Latest News - 29th May 2025
Seniors Results, Glover Cup Reminder, Club Magazine
Seniors Frank Keen Results
66 seniors played in the Frank Keen Vase competition yesterday. Congratulations to Horace Roberts for winning the competition with 41 points, on countback from Ian Kracke and Julian Staddon who came second and third respectively. Mick Garrigan came fourth with 39 points. The full results are attached with today's latest news email.
Men's Glover Cup - This Weekend
The Glover Cup is taking place on Sunday with the Alternate Day Saturday. Every year I send out a few reminders prior to this event as it is Bogey format. For those who need a reminder, Bogey format works as follows:
You are effectively playing matchplay against the course, so the result of each hole is either a win, loss or halve. A nett birdie or better is a win of hole for you, a nett par is a halve and a nett bogey or worse is loss of hole for you. For example, if you have a shot on the 1st hole and you score a 5, this will be a halve. If you make a 4 or better, this will be a win, a 6 or worse will be a loss.
You must still mark your gross scores on the card, and then indicate the win, loss or halve in the points column of the card. A win of a hole is shown by using a '+' in the points column, loss of hole is shown by using a '-' in the points column, and a halve is shown by putting a '0' in the points column. At the end of the round you tally up to see your final result. Example, if you have 5 '+', 9 '0' and 4 '-', your finishing total will be +1. The winner of the Glover Cup is usually the player that finishes with the highest + number. Normally, this is around +5 to +7.
Please also note, this is a handicap qualifying competition. Therefore, if you have a putt for a nett bogey, you should still play it, even though you have already lost the hole. Effectively, from a handicap point of view, treat it like a Stableford, if you have a putt for a point, you should still play this shot. If you can't score at least a point on the hole, pick up and move on.
Club Magazine - 2nd Edition
The second edition of our club magazine will be coming out mid-end of June. We would like to ask members if they have any questions relating to the rules of golf that they would like to see covered in the rules section of the magazine.
Equally, if you have any content that you think would be good to be shared in the magazine, please reply to this email and let us know.
For our newer members who may not have seen the 1st edition of the magazine, you can view it by copying and pasting the link below into your browser:
https://flipbooklets.com/pdfflipbooklets/club-life-brgc-issue-1-2025
66 seniors played in the Frank Keen Vase competition yesterday. Congratulations to Horace Roberts for winning the competition with 41 points, on countback from Ian Kracke and Julian Staddon who came second and third respectively. Mick Garrigan came fourth with 39 points. The full results are attached with today's latest news email.
Men's Glover Cup - This Weekend
The Glover Cup is taking place on Sunday with the Alternate Day Saturday. Every year I send out a few reminders prior to this event as it is Bogey format. For those who need a reminder, Bogey format works as follows:
You are effectively playing matchplay against the course, so the result of each hole is either a win, loss or halve. A nett birdie or better is a win of hole for you, a nett par is a halve and a nett bogey or worse is loss of hole for you. For example, if you have a shot on the 1st hole and you score a 5, this will be a halve. If you make a 4 or better, this will be a win, a 6 or worse will be a loss.
You must still mark your gross scores on the card, and then indicate the win, loss or halve in the points column of the card. A win of a hole is shown by using a '+' in the points column, loss of hole is shown by using a '-' in the points column, and a halve is shown by putting a '0' in the points column. At the end of the round you tally up to see your final result. Example, if you have 5 '+', 9 '0' and 4 '-', your finishing total will be +1. The winner of the Glover Cup is usually the player that finishes with the highest + number. Normally, this is around +5 to +7.
Please also note, this is a handicap qualifying competition. Therefore, if you have a putt for a nett bogey, you should still play it, even though you have already lost the hole. Effectively, from a handicap point of view, treat it like a Stableford, if you have a putt for a point, you should still play this shot. If you can't score at least a point on the hole, pick up and move on.
Club Magazine - 2nd Edition
The second edition of our club magazine will be coming out mid-end of June. We would like to ask members if they have any questions relating to the rules of golf that they would like to see covered in the rules section of the magazine.
Equally, if you have any content that you think would be good to be shared in the magazine, please reply to this email and let us know.
For our newer members who may not have seen the 1st edition of the magazine, you can view it by copying and pasting the link below into your browser:
https://flipbooklets.com/pdfflipbooklets/club-life-brgc-issue-1-2025