Horsley Lodge Scramble - 3rd October 2024

A rare dry and sunny October morning saw us venture to the foothills of the peak district to Horsley Lodge Golf Club for the next event in our Scramble series.

 

The club designed by Peter McEvoy is the number 1 ranked course in Derbyshire and you can tell why upon the beautiful entrance to the manicured gardens of the 164 acre estate.

 

A field comprising 48 teams and 147 players  set off into the slight fog of the beautiful October morning to get the event underway.

 

A strong advantageous wind helped the early teams attack the short par 5 1st where no fewer than 6 eagles and 21 birdies were made, this wind also helped assist the longest drive 10th with Early Starter Dan Bullock smashing his drive a good 300 yards down the  fairway, for the ladies longest drive late starter Jacey Peacock was not put off by the drop in wind as she hit a bullet splitting the fairway and taking home the prize.

 

The 147 yard tricky par 3 3rd hole was made to look easy by Andy Matthewman who cleverly placed his tee shot close to the pin, you could tell Andy was impressed as we were greeted with his big smile at the scoring desk along with a description of the “high spinning  draw which ended up no more than inches from the hole”

 

 

 

The WHS competition was fiercely contested no less than 3 teams 6 teams within 1 shot of the lead.

 

1st - Kevin Hyland, Scott Hinton, Scott Priestley and Dominic Cullenr

2nd - Luke Hibbert’s team (Won Gross so prize filters down)

2nd - Paul Thompson, Tyler Reardon, Phillip Barlow and Michael Marshall

3rd - Lee Wilmott, Kevin Hardy, Sean Nutt and Thomas Hardy

4th - Callum Hope, Daz Green, Tobias Anderson and Zach Green

5th - Jonathan Ionnou, RIchard Fisher, Joe Tesoriere and Justin ingrey

 

Gross - 

1st - Luke Hibbert, Kiran Exley,  Tom Shenton and Kyle Sanghera

 

 

Thank You to Horsley Lodge GC for being in such wonderful condition and thank you to all 147 of you who took part - we hope to see you at another event soon!