22 EPiC stalwarts took the tour this year experiencing some of the best courses in Kent.
First up was North Foreland, which I must confess I’d never heard of before Matt Jones started preparing for this year, proved to be an exceptional course for all standards of play!
It was a long round as there werer may 72 hole players trying to complete who we let through resultinmg in a packed clubhouse. So we all repaired to the Bell Hotel (our resting station) for a well earned drink before supper at the excellent Tollbridge Restaurant which was an excellent 3-course extraveganza.
Winners for Day 1 were
The team result on day 1 was 3.5 matches to 2.5 in favour of the Captain’s Team
All retired for a well earned rest only interrupted by a fire alarm at 3 am!!!!!
Day 2 dawned bright and breezy with a few saw heads visible at breakfast. The venue for the golf was the amazing Princes Golf Club which somehow was deemed by the PGA to be easier than both North Foreland and Walmer and Kingsdown (more on the latter later). Princes was agreed by all to be the most difficult of the 3 course played this weekend with the score of 33 points winning the day compared to 40 at North Foreland!!
All enjoyed a drink or two in the magnificent clubhouse followed by prizegiving presented by Captain Matt Jones
The Team result was a resouding win for the Captain’s Team 5.5 to 0.5, making the running total 9 to 3. Could the Vice-Captain’s team recover from this!!!
We were treated to a great Indian meal at the Namaste in Sandwich where brilliant food and some serious banter were the order of the evening!!
Day 3 dawned with some rain coming through the roof of the hotel and promise of more to come at Walmer and Kingsdown, our chosen golf course for the final day.
The sun was shining, and we managed to get going at 12:30 a little earlier than advertised. The course was in magnificent condition but very exposed being on top of the chalk cliffs. This proved to be our undoing as when the lightening came the groups were stranded on the highest part of the course between the 7th and 10th holes as far away from the clubhouse as possible!! A very long, wet and risky trek back to base camp!! All navigated this safely.
After some showers, towelling down warm drinks and a bit of food it was decided to award the matches at the stage the groups had got to and the individual scores up to the 7th, the last hole all had completed!
So Matt Jones presented the individual prizes as follows
The Vice Captain’s Team performed well in the difficult conditiond winning the day 6.5 to 4.5, but this could not overhaul the masssive lead built up by the Captains Team over the first two days and they came out victorious by 15.5 – 7.5. Well done to the Captain’s team who all received an engraved Whiskey Glass
