Members - Club News
| Arthur England |
Arthur England Am-AM, The oldest club celebrates its oldest golfer
To celebrate the memory of Arthur England Great Yarmouth and Caister golf club hold an annual fun day of golf. The competition is a Texas Scramble event. As well as remembering and paying tribute to Arthur the club have used this event in recent times as a fund raiser.
Lenny Johnson former club captain recalled how disappointed, Arthur was when at age 101 his playing partners, mere octogenarians, only wanted to play 10 holes.
In glorious sunshine with the familiar strong breeze a very large field posted some incredible scoring.
The winning team was Lenny Johnson, no youngster these days ,Tim Starbuck, John Garrod and guest Simon Louise .
In front of a packed club house Arthur’s memorial cane was presented by Club Captain Rodney Beckett to the winning team. Lenny said it was a great day like turning the clock back he said and how much he had enjoyed watching his golden retrievers fetch his ball back from all over the course. Lenny sank the winning put on the final hole.
Later in the year the club will pay tribute to its other centurion golfer Jack Chase in his annual bogey competition.
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| Barnard Success |
Dad's Army March On
The Club’s Barnard team progressed into the 2nd round with victory over Swaffham GC by 2 holes.
Photo shows:
President/Senior’s Organiser Joe Neep with Tim Starbuck; Ray Howes; Brian Lever; Rodney Beckett; Richard Morris; Terry Norman; Dave Kightley; John Stevens.
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| Peck Salver |
Robin Soars To Victory
Long serving member Robin Hodds turned in his best performance for many a year to win the Peck Salver at Great Yarmouth & Caister Golf Club. With the links playing at its best his gross 83 off his 15 handicap gave him a nett 68 which was one shot ahead of Ian Kemp (15) with nett 69 and Terry Norman (5) with nett 70. The lowest gross score on the day was Thaine Hacon with 73. This weekend sees the Arthur England team event and next week the Club hosts the 3 day Norfolk County Ladies Championship.
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| Myhill 1st |
Myhill Success
Myhill Captain, James Ollington, selected a strong team with a blend of youth and experience to take on near neighbours Mundesley in the 1st round of the County Knockout. The first 18 holes saw Caister with an 8 hole lead which was extended to a total of 13 holes at the end of the 36 holes.
The course was playing at its best with one of the Mundesley players remarking that the greens were the best he had ever played on. The course must be one of the finest in the area at the moment.
Photo shows Club Captain Rodney Beckett with the team of Steve Greatrex, Thaine Hacon, James Ollington, Tom Rutherford, Harry Cribb, Scott Boon, Alex Fellas, Oliver Cribb.
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| Charity Cup |
Twose back on form
Great Yarmouth & Caister Golf Club played their annual Charity Cup competition on Sunday. A slightly smaller field than usual took to the links on a blustery but dry day. The course was playing at its best after a welcome drop of rain. Taking full advantage of the course and conditions was popular member Kevin Twose, no stranger to the winner’s enclosure, with a stableford score of 37 points. This score was equalled by one of Kevin’s playing partners Joey Basey who was pipped to the trophy on countback. Third place went to James Colclough with 36 points.
On Sunday the club hosts Mundesley in the first round of the County’s Myhill Kockout. The Mixed Open on Saturday 27th April and the Peck Salver on the 28th are the next two club events.
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| Brown Shines |
Brown Shines
The Grant Memorial Trophy was played for at Great Yarmouth & Caister on Sunday. With the course in superb condition some high scoring was the order of the day. Conquering the fast, true running greens was youngster Robert Brown who carded an exceptional 46 points from his 24 handicap (now 19) to take the spoils. In second place, with what would normally be a winning score, was Ray Howes (12) with an excellent 41 points followed by Terry Norman (5) with 38 points. The Caister links is playing at its best and receiving praise from visiting golfers. The club has a special 12 month, £350 deal for new members.
On Sunday afternoon the Club’s Scratch team entertained Hunstanton in the County Scratch Knockout and were narrowly defeated in a play-off. Scratch Captain, James Ollington, praised his team’s performance. He is now looking forward to leading a team in the Myhill Trophy next week.
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| Penn Medal |
Historic Opening Competition
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A large field contested the first major trophy competition at Great Yarmouth & Caister Golf Club on Sunday in quite testing conditions. This was the Penn Medal, steeped in history, presented by John Penn MP during his year as Captain in 1886. The first winner was Horace G Hutchinson who has often been thought of as ‘the best English Amateur golfer ever’. His score on the day was 83 which was soundly bettered on Sunday by two of the Club’s top golfers, James Ollington (4) and Simon Clark (0) who both shot gross 72 conquering a course presented in superb condition with fast, true-running greens and lively fairways. This was Simon’s 7th victory in the event in the past 8 years and James’ first.
In the handicap event for the Lucas Cup the winner was Matt Jackson with a very creditable Nett 68. A further highlight of his round was seeing his playing partner Graham Leak score a hole-in-one on the 14th with a 6 iron tee shot. This was Graham’s first ace and it was drinks all round in the Clubhouse.
