Wednesday saw Round Norfolk Summer golf British Open take place at Thorpeness. A bumper field of 6 had entered to chase the big £5 first prize. The drama started early in the car park as the worry of thorn bushes scratching cars meant much re parking before John B was finally happy with the arrangement.
Back at the golf the first group set off up the opening hole and it wasn't long before Chris had found the first gorse bush of the day. A penalty drop meant she struggled for a point and her front 9 continued with her scrambling points in order to get to 14.
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| Chris Putting |
Jim, who has apparently eagled the 3rd hole here, was making his tour debt and opened with a solid par on the first. However after this he started to struggled and four 1 pointers and a blob meant he only had 13 pts at halfway.
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| Jim approach to first |
New tour bandit Kevin, started well with a par and birdie on the opening two holes of a very consistent first half not dropping a point against handicap to finish on 20 pts.
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| Kevin making birdie putt on 2nd |
Meanwhile the second group were involved in more strange antics as John B's bright gold shirt attracts huge mutant flies from Sizewell and to avoid being eaten he took it off to putt on the first green semi naked. He eventually turned his shirt inside out to expose less attractive (to the flies) white material but more attractive than no shirt. He went on to play pretty well to be in second place with 16 pts at halfway.
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| John about to remove gold shirt on the first |
It was a slow start for the group who took to the par 3 7th before playing a hole which didn't require looking for a ball they didn't have to look. John H managed to blob first 3 holes but save his first outburst to the 4th where he picked up his first points. Two further blobs meant he only had 10 pts. He claimed this was because his sat nav watch showing different reading to everybody elses.
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One of many ball hunts this time on the 4th, but where's Bob?
(answer:behind th tree) |
Bob started with too many 1 pointers but pars on 8 and 9 dragged him up to 15 pts going into the front 9.
As the second half got underway Jim had still not found his A game and continued to struggle adding only 10 more points to finish last on 23 pts.
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| Jim Eyeing up a putt before missing it |
Despite his recovery on 8 and 9 Bobs did not manage to stage a Bob charge and fell away with only 11 more points and out of the prizes with 26 pts. His most dramatic moment came just after 16th (where he and John B managed to loose 4 balls off the tee) before a car tried to reverse into him as he crossed the road.
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| Bob in trouble |
John B continued to play solidly and despite a couple of blobs collected 15 points for 31 in total.
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| John about to lose a ball on the 16th. |
From nowhere John found his Best golf with 5 pars and 2 bogeys giving him 19 points setting a grand finish. Great drive on 17th needed a gap wedge onto the green, great contact - ball straight into front bunker three shots to get out - blob. 18th great tee shot great rescue to the back of the green - 3 putted from 8 ft so got 21 on back 9 (useful in best front and back nine in July/August/Sept comp) and a disappointing 31 pts overall.
Chris was to starting to play well and an excellent and solid back 9 got her 18 more points to sneak second place on 32.
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| Chris in bunker on 8th |
Runaway leader Kevin continued in good form and despite taking two in the 10th hole bunker got another 21 points for a total of 41 and the British open title to go with the U.S. Open title he won last month.
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| Hitting out of fairway bunker on to 11th green |
Tour moves on to the Valley next week with all players competing in at least one of the competitions.
Scores
| Kevin | John | Bob | Chris | Ian | John B | Prize |
| Prize money | £24.25 | £5.00 | £12.50 | £17.50 | £8.25 | £0.50 | £ 68.00 |
| Average Stableford points | 30.29 | 28.00 | 27.77 | 31.33 | 29.14 | 28.00 | £ 6.50 |
| Most Stableford points | 41 | 33 | 33 | 42 | 39 | 31 | £ 6.50 |
| Eclectic | -15 | -8.5 | -11.7 | -9.5 | -7.5 | 6.5 | £ 6.50 |
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| July, August & Sept Best Front & Back | 41 | 31 | | 32 32 | | 31 | £ 6.50 |
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| Average Blobs per round | 2.4 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 3.5 | Cup |
| Number Rounds | 14 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 2 | |
| Prize fund contribution | £ 17.00 | £ 11.00 | £ 15.00 | £ 14.00 | £ 6.00 | £ 3.00 | |
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