Terry Edmonds' Memorial XVII & B.o.G. LXVI

Busy weekend - Terry Edmonds' Memorial at Aboyne on Friday followed by the Boat of Garten outing on Sunday/Monday.

Seven Banchory Squash Vets were joined by Terry's son Paul, who came up from Cardiff (with his family) to take part in the event again after an absence of a few years. It was a fine afternoon and appropriately, Paul won the trophy - for the second time - with 34 points. Here's some of the photos:

The team at the start, with Paul's family and stepmum Linda.

Linda presents Paul with the trophy

Linda presents 2nd placed Nigel with his prizes

The winning team fourball are photobombed by Les

Over the meal I made a jocular suggestion that the event should be held in Paul's home territory of Cardiff next year, but there were quite a few who quickly piped up that perhaps this might not be such a bad idea after all. The Lodges at Celtic Manor could provide suitable accommodation. Further discussion will no doubt follow.

Our traditional Boat of Garten programme had to be reversed this time, due to competitions on both courses. Sunday was very warm but also very breezy. Boat of Garten was very dry and the fairways and greens were baked hard - it seemed that, unlike further east, they hadn't recovered yet from the drought conditions of mid-summer.

The team line-up at the start:

Harry shot the best score of the day - 33 points, one more than both Les and Dick and those 3, joined by John M, formed the elite group going out last at Grantown-on-Spey on Monday.

Gordon, the defending champion and thus organiser for this event, had to rush away after his round at Grantown and so the onus for completing the prizegiving was passed back to me - a strictly one-of occasion and definitely not the start of a Sinatra-style comeback. Gordon left with a bang, however, with a super score of 42 points, which hauled him up to 2nd place overall. Harry held his nerve, however, with a steady 38 points to win the event overall for the 2nd time:

Full scores and prizes:

		Sun	Mon
		B.o.G.	G/town	Total	Gross
		02-Sep	03-Sep	Pts	Pts
1	Salter	33	38	71	51
2	Moir	26	42	68	42
3	Gray, Les	32	35	67	41
4	Taylor	32	35	67	37
5	Stewart	29	37	66	40
6	Dring	28	34	62	48
7	Riches	29	32	61	27
8	Murray	28	32	60	50
9	Page	27	32	59	29
10	Meaden	30	28	58	22
11	Gray, Keith	20	32	52	18
12	Orr	18	33	51	33
13	Simpson	14	36	50	0

Overall winner	Harry
2nd overall	Gordon
3rd overall	Les
4th overall	Dick
Scratch	Harry
Sunday winner (not overall)	Les
Monday winner (not overall or Sun)	Gordon
NP's - Sunday	Ray/Keith M
LD - Sunday	Harry
NP's - Monday	Ray/Keith M
LD - Monday	Ian D
Sunday team	Les/Harry/Ian D
Monday team	Ray/Jack/Gordon

There is now a noticeable trend towards (relatively) younger winners - in the last 7 events 5 of the winners were still in their 50's - Ian D, Steve, Harry (2) and Gordon - with only Jack and I bucking the recent trend. Harry now enters the Top 10 of all-time winners:

Position	1st win year	Name	No.
1	14	Syd	10
2	2	Les	8
3=	4	Ian S	7
3=	6	Dave	7
5	1	Dick	5
6	17	Malc	4
7=	6	Ken	3
7=	10	Terry	3
9=	11	John D	2
9=	32	Harry	2

There are 14 other solo winners:

1st win year	Name
1	Bill
3	Bob
8	Keith (M.)
8	Peter
11	Mike
12	Bobby
22	Dan
25	Keith (G.)
27	Jas
28	Chris
30	Ian D
31	Steve
32	Jack
33	Gordon