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| Paddy's Triples |
Paddy's Triples
10 teams took part in the St Patrick's Day event. An interesting format of best score of the three counted on 16 holes, with all three scores counting on the 8th & 18th. Scores on these two holes ranged from a high of 8 points to a low of 2 points. The best 9 hole return was from the team of Jeffrey Timms, Darren Farman & Robin Hodds with 29 points on the front 9. However, returning two halves of 28 points were the winning team of Oliver Cribb, Tom Carding & Jamie Bool. Full result below:
Cribb. Carding. Bool 56 points
Kemp. Drewery. Seabrook 52 points
Timms. Farman. Hodds 51 points (on countback)
Rutherford. Rutherford. Colclough 51 points
Shovelin. Tungate. Drage 50 points
Winn. Winn. Hacon 48 points
McMurray. Delaney. Grant 45 points
Beckett. Starbuck. Devlin 43 points
Lever. Lever. Greatrex 42 points
Rose. Knight. Daniels 39 points
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| Lacon Cup |
Green Hits Purple Patch
Fifty seven hardy golfers battled the elements again for the first major trophy of the golfing season at Great Yarmouth and Caister golf club. Cold and snow flurries couldn’t put the big freeze on the spirits of the competitors.
A very creditable 36 points saw Ian Green finishing 2 points ahead of Matt Jackson with34 points and Graham Fairchild in 3rd with 32 points Club captain Rodney Beckett finished in 4th.
Sunnier and warmer times ahead were predicted as the teams from Park Resorts holiday parks made use of the club’s new conference room. Setting goals and aspirations for the summer season.
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| Golf Days UK |
Great Yarmouth, Great Golf, Grrrreatrex!
Winner Steve Greatrex receiving his prizes 
Golf Days UK launched their brand new Norfolk Tour for 2013 and 40 players lined up ready to brave the conditions and earn some points for their order of merit total. With temperatures barely above freezing, a persistent wind and even the odd snow shower it made for some of the toughest conditions ever in a Golf Days UK Tour Event. It was the members of Great Yarmouth and Caister, well-rehearsed at playing in tricky weather, who bagged all the prizes on the day and seemed unaffected as some fantastic golf was observed.
Steve Greatrex making his debut in a Norfolk Tour event was the deserved winner on the day with 38 points off his ¾ handicap of 4. He will be cut a full stroke for his future events on the tour but starts the season in the strongest position with 100 order of merit points. For winning the event, Steve also received a pair of Loudmouth Golf Trousers of his choice and a pair of Adidas Powerband 2 Golf Shoes supplied by Chris Potter Golf. Golf Days UK Tour regular Cain Esherwood also a member at Caister started his 2013 campaign with a very steady 36 points playing off 9 and claimed 95 Order of Merit points and a Cobra Wedge. Completing the member’s domination was 1 handicapper, Thaine Hacon with 35 points, who received 92 Order of Merit Points and chose a Nike hat for his third prize. Thaine took third spot on countback with an impressive 3 under gross back nine to amass 22 points against James Cundy’s 16. The full leaderboard can be viewed by clicking below.
There were two nearest the pin awards on the day and these were won by Thaine Hacon on the 7th and Steve Greatrex on the 12th.
The new scoring system for 2013 means that players are aiming to earn as many order of merit points as they can from their best five finishes during the 10 events. The top fifteen in the leaderboard after 10 events will then qualify for the final at Sheringham Golf Club and the winner of the final will be crowned champion and win the trip to Gleneagles Resort, Scotland in the Ryder Cup year. In addition to that, the player with the highest order of merit score from their five events will win a set of custom fit irons supplied by Chris Potter Golf. Last year’s tour runner up Adam Saunders was in action again finishing in 5th place, using his prize from last year, brand new custom fitted Titleist AP2’s from Chris Potter.
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| 4 BBB |
A dense mist delayed the start of the 4 Ball Better Ball competition at Great Yarmouth & Caister but when things finally got underway some excellent scoring followed. Early leaders in the clubhouse were Colin Lord and Josh Brooks who returned a creditable 45 points. This was eventually matched by Ian Kemp and Paul Burt but their back 9 was 1 point less so they were runners-up. Club Captain Rodney Beckett partnered by Vice Captain Tim Starbuck were pipped at the post with 44 points.
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| February Stableford |
Golf Lovers brave the elements
After a fabulous Valentine dinner at the Great Yarmouth and Caister Golf Club the golfers took to the links to play in February stableford.
Sunday was strictly a day for golfing lovers.
A biting wind blowing from the south, but with all the symptoms of a cold northerly gale, made conditions very difficult. Not being deterred, a large field produced some great golf. It took a tough Scouser to come out on top as Billy Humphreys posted a very credible 38 points to win from Tony Voss and Nigel Drewery who also managed to keep cool while everyone was freezing.
While most courses are wallowing in mud, mud glorious mud, Caister provides a superb test of golf playing in outstanding condition. The nineteenth hole was a great place to warm up those winter chills and be amazed at the standard of golf that had been posted.
