The Alsford Salver ‘Tombstone’ competition was played in glorious weather Saturday morning.

The competition, which is only open to those who attended the Annual Dinner the night before, attracted a field of forty-five members and guests.

The conditions could not have been better! The north-easterly wind, which had been blowing for over 10 days, subsided and the sun came out making for perfect spring golfing conditions. And the scoring reflected those fine conditions.

The rule of the competition is that any players who have any strokes remaining after completing their 18-holes congregate on the first hole for a play-off. On Saturday, there were six players who has ‘beaten their handicap’ and had varying number of shots to play with in the play-off.

Those players who only had a single stroke left (Jamie Darwin, Tom Jewell) were soon eliminated as was Eileen Maddock with her two strokes.

Also with two strokes was Philip Bolton who finished 117yards from the 19th and in third place.

However, it was the battle of the ladies with Julie Frank (5 shots) and Patricia (Trish) Wooward with (7shots). Julie, her usual steady self, found the green in regulation, pin high some thirty feet from the pin.

Trish had managed to find the back of the green with one shot remaining. Julie went first and ran her putt 4- feet past the hole. Trish, playing her final stroke, putted up to 18”. Julie simply had to finish inside her opponent’s distance to win the play-off and trophy.

Julie hit a great putt that lipped out for hir par and finished 4” from the hole!

Pictured is Julie with Men’s Captain Mat Hague who presented her with the trophy.