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| 2009 Presentation Evening |
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FARRINGTON WIN FOR THIRD
CONSECUTIVE YEAR
Farrington juniors rounded off a tremendously successful year by winning
the overall Somerset 2009 play off finals. Farrington defeated Burnham
& Berrow and Windwhistle in a play off final held at Weston Super Mare
in atrocious conditions. The team after winning the Northern area
league then had to play against the winners of the Central and Southern
area leagues to determine the overall best team in Somerset for the
2009 year. In conditions that at times were almost impossible to stand
up, let alone play golf, Farrington were able to hold it together to
win by two points from the other two and for the third consecutive year
win the Somerset best junior club prize.
Pictured from left to right are Josh Hilleard, Tom Maggs, Liam Copp,
George Hobbs, Will Hobbs, Stefan Golledge, Chris Coles and Michaela
Chivers.
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| Congratulations to everyone who has
played in the Junior team this year. On Sunday 2nd August we played our
final match against The Mendip. The team won 3 - 1 and in doing so ensured
that we have won the Northern area league for 2009. Well done to
Stefan, George H, Alex, Michaela, Josh H, James, Will , Tom M, Chris C,
Chris S, Liam, Josh S, Tom W, George A, Aimee and Victoria. It was a
fantastic team effort well done to you all |
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Farrington Main Course Club
Championship 2009 Friday
31 July/Saturday 1 August
Well done to George Hobbs who has won the Junior
Main Course Championship for 2009. George scored a gross 79 on the first day
and followed this up with an excellent 73 on the second day to win by 6
shots from Michaela Chivers. Also congratulations once again to Victoria
Watts who won the net competition with two rounds of 66, 132 in total with
Jacob Stapleton in second place on 135.
Photo: George and Victoria after
being presented with their trophies |
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Farrington
Under 14's Open On a gloriously sunny day Farrington
played their under 14's junior open. In a well represented field with
players coming from as far as Dorset, Devon, Wiltshire and South Wales. The
overall champion was William Hobbs from Farrington, beating Scott Linden
from Enmore and Mathew Wells from Saunton Sands into second and third place
respectively. This crowned a good week for Will who also won the Dave
Golledge Stableford and Mens Stableford competitions. Another Farrington junior, Victoria Watts won the net girls
first place.
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Junior Team Sponsor
Pete Court of N&P Auto Repairs has
kindly provided team shirts for the junior team.
Pete is shown presenting the shirts
to team captain Stefan Golledge |
Juniors V Men 2009 (12th Hole Trophy)
| Played in great weather on Easter
Saturday the Juniors battled well to defeat a very strong men's team
10-8 in the annual 36 hole event. Played in Ryder cup format the Juniors
won the opening morning greensomes by 3.5 to 2.5 and in the afternoon
singles won by 6.5 to 5.5. Tony Waldren presented junior captain Stefan
Golledge with the 12th Hole Trophy. As always the match was played very
competitively but in a great spirit, with the men commenting as to how
well the juniors played as a team. |
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Somerest Junior Champions
Sunday 1st March we played Vivary
and Mendip Spring in the League playoff finals at Taunton Vale and we won.
The format was 4-ball better ball stableford off 3/4 handicap. Our team with
the pairings of Stefan Golledge & Alex Todd, George Hobbs & Sam Collard,
Chris Coles & Josh Hilleard and Will Hobbs & James Abbott scored 159 points
beating Vivary who scored 139 points and Mendip Spring who scored 138
points.
Played in very bright but windy conditions Taunton Vale provided quite a
different challenge for the boys as the greens were playing exceptionally
hard and quick, very different to what we have been used to recently at
Farrington. Nevertheless as the score suggests they all rose to the
challenge exceptionally well.
Very well done to those that played and
well done to everyone that played in the team during the year.
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Junior Presentation Evening 2008
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| Saturday 8th November saw a busy
Presentation Evening for Farrington Juniors. This is the major awards
evening of the year for the Juniors with all of the major competition
prize winners being presented with their trophies during the evening.
Club Captain Tony Waldron and Director of Golf Jon Cowgill
presented the juniors with all their trophies. Stefan Golledge was also
announced as the 2008/09 Junior Club captain. |
Junior Open Sept 1st 2008
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Jon Pitcher - Farrington Junior
Open Champion 79 juniors
competed on the day, 74 boys and 5 girls, from 22 different golf clubs.
The overall gross winner was Jon Pitcher from Burnham and Berrow who
shot a gross 74. Farrington juniors fared very well with Josh Hilleard,
Sam Collard and James Abbott coming 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively in the
Division 1 handicap competition and Tom Maggs coming 3rd in the Division
2 handicap competition.
For the girls Michaela Chivers won the girls nett competition and also
finished best Farrington score in the overall gross competition with a
77. In achieving this Michaela now holds the course record for the best
ladies gross score ever shot at Farrington.
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Main Course Championship Aug 1/2 2008
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Stefan Golledge wins the Junior
Club Championship - Aug 1/2 2008
Played over two days Stefan Golledge
played exceptionally well winning the Championship with two rounds of
77/76 total 153, in second place was Dan Flower 76/81 total 157 and
third place George Hobbs 84/75 total 159. The net prize was won by Miles
Luxton who scored 141 for the two rounds, in second place was George
Abbott 143 points and third place was Chris Shanks 144 points.
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Executive Course Championship July 28 2008
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George Hobbs triumphs
in the Executive Course Championship - July 28 2008
Winner of the gross prize was George
Hobbs with a gross 62, in second place was Dan Flower with 63 and third
place was Sam Collard with 65.The net prize was won by Victoria Watts
with a gross 77 net 44 in second place was George Abbott gross 66 net
49, third place was Jessica Salvidge gross 92 net 50 just pipping Aimee
Sawyer gross 79 net 50.
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Harry's Hole in One
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Harry's Hole in One - July 2008
Sunday 20 July 2008 will be a day that
Harry Parfitt won't forget in a hurry. Playing in a medal competition on
the executive course Harry scored the first hole in one of his
golfing career. He got his 'ace' on the 114 yard par 3 3rd hole. Well
done Harry.
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Andalucia Junior Open
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Andalucia Open - July 2008
Well done to George and Michaela who
recently represented Farrington in the South West qualifier for the 2008
Andalucía Junior Open held at South Winchester. The winning boys and
girl from the competition along with the winners from each of the other
area finals are sent to Andalucía to compete in a five day
tournament. Both played very well unfortunately not quite getting to
Spain, with George finishing 4th in the boys and Michaela 3rd in the
girls.
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Somerset Champions
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Farrington are Somerset Champions. The 3
divisional winners all went head to head in a fourball betterball stableford
competition played at Mendip Golf Club. Farrington scored 160 points beating
Burnham & Berrow by 22 points and Vivary by 24 points. Scoring was excellent,
Stefan Golledge & Dan Flower scored 44 points, Sam Collard & George Hobbs 43
points, Will Hobbs & Josh Hilleard 38 points and Alex Todd & Tom Maggs 35
Points. Below are pictured the team following the presentation of their trophy
and cheques from Mike Perry the Somerset Junior League Chairman. |
Clean sweep for Michaela Chivers
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Well done to Michaela who has just
won the Ladies Club Championship and the Ladies Executive Course Club
Championship at Farrington. The Club Championship was played over two days
and Michaela scored excellent gross 81's on both days.
In the Executive Course Championship Michaela won with a gross 62.
Picture showing Michaela giving her winners
speech after receiving the trophy from Jenny Ahlberg, ladies captain. |
SGU Under 14's Champion< |