Round Norfolk Golf Tour summer comp 2016. Round 10 at Weston Park.

Yesterday saw Round Norfolk Golf Tour summer comp 2016 Round 10 take place at Weston Park. Two new players (Mike and Sandie) had recently earned their tour cards (by correctly responding to Bobs emails) so joined a massive field of 6 players for today's event. After the excitement of last weeks US Open at Woodbridge it was back to normal this week. Round Norfolk Golf Tour summer comp 2016 treasurer (golf pig) was very excited by both the extra entry fees and 2 more tour subscriptions. This swelled the end of year competition prize funds to over £12 meaning it would be all to play for to become this years tour earnings winner on the race to Sheringham.

It was balls in the air to decide the groupings meaning Mike, Ian and Chris headed off first.

First group setting off to get teeshots behind the big tree

All 3 players surprisingly choose to lay up behind the big tree blocking out the green Chris going on to hit it and start off with a disappointing blob. From here normal service was resumed with some tidy golf and playing the next 8 holes to her handicap and 16 at half way.

Chris tee shot on the stupid short eighth with no sand in its ridiculous bunker 

Ian was playing the course for the first time and took the first 3 holes to work out that it was best to stay away from the trees rather than put the ball behind him. This held back early progress but he still score on every front 9 hole. An excellent birdie on the stupid short eighth with no sand in its ridiculous bunker meant he had the half way lead on 17 pts.

Ian with tree trouble on the 3rd

Mike was struggling getting his putts up to the hole as the greens were playing slow after last nights heavy rain. This meant no pars were achieved and only 13 pts. 

Mike failing to make it to the hole

In the group behind they had also decided to hit their opening drives behind the big tree but all managed to secure 2 pts. Kevin had left his putting boots at Woodbridge, where he informed his group (on every hole) he had won last week, with a number of 3 putts. Over the round he hit 4 greens from over 180 yards but only parred one of them. He was still doing ok until a blob on the stupid short eighth with no sand in its ridiculous bunker meant he shared last place with only 13 pts.

Kevins tee shot on 5th coming up short

Andrew was playing some good golf with several front 9 pars but he hit 3 trees on the 3rd and took 4 shots to get down on the 5th to blob both these and restrict his score to 15 at the turn.

Excellent up and down from Andrew on par 3 2nd hole

Sandie was driving exceptionally well with taking the tiger line on the 4th leading to an excellent par. However just as she looked like taking the lead she had to field some urgent phone calls which distracted her and she finished with 14 pts.

Sandie getting things underway on the first

As the phone action continued over the next few holes Sandie not surprisingly lost focus and started with 3 blobs. In amongst this there were still a number of good shots and she added another 13 pts on the last 6 holes to finish on 27 pts but well out of the prizes. However her generosity with the wine gums and banana chips made her a popular partner.

Sandie on the way to another Blob on the 1tth

Kevin seemed to be living in the past still taking every opportunity to mention that he won at Woodbridge last week. On the 12th he invented a new game of seeing how many times you can bounce the ball off the trees into the middle of the fairway. After successfully managing it twice he ran out of trees to aim for in securing his point. He was less successful when trying to play the game on the 17th ending up with a blob. A good par on the last meant he secured joint last with 27 pts.

Kevin missing bogey putt after playing hit the tree on the 12th

Meanwhile it was all to play for with the remaining players especially after some generous gimmes on the 10th put Chris into an early back 9 lead. However her progress stalled when picking up just one point in the middle 3 holes and with no further pars she finished out of the prizes on 30 pts.

Chris putting on the 17th

Mike got back in contention chipping in for a birdie on the 12th and scoring on every hole with the best back 9 of 18. However his 31 point total only secured him 3rd place. He did win 50p getting him onto the money list so a promising debut.

Mikes tee shot on 13

It was left to Ian and Andrew to battle it out and with both players on 30 pts after 16 holes but they missed the opportunity to secure the win as neither scored a point on the 17th. 

Andrew chiping on way to par on 10th

Ian regained his composure to bogey the last and with 32 points was the leader on the bench under the tree by be 18th green.

Ians putt not dropping on 16.

With no shot to play with Andrew would need a birdie for the outright win. Three good shots on the closing par 5 meant he just had to sink a 6 foot putt for the win. But he completely bottled it meaning the round was tiedwith both players adding £1.75 to their tour winnings.

Andrew missing birdie putt on 18 to tie with Ian

With only 5 pts separating all the players today and the top 3 on the money list out of the prizes then there was little movement on the overall standings. Next week the tour moves to Eaton where (due to the attraction of free golf) a record equaling 7 players have entered (although last time there were 7 starters there were only 6 finishers so hopefully a record number of completed rounds too).