Wensum Valley Hotel, Golf & Country Club

The annual golf weekend saw a return to Wensum Valley near Norwich, last trip 2019. The weather was superb and with 2 excellent 18 hole courses, great hotel accommodation and friendly locals made for some very competitive golf over 3 days.

Friday: Wensum Course (skipper Andy Oxberry)

Kent League, Chestfield GC member Karl Robson (10HC) won day one with a confident 37 points as others struggled on this wetland section of the course near the River Wensum. Splashing up 2^nd on countback was Simon Fowler (24HC) and Will Weller (20HC) completed the day in 3^rd on 36 points.

Dave brown continued is love affair with the wooden spoon.

On course spot prizes went to: Kingsley Williams, Mike Anscombe, Pat Dawkins, Andy Ransley. 2s pot donated to charity

 

Saturday: Valley Course (skipper Gareth Venables)

Another tight Stableford match day saw improved scores on the slightly tamer Valley course. Paul Sequenza (13HC) just nudging Kingsley Williams (10HC) into 2^nd again on countback with an impressive 42 points. 3^rd place went to on form Simon Fowler (24HC) with a very respectable.

Chris Dawkins was unfortunate to collect the wooden spoon with 26 points.

On course spot prizes went to: Nigel Stevenson, Will Weller, Paul Sequenza, Andy Ransley and Mark Vinter.

 

Sunday: Wensum Course (skipper Karl Robson)

The most points competition continued with a 6 man shoot out, the top 6 scorers playing in 2 groups.

Group 1: Ian Neary (16HC-31points), Karl Robson (10HC-37 points) and Dave Cokely (6HC-34 points) all scored well as they chased down the group 2 top 3 on the leader board.

Group 2: Simon Fowler (24HC-26 points) and Paul Sequenza (13HC-30 points) struggled on day. But Kingsley Williams (10HC-30 points) made it a 105 points total for the weekend to win the coveted weekend most points trophy, just beating Karl Robson (10HC) on 104 points and 3^rd place Paul Sequenza 102 points on a 3 player countback.

The Texas Scramble competition was completed by the 20 attendees who did not make the cut. 5 x 4 ball groups rocketed around the Wensum in glorious sunshine. The winners with an amazing 13 under par 59 were: Nigel Stevenson (13HC), Kev Mullins (18HC), Gareth Venables (8HC) and Andy Ransley (1HC) which included 13 birdies!