Wexham Park Golf Club Sunday 5 June 2022

by Nick Houghton

Considering how the week preceeding the Wexham Park event had been going, winning the Stableford alongside the Father and Son competition hadn't even crossed my mind.

A freak Ultimate Frisbee injury the weekend before had left me with a banged up shoulder. To compound this my playing partner for the weekend had a back injury (I blame old age) so neither of us thought we would be in the situation we ended up in.

The day started with drama from the off with a parked car incident but more notably a lost dog causing havoc on the Windsor bypass. Skip forwards 20 minutes of me running round like a headless chicken on the A332 and my Dad crawling under cars, the dog was fortunately caught. Safe to say the gridlocked traffic behind us weren't best pleased with the situation.

Despite this, we made it on time to the partially developed Wexham Park which was notably a lot shorter since the last outing there. The first highlight of the round came from our playing partner for the day, Kevin, who holed out on the 3rd hole for a gross Eagle with two shots for a six pointer!

With a pair of 16 points after the front 9, I decided someone had to carry the team. I found a rhythm that was working for myself and the shorter nature of the course played to my strengths (i.e. not having to drive the ball).

Good quality greens allowed for me to convert these opportunities and resulted in 26 points on the back nine for a score of 42! My dad came in with a total score of 35 points and it was enough to win the father and son for the 3rd time in a row and be called a bandit for the rest of the day!

Given that this was the last event before my handicap got set maybe I should have saved this round for a later date.

Congratulations to Steve Nower winning nearest the pin with 1ft 8in, the sleeve of balls you have won are being located as you speak!

Congratulations as well to Trevor Harnsworth Snr who took runners-up in the stableford with an impressive 39pts, your golf balls are also being located!

I won't be there for the next outing at Chiddingford but I hear it is a very nice course so enjoy and good luck!
 

RESULTS

Winner Nick Houghton 42 pts

Runner up Terry Harmsworth (S) 39 pts

Third Philip Faulkner 38 pts

Nearest the pin Stephen Nower 1’ 8”

Father and Son Tim and Nick Houghton 77 pts