lead which he would not relinquish. His early good play was not matched by the opposition player. Mark’s game got dragged down a bit later in the round, but he was 2up standing on the 16th tee. In view of the overall match position his opponent conceded the match.

Phil Roberts was our last man off and appeared to be up against it when he lost the first hole to a 5 net 4. But Phil is a tenacious battler and he quickly turned his game around so that he had a comfortable lead at the turn. Phil won the 14th, despite giving a shot, and stood dormie 4 up on the 15th tee. His opponent agreed a half on the 15th and so Phil won his game 4&3 to give Stoneleigh a 5-0 overall victory.

Well played to the team and good luck in the second round.

Neville Gardner

MEN’S COMPETITION WINNERS 2011

Director’s Cup – Neville Gardner & Ron Edmondson

Highland Shield – Dave Lawrence & Martin Darbey

Massey Ferguson – Bob Pursley

Par Bogey – Carl Scott

Carrick Cup – John Howe, Dave Munday, Simon Roberts & Andy Cutting

Harrison Brown – Kully Wain, Sally Sparrow, Frances Farren & Pauline Dye

Palmares Cup – David Wright & Teresa Wright

Greensomes Trophy – Rob Cranston & Tony O’Dwyer

Nett Champion – Richard Marklow

President’s Putter – Ron Edmondson & Neville Gardner

Avon League Player of the Year – Harry Smith

Winter League 10/11 – Wayne Brown & Pete Bilic

Avon Timber Par 3 Champion – Carl Stanford

Singles Knockout – Johnny Reay

Most Improved Player – Johnny Reay     

Order of Merit – Johnny Reay  

Club Champion (Gross) - Chris Dougill

TURKEY TROT -SATURDAY 10th DECEMBER 2011

8:30 AM SHOTGUN START

18 HOLE TEXAS SCRAMBLE -TEAMS OF FOUR

Handicap Limit Men 28 – Ladies 36 Handicap Allowance : 1/10th Combined

Prizes dependent on the number of entries

Entry Fee £7.50 per person via Pro Shop - Entry sheet now in Pro shop!!!

Each Team of 4 will comprise of one low handicap player plus 3 drawn players

Don’t forget ……….8.30 am shotgun start!!!

Our scratch team played against Walmley GC in the first round of the Warwickshire Cup on Sunday 6th November.  The format for this county knockout is three pairs of foursomes a side, playing scratch matchplay.  The draw had been kind to us as we had home advantage. Our scratch team Captain (Neville Gardner) had selected a strong side from our single-figure handicap players and hopes were high that we would progress into the next round.

First pair out was Mark Woolerton and Ron Edmondson (fully recovered from his fourth career hole-in-one the day before).  A tight game ensued but Ron and Mark came out on top, winning 1 up.

 Next up was Simon Hawkes and Will Smith.  Simon and Will had represented the club in the summer county foursomes knockout and their experience as a pairing put them in good stead.  One up with three to play they managed to win both the 16th and 17th to win their game 3&1, thus ensuring a victory for Stoneleigh.

The last pairing of Phil Roberts and Neville Gardner were also flying the Stoneleigh flag.  Phil had started the day badly - he dropped his trolley battery onto his foot and broken his little toe.  Hardly good preparation, but Phil is made of sturdy stuff (and was full of painkillers!)  Some strong scoring from Phil and Nev saw them 2 under par gross after 15 holes - good enought to win the match 4&3.

Well done to our team and good luck in the next round away at Shirley.

 Neville Gardner

Stoneleigh Deer Park Golf Club

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The inaugural Par 3 Championship sponsored by Avon Timber was held on Friday 16th September.  A shotgun competition followed by supper and presentation of prizes.

Overall winner - Carl Stanford

Runner Up - Pete Bilic

Category 1 (1-12) - Will Smith

Category 2 (13-20) - Harry Smith

Category 3 (21-36)- Jim Britton

Carl Stanford, the overall winner will receive his trophy at the club Presentation Evening on Friday 18th November.

