The June 2024 draw of the 72 Club took place on Sunday 30th June and the lucky winners were as follows:
Senior Men's Pairs Open
The 2024 Senior Men’s Open Pairs took place on Monday 3rd June; the format was 4 B/B/B stableford, 85% handicap allowance off the yellow tee markers.
The top 5 scores were separated by just 1 point with the winning score of 42 points coming from visiting pair, Graham Harris & Beirion Hufton (Bargoed Golf Club) pipping home club pair, Graham Yates & Chris Tully on the back nine.
Men's Open - G.E. Sayce Cup
The 2024 Men’s Open playing for the G.E. Sayce Cup took place on Sunday 5th May. A big thank you to Martyn & Tim Evans of Builth Wells Garages for their very generous sponsorship of the competition.
Noah Wilson (Bransford GC) winner of the G.E. Sayce Cup 2024. Also in picture Shane Claridge, Vice Captain.
The winner of the G.E. Sayce Cup 2024 was Noah Wilson (Bransford Golf Club) with a tremendous score of 67 - 8 = 59 winning by 2 shots from Paul Pearson (Builth Wells Golf Club) 76 - 15 = 61.
Seniors Team Open - Wednesday 17th April 2024
After a very long autumn/winter, the first open competition of 2024 took place at Builth Wells with the Seniors Team Open. The format was a team of four, 2 scores to count on holes 1-6, 3 scores on holes 7-12 and all 4 scores on holes 13-18 with 85% handicap allowance.
The golf course was in excellent condition given the extremely wet weather over recent months; it was pleasing to hear visiting players praising the condition of the course such as:
“This has been the first game of golf this year that I have enjoyed as the course is dry and the greens are excellent”
“As a past greens chairman I would like to commend the green staff on the condition of the course, it was a joy to be out there today, the greens were first class”
A big thank you to lady member, Val Rodgers for administering the scorecards and taking entry fees from start to finish.
72 CLUB DRAW MARCH 2024
The final 72 Club draw took place on SUNDAY 31ST MARCH 2024 and the lucky winners were as follows:
1ST JOHN & SHEILA SMITH £100
2ND BRYAN & ANN JONES £80
3RD DEE REES £60
4TH KATIE DAVIES £40
5TH COLIN DURNS £20
Memorial Team of Three Open Competition
The final Open competition of a very successful Centenary year saw the team of three ‘Memorial’ competition played on Sunday 15th October. The weather was kind although the early starters encountered cold temperatures and mist.
The format was stableford, 2 scores to count apart from holes 6, 13 and 18 where all 3 scores counted.
Open Weekend 2023 - Heart of Wales Trophy
The final day of the 2023 Open Weekend saw the Heart of Wales Trophy played for. 118 players entered this individual stableford competition which was played as a mixed gender competition.
Seniors Open - Wednesday 5th July 2023
The 2023 Seniors Open took place on Wednesday 5th July; the format for the day was individual stableford, 95% handicap allowance.
A good field of 90 players took part with 74 visiting golfers, a good number of which were in the prizes.
A special thank you to both Bargoed and Morlais Castle Golf Club’s for their valued support of the open.