Caister’s Daily Mail team of Thaine Hacon, Alex Fellas, Terry Norman, Steve Greatrex & Oliver Cribb was in action at Royal Norwich and the match went to the wire with the home team winning on the last hole of the last match to take the tie 3-2 The Ladies team was also in action at Bawburgh losing narrowly in the mud 3-2.
The next Caister competition will be a 4BBB on Sunday 17th with the Lacon Cup the week after.
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| Course News |
COURSE NEWS
FEBRUARY 2013
Routine Maintenance
• The greens are now being cut at a height of 5mm once/twice a week
• Slitting/spiking of greens will continue on a monthly basis through ‘til March.
• Spiking of fairways is now being undertaken for the final time this winter.
• Rabbit control and repair of rabbit damage is on-going.
Weeds in Greens
• Manual picking is taking place until weather and growth prevails before spraying can begin.
Gorse Coppicing
• Gorse coppicing work took place to help with the playability and visual impact.
Developmental Work
• Work has been undertaken on renovating the large bunker on the 10th fairway and two of the three fairway bunkers on the right hand side of the 16th. Turfing will now begin after consolidation period.
Please take care if you have to enter and leave a bunker to retrieve your ball whilst they are GUR to avoid disturbing work.
• Work has taken place to remove some sleeper steps (H&S).
• The 11th tee box has a roped off area where reseeding has been carried out.
• Work will commence shortly on a total repair of the safety netting along the 11th.
• We are sorry that the 17th & 18th are so very wet as we are unable to get water flowing through our ditches to Yarmouth Road. The Anglian Water pump station has broken down but we have been assured that it is being dealt with.
Simon Clark
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| January Stableford |
Ziggy shoots to top
The opening competition event of the year was affected by adverse weather resulting in a field of only 26 competitors. The competition was reduced to 16 holes and coming out on top was Mark 'Ziggy' Seabrook with 34 points, closely followed by Steve Drage with 33 points.
Voucher were issued to the following:
Div 1 Steve Drage 33points
Graham Fairchild 32points
Billy Humphreys 31 point
Div 2 Mark Seabrook 34 points
Nicholas Hunt 32 points
Christian Lever 31 points |
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| Captains |
Golf Club salutes the Captains
In a very successful break from tradition the Great Yarmouth and Caister Golf Club paid tribute to its elected Captains for 2013.
The Club Captain Rodney Beckett and the Captain of the ladies section Jeni Rose both drove in ahead of a massive field for a festive Texas scramble. The Captains used the centenary driver presented to the club to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 1982. Not the best drives Rodney or Jeni have hit in their golfing careers but after careful measurement it was the ladies section that were doing the most cheering. The winning tickets for the Captain’s drive in were held by John Tweed and Jason Dent who both received a festive prize.
A very competitive field of golfers battled hard in the winter sunshine with some terrific scoring, 18 slick greens and a links course playing magnificently well.
The winning team consisting of Tom Rutherford, Tom Gilbert, James Ollington and Will Johnson who shot an incredible gross ten under par 60 netting down to a 56.9 shots. The runners up were Richard Betts, Josh Brooks, Colin Lord and Glyn Chapman with a net score of 59.
Individual prizes were won by Jean Johnson for nearest the pin on the 7th.Richard Betts was nearest the pin on the 12th. Steve Greatrex was nearest the pin on the 14th (Half a turn away from a very expensive hole in one), nearest the pin on the 17th was Past Captain and Past President Richard Masterson showing a pleasing return to form. Nearest the pin in two on the second was Alex Fellas.
The Captains team had played well and defeated most of the other teams who had to dig deep into their pockets to contribute to the Captains’ charities for being beaten.
At a packed presentation the Captain thanked the members who took part and wished them the compliments of season and all the best for a great golfing New Yea r. Afterwards a pint,a hot roast roll and much merrymaking got the festive season at Caister off to a tremendous start.
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| Competition Winners 2012 |
2012 Competition Winners
CLUB CHAMPION Danny Western
Blackheath Medal Steven Greatrex
Penn Medal Simon Clark
Gt Yarmouth Badge Thaine Hacon
Charity Cup John Cater
Grant Memorial Tom Carding
Lacon Cup Robert Brown
Artisan’s Cups Mike Hall & Steven Greatrex
Young Cup William Johnson
Peck Salver Mike Hall
Fell Cup Oliver Cribb
Fell Tankard William Johnson
Lindsay Cup (Handicap) Danny Western
Ladies Bowl Blair Ainslie
Lindsay Cup Tony Cater
Hughes Silver Iron Graham Carman
Challenge Cup Glyn Chapman
Watson Cup Dave Girdlestone
Stableford Trophy Mark Seabrook
January Stableford Matthew Palmer
Remembrance Day Trophy Gary Etherington
President’s Putter Jack Reeve
Doug Peake Trophy Kelvin Burns
Professional’s Salver Steven Greatrex
Jack Chase Caister Cup Stephen Basey
Kemsley Salver Bernie Barron
Lucas Cup Paul Ollington
2012 Club Knockout Winners
Tacon Cup Steven Greatrex
Sperrin Salvers Terry Norman & Terry Herd
Ratcliffe Cup Gareth Davies
Dredge Cup Ray Howes
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