HIGHLAND SHIELD 2011

 2 MEMBERS OR MEMBER/GUEST

Over the weekend of 24th & 25th September a total of 65 pairs took part in the Highland Shield competition, which was open to two members or member and guest as a pairs betterball stableford.

Congratulations to to winners Dave Lawrence and Damian Darbey, both members of Stoneleigh Deer Park Golf Club.

2 Ball Texas Scramble

Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd October 2011

A total of 41 pairs took part in the texas scramble over the 2 days.

The winning pairing of Mark Woolerton and Steve Woolerton both off 4 handicap carded a tremendous score of 59.4 points.  Second place with 59.8 points was the pairing of Rob Cranston and Ton O'Dwyer with a score of 59.8 points beating the pairing of Andy Cutting and Jason Poole with 60.8 into 3rd place.

Stoneleigh Deer Park Golf Club held its Club Championship on Saturday 30th & Sunday 31st July.  A total of 99 players took part in Round 1, whereby to be eligble for Round 2 the top 32 Gross scores and Nett scores of 71 or better qaulified to play again on the Sunday. 

Congratulations to Chris Dougill, Club Champion who shot an overall gross  66 & 66 (total 134 gross) over the two days taking him 6 shots clear of runner-up Simon Hawkes  (140 gross) who was 4 shots clear of 3rd place winner Will Smith (144 gross).

 Congratulations also to the Nett Club Champion Richard Marklow with overall scores of 60 & 65 (total 125 nett) whose clear margin of 6 shots over the runner-up Dave Rutley (131 nett) just pipping Brad Arian (132 nett) into 3rd place.

All Winners below:

CAPTAIN'S CHARITY GOLF DAY

In Aid of 

The Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance

Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th May

 4 Ball Am Am Stableford & Yellow Ball Competition

The winning team consisting of Wain Davis, Gavin Bottrell, Carl Elkerton and Ian Jones with a great score of 95 points, just beating the ladies  team of Kully Wain (Lady Captain), Sally Sparrow, Pauline Dye and Frances Farren into 2nd place with a score of 94 points.  3rd place awarded to Colin Clark, SImon Thompson, Phil Hughes and Ken Pearson with 92 points who were also the yellow ball winners with a score of 43 points.

Congratulations to the winners and a big thank you to everyone who took part and contributed to the Captain's Charity. A total of £5,083.00 was raised on the day for the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance.

The men's Mail on Sunday team played their first round match on Sunday 6th February at home against The Warwickshire.

 First up was Simon Hawkes giving 3 shots to his opponent Jeff Clewes.  Simon took an early lead which he held on to through the back 9.  Simon lost the 16th as a result of giving a shot and also lost the 18th to a solid par from Jeff.  The match was therefore halved.

Will Smith was second off and was giving 8 shots to Sean Ward.  Will took an early lead and was looking comfortable after 5 holes.  Sean then took advantage of his shots by making par nett birdies at the 6th, 7th and 8th holes and then had a gross birdie on the 9th.  Will struggled to come back from that barrage and some more par nett birdies on the back 9 meant that Will lost 2&1

 Mark Woolerton was out third against 10 handicapper Robin Hartley.  Mark was giving Robin 6 shots, but Mark's normal form of "Woolerton" golf was too much for Robin - Mark running out a comfortable 5&4 winner.

 Next up was acting captain Neville Gardner giving one shot to The Warwickshire's Captain - Mark Williams.  Nev took an early lead and was 2 up after 3 holes.  Back-to-back birdies from Mark on the 4th and 5th saw the match all square and another birdie from Mark on the 9th meant that Nev was 1 down at the turn.  Some clutch putting from Nev on the 10th and 11th kept him in the match and Nev went on to win the 12th and 14th with birdies.  His par on the 15th saw him take a 2 up lead.  A great up and down on the 16th halved the hole and then a chip to within 3 feet meant Nev won his match 3&1.

