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Local news
- 23/09/06 Les Amis de Villarceaux
- Alan Peacock paired with Didier Delafontaine and Claude Jacques with son Philippe between them walked off with the Brut and the Net
prizes.
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- 12/7/06 Claude Jacques Elected Member of the Hole-in-One Club By virtue of his ace scored on the 11th at Villarceaux on
Wednesday, July 12th*, 2006
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Congratulations Claude! * or was it the
19th or 26th?
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- 1/05/06 Rocquencourt: One year on, the GolfBag news service is still
suspended, really more through continuing idleness than actual
inability....
- Sorry folks!
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- 1/05/05 Orgeval: GolfBag suffers back injury while driving to Le
Touquet for weekend, causing interruption of normal news service.
- 30/04/05 Villarceaux: Jill Forrest holds nerve to grab victory in the
1S Ladies Eclectic 2 competition (which featured a strong SAC turnout).
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- 23/04/05 Villarceaux--The Hibbs strike winning vein!
- Coast to easy
victory in Greensome Trophy
- 18/04/05 -- Competition Secretary Claude adds new duties
- Indeed, a white plume of smoke arising from the SAC Conclave
this Sunday 17th signalled the beginning of the reign of His Holiness Claude
Jacques, Competition Secretary of this Parish and now
SAC Supremo (Vice-president and Chairman if you
will)
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- 18/04/10 -- Jas and Joss miss Golf weekend
- - but
complete Paris
Marathon!
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- 18/04/09 -- Golf Weekend at Vaugouard
- Kiwi Cup stays in the family with Bruno taking over from Mary. Details
and photos here.
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- 03/04/05 - Our valiant Villarceaux ladies (Celia, Pam, Sue, et
al) thrash St Marc at St Marc.
- See the
match report by Suzon. Rendez-vous at Villarceaux in the Autumn for the
final preliminary vs Bèthemont on 22 October.
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- 18/03/05 - Shock Committee election Result!
- Whole 2004 committee
ousted in palace revolution then re-elected en bloc. Phew, that was close!
Follow this link for more
dramatic details from one who was there and returned to tell the tale!
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- 18/03/05 -- 1st anniversary of GolfBag's last golf game. (Sniff!)
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- 12/03/05 -- Villarceaux Ladies still unbeaten in 2005 Coupe de
Paris
- And this record achieved without hitting a ball - or playing a match
unfortunately; the first cancelled due to snow, the second because the course
at St Marc unfit for play.
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Number of Fixtures - 2; number of matches played - 0. More
here and
here.
- 12/03/05 -- Villarceaux Ladies still unbeaten in 2005 Coupe de
Paris
- And this record achieved without hitting a ball - or playing a match
unfortunately; the first cancelled due to snow, the second because the course
at St Marc unfit for play.
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Number of Fixtures - 2; number of matches played - 0. More
here and
here.
- March 5 - See why you couldn't play today?
- 19/02/05 -- Scramble, Scramble, Toil
and Scramble
- Marie-France Murphy bewitches course and leads partners Simon (hubbie)
and John Willats to inspired victory. All the gory details
here
- 15/01/05 -- Rossets continue to amaze
- Post easy victory in 2005's first competition
21/10/04 -- Villarceaux Ladies succumb to stronger Joyenval in final of
Coupe de Paris 2004
Indeed, today the Villarceaux Ladies came tantalizingly close
to winning the 2004 edition of the Coupe de Paris, but came up against a
stronger Joyenval team In the Final played at the Golf National on the
challenging Albatross course in cold and windy conditions. Well done to our 4 SAC Players - Celia Berry, Julie Peacock (and caddie
Alan), Pam Constant and Sue Hall. Unfortunately only Celia managed a (fairly easy) victory,
despite massed crowds of SAC spectators including Dougie, Claude and even
GolfBag himself in a rare outing. Action photos of our stars have been collected into an
album.
