Golfing Society beaten by "one armed bandit"

The Golfing Society narrowly lost their local derby away to the Alley Cat Strays by three pins.

Unfortunately Taylor's (13) normal pin point accuracy deserted him on the night, but helped by top scoring Lewis (28) the pair only finished nine pins adrift.

With the wibbly wobblys not playing, Tinney (22) and Gibbs (26) set about reducing the defecit, but were only able to pull back two pins.

Pearce (22) and Pinder (23) were not on their usual top form, and despite Mike Webb suffering an arm injury during the game, were unable to pull more than four pins back.    

Next weeks match is against the Blackadders at home on Thursday 9th October. Start time to be confirmed.

Capt. Pinder

Golfing Society caught out by Stone CC

The Golfing Society were looking to beat last seasons champions for the third consecutive time, and for a time it looked on the cards with Taylor (32) and Gibbs (24) giving the home team a brief lead.

However, they finished up five pins down, and despite heroics by Lewis (28) and Crabtree (22) a further two pins were lost, leaving the Golfing Society seven pins down overall.

Pearce (34) and Pinder (24) were unable to pull the defecit back, and lost a further pin for the match to end with an eight pin win for Stone CC

This was a much improved performance by the Golfing Society, which should stand them in good stead for Mondays match at the Rugby Club against Mike Webb's Alley Cat Strays.

Capt. Pinder

Roaring Twenties Blown Away

The Golfing Society returned to winning form with a convincing win over a lack lustre home team by 33 pins.

Terry Taylor (29) & Brian Gibbs (31) were unlucky to come off four pins down, but a resurgent middle pairing of Mike Tinney (37) and Rich Williams (26) quickly pulled back the deficit, and handed over a lead of 21 pins to the Golfing Society's anchor pair.

Vernon Pearce(44) started with a 10 spare and although Capt. Pinder (15) was well below par, they extended the Golfing Society's winning margin by a further 12 pins.

Next weeks match is at home on Thursday against the old foe of Stone CC.

Capt. Pinder 

Golfing Society lose to Gamblers

Due to early season unavailabilities, the Golfing Society fell by 20 pins in their first home match of the season.

Tinney (9) and Taylor (27) were unable to get off to their customary good start, and handed over a defecit of 20 pins to the rearranged middle pairing of Williams (16) and Pinder (33). They managed to put a brake on the Gamblers skittle fest, losing only one pin.

Pearce (26) and Lewis (18) came together and were the only home side skittlers to pull a pin!

Next weeks match is away to the newly promoted Roaring Twenties at the Wheatsheaf on Wednesday evening 8.30 start.

Capt. Pinder

Newtonians no match for Golfing Society

The Golfing Society have always struggled to win their first match of the season, and when Dickie Lowe scored a fine nine on his first visit, the Golfing Society were wondering if history was going to repeat itself yet again.

However Taylor (38) and Lewis (16) were not fazed by the Newtonians opening scores, and were able to hand over an 8 pin lead to the Golfing Society's middle pair.

Gibbs (27) and Williams (22) unfortunately dropped 3 pins against their opponents who had 3 ducks in their score.

With a lead of 5 pins, the anchor pair of Tinney (21) and Pinder (40) were able to extend the lead to 22 pins by the end of the match.

Next weeks match is at home to the Gamblers.

Capt. Pinder