Round 3 Review: Wollaton Park

The traditional Friday Night Summer round at Wollaton didn’t disappoint with sunshine a plenty. 14 made the trip in search of the customary 40 point haul and a definite contributor to the end of year points tally. Stanton boys’ A.T, Tuckwell Jnr and Medows made the most of a three ball opening start and whizzed round in just over 3 hours and some quality time in the bar.

Phoenix and Dorman were on season and career debut, while Chubb made it in the nick of time after being stuck right behind a car crash and providing a statement. A. Brown just made it through the rush hour to polish off a pre-game sausage and bacon cob.

It looked like a 5 way challenge at the turn. Doc Brown (18) leading the way with Tuckwell Jnr (17) Chubb (17) in hot pursuit and A.T. (16) and Dorman (16) a shot further back.

Dorman and A.T faded, the latter unsurprisingly as this was the 2nd leg of 18 holes in 24 hours, the next commencing at 6am the following morning for a shotgun start.

Marriot (19) produced the pick of the back 9’s but it was left to a 3 way shoot out between Tollerton Primary School Classmates: J. Brown, R. Chubb and S. Tuckwell.

A birdie on 12 saw Chubb tie Brown with Tuckwell one adrift with 6 to play. 3 points over the next 2 holes for Tuckwell saw him tie Brown for the lead as 1 point saw Chubb drop 1 behind the lead.

Another 1 pointer saw Chubb drop 2 back as Tuckwell and Brown both parred 15. Pars for Chubb and Brown on 16 saw the latter take the lead as Tuckwell could only bogey after a 3 putt.

It looked like curtains for Tuckwell on the par 3 17th as the tee shot went no further than about 9 yards. An up and down spared blushes and proved significant as Brown and Chubb could only bogey.

With the 18th tee mounted Tuckwell and Brown were tied, with Chubb 2 shots adrift. A generous stroke 6 meant shots all round. Chubb capitalised with an excellent birdie for 4 points as Brown and Tuckwell both parred for nett birdie.

Nowhere near the scoring of yesteryear with Ladd’s course record of 43 points never in danger but Tuckwell (34 B9:17) didn’t mind one bit sealing the victory on countback from J. Brown (34 B9:16) with Chubb (33) on the podium.