- 24/10/04 -- Coupe des Sponsors
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SAC members feature strongly - Julie P and Joyce J taking
"Brut" in their categories, with Alan P second net in 2nd series with
(non-member) Roland 1st net in 1st series.
Full results on Villarceaux site
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- 17/10/04 -- Michael Dean the Younger takes place in history with massive
win over Peter Howard
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In a live commentary direct from the bar at Villarceaux, the
SacGolfNews special correspondent writes:
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"Peter Howard and Michael Dean played today in the final and,
after a
ding-dong match with the lead changing hands several times, Dean
ended up the winner by 2/1. A bystander wandered out of the bar and
witnessed a strange tee-shot by Dean at the 9th, with Howard having already put
his tee-shot in a good position on the green. The said shot by Dean was a
slightly hooked ball into the side of the lake, which skipped out onto the
grass beyond and ended in a par. Some comment about walking on water was heard
as the two players approached the green. Both players were apparently round in
about their handicaps and, according to the probably unreliable bystander, both
finished the "dead" hole with pars at the last."
- 9/10/04 -- Autumn Vase
- Winner: Murielle Jones - Best Net Stableford Score
(Man or Woman). Michael Dean took the 1st Series Men's Net, Jacqueline
Malherbe the 1st Series Ladies' and in the Gross category, Laurent Truchot won
the Men's
and Christiane Boisseau the Ladies'. Full Report
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- ably followed by Penny Tagher and Jenny Pratt. For the men only brave
Peter Hall and Patrick Tyrrell were able to stem the irresistible march of the
Andersons
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- 28-29/08/04 -- Quadrathlon Cancelled
- If missing this year's cancelled Quadrathlon has been too much to bear - just
look at the recently compiled Quadrathlon Album for a quick or leisurely nostalgic wallow.
- 22/09/04 -- Rider Cup
- Match Drawn Sweden 4 -
Rest of World 4
- Sweden retained Cup. Detailed report.
- 11/7/04 -- Qualification régionale de l'interclubs par équipes - Promotion Dames
At
Fourqueux - Final day
- The five teams are going forward to the national championships are St
Cloud, RCF, Bussy, Fourqueux and St Germain. Results on this (pdf)
page.
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- 10/7/04 -- Qualification régionale de l'interclubs par équipes - Promotion Dames
At
Fourqueux
- The team improved its position by one place to lie 17th, unfortunately
still 10 shots away from that 15th
qualifying place (best 5 of 6 scores totalling 463). Even a creditable 82 from
Eve and 91 from Celia couldn't compete with a pair of scores in the 70's from
the 1/2 way leaders St Cloud (5 of 6 handicaps less than 6.4!) and a remarkable
73 by a player (2.7 index) from 4th placed La Vaucouleurs. See the results on
the on the results page of the
Ligue de Paris site.
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- 9/7/04 -- Qualification régionale de l'interclubs par équipes - Promotion Dames
At
Fourqueux on 9/10/11 July
- After day 1, Villarceaux lies 18th, 3 places and 10 shots off the "cut" of 15 teams,
Lets hope that Eve, Celia and Sue can knock those 10 points off on Saturday.
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- 24/6/04 -- Villarceaux Seniors beaten by Seraincourt in semi-final of
Seniors IdF championship (CHAMPIONNAT
IDF PAR EQUIPES SENIORS MESSIEURS PROMOTION 2004)
- Seraincourt were the stronger team so went through to final against Ozoir
10/4 after the home and away sessions detailed here.
Despite 'Our Hero' Jonesy on Tuesday at Vill taking Serge Denoix (of whom
I've written much recently) to the 17th before succumbing 2/1 (Jonesy's 78
wasn't bad, but Serge can put putts in from anywhere.) And then on Thursday,
Ian "Golden Boy" Jones held Serge to a half on his own ground. Well
done Jonesy! You don't do penalties too do you? (Actually GolfBag was
lucky enough to have Serge as a Greensome partner in some wrinkly interclub
event last year, an his principal memory is of putting Serge into every
greenside bunker, and nevertheless, thanks to his marvellous bunker play, we
got up and down ever time. And we're still friends. Well we did go round Le
Coudray in 2 over or something like that.)
