Dad beats his lad in Medal
A golfing dad pipped his 15-year-old son for a club medal after they finished just a shot apart in Leighton Buzzard’s April Medal competition.
Fifty-year-old Matthew Ingram topped the table in a field of 111, completing his round with a nett 69, with 15-year-old Cedars student son Jack carding a nett 70 to finish runner-up ahead of Tom Fitzgerald, Ryan Lafferty and Ian Farrant all finishing with the same score.
*Leighton Buzzard golfers competed for trophies donated to mark separate anniversaries for the 100-year old club.
Stephen Giles was top Division One scorer for the 50th Anniversary trophy carding 38 points to beat Darren Alexander by a shot, with Stephen Boud, Jack Jones, Peter Darwin, Steve Richardson and Gregory White heading a chasing pack with 36 points.
The 75th Anniversary trophy for Division Two golfers was won by George Mills, the 19-handicapper beating 57 club colleagues with an impressive 40 points, four clear of runner-up Hugues Audouard. Nathan Jones and Neil Jarvis each finished with 35 points, a shot clear of John Bunyan, Pardeep Aurora and Archie Lane shot adrift.
David Wirth carded an impressive 40 points to win the club April mid-week stableford two shots clear of seasoned campaigner Shane Bentley, with Derek Ellam joint third with 36 points along with Graham Magill, Geoff Dimmock, Will Sampson, Bobby McGregor and John Rutter.
Thirty-three teams competed for the club Millennium Texas scramble, with Joshua and Ryan Lock and Hannah and Lee Walsh teaming up to finish top the table with a nett 53, a shot clear of Hilda Bennis, David, Eleanor and Florence Wirth 54 and Paul Ahmet, David Bishop, Nigel Chapman and Geoffrey Nunn.