Seniors Section – Great Barr Golf Club

October 2021 Seniors Annual Presentation and Shotgun Breakfast

GBGC Editor — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:22:28 +0000

Shotgun Results:

WINNER OF THE DAVID LITHGOW CUP

Paul Tudor 40 Points
Dave Bright 39 Points
Roger Rabone 37 Points

Team Prize
Kelvin Warren-John Round-Paul Russell-Alan Lane 106 Points

A great morning in kind weather had by 90 plus great Barr seniors, followed by a good, cooked breakfast afterwards.
Club Captain Ranjit Khakh and Seniors Captain Pradip Chandarana presented the David Lithgow Cup to Paul Tudor, also the seasons trophies to all the other winners’
A farewell gift from Great Barr Golf Club to Bill Perry was made by Seniors Captain Pradip Chandarana.
Bill had organised the popular Seniors Open for over ten years and is stepping down.

Seniors Section combined golf and trophy presentation 2020

GBGC Editor — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 20:12:15 +0000

A successful day was had by all on Tuesday 20th October 2020 in the Senior section of Great Barr Golf Clubs annual combined golf and trophy presentation.

Under normal circumstances it has traditionally been a shotgun format, but due to the current situation and the obvious catering difficulties it had to be altered.

There were 96 players, competing for the Dave Lithgow Cup and team prize, including many runners up prizes offering early festive cheer in the form of alcoholic beverages.

The event brilliantly organised by Bill Perry and ably assisted by Mick Jackson went off very smoothly, great support also from our hard-working bar staff and catering.

It worked well with winner’s photos taken alongside trophies, and a time slot given to groups coming in to eat, so there was continual social distancing at all times. Dave Lithgow was our popular club steward for over 25 years from the mid-seventies, and when he was unfortunately diagnosed with a terminal illness about four years ago wanted to give a trophy to the senior section of the club as a memorial. The clear winner with a very creditable 42 points was Rob Cleaver, well done Rob and thanks to all those who supported a succesful day.

Pinson Competition – 2020

GBGC Editor — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 11:56:59 +0000

The Seniors section of the golf club run a handicap qualifying competition entitled the Pinson. This consists of six separate rounds with one competition a month starting in April ending in September. The winner needs to have the best three combined Stableford scores to count of any rounds he has played.

We have two separate trophies for age categories 55 to 69 years of age and one for 70 years of age and over. On investigation about this competitions origin it seems John Pinson was the Seniors Captain back in 1994 apparently he came home from a holiday in the USA with a golf bag signed by lots of top American golfers such as Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicholas etc. He kindly donated the bag to the senior section for a competition prize and it was won by Bob Eden our past member, Bob in fact had the honour of Captaining the Staffordshire county side in his early days. I can only surmise that as a thank you for this very generous gesture the senior section put up this Pinson trophy in his honour. Unfortunately, due to the lockdown situation we were only able to play four competitions this year.

The over 70’s category was won by Bryan Harrison his picture is below left.

The 55 to 69 section was won by Mike Jervis on the right.

The final senior’s section fixture is on Tuesday 20th October a Stableford non handicap competition, this replaces year our traditional shotgun and presentation event. The £10 entry include a sandwich and bowl of chips and incredibly good prizes, there are still a few time slots left, check the list on our notice board in the locker room.