Golfers defy wet conditions at Keswick
Last updated 19:51, Thursday, 04 September 2008
KESWICK Golf Club held its Am-Am on Sunday in far from perfect playing conditions. The wet course with often heavy though persistent rain did not prove to be a problem for a team from Lancashire playing as The Bentham Bandits.
This annual event is an open Stableford competition in which the best three scores from each four-man team count.
The Bandits were Gary Carter, Richard Murray, Steven Lord and Mark Dixon and their round got off to a fantastic start when Dixon got a hole in one on the 244-yard par three second on which the team scored 10 points.
The team continued to play well and finished worthy winners with a total of 117 points.
Second place went to a Keswick squad known as Sanny’s Army, made up of Paul Sancaster, Mark Bailiff, Barry Gaskell and Shaune Coulthard who came in with 114 points. The Workington quartet of Derek Elder, Greame Hodkin, Tony Kirkby and Craig Doran, playing as Codgers Elite, came in third with 113.
The next two places went to teams from Keswick with fourth going to Bernard Kitching, Steve Dowson, and father and son Brian and Matty Roper, playing as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, on 109.
Roy’s Boys, made up of Roy Fisher, Tony Stamper, Ian Miller and John Black, took fifth with 108.
Sixth went to a team called The Quarrymen, captained by Keswick member John Hartshorn playing with Bill Todd, Martin Cooper and Paul Wilson, all from Ulverston, who scored 104.
Spot prizes were won by Keswick’s Jimmy Riddle for nearest the pin on the third and Robert Finlinson from Silloth who was nearest on the 16th.
Tony Stamper from Keswick was nearest in two on the par four 18th and John Davidson from Crichton near Dumfries had the longest drive on the seventh.
There were 10 Twos on the day.
