{"id":3329,"date":"2014-10-29T15:24:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T15:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3329"},"modified":"2014-10-29T15:24:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T15:24:10","slug":"kevin-wagland-wins-horsington-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3329","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Wagland wins Horsington Open"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Horsington<\/a>
Kevin Wagland (winner) and Phil Bennett from the Half Mooners<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Horsington Open was held for the second year running on Monday 27th October at Folke Golf Centre, Alweston.<\/p>\n

This fact alone gives the organisers the right to call it Horsington\u2019s \u201cAnnual\u201d golf charity event. The event is billed as a fun day for all-comers.<\/p>\n

18 Golfers took to the course to battle it out for the coveted Horsington Open Claret Jug over 9 holes, on a pleasant early autumn morning, which meant that fallen leaves were a minor factor.<\/p>\n

\"Chris<\/a>
Chris Dibben gets ready for the off<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chris Dibben, from the Winky Seniors had the task of defending his title against some stiff and keen opposition. Some people had even trained for the event! The course was in beautiful condition, but was a more difficult challenge that last year\u2019s venue, Henstridge.<\/p>\n

The eventual winner was Kevin Wagland from the home team, the Half Mooners(Handicap 28), with a score of 21 points under the Stableford System. He narrowly pipped last year\u2019s winner Chris Dibben (Handicap 23) by 1 point. Kevin has not played for several years, but we wonder what his handicap was before he took a break.<\/p>\n

Third was Frank White (Handicap 9) from the Winky Seniors with 17 points. The Winky Seniors also took the team prize, with a total of 67 points.<\/p>\n

Other prizes:<\/strong>
\nLongest drive<\/strong> AND nearest the pin \u2013 David West (handicap (14), who also came 4th
\nPutt of the Day<\/strong> \u2013 Neil Edwards (Handicap 28)
\nBest Newcomer<\/strong> John Macdonald (Handicap 28) with a score of 14
\nBest injured player<\/strong> Howard Bentley \u2013 Marchant (Handicap 28) \u2013 11 points.
\nWooden Spoon<\/strong> \u2013 Paul Mann (Handicap 28). This was despite having briefly been the holder of the nearest the pin prize AND beating event organiser Richard Gaunt by 2 points. Richard claimed the organiser\u2019s right to award a prize to whomsoever he wanted to and to demonstrate there was absolutely no favouritism when it came to awarding prizes.<\/p>\n

The Horsington Open made a small profit of \u00a364.00, which has been donated to St Margaret\u2019s Hospice.<\/p>\n

Well done to all competitors, and thanks to Folke Golf Centre, who were excellent and generous hosts.<\/p>\n

The Horsington Open 2014 \u2013 Order of merit<\/strong>
\nKevin Wagland 21
\nChris Dibben 20
\nFrank White 17
\nMike Parfitt 15
\nDerek King 15
\nJohn Macdonald 14
\nDavid West 14
\nColin Constable 14
\nRay Phillips 13
\nPhil Bennett 13
\nNick Maynard 13
\nGeorge Wagland 13
\nAndrew Tarling 13
\nNeil Edwards 11
\nHoward Bentley-Marchant 11
\nGlyn Parry 6
\nPaul Mann 5
\nRichard Gaunt 3<\/p>\n

\"John<\/a>
John Macdonald and Richard Gaunt, the worst golfer in Horsington<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Horsington Open was held for the second year running on Monday 27th October at Folke Golf Centre, Alweston. This fact alone gives the organisers the right to call it Horsington\u2019s \u201cAnnual\u201d golf charity event. The event is billed as a fun day for all-comers. 18 Golfers took to the course to battle it out … Continue reading “Kevin Wagland wins Horsington Open”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2763],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-RH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3338,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions\/3338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}