Captain's Blog, 16th April 2025

An eventful week of golf this week - The Rangers had a great win at home against Enfield and have Arkley on the 16th - very well done all and fingers crossed for your next match. Saturday’s second medal qualifying round for the Rafferty Cup, was won by Andrew Harrington with a net 65, earning the bragging rights over his brother Chris on 66. The top eight from each division on both weeks will be now entered into the knockout stages which will be drawn soon.

Division One results (nett)

Mike Stainton (68) Lowest Gross 77

Tim Clarke (68)

Stephen Preston (70)

Division Two results (nett)

Andrew Harrington (65)

Chris Harrington (66)

Paul Scully (68)

On Sunday, the Mixed Spring Trophy was contested and was won by Guy and Sharon Saunders with a very impressive 38 points and making it two pairs comp wins in a row! Congratulations both of you. I’m sure they will be going for the treble on May 18th in the Maytime Greensomes.

After the meal, we retreated to the Main Bar to watch Rory McIlroy win the green jacket after a one hole play off with wine and pizza’s. I have to commiserate with my friend Richard who had carried forward his Grand National win to bet on Rory to win and was ecstatic when he won, only to find he had mistakenly bet on Rory to win The Open!

A bit of housekeeping - when you enter a card for handicap purposes, please try your best to make the scores or strokes as legible as possible. Every effort will be made to decipher them, but they will be voided if they are too difficult to read.

Booking is now open on IG for Captains Charity Day on May 5th - please don’t worry if you can't make up a team we will find one for you. If anyone is able to donate any raffle prizes or premium lots for the charity auction, please do reach out - whatever you can donate will be greatly received for a fantastic cause. We now have six Spurs Legends confirmed to play in the Charity Day, with hopefully a further two, for the die hard Spurs fans, there will be the opportunity to play with two Legends on the day. More info to follow in due course.

Danny and I are very much looking forward to playing our Captain and pro Challenges, which will culminate with whichever pair manages to beat us by the biggest margin, being invited to play a rematch at Royal Cromer Golf Club, please email Danny or myself and we can book you in.

 Please remember to repair pitch marks and divots - this helps enormously with the repair of the course and greens if done straight away. Also, as the hut is self-service on a Saturday for the time being, please leave it as you wish to find it, unfortunately it’s becoming messier every week and if it can’t be kept clean, we will have to keep it closed.

As we are now underway for the season, a reminder that the 13th is the Captain’s Charity Hazard. If you go into the water then a donation into any of the buckets around the clubhouse will be gratefully received, if like me that does happen a little too often! Then an idea to see you through the year could be a one-off donation via the JustGiving Page of £10.

Happy Golfing.

Guy Croton
Club Captain

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