 Finally Chris Dougill was in the "hot seat" giving 4 shots to Chris Laird.  The final pairing is called on to play off if the overall match standing is halved, but our Chris was concentrating on getting the job done himself.  Some scrappy play, but great recoveries saw our Chris take the lead.  He maintained the lead all the way round to the 17th tee where he was dormie 2 up.  News filtered back that as we were already 2.5-1.5 up the overall match was over, but our Chris chipped in on the 17th to win his match 2&1

The overall result was therefore a 3.5-1.5 victory for Stoneleigh in a keenly contested but very amicable match.  Congratulations to the Stoneleigh boys and good luck in the next round.

Stoneleigh Deer Park's scratch team progressed to the semi-final of the Warwickshire Cup on Sunday with a 2-1 victory over Stonebridge.  The Warwickshire Cup is a scratch county knockout played to a foursomes format - 3 pairs a side.  The match results were:

 Chris Dougill & Shaun Young won 3&1

Will Smith & Mark Woolerton lost 4&3

Neville Gardner & Ron Edmondson won 6&5

 Congratulation to the team and good luck in the next round!

Stoneleigh Deer Park Golf Club hosted the 2nd round of the Warwickshire Cup (Foursomes) on Saturday 11th December against Harborne Golf Club.

The pairings of Shaun Young & Chris Dougill, Neville Gardner & Mark Woolerton and Lloyd Jones & Ron Edmondson (Team Captain).

Stoneleigh Deer Park GC team are now through to the next round with a winning score of  2 1/2 to 1/2.

Congratulations and well done lads!!!!

On Sunday 7th November Stoneleigh Deer Park GC played North Warwicks Golf Club. in Round 1 of the Warwickshire Cup (Scratch Foursomes Knock-Out) competition.

The Stoneleigh Deer Park Golf Club pairings of Steve & Mark Woolerton, Ron Edmondson & Lloyd Jones and Shaun Young & Chris Dougill played a foursomes format and won with a score of 2 1/2  - 1/2

Good luck in the next round lads!!!

Stoneleigh Deer Park Golf Club hosted the Annual Men’s Club Championship, the weather was superb and the course was in excellent condition for the prestigious 36 hole competition of the year.  A total of 111 players took part in Round 1 on Saturday, whereby some tremendous scores were posted.  Member's anxiously awaited to discover where they had been lucky enough to make the 'cut' on the day.  The 'cut' being the top 36 gross scores and the nett of 71 or better, in all a total of 53 members qualified to play in Round 2 on Sunday.

 A play-off was enforced when the best gross scores carded were tied, between Ron Edmondson and Chris Dougill with a tremendous score of 142 gross. After a closely played nail-biting 6 hole play-off, Ron Edmondson’s age and experience held fast to win the Overall Men’s Gross Club Champion title and trophy. Simon Hawkes carded a two-day total of 143 taking 3rd place. Well done to Chris Dougill as Runner-up Gross Champion!!!

After the 36 holes the Overall Nett result was tied at 132 nett, between Grant Cochrane and 12 year old Luke Challis. The Overall Men’s Nett Club Champion for 2010 was decided on the Best 2nd round score of which Grant Cochrane carded 65 nett against Luke Challis with 67 nett leaving Grant to take the Trophy and Luke Challis in 2^nd Place closely followed by Jack Crossley in 3^rd Place with total 134 nett. Congratulations to Grant on achieving the Best Nett Champion!!! Well done also to Luke Challis 2^nd place overall nett!!

Ron Edmondson has not only won the Men’s Gross Club Champion but has also won the Best Gross in the Seniors Men’s Club Champion for the over 55’s at the end of June which also was played over 36 holes.  Congratulations Ron on achieving the Double!!!

