The weather was kind as 24 of our members gathered for our inaugural Chairman’s Cup competition on Sunday. With a mixture of young and old, experienced and inexperienced, it was sure to be an interesting challenge.  Pairs were drawn and divided into three groups with the winners from each group going through to a semi final, along with the best runner up.

Group A was close, but eventually won by our Chairman Steve James playing with newcomer Danny Jones.  Close second though was Peter Ashcroft and Mike Fagan and they also qualified for the semis as the best runners up.

In Group B the wins were shared out but it was Ian Gill & Chris Horsfall that came through to win, but only after beating Joey & Lily Copeland 7-1 in the final match.  In Group C it looked like Chris Sandison would be having to play with 4 woods but James stepped up from the sidelines to fill in and turned out to have a decent eye.  It wasn’t enough to stop experienced bowler Dave Ball from taking the Group with his partner Dave Hulse.

So on to the semis and they were fairly one sided.  Steve & Danny crashed out 9-1 against a very consistent Peter & Mike and in the other semi Ian & Chris surprised many with a fine 9-4 win over the two Daves.

The final saw some fine bowling with Ian & Chris eventually taking the title 11-7 against Mike and Peter.