Captain's Match Report:
Could Gloucestershire get back to winning ways after defeats to Wiltshire and Somerset in the last two Channel league games?
The captain changed all of the foursomes pairings and went back to basics with the Chipping Sodbury, Knowle and Bristol and Clifton players all playing together.
Nick Day and County champion Tom Workman led the way, four up through nine, level on the 18th tee! – Gloucestershire win 18 – one up
Match 2 Andy Rudge and Reece Johnson get well beaten by the Glamorgan captain on the 14th – 5&4
Match 3 – David Wood holes from 20 feet for birdie on 18 – one up
Match 4 up the 18th again – Glamorgan birdie – match all square
Match 5 up the 18th and this was looking like it was going to be a long day at Sodbury – Lake and Morgan win the hole – Gloucestershire go into lunch 3-2 in the lead
Great news lets build on it
Match one David Wood (49 years of age and still purring like a Rolls Royce) birdies the 18th from 15 feet to win his game 1 up
Chipping Sodbury county player Andy Hale wins match number two – 2&1 – great start
Nick Day, Henbury then crushes Luke Thomas, Welsh International 5&4 happy days as Tom Workman has been 3 up in match 4! Tom then gets hit by a train, well a Cardiff Blues rugby player with three birdies in five holes Tom loses on the 18th 1 Down
Andy Rudge hasn’t lost a singles match for 18 months! As always in life you start to talk about success and BANG! Andy loses 3 &2 to Brent O’Neil
After a great individual performance last week in the Midland amateur Tyler was hoping for singles success alas a 3&2 defeat meant the singles were now all square
Game on and can the youngsters pull through…
Sam Morgan from Knowle wins on the 16th a great 3&2 victory
Charlie McLean dormie two down wins the last two holes for a half
Reece Johnson, Bristol and Clifton on his county debut wins 16 to go dormie up, loses 17 when the Glamorgan player chips in but by now we knew that the match result had gone to Gloucestershire
Lakey gets pipped on the 18th but the team are smiling
Thanks to all the staff at Chipping Sodbury for making the teams so welcome and the greenstaff for preparing as always a very difficult, well presented course
Apoligises to the Chipping Sodbury members who were affected by the amount of long close matches in the morning foursomes which meant we over ran our tee times and it spoiled their afternoons golf - sorry on behalf of the Counties and all the players
Mike Darby
GGU Captain
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