Scratch Team News
Fantastic
Season for Scratch Team!
With two games to go the scratch team were in
the unusual position of being able to finish
either second or fifth depending on how the
results went as any one of 4 teams could win
promotion along with runaway winners The Oaks.
This was unusual territory for the team as in
previous years we have been struggling at the
other end of the table!! With two home games to
complete the season we were hopeful we could
reach our best ever league position and with
Kirkbymoorside conceding the match to us we went
into the last match at home to Sandburn hoping
that a win would be good enough to get us
promoted. As usual we were inferior in terms of
handicaps but home advantage is important in
these matches and so it proved in a tense
finish. Paul Thompson lost a close match at
number 1 and Mark Newton continued his good run
of form coming from 3 down after 3 holes to win
at number 2. Tony Martin gained another point at
number 3 and with us leading two one everything
depended on Glen Renton the last match. All
square on the 18th tee the finish couldn't have
been any more dramatic as Glen hit a huge drive
and a wedge for his second and then sank the
putt for a winning birdie 3!
The team couldn't have done any more and whether we got promoted or not
would be determined by other results. The York
Union website isn't the most up to date and
although all the results aren't as yet uploaded
we appear to have finished joint second with
Forest Park on the same number of points.
Unfortunately we wont get promoted as they have
a better "goal difference" then us as they have
won more individual matches but its been a
fantastic effort by the team to get this close.
Thanks to Paul Thompson, Mark and Dan Newton,
Tony Martin, Johnny Pattenden and Glen and Peter
Renton and lets see if we can go one better next
year!!
Peter Renton
Scratch Team Captain
18th August 2010
fixtures and results on the
Scratch Team
page
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Friendly Inter-club Team News
Home to Flaxby Park Golf Club
Wednesday July 28th 2010
The Men's Inter-club Friendly team got back to winning ways on Wednesday
evening with a fine 4 - 2 victory over
Flaxby Park. This was especially pleasing as
they had not only defeated us 5 - 1 in the
Away fixture earlier in the season, but just
the day before had celebrated a resounding
win over our EGGS team. All the matches were
close encounters and thoroughly enjoyed by
both teams of players. My thanks go again to
all who support the Club in these games and
congratulations once more for inflicting on
Flaxby only their second defeat of the
season. Well done!
We have just two fixtures remaining, the next being our last Home game
against Heworth on August 11th, followed by
the final match of the season, Away to
Aldwark Manor on August 18th, when we will
be hoping not only to end the season on a
'High', but also to avenge their victory
over us in the first of this years
competitions.
Please could I remind all members to check their availability for these
two matches and to update the sheet in the
Club-house as soon as possible if need be.
My thanks again,
Dave Mather
Vice Captain
30th July 2010
The
Andrew Wain Memorial Trophy
Forest Park retain the trophy for another
year
The
Andrew Wain Memorial Trophy has been
competed for against Forest Park since 2005,
with the inaugural victory and 2008 to Fog
the loss 2 - 4 on Wednesday now gives Forest
Park four wins out of the six years.
played Wednesday 14th
July
fixtures and results on the
Friendly Team
page