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- 16/6/04 -- The IdF qualification for French National Seniors
Championship "Promotion Seniors
par équipes" was held at Ormesson today
- The Villarceaux men's team (I Jones' brilliance notwithstanding...) failed
to get past the first day's stroke play (best 5 of 6 scores) . Seraincourt's
Serge Denoix and Christian Chevallier put in scores of something like 73 and
74 (to be first of 8 qualifiers. They failed to qualify next day in the match-
plays for the national championships. The Ladies team, inspired by
Celia's fantastic 87 - fantastic because she had a 7:40 (Ouch!) start. By
anyone's standards a 7:30 start is worth at least a stroke a hole, so by GB's
reckoning an 87 is really a 3-under! Actually 87 was the 3rd highest score,
and the team qualified in 4th place out of 8. Unfortunately, without Celia's
help, the Ladies failed to win one of the two national slots available from
the match plays next day. On the IdF site are the results of the Men's
and Ladies'
competitions.
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- 12/6/04 -- Trophée Lebon results - Pam Constant best SAC score
- Highlight was the scores of the Gross winners, Christiane Boisseau
taking the ladies BRUT (and the NET with 39 points) and Emmanuel
PETIT, who stormed round in scratch (or -1?) for a NET 42 Stableford.
Emmanuel was playing off played off 4.9 prior to that! Pam was runner up in
her series with 38 points.
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- 9 & 10/6/04 -- Île de France Seniors Individual Stroke Play
Championship
- The event over 2 rounds took place at Villarceaux on June 9th and 10th. The
results may be found on the Ligue
IdF site. Serge Denoix of Seraincourt (Hcap 4.9) won with an aggregate
of 151, (his buddy Christian Chevallier came 5th and our friend Roland
Bouloux came 8th on 166.
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- 31/5/04 -- results of 2 day Pentecôte Eclectic
- SAC golfers do well - results on Villarceaux
site - notably Celia 1st net in 1st series Ladies (Christanne Boisseau
winning gross)
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- 18/5/04 -- Villarceaux win at Disney
- No, we're not taking the Mickey! Villarceaux entered a strong 3-person
team, familiar to all of us, for the IdF Golf Club Personnel Championship held
yesterday at the Disneyland Paris Golf Cub - Jean-Luc Hallard, Sébastien
Graffin and Bernadette Béline.
- Jean-Luc came in with a magnificent 73 to win the Gross prize against
strong opposition that included 2 pros - whose score didn't count - but
beating one of them! Sébastien won the Net - a good win since has struggled
with injury for a long time this year. And Bernadette shot a very creditable
40 Stableford to come in 3rd in her category. Many congratulations to all
three. (The Ligue IdF site should
have more info in due course.)
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- 16/5/04 -- Michael Dean makes clean sweep
- Hot from his 39 the day before, youthful 2003 Matchplay Champion Michael
Dean, laying an early claim to the Double, showed no signs of flagging and
only took 12 holes to dispatch veteran John Willatts in the Men's Matchplay
(he was 3 over par at the time). Father Andrew (surely not a monk!) finally
succumbed (definitely not a monk) on the 18th to the deadly play of Patrick
Tyrrell.
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- 15/5/04 -- Muriel Jones and Michael Dean win their series in Spring
- Muriel Jones won the 2nd Series Ladies' prize and was also the best SAC
player in the Spring Cup today played
in glorious conditions at Villarceaux. Michael Dean won the Men's Net. Overall
Spring Cup (Gross) winner was Michel Lavernhe, who would also have just pipped
Michael on the back nine for the Net. Another creditable 39er was Jonathan
Hibbs (with Françoise also 3rd in her series) came in 3rd Net of the 3rd
series men, which was won by Arnaud Rossi with 45 points to be the overall
Spring Cup Net winner! Well done Marie-France for getting nearest to the pin
too!
