Summer Quaich 2011

From http://bsvgolf.blogspot.com/

It's only a week since we had our final night of the 2011 Quaich but already it seems like a long time ago. I did promise/threaten further analysis of the stats etc for this season, so here goes:

1. Twenty three players put in a score this year, but Ian Dring and Gordon Moir weren't amongst them, with both being geographically challenged this summer. Dave Edwards also couldn't play.
2. Total points scored in 233 rounds entered on the database was 7,787 - an average of 33.4. There were, however, a few more scores from our group on Quaich days that didn't make it all the way to the database!
3. Steve Fulford had the widest range of scores - from a lowly 11 to 41.
4. Gary Grant only played 3 times, but was very consistent, only scoring 34 or 35 points. John McWhinnie, Jas Bhagrath and Harry Salter played a little bit more often and kept their range of scores down to 6,7,and 6 respectively, but Nigel Meany only played twice and scored 37 points on each occasion.
5. Naturally, Nigel's average score is the highest, but Jas is next best on 36.8, with Harry and John McW next. Of course, all of these players didn't have any truncated or foreshortened rounds to bring their averages down. I was best of those who played more than 10 rounds, with an average of 35.4 for all rounds played.
6. There were 22 forty-pointers this year, with Dan and I top of the tree with 4 each. Then came Messrs Sharp & Pollard with 3 each, Fulford, Simpson and Meaden with 2, and Riches and Taylor one apiece.
7. Even allowing for the usual creative transfers of Messrs Cook and Orr to the Rest of the World team, Scots dominated the Quaich in every sense this year, being responsible for two-thirds of the rounds played and also the top three scorers. Only once (23rd June) were the Scots outnumbered (3-2).
8. On the other hand, the numbers of over 60's only fractionally exceeded their younger counterparts, but they scored more points on aggregate over the whole season, and also on a weekly basis (12 of the 23 weeks).
9. The season's highest score was 43 points, shared by Messrs Pollard and Meaden.
10. The best gross score was 74 and this was shared between me, Ian Sharp and Gary Grant.
11. The lowest recorded score was the 11 points Steve recorded on 29th June.
12. The lowest weekly winning score was Jack's 31 points on the same day, when a number of us were "midged" off!
13. Conversely, the highest DoD score was 32 points - an all-time record, achieved by me on 13th April.

That's this year's stats - historical comparison to follow.