Round Norfolk Golf Tour summer comp 2017. Round 17 The Open at Kings lynn

The Open At Kings Lynn

Round Norfolk Golf Tour summer comp 2017 round 17, The Open, took place at Kings Lynn on Thursday. It was a very select group who turned up for the most prestigious round of this years tour and they each knew a win today would catapult them to the top of the money list as current leader, Bob, was still getting his newly prepared plumbing full tested before rejoining the tour, hopefully next week.

The weather forecast was not good as it started to rain on the first tee. Brollies went straight up as Jill tee'd off and unusually didn't find the fairway. It was an uncharacteristic untidy opening but with at least one good shot on each hole she picked up points on all of the front 9 to have 13.

Jill tees off in the rain although it never got worse than a drizzle

It only took until the third hole for Kevin to throw his first club of the day after a bad lie in the bunker led to a blob. The combination of ending up in a divot and his bag blowing over as he was about to hit it out, caused another huff and puff as he only had 4 pts from the first 4 holes. However a couple of good pars at least got him to a respectable 15 pts at halfway.

Kevin Having just missed a long birdie try on 5

Chris was having a bad time with toothache after having a tooth out the day before. This didn't seem to be impacting her golf though, as she started with 2 pars and then played very solidly by cleverly avoiding hitting the ball in to the trees, which was the tactic her playing partners had adopted. She stormed into a big lead with 19 points at the turn.

Chris hitting her shot from the fairway an area of the course rarely seen by the rest of the group

Chris continued to play well and when she had 4 successive pars and 34 points after 16 holes it looked like she would not only break her own course record of 36 pts but beat the highest score on tour this year of 37pts. It was therefore a bit of a surprise when she double bogeyed the last two holes for a 36 point total. It was plenty enough to win the Open and the RNSG virtual claret jug was hers. Chris now also tops the money list.

Chris putting on 12 well on her way to the virtual claret jug

Jill and Kevin were having their own competition for second place and after Kevin went in the trees, again, on the 10th Jill pulled level. In fact Kevin had to chip out of tress 11 times during the round leading to some high quality effing and jeffing. His highlight was to chip in for a birdie on the 11th which lead to him telling his playing partners (many, many times) how he had also holed his bunker shot for a birdie on the same hole last year.

One of many chip outs from the trees, this time on 10

Jill had also decided that playing off the fairway was for wimps and that trees and bunkers were more fun. However she only blobbed one hole all day so as they came to the last both her and Kevin had 27 points.

The figure in the distance is Jill teeing off on 11.
 The photo has been taken from the men's tee with the world's most powerful telescopic lens 

Remarkably they both hit reasonable tee shots before, unsurprisingly, Kevin sent his second shot into the trees near the green. However all the tree practice came good as he chipped out through a gap to about 4 foot. When Jill's third shot landed the wrong side of the slope on the green then Kevin just need to sink his putt for second place which hed did. His £2.00 prize meant he is just 30p behind Chris on the money list. 

Next week a big field is expected as the tour goes to Stowmarket for the first time in it's history.