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- 9/5/04 -- Julie Peacock wins at Villarceaux
- Julie P won the 1st Series Dames Brut prize in today's Coupe du Comité
Competition
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- 9/5/04 -- Neil Anderson wins Saint Cloud Club Championship
- Neil wins 1 up on 18th having grabbed victory from jaws of defeat.
He went 1 up on the first, then 1 down at the turn, 2 down on 12th, 1 up on
15th. He should have been 2 up with 2 to go but choked and stayed 1 up. He
snap hooked his drive into trees on 17th but played a great 4 iron after a
sidewards recovery to get the birdie and stay 1 up. Both parred 18th - Neil
had to had to sink 6 footer downhill to win. "I thumped it to the back of
the hole," said Neil, "Having learned my lesson in the 1/4 final
when I choked twice on that sort of putt and had to go to 19th to win."
"I'm dead chuffed," he said. "Now I need to get my handicap
down to 6.9 by Sept to take part in 1st series club championship and complete
the 'treble'!"
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- 8/5/04 -- Neil Anderson into final
- Neil won his semi-final 4&3 in wind and rain against 13 year old
playing off 8. His lack of "respect" for the conditions cost him a
bit, but Neil was always up from the first hole.
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- 2/5/04 -- Neil Anderson into Saint Cloud Club Championship Semis
- Kiwi Cup winner and past Champion Neil Anderson charges into Saint Cloud
Club Championship Semis after a 19 hole quarter final cliff-hanger
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- 27/3/04 -- Villarceaux Ladies beat Chantilly in 1/4 final of Coupe de
Paris
- Oh, this was exciting! All down to the last match, a foursome starring
section President Pam and Murielle from Villarceaux, 1 up going into the 18th.
Now to the green. Murielle (22 handicap facing a looong putt (4m?), slightly
down hill across the green pin high from left to right to close out the match
and give Villarceaux the victory over favourites Chantilly.Back to the
beginning. Chantilly had made the same bet as Les Yvelines, hoping to win all
the singles (at 2 points each) with low handicappers, and perhaps sacrificing
one or more doubles. Suzon, Celia and Christiane all duly went down to
low-handicap opponents as expected ( though 11/12 handicap Suzon held her 3/4
handicapper till the 17th!) and then Julie started the shift to Villarceaux by
winning her match. Then another singles to Villarceaux , and a doubles - match
(3 points) - scores now Chantilly 6, Villarceaux 7, but all now down to the
last doubles. 2 - up to Villarceaux going into 16. Lost. 1/2 17. Now back to
the 18th green, Sue - caddying Pam, helps Murielle line up this critical putt.
From the clubhouse we see the ball on its way, going, going going on for ever.
It's too long! Wait, it's vanished! It's in the hole! We've won! Next match
semi-finals in October, would you believe it!
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- 20/3/04 -- Villarceaux Ladies beat Les Yvelines at Villarceaux
- Les Yvelines led with 2 low handicappers in the singles, and Suzon was
betting that, though 2 early losses were probably inevitable, that, because of
the handicap averages, Villarceaux could pick up points lower down the team
matches. This proved to be right, and Villarceaux beat them to win the pool
and meet Chantilly in the 1/4 finals at Villarceaux again.
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- 13/3/04 -- Villarceaux Ladies beat Villennes 11-5 at Villennes
- SAC contribution included Julie (caddied by Celia) winning her singles 5 up
and Sue (with Véronque) winning their match on the 19th! Pam powered Pascale
to a nice 3/2 singles result, while Golf Bag's
horse player
Christiane cruised to a lazy 6/5 against an opponent having an off day. A nice
result, good for our "gowalavrage" (see 19th
hole), but unfortunately not enough, since Villarceaux are still 2 points
behind leaders Les Yvelines so Sat 20th's match against them at Villarceaux is
the decider!
