Major Winner - Ken Brown (right)
It’s been a very busy season; the 7th Major has now come and gone but one thing that can be said, 2016 is looking like the most well attended season.  Event attendance has been averaging around 37 mainly due to the number of guests that have been attending our events, it’s a testament to the 10 years of commitment from all those that have served on the committee and have sacrificed hours of personal time and effort to help portray a well run society.

The location playing host to our 7th Major was Gaudet Luce Golf Club in Worcestershire, members in attendance would be playing for the TNCM Trophy, the event title referring to The National Caribbean Memorial, an organisation setup to remember those from the Caribbean Islands who have severed, serve today and will serve tomorrow for the United Kingdom in conflicts around the world.  The organisation was represented on the day by CGS member Donald Campbell and his guest Winston White.

Gaudet Luce was included on the CGS schedule after positive feedback from members who attended last years end of season Texas Scramble, unfortunately the course wasn’t up to the same standard as last year, the greens had been hollow tined and because of the previous days rain the grass hadn’t been cut either.  This left us with not only spiked and sandy greens but also long grass; the greens were arguably the worst greens we’ve played all season.  It was a real shame, with forty golfers in attendance and five of those being guests it wasn’t the best course to be playing on, no matter what a winner still had to be decided.

Ten years ago the CGS started on Good Friday at Licky Hills Golf Club and in attendance on that day was Ken Brown.  Ken has been an avid supporter of the CGS from day one, not missing many events apart from one season where a shoulder injury prevented him from attending most of the season’s events.  In all those years he never managed to win an event, it’s been a long time coming but that statistic is now history.

Apart from the greens the course was firm and running, 36 points was looking like it would be a good score on the day if anyone could putt on the greens. Trevor Lammy playing in the third group scored 37 points, which was looking like a possible winning score but as usual the early finishers have a long and nervous wait while other scores are entered into the computer, the usual outcome is someone always comes in with a better score and on this occasion that would be the case.  As the other scores were entered he fell further down the leader board and would eventual bottom out in third place.  Pushing Trevor into third was Keith Salmon who scored 38 points.  It was the man of the day who came in with 39 points to win out by a single point.  Ken playing off a 19 handicap scored 17 points on the front nine and 22 on the back.

The longest drive was won by Eric Queely, the nearest the pin by Vassel Brown on the 16th nailing his tee shot to just over eight feet.  The nearest in two was held on the par 4 3rd and wining with a second shot of four and half feet after driving the green was guest Chris Powell.

The other guests who were also in attendance were; Carlton Donald, John Kirnon, Paul Hadley and Winston White.

So to the man of the day and welcome winner Ken Brown, congratulations on breaking that long lasting duck.