The Chas Hyland Cup final was played on Friday 5th May. The Hyland Cup is an annual Men’s knockout Matchplay event played in memory of Chas Hyland. This year’s event commenced in February with 54 entrants and culminated in a play off between Jon R Smith (14) and Malcolm Legge (18).  Malcolm was going into the Final in good form, having taken out the Monthly Medal recently.  The Hyland Cup is one event at LGC which Jon hasn’t been able to win over the years despite having been in the final many times, and he was hoping to rectify that on Friday.  Alas it wasn’t to be.

Jon later told me how the match went, and said, “It was all over on the 13th, I didn’t play badly but Malcolm was on song, he had 8 one putts and 1 no putts.”

Jon R Smith (right) congratulates the 2017 Chas Hyland Cup Winner, Malcolm Legge

The W McCaughan 4BBB Par and Scratch event has been run and won over Saturday 22nd and 29th of April.

With mother nature dishing out some wet and challenging conditions this last weekend, 71 off the stick by Jason Dennerley and Leroy Sharrock on the first round, would be hard to match.

Best scratch round on the second week was a 73 by Barry Attwood and Russell Williams but with a first round of 76 their combined two round total of 149 was well earned but the title shaky.

Finally, with all cards in, and with a very good score again of 74, the winners of the W McCaughan 4BBB Scratch event for 2017, are Jason Dennerley & Leroy Sharrock with a two round total of  145, over Barry Attwood & Russell Williams with 149, and Trevor Rickard & Steve Fisher on 160.

The leaders from the first week, of the W McCaughan 4BBB Par event with a best round score +10 were Chris Leaver & Peter Hartigan, however with a second round of +2, they knew they were in for a fight for the title.

Three groups finished the two rounds on +12, with the eventual winners identified by countback are John Dumont & Alan Kuhne, from Russell Williams & Barry Attwood ,and Peter Hartigan & Chris Leaver. One shot behind on +11 was the team of Jason Dennerley & Leroy Sharrock.

Well done to all those who competed in this event.

Andy Bassett                                                                                                                                       Men’s Captain.