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CDGC Success at Quarry Park Open print email
Monday, 16 August 2010 13:13

 

The weekend of 14/15 August saw a fantastic turnout of 15 Croydon players bowl up to the Quarry Park course in Warwickshire. And what a weekend it was. The weather, which has generally been filthy for tournament play, didn't disappoint! Saturday was intermittently grey, slightly sunny or chucking it down. We even had a 20 minute thunder and lightening interruption.  But the wind was a little more even tempered and Sunday was very pleasant indeed, warm sunny with a gentle wind. Almost perfect.

 

The disc golf was also very competitive. With 60 or so players spread across the 3 divisions there was plenty of leaderboard movement. In the Open division Jester was there or there abouts for the whole tournament and yet again finished top Croydonite, joint 2nd behind Derek Robins (of course!) Well done fella for yet again getting a podium place.

 The Intermediate Ams saw Neil Prebble securing 4th place, so nearly taking 3rd... and James Bates unlucky to miss the final in a playoff after finishing joint 5th.

 But it was the Advanced Am Division that saw the best result for the Club. Phil Wood played some very tidy golf in the inclement weather. Phils big gun of an arm is not necessarily suited to the tight QP course but he tuned in nicely and finished the 1st days 2 round nicely placed just 2 shots off (62/61)top spot. Rich Wood (yours truly) had a less happy day (64/63) and was a further 4 shots back. The par at QP is 54.

 

Sunday morning was a lot more pleasant and Rich had one of his best rounds ever, shooting a 57. Phil had a nice 61 and therfore were level, just 2 shots behind Scot, Sean, into the final. 

The final course at QP is a nine hole "Jungle" course and this year had been changed and lengthened... not good for those with noodle arms!!!

Both Phil and Rich started solidly taking a 4 on the first (Tee 18 to basket 2). The second (T 3 to B 15) saaw Rich go an inch OB eventually to recover with a 10 m uphill putt to secure a 6, Phil played it perfectly and took his 4.  The 3rd (T14 to B16 The Nipple) saw fine drives from both good upshots and both had a silly putt. Rich got a shot back with a 4 to Phils 5. Sean who was leading started to blow up a little, and he was getting no luck at all. The 4th (T15 to B5) was straight forward enough for both players, 4 each. 5 (Tee 6 Basket 7) saw good solid play with both taking a 4. The 6th (T8 to B10) all along the river saw Phil unleash a perfect sidearm over the river and back to park it for a 2, Rich escaped with a 3. Croydon were 1 and 2 by this stage with 3 to play. The dangerous 7th (Normal 11) was negociated in 4s and then onto the 8th (hole 13) Rich went for his normal boring layup drive and was ok for a solid 4... Phil went BIG, sidearm over the top of OB and back... got a touch of good fortune and landed inbounds. Just missed his putt but got his 3, and was pretty much home and hosed. The Final Hole (t10 to B18) was pretty straight forward and so it proved to be. 

Therefore it is with great pleasure that I shook Phils hand as ADV AM CHAMPION of the Quarry Park Open. I came second for our first ever Croydon 1-2.

 

Well done to Phil who really did play fabulous golf in the final, as well as really steady good play all weekend.  

 

 

  

 
 
Croydon Cup 2009 print email
Friday, 27 November 2009 14:55

Tom Lowes became The 2009 Croydon Cup Champion with a fine display of consistantly controled golf. A reasonably new disc golfer at Lloyd Park, Tom has played a lot of Ultimate in the past. The chemistry teacher from south west London took his handicap from the Croydon cyclone scores he amassed in September and pretty much lead from start to finish.

New CDGC but old hand Oz Friere (who also had a fantastic ace on hole 8) came second with Rich Wood happy with his 3rd place.

Jester Wilson, reigning champion, played some good golf but a pretty tough -2 handicap made his task just too difficult to retain the title.

18 players took part in this years CC and now a lot of them will be heading up to Quarry Park for the first leg of the Hyser Cup on Sunday 28th Nov. 

 
 
Chris Rowland Wins Ace Race 2009 at CDGC print email
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:12

Chris Rowland made the trip over from the East of England to take the spoils in the 2009 running of Discraft's Ace Race. Croydon Disc Golf's Stewart Gudgeon organised the event and 30 or so players attended. 

Chris won a full bag of shiny new plastic for his ace and 2 metals (hitting the basket but not leaving the disc inside it) in a fun day of disc golf. Congatulations on a fine performance and also to Connor who  bagged an ace on the amended 9 hole course at Croydon's Lloyd Park.
 
CDGC Summer League Final Table print email
Wednesday, 09 September 2009 16:12

 

It gives me great pleasure to announce that this years Summer League winner is none other than Mr Jerry Andrew.

The Summer league has been running all summer and is a handicapped stroke play competition where players submit their best 8 scores to produce the best average over the comp. Jerrys steady play  has enabled him to take the spoils. Well done fella, thoroughly deserved.

 
 
CDGC At The World Party/Mela print email
Thursday, 09 July 2009 00:00

CDGC bas been invited to join in at the Croydon Music Festival. Split into 2 days Sat 1st Aug will become the World Party and Sun 2nd Aug will be The Croydon Mela.

World Music is the central theme and it's FREE.

CDGC have been invited to showcase DISC GOLF at the event and we will be taking our place at the basket of hole 7 to run a number of putting competitions and try outs.

We will be giving out the leaflets and introducing as many people as possible to our sport.

Please come over on the weekend and find out what we are all about. Check out their website here http://www.croydonsummerfestival.org// read more...
 
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