The Aero Championship meeting was held at Woking on 18 June. On a fine day for golf, George McCaffery was the winner of the Instone Trophy, with Simon Sveder-Cain taking the scratch trophy.

Captain's Report

The sun rose bright on what turned out to be a wonderful day from a weather point of view. The general conversation over coffee and bacon baps was the traffic which was heavy irrespective of the angle of approach, but to be expected on Ascot opening day.

Woking golf club looked its usual immaculate self and all involved in running the club were welcoming, helpful and keen to make our visit as comfortable and enjoyable as possible. The new manager had been at North Hants. and so knew our foibles and a goodly proportion of our members.

The course was beautifully presented, the fairways immaculate and the greens fast and true. It was the greens that determined the outcome of the day’s results as they were quick, sloped to rival Pinewood and the pins had been cunningly positioned at the edges close to wicked run offs.

Twenty-six of us sat down to a lunch of the highest standard which we have come to expect and there was even time for a coffee before the start of the afternoon round which was played over the first fourteen holes.

This meeting is our Championship event where four different trophies are contested and it is the only scratch competition in our calendar. I refer you to the results which are published below.

Results

Afternoon Greensomes
 Players Points   
 Nigel Dowdall & Mark Hudson 27    greensomes winners   mark  nigel
Mark Hudson & Nigel Dowdall won the PM Greensomes competition
 Tony Killick & Ian Wood  21
 Keith Filbey & Guy Douglass 21
 Mike Dickman & David Hobart 21  
 Peter Cherry & Anthony King 20  
Stu Butler & Alastair Beedie 20  
Richard Burman & Ray Corstin 20  
Simon Sveder-Cain & David Backhouse 19  
Roger Whitefield & Geoff Thorburn 15  
Richard Pierce & George Wallace 15  

Morning Medal / Stableford Results

Note: Players may only win one trophy, with the Instone Trophy (handicap medal) as the principal trophy, followed by the Aeroplane Trophy (scratch medal) and then the Jack Bryan's Stableford Trophy.

 Player Net Medal Gross Medal Stableford
Points
Winners  
 George McCaffery  69 97   37  Winner Net AG Instone ChallengeThe Instone Challenge Trophy, won by George McCaffery
 Simon Sveder-Cain  75  74  31  Winner Gross
 Roger Whitefield  75  90  31  Winner Stableford
 Anthony King 76   91  30  Runner-up Net    scratch winner   simon
Simon Sveder-Cain, winner of the Scratch competition
 Stu Butler 76   86 30   3rd Net
 Tom Lyons  77 88   29  4th Net
 Mike Dickman 77   88  30  Runner-up Stableford    stableford winner   the captain
Captain Roger Whitefield won the Stableford competition
Ian Wood 78 92 27  
Mark Hudson 78 86 28 Runner-up Gross
George Wallace 78 91 28    
Alastair Beedie 78 96 28    
David Hobart 79 87 27    
Tony Killick 79 95 27    
Geoff Thorburn 80 89 26    
Guy Douglass 80 91 27    
Nigel Dowdall 81 93 25    
Tom Cox 82 107 25    
David Backhouse 83 89 25    
Ian Senior 85 104 25    
Paddy Hine 88 117 22    
Richard Pierce NR NR 27    
Peter Cherry NR NR 24    
Keith Filbey NR NR 23