The Centenary Salvers

Played at Kings Norton Golf Club on Sunday 24th July 2011

On a perfect day for golf the sun shone and 57 players enjoyed the course presented - and produced a very close result!

Clubs are congratulated for getting every player to arrive and start on time! The detail results are below.

The three players from each club formed a team to play for the R&A Centenary Salver. This was closely fought with six clubs finishing within ten strokes of the winners. The result was in doubt until the last group saw J Pilgrim from The Worcestershire complete a round of Nett 74 to take his team to a one stroke win ahead of Moseley and two strokes from host club Kings Norton.

President Brian Morris congratulates The Worcestershire team of J Pilgrim, P Wakely and R Kelsall

However the main prize was for the Individual Nett Winner who would go on to represent the County at Woodhall Spa in August in the EGU Gold Medal. The man in form was Chris Kear from Droitwich who scored a level par 72 giving him 68 Nett

Chris goes on to an all expenses paid weekend where he will have a practice round before competing in the 36 hole final against the qualifiers from the other 33 counties. We wish him every success.

Chris has not been playing golf very long but is rapidly improving and works hard at improving his game. Past President Roy Hobbis, who was the Starter when Chris began his round, admired a magnificently struck drive into the wind and flagged him up as one to watch, how right he was! 

Disappointment of the day went to the Gay Hill team, who, having taken the lead after all the second round scores were in, their third player then took them from heroes to zeros!

The County thanks Kings Norton for their hospitality throughout the day and their President David Nicholas for his welcome and assistance at the prize giving.

President Brian Morris congratulates Chris Kear on winning the EGU Gold Medal Qualifier

Results of the R&A Centenary Salver Team Competition and the EGU Centenary Salver Individual Competition - Played at Kings Norton Golf Club Sunday 24th July 2011
Club	Player A	Score	Hcp	Nett	Player B	Score	Hcp	Nett	Player C	Score	Hcp	Nett	Team Score
The Worcestershire	P Wakely	86	13	73	R Kelsall	82	9	73	J Pilgrim	85	11	74	220
Moseley	D McLeod	78	2	76	R Sadler	73	+2	75	P Garey	70	Scr	70	221
Kings Norton	G Judd	89	16	73	S Birchill	84	8	76	M Olds	85	12	73	222
Kidderminster	R Pooler	104	23	81	P Brookes	89	17	72	M Baker	87	15	72	225
Evesham	A Rock	83	12	71	A Clasen	95	13	82	T Woodward	83	8	75	228
Rose Hill	S Clarke	83	7	76	C Butler	83	12	71	M Smith	94	12	82	229
Droitwich	R Davis	95	11	84	C Kear	72	4	68	D Smith	83	5	78	230
Bromsgrove	C Richards	93	10	83	A Street	89	12	77	O Dilloway	77	6	71	231
Ombersley	S Gillespie	95	15	80	M Kite	83	12	71	G Smith	90	9	81	232
Hagley	S Ingles	90	15	75	J Davenhall	87	7	80	M Law	83	5	78	233
Halesowen	S Jones	91	10	81	A Prophet	86	11	75	A Wells	86	9	77	233
Churchill & Blakedown	P Tildesley	90	13	77	W O'Brien	87	12	75	L Margetts	91	9	82	234
Redditch	M Drumm	95	10	85	R Haddon	85	8	77	M Taunton	87	11	76	238
Stourbridge	R Jones	97	19	78	S Hubball	84	5	79	A Kallitsakis	88	5	83	240
Gaudet Luce	C Hobbs	92	16	76	G Gibbins	101	16	85	D Wheatley	91	11	80	241
Habberley	R McLean	84	8	76	A Thorne	100	15	85	L Cornish	108	21	87	248
Perdiswell	C Misters	95	16	79	B Hodgetts	98	20	78	F Pickwick	115	23	92	249
Redditch Kingfisher	G Haines	98	15	83	R Dixon	89	12	77	S Edwards	N/R	14		N/R
Gay Hill	P Adams	76	5	71	T Lawson	79	5	74	M Morton	N/R	4		N/R
The Worcestershire Golf Club, with an Aggregate Nett Score of 220, won the R&A Salver with Moseley Runners-Up, one stroke behind, and host club Kings Norton a futher stroke behind, third
Mr Chris Kear, Droitwich, won the EGU Salver and became the Worcestershire Qualifier for the EGU Gold Medal Final
He won by 3 strokes on 72 - 4 = 68. Five players were next, tied on 71.   On countback M Kite from Ombersley was Runner-up and Oliver Dilloway, Bromsgrove  was third
The Best Gross was Paul Garey, Moseley, on 70