Terry Edmonds' Memorial XXII

Another glorious day at Aboyne yesterday - and well done to Ken Black who notched up his first win with a magnificent 42 points, equalling the record for this event, previously held by the late Les Gray (2006). Ken is now the 11th name on the trophy. The event has been played a total of 19 times now, with 2 further occasions when it was rained off and once Covid cancelled.

The all-time list of winners still shows Malcolm well ahead with 5 wins, followed by Paul, Les, myself and Keith with 2 each. Solo wins from the late Dave Edwards, Archie, Harry, Ken Page (who drove from his home in Spain to take part yesterday and at Boat of Garten), Gary and now Ken Black.

I've copied Gary's detailed match report below, but first, here's the photos from yesterday:

The starting 10 - l-r: me. Harry, Gary, Rob, Dick, Ken B, Ken P, Malcolm. Nigel and Syd

Regrettably, only 9 of the above managed to finish. After a good front nine, and despite Ken B supplying me with paracetomol on the 10th tee, playing 2 days in a row was too much for my knee and I had to walk in after 12 holes. I was, however, able to join Linda on the balcony and photograph each of the teams as they finished their rounds on the 18th:

Rob, Malcolm and Gary

Harry, Nigel and Dick

Syd, Ken P and Ken B

Here's the team photo, including Linda, before the meal:

Gary then did the prizegiving and Linda presented Ken B with the magnificent trophy:

Now Gary's match report:

"Well what a day - the sun obviously shines on the righteous! 

Thankfully some clouds passed over to cool the ambient temperature on the course.

Despite some early protestations and murmurings from certain quarters of team fixing, the end result vindicated my team selection. Average stableford score for the geeks was 32.88.

A new format was introduced in testing ones ability to hit a green in regulation - this was closest to the pin with a second shot at the 17th. However, a pin positioned close to the front of the green proved very difficult with only myself and Syd managing to succeed with the latter winning.

Rob hit the pin at the 8th having also done the same at the Eden course a few weeks ago. Perhaps we should have a special prize for this in the future.

There was great altercation about Ken B and Ken P's score. It appears everyone knew what was going on apart from moi.  Everyone was shouting at me and I am only small!!!

Overall winner was Ken Black ( not Page!) with 42 points; second place was Harry Salter with 36 despite hitting a wrong ball on the 2nd!

Team prize to Syd, Ken Page, Ken Black and Ian with total of 111. ( Ian Stewart retired early)."