​Hill Barn Golf Club Men's Section

Match comments

West Hove away 2-4-25
Always a tough fixture with firm & fast fairways and a strong breeze helping your ball to go where you really didn’t want it to. Even our hosts looked a bit confused by the unusual North Easterly but they dealt with it a little better than we did and ran out worthy winners at Seven & a half to a half. John Young and Alastair Kay being the pair to save us from the ignominious white wash.

 

Mid Sussex home 9-4-25
Could we show that home advantage is a reality – well if it is we only just took advantage of it. A close match which swung on the final game coming in as a 3&2 win for Hill Barn giving us an overall 4.5 to
3.5 win. Our losses were to some particularly good golf from our opponents, with one of their number beating his handicap by a 9 shots We’ve all had good days but it’s difficult to compete when
the ‘Red Letter Day’ falls on your opponent’s shoulders. Story of the day was Grubby Tyrrells ‘birdie’ on the 13 th . He took out a Buzzard at 50 feet with his second shot. The poor old thing crashed to the
fairway looking stunned, but otherwise uninjured, so we carried it to some cover. There was no evidence of it the following day so we hope it recovered.

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East Brighton home 14-4-25
Another very enjoyable day playing in the nicest conditions and with a very dry wit as an opponent for company. My partner, Bob Ellarby, had one of those ‘Red Letter Days’ mentioned in the last match and if he didn’t ‘come in’ I managed to get something done. Our opponents just couldn’t get a look in and we shook hands on the 12th . The three games behind us were also won well but we had a slight wobble in
games 5 & 6 before our final two groups came in and wrapped it up. I think East Brighton have gone home to sharpen their knives so watch out for the return, I doubt it’ll be easy.

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Dyke home 16-4-25
A bright but breezy day for our home match with The Dyke. The lead game was John Young and myself and, for a change, we were actually getting some shots. Mind you their 5 handicapper was a
demon with a 3 wood, and most of the other clubs too. We had a very tight game with neither side getting more than 1 up at any stage. Whilst we had a chance to win it on 17 and 18 a half was the
fairest result with two guys who were very comfortable company. Two more of our sides had very slim losses whilst the rest managed wins. Dave Humphrey and Ian Clarke were first back to the clubhouse with a storming 7&5 win. Match won 5.5 to 2.5