Captain’s Blog, 24th September 2025

My final blog as Club Captain is finally here, and after a quick work trip to South Korea it also includes my penultimate blog too. 

It really has been a great honour and a great deal of fun to have been in this position, one which I must be honest, and say I had never thought I would be asked to do, though I’m so glad I was. 

There are many thanks, which will be addressed in my final address for the AGM, so here will be the final reports on the last two weeks of golf, before Sean Nugent takes the reigns He will definitely make a superb Club Captain. 

Firstly, the Kruger Sovereign held on Thursday 11th September, which was won by Nigel Hunnisett with a very creditable 38 points. 

1st Nigel Hunnisett (38) 

2nd Martin Dunnett (37) 

3rd Boz Aleksov (37) 

The September medal weekend was won by Rob Sobers with a fantastic nett 65 and superb gross of 72! Very well played Rob. 

Division 1 (Nett) 

1st Rob Sobers (65) lowest gross 

2nd Davin Ryan (70) 

3rd Oz Hassan (71) 

Division 2 (Nett) 

1st Robert Burwood (68) 

2nd Sean Nugent (71) 

3rd Nathan Bland (72) 

The Committee cup was contested on the 19th and was won by Tracey Ripsher with a fantastic 39 points.

1st Tracey Ripsher (39) 

2nd Ted Rees (38) 

3rd David R. Morris (38) 

Then the overall winner of the final and extra Stableford was Martin Dunnett, beating Ray Ripsher on countback with 41 points. Rob Grover had the lowest gross was a fantastic gross of 72! 

Division 1 (Points) 

1st Rob Grover (40) lowest gross 72 

2nd Graeme Allen (40) 

3rd Dave Boss (38) 

Division 2 (Points) 

1st Martin Dunnett (41) 

2nd Ray Ripsher (41) 

3rd Paul Clark (40) 

On Thursday the Ray Ellis Trophy against WHCCGS was contested and I’m pleased to say we retained the trophy for another year -  thanks to Jon Copley for organising it and all players involved. 

And Sunday saw the 36-hole final of the Family Foursomes between Iain and Simon Lanario against Tracey Ripsher and Lesley Avent who were the final winners, big congratulations to Lesley and Tracey!  

This Saturday we have the final scratch and extra Medal on Saturday followed by the Captain’s Driver Pairs competition on Sunday. Please try and catch Ian McNally to enter the sweep to guess Sean’s drive and to kick off their charity year to a great start, and please try and make every effort if possible, to come along for 1.30pm to watch and support our new Club Captain “Drive In”. 

That’s it from me, thank you all for your kind support and extremely generous donations helping our charity this year, the total amount will be announced very soon, there’s still time to make last minute donations. 

Guy Croton
Club Captain

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