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ORGANISER:-    D.Rees

ATTENDEES:-    JM,DK, DR, AM, SR, JR AND Ian Watters

J.Robertson won the morning with a fine 79 gross net 65.   J.Muir won the afternoon 74 net beating S.Renton on better outward half.  Jimmy won the very imaginative Rees prize of a year's subscription to Golf Monthly (which by August he had still not received)

Handicaps up to date are    JM DK DR AM SR CD JR D.MC

                                          12  16  16  10  12  16  14 16

ORGANISER:-    J. Muir

ATTENDEES:-    JM,DR,AM,SR,DK,CD.

RECORD OF THE OUTING:-

This was the first day of the Dave Rees extravaganza for his last days as a bachelor. Mention must be made of Rees having a 101 gross in the morning round..  Alfie won my prize of 4 golf balls.

ORGANISER:-     J.Muir

ATTENDEES:-    JM,DR,AM,SR,DK,CD.

RECORD OF THE OUTING:-

TOTAL FOR THE 2 DAYS           

J.Muir won the day overall but the prize of 4 balls went to D.Kay.

The overall prize went to Alf which was also 4 balls. A tankard was presented to D.Rees for his forthcoming nuptials.

Handicaps     AM     SR     JM     DK     DR     CD                                                                        

                           8      10      10      14      14      16

ORGANISER:-     J. Robertson

ATTENDEES:-    JM,DR,JR,AM,SR,CD,RM  

RECORD OF THE OUTING:-

Played Lansdowne in the morning and Rosemount in the afternoon. Both courses in good nick.  Alf won the day overall. Both Stuart 74 and Alf 73 had fine gross scores in the afternoon.

Alf also pitched into the 8th hole for an eagle.

Handicaps:-    AM   SR   JM    DK    DR    CD    JR    RM

                       8     10     12     14     16      18     16     18

29th May

Weather: Dull but no rain. Course not too tidy and not too interesting.

30th May

Weather: Very good,  but windy in the morning. Course one of the best played and in good condition.

3rd July

Weather: Muggy with occasional showers

The 2nd AGM of the gathering of gentleman golfers, took place on the above evening. Starting point was the Diggers with a mass of people present.  The gathering was continued for the main points of the evening at the Persevere. The rabble were very ably controlled by the quiet member J.Muir.

Those present were:-

J.Muir, D.Rees, D.Kay, A.Melville, J.Robertson, C.Durham, S.Renton.

Apologies from R.MacQueen

It was decided by vote to present a tankard to be kept for a year and inscribed with holders name and handed down each year for the Champion of Champion’s.

Also the following venues were fixed and tentative dates fixed, weather, courses, work and Rees’s marriage permitting.

March  Dug   Carnoustie   (Mar 27th)

April   Dave   Downfield   (May 1st)

May   Johnny  Birkdale/Formby  May 29th/30th)

June/July  Stuart   Rosemount   (July 3rd)

August  Jimmy  Foxtonhall   (Aug 8th)

August  Charlie  Gleneagles   (Aug 28th)

September  Alf   Muirfield   (Set 25th)

All adjourned to the Dragon Pearl for very adequate Chinkie and were joined by Bob Morris. Rees made a pig of himself and had to leave half way thro’ and inspect a neighbouring gutter.

ORGANISER:-    D.Kay

D.Rees  won very well and Alf played unlike mustard. Rees won a fine prize of 6 golf balls, Harrods plugger and ball markers.

Highlights of the day was D.Kay getting a golden Ferret and Renton reckoning he got the come on from the waitress but couldn’t do anything about it due to his bad back which he never mentioned all day.  Also Rees’s non- eagle at night.

The contents of this page consist of the entries from The Freens original Minute Book, kindly digitised by Dr. Bob Morris

FANCY FREENS AGM  FRIDAY 11TH JANUARY 1980

27th March

Weather: Worse than hellish. Decide on morning round alone. Never stopped raining.

1st May

Weather: Overcast, coldish but dry Course not in as good a nick as previous year.

8th August

Weather: Warm and sunny. Windy.

ORGANISER:-     S. Renton

ATTENDEES:-    JM, DR, JR, AM, SR, CD, RM, DK

RECORD OF THE OUTING:-Excellent Course and Lunch

J.Muir  won overall prize of Henry Longhurst book.  Morning was won by Alfie with fine gross score of 75.  Afternoon won by J.Robertson, despite Stuart’s fine 74 gross.

Highlight was Alf’s 6,7,7 start in the afternoon and Renton taking 3 cars the wrong way round a round- a- bout.

HANDICAPS;-       JM    DK    JR    DR    CD    SR    AM    RMc

                                 12     14     14     16     18     10       6      18

28th August

Weather: Warm,sunny and windy

ORGANISER:-     C. Durham

ATTENDEES:-     CD, DR, AM, DK, JM, RMc  plus Julian Read and Jimmy Carmichael.

RECORD OF THE OUTING:-Greens still not recovered from 2 winters ago.

Dave won the morning with Alf second.  Afternoon was Charlie with Johnny second. Overall Charlie triumphed but as it was his prize, Dave won it. Very sad as it was his first major win. Prize was a large bottle of Chianti.  Rees eventually got his eagle at the 15th with a 2 foot putt having missed one from 4 foot on the Kings in the morning.

Handicaps:-        JM   DK   JR   DR   CD   SR   AM   RMc

                             12    14    14    14    16    10       6    18

11th October

Weather: Started cold and windy but settled to a fine day in the afternoon

ORGANISER:-     A. Melville & J. Robertson

ATTENDEES:-    JM, JR, CD, DR, DK, SR, AM, plus Keith Henry

RECORD OF THE OUTING:-This was the start of Jimmy’s stag extravaganza. Very good course, apart from slow play in the morning    Doug won Alf’s bottle of Champagne for the overall and he won the afternoon.  Dave won the morning on the better inward half from Alf.  Highlight of the day was Robertson’s louk on arrival, plus the obvious attributes of the barmaid.

12th October

Weather:  A bit windy but exceptionally good for the time of year.

ORGANISER:-    A. Melville & J. Robertson

ATTENDEES:-    JM, JR, CD, DR, DK, SR, AM, PLUS KEITH HENRY

RECORD OF THE OUTING:-Course rates with the best.  Beautiful.

Alf won Jimmy’s prize of 6 golf balls after a magnificent gross 74 in the afternoon.  J.Muir won the morning.  The course and hotel and chat were all very good.  Robertson was presented with a tankard .  On the Sunday Edinburgh easily beat the rest 2-1. Mr Henry incapacitated.

HANDICAPS for next season      AM   JM   SR  DK  DR   JR   CD   RMc

                                                           4      9     10   11   12     14    16    18

The Fancy Freens cup was won by Stuart in a play off with Alf