This year competition took place as usual towards the end of June. Due to Covid the 50 years celebration of the CG (2021) was delayed until this year where we enjoyed a dinner (inside and out) at Worplesdon GC the evening before the competition started. It was such a success there are rumours this might be a regular event.
Taunton’s team for the 1st round against Liverpool consisted of: Pyke, Jenkins, Blood, Willacy, Westwater and Morgan (reserve Neil Robertson). Unfortunately we lost to Liverpool 2-1 by 1 hole! The draw was such that we were out again late afternoon and the team remained the same except Horne replaced Morgan. We were up against Brighton in the ‘Plate’ but never got off the starting blocks and lost 3-0.
Alas we soon drowned our disappoint with a last minute decision to return to Captain David M’s house that evening for a B-B-Q and a huge thanks to Anne and David for hosting and feeding us so well.
Extract from Captain’s messaging:
Dear Team, well another CG tournament comes (disappointingly prematurely) to an end. We lost narrowly ( by 1 hole!) to Liverpool in the Cup and rather more easily to Brighton in the plate, dispelling our reputation as “plate specialists”. Thank you to Richard for flying in from Menorca, thank you to Pykey for finding time to join us in amongst your whirl of summer social events, thank you to Tim both for your verbosity in messaging and for nearly setting a new fashion trend on the golf course yesterday afternnoon, thank you Jenks for partnering me yesterday morning, not losing my golf ball and for scoring our only point of the tournament(!), Horne for showing up and playing yesterday pm (albeit with a slightly antique trolley), and Robbo for being on standby for Thursday, Friday and Saturday ( you can stand down now!). And finally Westy for being a total star and inspiration to us all, 36 holes (well probably closer to 26!). Thank you all for another memorable 36 hours even if we didn’t get the results we were hoping for. Looking forward to CG 2023 already…DM
