The Seniors travelled to Glynhir GC for their match this week. However, before going on to the match details, David Morgan the Seniors captain and all of all the seniors offer their most sincere condolences to Des Stone and his family on the passing of his mother who died peacefully in her sleep. After a brief lull in the recent glorious spell of hot weather, conditions resumed to more tranquillity with a pleasant and warm sunny afternoon. The course was in excellent shape, but the greens proved a tad too slow for many of the Tenby players which proved to be the undoing of many of them. In the opening match, captain David drafted in another Morgan in the shape of Roy. Roy had an outstanding game and gave David an excellent win, albeit on the last hole winning two up. The captain never stopped smiling throughout the day. My apologies for not giving you the Glynhir players names, but got drafted into this job at the last moment and in his excitement of winning, our illustrious captain omitted to give me their names, only the results. Second match out saw Malcolm Arlott drafted in at the last moment playing with the steady Derek Bath. They were one of the many Tenby players who struggled to come to terms with the pace with the slower Glynhir greens, plus some sparkling golf from one of their opponents who played well under his handicap and the Tenby pair eventually went down on the 17th. It was glad sight to see the return of that grand stalwart Vince Shaw playing with his old buddie John Hancock at one of their favourite venues. On the first tee, John remarked: "Win, lose or draw, we are playing this in memory of Dennis Kenchington." Dennis, a former captain of Glynhir, died recently. The game was played in good spirit, but Vince and John soon found themselves three down, but gradually clawed they way back to go all-square only to lose the game on the 18th. Martin Neilan playing with Ron Murphy put their defeat of 3-2 down to their kindness and compassion and a total lack of killer instinct! I know this only a game Martin, but this is ridiculous. They too failed to come to terms with the greens. Things were beginning to look really black for Tenby with just one win in the opening four games. It got worse when the ever dependable Stan Hudson paired with J.D.R. Williams lost 2-1 to make things look really bad for Tenby. John and Stan were not saying much after the game with John more intent on talking about his impending boat trip! The gloom was lifted somewhat when Maurice Lewis, playing with Geoffrey Aston, came home with the spoils winning 3-1. Maurice said he had great partner in Geoff who played serenely to see them home. Geoff smiled benignly as his partner sang his praises. Another Tenby player to be pleased with his partner was Jim Martin, playing alongside Ken Gouldsbrough. Jim and his Glynhir opponents were treated to an immaculate display of matchplay golf by Ken. Time and time again just when their opponents thought they had won a hole, Ken dramatically snatched it away from them. The Tenby pair was never headed and when they went dormie four up it looked curtains for their opponents when suddenly Ken's magic waned slightly and the Glynhir pair came alight. It was not to be though as a half on the 17th was good enough to see them home by 2-1. The final playing pairing was Roy Gundry and Colin Griffiths. Roy complained in his inimitable way about his aching legs! Seems strange as they had a buggie! He also complained of a demon putter that Brian Ginsil wielded to great effect round the greens, which Roy said led to their defeat. There should have been 10 matches, but unfortunately Glynhir could only muster eight pairs, with three Tenby players, David Leeke, Dudley Williams and Clifton John, playing a three ball. So David Morgan claimed the results in Tenby's favour giving them a halved match, 5-5. Take note Mr Neilan: no kindness and compassion here from our captain. In their speeches after the meal, the stand-in captain for Glynhir, Tony Morris and David Morgan both concurred that the big winner of the day was the camaraderie and sportsmanship from both sides. It was also the Morgan's birthday and David orchestrated a melodic rendition of 'Happy Birthday' for himself and Roy. The evening finished in excellent form with Billy Lewis, of Glynhir, entertaining everyone when he regaled numerous stories, one of them a true one about a dead pig biting a consultant!
