Glamorganshire I V Vale I
Glamorganshire Golf Clubs Premier League Champions played The Vale in the first game of the season, only managing a half at home.
With an early start to the season the howling windy conditions resembled a November night, and the first pairing of Club Champion Matt Mullooly and Nick Grimmitt were clearly cold promptly going 2 down.
Second out, Jordan Price-Davies and Chris Payne also started badly and found themselves at 2 down through 5 holes, with the anchor pair of Simon Curle and Brian Rigby suffering much the same at 2 down also.
Matt Mullooly and Nick Grimmitt faced a 10 foot putt on the 9th with the Vale only 3 foot away, with the game in the balance, Matt’s superb holed putt was enough to make the Vale miss and you could sense the turn in this game, which clearly showed as Matt & Nick won the next 3 holes.
Jordan Price-Davies and Chris Payne had wrestled back their bad start with a great run of 7 pars in the tough conditions, and they got their noses in front at 1 up.
Simon Curle and Brian Rigby woke up following a superb bunker shot by Brian Rigby on the 10th that Simon converted, which they followed with a great birdie down the 11th to go all square.
Playing the last 12 holes in 2 under par Matt and Nick wrapped up a superb win up on the 15th green, however, both of Glamorganshire’s remaining pairs had lost holes to leave both matches on the course all square.
Chris Payne faced 200 yards into the wind at the troublesome 18th hole, where he slammed a superb iron into the heart of the green, but a superb chip from short right by the Vale was enough to scrape them a vital half.
Simon Curle and Brian Rigby lost the 17th hole leaving them 1 down playing the 18th, where the Vale hit a superb pressure iron to the middle of the green which was enough to claim the last game and salvage a half from the jaws of defeat.
Glamorganshire’s First Team know they should have put this game away by 3 – nil, but it’s not the first time they’ve faced an indifferent result and pulled through . Next week see’s the First team travel away to Neath who’ll be looking to avenge last years home defeat.
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