{"id":6791,"date":"2021-09-07T05:47:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T05:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=6791"},"modified":"2021-09-07T06:39:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T06:39:55","slug":"horsington-open-provides-a-great-days-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=6791","title":{"rendered":"Horsington Open provides a great day\u2019s sport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Home Farm Hackers came third in the team event<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sixty eight golfers of all abilities mustered at Henstridge gold Club  on Saturday 4th<\/sup> September to compete in the annual charity golf tournament, the Horsington Open. It was the tenth anniversary game; a relaxed, carefree occasion, with several payers taking the trouble to dress up in outlandish costumes, a tradition which the organisers hope will  continue in future years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Golf is a funny game. The aim is to go round in the least possible strokes. But because some players are not very good, a system has evolved to give less able players an allowance of strokes which are not counted in their final score, and this is called their handicap. So the good golfers have to play exceptionally well, while the bad players simply have to get lucky. And to complicate matters further, the result is not calculated on the total number of strokes taken, but on the number of times you beat the official \u201cpar\u201d for each hole, for which you get points. The one with the most points wins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So Henstridge vice captain Nick Hudd, who stormed round in a stunning 33 strokes, had to content himself with coming 6th<\/sup> overall. Trevor Legg, also from Henstridge managed to beat him by a full two points to carry off the coveted Claret Jug. Richard Gaunt, who is normally well down the field, had a good day on a big handicap, and was the runner up, closely followed by Chris Bailward, Peter Gripper, and Denise Case just a couple of points behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Organiser Richard Gaunt presents Trevor Legg from Henstrige with the Horsington Open trophy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

George Wagland, representing the sadly closed Half Moon, won the parallel competition for players without an official handicap. Horsington\u2019s other contenders Mark Warren, David Blake, Phil Warren, Andrew Tarling and Anthony Yateman fought valiantly but were further down the rankings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the team event. Horsington\u2019s top team, the Home Farm Harriers, led by Chris Bailward, came third, beating the Grippers by a point. The Horsington Hackers, led by David Blake, last year\u2019s winners followed behind, tying with Richard Gaunt\u2019s The Improbables for 11th<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The day raised over \u00a31200 for the Somerset Air Ambulance and St Margaret\u2019s Hospice, and organisers Richard Gaunt and David Blake (now residing in Bath) would like to thank everyone who took part and for their generous donations and prizes. Next year\u2019s competition is on Saturday September 3rd<\/sup> 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All in all, a good day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=6795<\/a>More photos in the Horsington Open Album<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sixty eight golfers of all abilities mustered at Henstridge gold Club  on Saturday 4th September to compete in the annual charity golf tournament, the Horsington Open. It was the tenth anniversary game; a relaxed, carefree occasion, with several payers taking the trouble to dress up in outlandish costumes, a tradition which the organisers hope will  … Continue reading “Horsington Open provides a great day\u2019s sport”<\/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":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-1Lx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791","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=6791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6824,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791\/revisions\/6824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}