English Open - Wroxham Barns - 5th June

If you are planning on playing but haven't yet paid, can you let me know ASAP so I can update the entrants list.

Also need to know who's going to be playing at the Hemsby Charity Event on the Saturday evening.

Look forward to seeing a healthy turnout of the KMGC at both!!

VTK!

Freebird wrote:If you are planning on playing but haven't yet paid, can you let me know ASAP so I can update the entrants list.

Also need to know who's going to be playing at the Hemsby Charity Event on the Saturday evening.

Look forward to seeing a healthy turnout of the KMGC at both!!

VTK!

and one for the Kelly's: Paul Dickson (Wroxham's PR chap) has asked me to remind Adam to bring back the Top East Anglian trophy for the EO - the trophy will of course be staying in the Kelly household - but the real question is:

"can TK stop AK making it 3 years in a row?"

All will be revealed by Sunday afternoon!!!!

Freebird wrote:If you are planning on playing but haven't yet paid, can you let me know ASAP so I can update the entrants list.

Also need to know who's going to be playing at the Hemsby Charity Event on the Saturday evening.

Look forward to seeing a healthy turnout of the KMGC at both!!

VTK!

I'll be in (hopefully) sunny Malta, have a good one all who play!

The BMGA return to Wroxham Barns for the 2011 English Open.

Entry costs £20 per player with the competition consisting of 3 rounds of strokeplay - teeing off at 9.30am prompt on the Sunday morning with an estimated finish of 1.45pm.

The course is offering a £10 practice day rate for BMGA tour members on the Saturday before the competition.

A downloadable application form can be found at http://www.minigolf.org.uk/joomla/attachments/059_ENGLISH%20OPEN%202011%20APPLICATION%20FORM.doc.

If you want to play but have not yet entered then please contact chairman@minigolf.org.uk ASAP

Round by round results once the tournament starts can be found at http://www.bmga.co.uk/results/2011/eo11/result.htm

CONFIRMED ENTRANTS TO DATE:

1) Kevin Moseley (MMGC)
2) Tony Kelly (KMGC)
3) Adam Kelly (KMGC) - junior
4) Marc Bazeley (MMGC)
5) Nick Chitty (PHCGC)
6) Jo Williamson (SPMGC)
7) Sean Homer (KMGC)
8 ) Marion Homer (KMGC)
9) Matthew Lemmon - novice
10) Paul Johnson (MMGC)
11) Owen Johnson (MMGC) - junior
12) Oliver Florence
13) Richard Skeggs
14) Paul Smith - novice
15) Robert Witton - novice
16) Richard Gottfried (MMGC)
17) Emily Gottfried (MMGC)
18) Michael Smith (KMGC)
19) Peter Jones
20) Brad Shepherd (LMGC)
21) Chris Jones (LMGC)
22) Alan Norman (LMGC)
23) Seth Thomas (GMGC) - junior
24) Nick Sandqvist (GMGC)
25) James Rutherford (GMGC)
26) Marc Chapman (KMGC)

We are joining with the Lost World course at Hemsby for a pro-am charity pairs event at their course on Saturday evening before the EO - players can register for this event at the Wroxham barns course during Saturday practice.

We are also keen to hold the 2011 Players Forum at Wroxham - either on Saturday afternoon or immediately after the prize ceremony on Sunday afternoon. Again details will be confirmed at the course on Saturday morning and all players are welcome and encouraged to attend.

PRIZE FUND:

The new prize fund breakdown for 2011 sees all players split into one of 3 separate categories as detailed below (the category split is purely for the prize fund eligibility - categories will continue to be mixed together in the initial playing groups to ensure we have different levels of experience within each group).

Category 1 Players (current Top 16 / tour winners from 2010/2011 / current BMGA Tour Pro members)

These players are eligible for the overall prize fund places (top 3)

Kevin Moseley
Adam Kelly
Tony Kelly
Nick Chitty
Sean Homer
Richard Gottfried
Michael Smith
Brad Shepherd
Marc Chapman

Category 2 Players (outside of current Top 16 / not won on tour in 2010/2011 / current BMGA Tour Pro members)

These players are eligible for the overall prize fund places (top 3 overall), the Category 2 prize fund (top 3 cat 2 players) and aces champion

Marc Bazeley
Jo Williamson
Marion Homer
Paul Johnson
Owen Johnson
Oliver Florence
Richard Skeggs
Emily Gottfried
Peter Jones
Chris Jones
Alan Norman
Seth Thomas
James Rutherford
Nick Sandqvist

Category 3 Players (Novices playing in 1st, 2nd or 3rd event, outside of current Top 16 / not won on tour in 2010/2011)

These players are eligible for the overall prize fund places (top 3 overall), the Category 2 prize fund (top 3 cat 2 players), the Category 3 prize fund (top novice) and aces champion

Matthew Lemmon
Paul Smith
Robert Witton

Really looking forward to our weekend at The Barns...its been a while since I played! Want that top female spot!

good luck all taking part on Sunday
VTK
:aD

From the BMGA official website:

Congratulations to Michael Smith for winning the 2011 English Open at Wroxham Barns. Michael won in great style with an overall score of 90 strokes across the 3 rounds, culminating in a course record of 28 to take the title.

James Rutherford came second with Kevin Moseley taking third place. Richard Skeggs won the Category 2 prize with Marion Homer picking up the top female slot and 2nd place in the Category 2 and Oliver Florence third in the Category 2.

Robert Witton won the Novice title with Paul Smith a close second.

Nick Sandqvist picked up the aces champion prize with 14 aces across the tournament.

Thanks to all who took part, Ian Russell and the team at Wroxham Barns, Les and Barbara Anderson for their fantastic support and hospitality and also to Marion, Emily and Anna for helping out running the event.

Photos from the prize ceremony including Michael helping to launch a new beer (the 19th Hole) at Wroxham can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/13680867@N02/sets/72157626767669293/

Full results from the event can be found at http://www.bmga.co.uk/results/2011/eo11/result.htm

OVERALL PRIZE FUND FOR THE ENGLISH OPEN:

1st Place - Michael Smith - £100
2nd Place - James Rutherford - £50
3rd Place - Kevin Moseley - £30

CATEGORY 2

Top Cat 2 Player - Richard Skeggs - £30
2nd Cat 2 Player - Marion Homer - £25
3rd Cat 2 Player - Oliver Florence - £20

CATEGORY 3

Top Novice - Robert Witton - £20
Runner Up Novice - Paul Smith - £10

ACES CHAMPION - Nick Sandqvist - £20

The KMGC roll of honour...

The winner:



Top female / Cat 2 runner up:



Top Local:



And a classic to finish!!!



VTK!!!

Well done HIOK great warm up for the coming week.....

Adam local champ and Marion top female.
A good weekend for Team Kent

VTK

Yet another classic report from the legendary KMGC Scribe, our very own 4-time-in-a-season winner (and it's still only June!!!) Michael Smith :

http://www.kentminigolfclub.co.uk/2011eo.htm

I am already beginning to wonder what size tome he will create from a 5 day European adventure!!!!

Can't wait!!!

Well done to Michael, another great win - top stuff! Also to FB & AK too up at the top again, but what about this year's most improved player - DT? Amazing!

Freebird wrote:Yet another classic report from the legendary KMGC Scribe, our very own 4-time-in-a-season winner (and it's still only June!!!) Michael Smith :

http://www.kentminigolfclub.co.uk/2011eo.htm

I am already beginning to wonder what size tome he will create from a 5 day European adventure!!!!

Can't wait!!!

I fail to understand what HIOK meant when he said about the drama of the last day of the Premier League, I didn't see any drama.