RAOC Gazette - page 59
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1978 |
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| Early date | 1978 |
| Late date | 1978 |
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ports! Report THE ARMY GOLF CHAMFIONSHIP THIS year's Army Golf Meeting held at the Royal Birkdale E.J Hillside courses was very successful from a RAOC view- point. We provided for the second year running the Army Champion and were winners of the Egypt Cup. Corporal Iain Gray RAOC proved to be an outstanding successor to Major Ron Rush, last year's champion, lain qualified easily in the thirty six hole stroke play, and in the match play stage was only once taken beyond the fourteenth hole in his four matches, this by Major John Stephenson in the semi-finals. In the final Iain started hesitantly against Lieutenant Martin Allen and was two down after three holes. However, ho soon fought back and a glorious birdie four at the sixth was possibly the turning point. In the end he ran out the winner fr.-e and four Photo Doug Pratt, Soldier Magazine. Corporal lain Cray—Army Champion. In the Egypt Cup which is for B teams of major Corps/ Regiments and A teams of minor Corps; RAOC were represented by Captain Mick Priestley. Captain Alan Hopper, Major Sandy Spencer (Retd), Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Upton and the Corps Captain of Golf, Colonel Ozzie Logan, A bye in the first r :nd was followed by a comfortable win in the second round ' -r the Royal Signals B team. The RADC A team provided strong opposition in the semi-finals which we won rather more easily than expected. This brought us against the Sapper B team whose combined handicaps were fourteen strokes better than the Corps side. It was therefore a notable achievement to beat them by two holes playing level. In every sense it was a team effort and all are heartily congratulated. ^VOC GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP AND SPRING MEETING OVER thirty RAOC golfers turned up at Blackmoor Golf Club on 23rd May for the Corps Championship and Spring Meeting, The sun shone all day and all participants voted the meeting an enormous success. The course was in excellent condition and we axe grateful to the Club for the use of their facilities for the day. Credit for the success of the meeting must go to Major Ron Rush who organised everything, well-nigh single handed, The prizes for the successful golfers were presented by Mrs Betty Logan:—The Hill Trophy (Officers Club Scratch), Major R. W. Rush; The Scratch Cup (Soldiers Scratch), Staff Sergeant R. Wilson; The Handicap Cup (Officers Club Division I), Lieutenant Colonel J, M. Watts; Runner-up Colonel J. L. Tredinnick; The Forbes Cup (Officers Club Division II), Lieu- tenant Colonel R. V. Rawlings; Runner-up Colonel B, J. Tarsnane; The Captain's Cup (Soldiers Handicap) (Presented by Colonel Ozzie Logan), W02 D, Flannagan; Runner-up Sergeant G. Young; The Championship Cup, Major R. W. Rush. GOLF IN BAOR IN perfect golfing weather sixty four golfers set out to do battle with the Bruggen course over two days to win the superb trophies and prizes of the RAOC BAOR Golfing Society Spring Meeting 1978. Some excellent golf was played though at other times the fairways stayed empty while determined golfers pursued their perilous paths to the greens constructing them as they went. On the first day WOl John Kearney (3 BAPD) newly pro- moted and relishing his recent posting to the nearest RAOC Unit to Bruggen, shot a seventy six to win the Scratch com- petition by three strokes. This is the third consecutive year he has had the best scratch score in this competition. In 1976 he* lost the cup after count back and in 1977 he won it outright. The Handicap competition was won by Mr Bill Shadwell (SSD Viersen) with a score that caused his handicap to start tumbling and the afternoon Stableford went to Staff Sergeant Fred Duffy (ICP) who rounded up a good day after being placed second in both the morning competitions. The Bogey competition on the second day saw some record scores—unfortunately it was the redoubtable Colonel Bogey who did the scoring. This time W02 Jim Bowen (Ord Depot Antwerp) came to the fore by squaring his game after having come second in the previous day's Stableford. W02 John Burgess (154 FAD) was one down for second place. The afternoon Foursome Stableford brought out a new crop of winners with Major Alan Butterworth (VSD Moenchen- gladbach) and Mr (ex-Conductor) Pat O'Brien (ASU Moenchen- gladbach) winning and Captain Jim Bridle (HQ 15 COD) and WOl Andy Kane RCT (Freight Services 15 COD) coming second. The Hidden Holes competition was won by Staff Sergeant Ian Benson (89 Supply Depot) and Staff Sergeant Brian Holding (1 Corps Troops Ordnance Company). The Bateson Trophy for the champion RAOC Unit—an overall competition played over both days—was contested by nine teams and won for the third time in its three year existence by SSD Viersen (Staff Sergeant Duffy, Staff Sergeant Murray, WOl Kane and Captain Bridle). Lieutenant Colonel Maurice Young, the Chairman of the Society thanked the Club for the excellent facilities provided and the Secretary, Captain Jim Bridle and his helpers WOl Pete Emerton and Sergeant Frank Smith, for their organisation and the smooth running of a most enjoyable meeting. Brigadier Crawley had his hands full—though only briefly— presenting the prizes. For example, Fred Duffy took away the Chatfield Plate and the Bateson Trophy for a year, two small trophies commemorating those victories and four prizes reward- ing his two firsts and two seconds. He has only two months to do in Germany and has been cut to eight anyway—so the rest of us have a chance now, Twenty seven golfers of IS Composite Ordnance Depot— from Viersen, Moenchengladbach, Dulmen and Hamm gathered at Bruggen for their Spring meeting. In ideal weather con- dition the morning round commenced with every golfer with a handicap of twenty two or better partnering one with a larger handicap in a four-ball, better-ball Stableford competition. (Continued on page 62) |
| Book number | R0247 |