The 65th Brand Hall Gold Vase

Worcestershire Union of Golf Clubs

Brand Hall Gold Vase - Club Team Handicap Competition

Played at Fulford Heath Golf Club Thursday 4th August 2011

Best 4 Nett Scores from Team of 5 - 18 Hole Strokeplay Medal off Full handicap

Past President, Norman Bolton, Jon Thompson, Callum Hutchinson and Barry Drew, Fulford Heath Captain 

Fulford Heath hosted their second County event of the week and again provided an excellent venue with great hospitality in the clubhouse and a testing course with true greens at a good speed.

The weather forecast was dire and although there was prolonged rain before lunch, the weather cleared later. The flight system of the draw ensured each team suffered the bad conditions equally.

The weather and quality of the greens led to some long rounds and high scores, with the CSS reflecting this by going up from 70 to 73. However best score on the day was Rob Howarth, Fulford Heath, who had 68 Gross.

The Best Nett score on the day was Callum Hutchinson, Kidderminster, 73 - 6 = 67. Runner Up Nett was Mike Daw, North Worcestershire, with 73 - 4 = 69.

Two teams tied on 294 for Runner up spot in the team event. The countback in this situation compares the scores of the fifth player in each team, as a result Fulford Heath took the prizes from Rose Hill.

However The Brand Hall Gold Vase, the county's only solid gold trophy, was won convincingly by Kidderminster with their best four scores totalling 282 and a comfortable 12 stroke margin.

Thanks go to the competitors, who with one exception all made it to the first tee on time!

Thanks also to club/team organisers. Our sport relies on quality volunteers, on this occasion providing good co-ordination to get 115 players to the event. This is no mean task and there were several late changes to teams. I congratulate all concerned in helping to make this a very easy event to run.

Mention must also be made of the County Referees who were helping players throughout the day. Thanks to Past Presidents Roy Hobbis and Norman Bolton for their skills as Starters, although Norman did show an uncanny knack of only being on duty when there was a complete absence of rain!

Finally Brenda Smith continued her long running support for the County with an appearance on reception and scoring. It is slightly shrouded in mystery as to which is the longer, the Queen's reign or Brenda's County involvement.

Andrew Boyd

County Secretary

Results For the 2011 Brand Hall Gold Vase - Played at Fulford Heath Golf Club - 4th August 2011   SSS = 70    CSS = 70
Club	Player A	A Gross	A Nett	Player B	B Gross	B Nett	Player C	C Gross	C Nett	Player D	D Gross	D Nett	Player E	E Gross	E Nett	Team Total
Kidderminster	Andy Longmore	82	80	Matthew Rock	81	74	Callum Hutchinson	73	67	Jon Thompson	77	70	Mark Smith	76	71	282
Fulford Heath	Martin Payne	85	79	W Hullah	87	76	N Parry	85	74	Anthony Hill	80	80	Rob Howarth	68	65	294
Rose Hill	Deryck Walker	88	78	Steve Green	75	70	Malcolm Westall	95	83	Sam Talbot	76	71	Gary Henderson	81	75	294
Hagley	Kieron Austin	83	81	S Evans	82	72	Josh Davenhall	79	72	N Johnson	84	74	A Cutler	91	79	297
Redditch	Dave Clements	96	84	Gary Bristow	76	72	Jamie Rowbottom	81	73	Scott Rowan	87	80	Russell Ager	74	72	297
North Worcestershire	Mike Daw	73	69	Alan Price	83	78	Adrian Allen	81	77	Kris Allen	82	80	Anthony Wilkes	77	74	298
Bromsgrove	Luke Rowlands	87	78	Harrison Mace	80	74	Craig Goldsby	N/R	N/R	Alex Richards	84	77	Phil Dyke	76	73	302
Stourbridge	Bryan Swain	78	73	John Powell	90	82	Paul O'Reilly	79	72	John Davidson	87	76	Roger McDermot	91	83	303
Gay Hill	Joe Roche	86	80	Terry Lawson	84	79	Andrew Smith	78	75	M Morton	78	74	John Mangan	79	76	304
Moseley	Mike Hosfield	83	78	Kieron Bharat	94	85	Stewart Down	85	73	Ian Warner	88	79	Dan Downes	79	76	306
Churchill & Blakedown	John Addis	86	78	Reece Williams	87	75	Kieth Burson	87	79	Lee Margetts	84	75	Michael Argent	94	82	307
Ombersley	R Barton	95	83	A Mawby	90	80	S Kelly	84	75	A McInnes	85	77	G Smith	85	76	308
Bransford	R Gibbs	83	71	Andy Lammas	80	74	A Kennedy	89	78	S Gent	97	87	L Sussex	98	90	310
Kings Norton	Peter Swinburne	88	83	Lawrence Hawker	77	73	George Bradley	81	76	Lee Jones	86	82	John Silvester	84	79	310
Droitwich	Paul Newman	83	76	Roman Croft	77	73	John Swann	90	85	Alan Wynne	88	79	Brian Bishop	92	82	310
Cleobury Mortimer	Matt Broad	80	78	Jack Pringle	74	75	Sam Pain	88	86	Jason Sunderland	87	80	John Brazier	84	79	312
Little Lakes	James Pearce	85	79	Clive Dorrell	89	82	John Roberts	88	78	Clive Williams	94	83	Kevin Phillips	81	74	313
The Worcestershire	Dave Marshall	78	78	G Fox	82	77	G Eames	97	86	M Lloyd	83	73	Andy Davis	94	85	313
Dudley	David Hodges	91	80	Rob Woodhall	N/R	N/R	Ray Saunders	88	80	Richard Waldron	83	76	Paul Howard	96	88	324
Perdiswell	Mike Varnom	99	87	Paul Lovegrove	98	86	Tom Jenkins	N/R	N/R	Steve Williams	95	84	Brian Hodgetts	120	108	365
Gaudet Luce	Clint Webbe	91	81	Dave Wheatley	99	88	Ashley Picken	N/R	N/R	Steve Lewis	85	74	Robert Amphlett	N/R	N/R	N/R
Halesowen	Gareth Cwikla	N/R	N/R	Dave Fisher	87	77	Josh Waldron	N/R	N/R	Tony Phipps	93	81	Ben Sorrill	79	74	N/R
Worcester	Simon Gerrard-Jones	N/R	N/R	Jake Payne	Ret Hurt	Ret Hurt	Josh Bryan	78	72	James Currie	75	72	Brian Gardner	93	85	N/R

The Sixty Fifth Annual Club Team