Lovely day for a match; everybody pumped. Usual banter over handicaps.

Ricky hooks his 1^st drive. 2^nd shot on gravel path right of green. Chips from gravel to a gimme par. Steve makes a normal par while T & J bogey and double respectively. 1 up

2 is halved

3.  R&S pars better bogeys from T&J. 2 up

4. R’s net par puts R&S 3 up

5. John shines with a net par to win a hole.  2 up

6 & 7 are a push

But on 8 Steve’s par wins. 3 up

9. Steve’s par wins again. 4 up at the turn.

10. R’s net bird puts match at 5 up

11. push

12 is won by Tom’s par. 4 up for R&S.... where the match remains until 15

Ricky 88 net 72

Stephen 79 net 69

Tom 88 net 81

John  87 net 72