Sixteen players attended the final event of Bunkers 2023 season to contest the ''Christmas Bash Trophy''. The weather was kind with dry conditions and occasional sunshine. Given the recent weather conditions Test Valley should be congratulated on having presented the golf course in excellent condition with a special mention for the fantastic fairways.
Editor's note: Shame the nations secret squadron of Gyro-copters, who were stationed locally, kept spying on how badly we were all playing!
The Christmas dinner was very good and for those that had them the breakfasts were epic !
Fines Meister Paul Beard made a very welcome return accompanied by his chauffeur Dave Flavell and extorted nearly 50 pounds in fines from his hapless golfing buddies.
A selection of the fines were as follows:
- Chris Turvill - Losing the yellow ball.
- Frazer Webb - Nearly running over Chris before the 1st hole.
- Steve Walsh - Wearing no shoes inside the clubhouse.
- Steve Walsh - Getting to the 1st tee 50 minutes early.
- Steve Walsh - Hit 5 golf balls in the pond in a row.
- Paul Beard - 5 points on one hole !
- Paul Beard - For being Santa's Elf !
- Luke Peters - For not swearing when hitting bad shots.
- Ray Steele - Wearing 2 hats a winter hat and Santa's hat.
- Phil Richards - Hit a tree and his ball went backwards by 80 yards.
- Ian Turvill - Being erratic!
- Luke, Dave S & Mike - For not waiting for Frazer to tee off
The winner for the second successive time was Captain Dave Shorter with 40 points
Second place Rick Britton with 39 points
Third place Tony Peters with 39 points
Nearest the Pin 5th Tee Alan Gipp
Nearest the Pin in 2 shots 7th Tee Ian Turvill
Nearest the Pin in 2 shots 10th Tee Tony Peters
Nearest the Pin 13th Tee Ian Turvill
The winners of the 18 hole Yellow ball competition was Luke Peters, Dave Shorter and Mike James.
After the event, the AGM was held. See the info on that in the Committee pages.
Luke & Tony Peters