ROGS 1998

The first golf match of Royal Oak Golf Society now known as R.O.G.S. was held on Friday 27^th July 1998.

 Meetings were held at the Oak in June and July 98 to discuss forming a Golf Society in the village.

The Landlord of the Oak at that time was Mike Jones who encouraged us to form a Society and use his premises as our Clubhouse.

 Ali Hewitt was chosen as Captain and Jim Corbin was Vice Captain.

 Ali would be Captain for the remainder of the year 1998 and throughout 1999.Jim would be Captain in 2000.

 Venues for the rest of the year were fixed and it was agreed that whist we were all self employed that the last Friday of each month would be our golf day out.

 Sponsors for Cups were sought and it was also decided that we would all play off 18 handicap for the game to give us an idea of playing standards amongst members.

 The first trophy was going to be called the Inaugral Trophy but after the first event the Landlord decided to sponsor the cup and it was renamed the Landlords Cup.

 The season 1998 venues were as follows.

Friday July 27             Bulbury Woods                        Inaugral Trophy

Friday August 28         Mid Dorset (Dorset Heights)  Rob Halls Hackers Trophy

Friday September 25    Hyde House                           Captains Cup

Friday October 16        Queens Park                            Zoom Trophy

 

I cannot recall why the 16^th October was chosen as the last match date of 98 but I think it was something to do with Queens Park availability.

 

The results of the first match was as follows.

1^st Roger Duncanson 27 points (C.P.O.)

2^nd Jim Corbin 27 points

3^rd Rob Hall 24 points

4^th Mike Jones 20 points

5^th Ali Hewitt 16 points

6^th Russell French 3 points

 

The second match at Mid Dorset had the following results on Friday 28 August 1998

 

1  Rob Hall              (27)           35 points

2  Jim Corbin           (24)           32 points

3  Roger Duncanson (24)          28 points

4  Steve Green          (18)          24 points

5  Ali  Hewitt            (28)          21 points

6  Graeme Price        (18)          20 points

7  Mike Jones            (28)         19 points

8  Shaun Brady         (18)          13 points

9  Martin Barlow      (18)           12 points

10  Russell French     (28)              4 points

 

 

The third match for the Captains Cup on Friday 25 September was at Hyde House

 

1        Rob Hall               (24)  30 points

2        Steve Green          (28) 22 points

3        Shaun Brady         (28) 19 points

4        Mike Jones           (28) 18 points

5        Roger Duncanson (24) 16 points

6        Ali Hewitt             (28)  15 points

7        Martin Barlow       (28)  15 points

8        Guy Storey             (18)  6 points

9        Russell French        (28)  0 points (lost 35 balls)

 The final match for the season was at Queens Park in Bournemouth playing for the Zoom Trophy on Friday 16 October 1998

 

1  Jim Corbin                         (24) 37 points

2 Paul Ebsworth                     (18) 34 points

3 Roger Duncanson                (24)  33 points

4 Ali Hewitt                            (28)  31 points

5 Rob Hall                              (23)  26 points

6 Martin Barlow                      (28)  21 points

7 John Smith                            (18)  17 points

8 Shaun Brady                         (28)  13 points

9 Guy Storey                             (28)  13 points

10 Mike Jones                           (28)  11 points

11 Russell French                      (28)  8 points

Compiled by Roger Duncanson 22 July 2008