Results for the two Rounds:

Round 1 – Bet Nett

Division 1:

1^st:         Simon Hawkes                   Gross 68              Nett 65

2^nd:         Dave Rutley                       Gross 79              Nett 68

3^rd:         Mark Brown                       Gross 80              Nett 68

Division 2:

1^st:         Luke Challis                        Gross 80              Nett 65

2^nd:         Mark Thorne                      Gross 83              Nett 66

3^rd:         Roy Sturmey                      Gross 80              Nett 67

Division 3:

1^st:         Dave Crossley                    Gross 88              Nett 63

2^nd:         Carl Scott                           Gross 87              Nett 66

3^rd:         Grant Cochrane                Gross 92              Nett 67

Gross:

1^st:         Chris Dougill                      Gross 68

2^nd:         Simon Hawkes                   Gross 68

3^rd:         Ron Edmondson               Gross 72

Round 2

Bet Nett:

1^st:         Jack Crossley                     Gross 82              Nett 64

2^nd:         Grant Cochrane                Gross 90              Nett 65

3^rd:         Steve Woolerton              Gross 69              Nett 65

 Gross

1^st:         Steve Woolerton                             Gross 69             

2^nd:         Ron Edmondson                              Gross 70             

3^rd:         Neville Gardner                                Gross 80             

 OVERALL NETT

Nett Champion                 Grant Cochrane                67 + 65 = 132

2^nd :                                      Luke Challis                        65 + 67 = 132

3^rd:                                       Jack Crossley                     70 + 64 = 134

OVERALL GROSS

Club Champion                  Ron Edmondson               72 + 70 = 142

2^nd:                                       Chris Dougill                      68 + 74 = 142

3^rd:                                       Simon Hawkes                   68 + 75 = 143

The annual Captain's Day Yellow Ball competition on Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th May was once again well supported with a total of 28 teams taking part over the two days.

Congratulations to the winning teams!!!!

1st place - Keith Worrall, Des O'Brien, Mick Robbins & Kevin Collins with a tremendous score of 91 points.

2nd place - Steve Wollerton, Ron Edmondson, Nicky Woodhouse & Dave Crombie with 88 points and a countback of 46 points

3rd place - Simon Roberts, Andy Cutting, John Howe & Dave Munday also with 88 points and countback of 42 points

Yellow Ball winners with a score of 41 points was the team of Steve McCluskey, Brenda Sparrow, Julian Box & Malcom Sparrow. 

FOUR NATIONS - OVERALL RESULTS

Winning Nation: WALES with 1552 points

2nd Place: SCOTLAND with 1535 points

3rd Place ENGLAND with 1514 points

4th Place IRELAND with 1507 points

Congratulations to Highest Individual winner from each Nation:

Scotland: Simon Carter with 116 points     

Wales: Mark Woolerton with 116 points   

England:  Neville Gardner with 113 points

&   Ireland:  Shaun Young with 112 points

ROUND 4 RESULTS

Winners:  Simon Carter 39 pts (Scotland), Roy Sturmey 40 pts (Wales), Andy Richter 36 pts (England) & Gavin Bottrell 39 pts (Ireland)

2nd Place: Dave Crossley 38 pts (Scotland), Gordon Mathias 40 pts  (Wales),John Doughty 34 pts (England) & Shaun Young 35 pts (Ireland)

3rd Place: Mick Robbins 36 pts (Scotland), Wayne Gardner 36 pts (Wales), Dave Rutley 34 pts (England) & Philip Stanley 34 pts (Ireland)

A total of 32 teams took part in the Winter League Finals Day on Sunday 28th February 2009. Format on the day was Betterball Stableford, with the winning score of 46 points, closely pipping three pairs all on 45 points .  Second, third and fourth places were all down to countback of scores.

Congratulations to the Winners:  Andy Cutting and Simon Roberts 

2nd Place -  Peter Cleary & Bob Pursley

3rd Place -  Michael Bainton & Terry Brown

The Four Nations Round 4 and Presentation Lunch will still be held on Sunday 7th March as originally published.

The Annual Valentines Scramble took place on 13th & 14th February with a total of 19 teams participating in the competition.  Congratulations to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners who receive vouchers. The winning team consisting of Andy Cutting, John Howe, Dave Munday and Simon Roberts with a score of 56.5 beat the runners-up Mark Woolerton, Chris Dougill, Will Smith and Kevin Ariss by a mere 1/10th of a point. Third place with a score of 57.1 was the team of Ray Stringer, Ade Goodall, John Usher & Ron Pegler. 

