Match v Warwickshire - 2010

Chris Crane and Chris Bradshaw on the 12th hole at Uttoxeter.

Staffordshire First Team v Warwickshire

Date: Sunday 6th June 2010

Venue: Copt Heath G.C.

Captain: Dean Porter

Captains Report

The morning foursomes session was greeted with sunshine at Copt Heath G.C. with Staffordshire up against a very strong Warwickshire side.

Good wins from John Whitehouse partnered by Freddie Sherriden-Mills and the new pairing of Richard Prophet and Kurt Bridgen made the morning score 3-2 down a close call.

For the singles the weather took a turn for the worse and after seven holes things were looking good, we were only down in one match. Stafforshire levelled at 6-6 with John Whitehouse coming from 2 down with 3 to play to win one up, the other wins coming from Freddie, Kurt Bridgen and Dave Walley.

Three matches on the course were all square on the 17th tee, Alan Kinvig first to play up the 18th three putted to lose, next Aron Wright halves 18 to loose 1 down "game over!" To make matters worse Cheese is one up playing the last only to lose the hole when Dave Westwood chips in for a three. Final score 8.1/2 6.1/2 .
I was disappointed that for my first league game in charge we came so close to beating Warwickshire on their track.

I would like to thank all the players that came so close in horrible conditions for their commitment.

Dean Porter
Captain

First Team match Result 2010

Staffordshire 2^nd Team v Warwickshire

Date: Sunday 6^th June 2010

Venue: Uttoxeter Golf Club

Captain: Kevin Beattie

Captains Report

The 1^st league match of 2010 was against Warwickshire and played at Uttoxeter Golf Club.

The team was an experienced one except for Mike Hancock a Uttoxeter member who came in at the last minute as a result of Neil Wain's late withdrawal on Saturday night.

It was very disappointing that myself, Dean Porter and Brian Belcher could not find anyone to play until just before tee off on the Sunday morning.

The course had been subject to an overnight thunder storm that rendered the greens too wet to allow the green staff to cut the greens or change the hole locations, this showed to be an advantage to the Warwickshire Team who funded several players to play a practice round on the Saturday.

The foursomes were lost 1.5 - 4.5 with the only win coming from Chris Crane and Chris Bradshaw in the top match.

The singles proved much closer with Staffordshire being in a match winning position after all matches had completed 9 holes, this however was turned around with all the last 7 matches having no more than 2 holes in each game, final score Staffs 5.5 - Warwickshire 6.5 in the singles.

Overall match result - Staffordshire 7 Warwickshire 11

Kevin Beattie