In glorious sunshine on Sunday 8 May, Denham members Alastair Mackenzie, Elmfield 1970 and Simon Berry hosted a game with two U30 OHGS members. Alastair, the Society’s Hon Sec before he moved to China for a three year stint, is now back in the UK and looks forward to renewing his OHGS involvement. Playing off 8, he did well to pick as his partner Will Finley, Moretons 2006, whose “estimated” handicap of 21 proved to be a work of complete fiction! Jack Stow, an exact contemporary of Will’s in Moretons with a kosher 18 handicap at Rye, got landed with yours truely, playing off 12. In an exciting contest, the Stow/Berry partnership were always ahead until Finley came in with outrageous gross pars on 15, 16 and 17 to go one up; a net bogey at the 18th was enough to take the money and explain Finley’s broad smile in the after match photo.
Finley, who now has ambitions to become a member at Denham, will be seeking 12 signatures of support; he may not be able to count on mine!
Written by Simon Berry (Match Manager for the event).