Congratulations to the Champions!!!

Stoneleigh Deer Park Golf Club's team clinched the victory in the final of The Mail on Sunday Classic at El Rompido in Andalucia, Spain on Saturday 28th November 2009, with a win over Moor Park Golf Club (3 1/2 to 1 1/2).

Non-playing Team Captain, Ron Edmondson stated; It is such an accolade and tremendous achievement for Stoneleigh Deer Park Golf Club to become the Champions of The Mail on Sunday National Golf Classic 2009.  It is not just a win for the team but a win for the Members and Golf Club too! The lads were really magnificent.  This is a real milestone for Stoneleigh - I am still having to pinch myself to realise that we have actually pulled it off!!

At the beginning of the 2009 season there were over 3,000 teams nationally taking part , all playing for the coveted Winner's Trophy and a chance of playing the Finals in Spain.  Stoneleigh Deer Park's team played their way through the rounds, these were initially local, regional, national and then onto Quarter Finals in September.  It was there our win over Lymm GC at Worsley Park GC, Manchester clinched our place in Spain for the November Semis & Final. 

There were good performances from the Woolerton Brothers, Mark & Steve in the semi-final and solid performances in both games by Neville Gardner & Shaun Young – both being the rock & backbone of the team.

Steve Woolerton almost pulled off a remarkable win against John Aldridge (+1 player), he was 4 down through 5 holes and pulled back to A/S halving the match.

Mark Woolerton also played a fantastic game against Nick Algate (scratch player) although he finished 2 down, he was 4 up at one stage in the match, then Nick got his game back and slowly pegged back into the game to win.

Neville Gardner was playing 6^th hole, in rough greenside, he couldn’t see the pin, he chipped up to within 3” of the hole .  Shot of the weekend!!!  Throughout the tournament Neville only lost 1 game, he gained the nickname of ‘Mr Steady’

Shaun Young earned the nickname ‘Mr Cool’, he had an outstanding competition, all through the rounds has not lost a game.  After a solid start with birdies in 1st two holes, his game against Danny West got progressively better, and by the 12^th hole he was 6 up, took his foot off the pedal a little and won 4 & 3.

Will Smith, the youngest player in the squad, just 18 yrs old made history for Stoneleigh in the final by holing the winning putt on the 18^th green.

Ron stated that the scores don’t reflect how close the games were, some excellent golf was played throughout the final by both teams.

Ron Edmondson, Team Captain would like to thank John & Cherry Reay and Avon Timber for their sponsorship of the team also their Mascot & Caddy, Johnny Reay (Junior Captain) and to the Caddies ( Ken Wykes - Club Captain, John Lewis, Kevin Ariss and Harry Smith) &  all  the supporters who travelled to Spain to cheer them on to the tremendous win. Thanks also to Chris Dougill, Andy Richter & Ron Edmondson who played their part early on in the preceding rounds.

A very Special thank you to the Mail on Sunday  who organised the competition, especially Victoria who managed the travel arrangements and the looked after team whilst in Spain.  The Staff of El Rompido Golf Course & Hotel provided a superb course and an excellent service to our team, caddies and supporters over the whole weekend.

The Mail on Sunday National Golf Final Results: Stoneleigh Deer Park 3½ Moor Park 1½.

Winners - Stoneleigh Deer Park Golf Club

Once again, Congratulations to the Champions!!!!

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Congratulations to Stoneleigh Deer Park Golf Club team -  Mail on Sunday Semi Final Winners!!!

Stoneleigh Deer Park Golf Club team have won their Semi Finals match today against Parkstone Golf Club out at El Rompido Golf Club in Spain.  Our team will be playing Moor Park Golf Club in the Finals, which is due to be played tomorrow (Saturday 28th November).

Result:  3 1/2 - 1 1/2

Congratulations & Good Luck from everyone at Stoneleigh Deer Park Golf Club

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