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Sunday 13th May saw our first League match of the season at our home venue of Chelmsford Golf Club. The visitors, BB&O were our main rivals in 2017 and we only won through to the league final after a 6 all draw at Frilford Heath. Our superior game wins just pipping BB&O to the title. This was going to be no pushover, especially with some of our top players not being available.
The course was looking imaculate and after some overnight rain the sun shone bright.
Chelmsford members Arron Edwards-Hill and Michael Gilbert led off and quickly showed our opposition we were in the right mood with 3&2 win over their top pairing of Ollie Huggins and George Bayliss. This form continued and by lunch all the games had gone our way with a convincing 4 nil whitewash.
This fine form continued into the afternoon singles with wins for Arron Edwrds-Hill, Michael Gilbert, Ricky Lee, Callum Pipe (Callum was 7 under par in winning his game 5&4 ), Will Percival and Jamie Richards, we ran out winners by 6.5 to 1.5. Match score, a very convincing 10.5 to 1.5 win to Essex.
A very satisfying victory coming down to some excellent putting on Chelmsford's undulating greens. This bodes well for the rest of the campaign.
Next match will be an opportunity for BB&O to extract revenge in the Eastern Counties Foursomes at Seacroft Golf Club in Skegness on 19/20th May where we will be defending the title we won last year against 8 other Counties.
Our thanks to Chelmsford for their usual immaculate hospitality and for their members allowing us the use of the wonderfully prepared course, also to Stuart Gilbert for managing the team on this occasion .
Phil Hulse, County Team Manager
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