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- 6/3/04 -- Villarceaux Ladies beat Guerville 11-5 at Villarceaux in their
first Coupe de Paris Pool match
- The first round of the Coupe de Paris this year is based on 8 pools of 3
teams, who play one match against each other (Ladies: 5 singles - 2 points
each and 2 foursomes - 3 points), the winner of each pool going forward to the
1/4 finals - which, incidentally, will be played at Villarceaux this year - on
the 25th. Roll up to support our Ladies Team members (Celia, Jule, Sue.) (Les
Yvelines tied with Villennes 8-8 at Villennes but won on the strength of more
matches won.)
- 18/1/04 -- Villarceaux Ladies win Consolante de la Coupe d'Automne with
help of SAC powerhouse
- Congratulations to Celia Berry, Sue Hall, Julie Peacock and their caddies
Pam and Alan, in powering the Villarceaux Ladies to victory today at
Montgriffon over an stronger (and younger, dare I say) team from Domont.
However experience prevailed and despite competing in appallingly cold
conditions, with the flags in their usual impossible locations, they
nevertheless managed to go 4 up, giving us an overall victory out of the 7
matches, featuring good wins from Julie (singles) and Sue (with Véronique in
a foursome), with Celia still on 18 at the close. A pity that they had to miss
out on the final two hours of tripping the light fantastic - but that
sacrifice surely earned them a place in the record books. Well done!
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- 18/12/03 -- The new R&A
2004 rules are available
- Click the R&A link above or on the left. Rumour has it that the
Fédération are interpreting the new 'priority' rules to mean that a single
player may have priority on the course! Make up your own mind or join in the
discussion in the Forum
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- 14/12/03 -- SAC golfers (Sue Hall, Julie P - and caddie Big Al) power
Villarceaux ladies to semi-final victory
- While Rockerbaby Berry takes day off and trips away the night fantastic at
the Club Xmas bash, others drew the short straw and had to leave early to get
to Montgriffon at dawn in order to roundly defeat Rochefort at in the
semi-final of the Consolante de la Coupe d'Automne. This devotion to duty paid
off as Sue & Véronique won their foursome 2 up, as did Sophie and
Muriel, and Julie won her singles 6 & 4. Paul-André in the
last match resisted the pressure and won to give Villarceaux the 4-3 victory.
- The Final is to be played on January 18th - the book is now open on whether
Rockerbaby Berry will be wearing golf shoes or dancing pumps (or both) to the
soirée on the 17th!
(Villarceaux men, incidentally, won the final of the Coupe d'Automne against
St Aubin at Bondoufle, with Emile Trojani bringing in their 5/4 victory on the
19th hole!)
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- 7/12/03 -- Freezing ladies
- Villarceaux ladies qualify for Semis of Consolante
de Coupe d'Automne by thrashing Saint-Aubin at Rochefort 6.5/0.5
in fine but icy conditions. "I've been warmer wrestling Polar
bears," said Celia '7-layers and still shivering' Berry, who
notwithstanding ends all early 7&5.
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- 22/11/03 -- SAC gets first crack at the new wine while England (Jonny)
kick Aussies into submission
- SAC stalwarts Pam (la Presidenta) Constant, Sue and Peter (no relation)
Hall stagger off with the First (Net) Prize in the Beauj Nouv Scamble at
Vill today (Nov 22). Team Constant and other SACcers had asked for late
Tee-offs so as to be able to watch the England/Oz match on the TV at Vill;
this most managed to do, but the going into extra time meant that several
players had to dash off and only learned of the story of Jonny and his Magic
Boot by semaphore!
- 22/10/03 -- "Sud" defeauts "Nord" by a point at Le
Coudray
- Golf Bag participated in a strange tournament called Nord vs Sud, the
culmination of the summer Wrinkly Challenges. The "Nord" team
comprises the pick of the wrinklies from the Val d'Oise, Villarceaux,
Ableiges, L'Isle Adam, Seraincourt, Rebetz and Domont. The Sud includes
Rochefort, Ormesson, Ozoir, Le Coudray, and Stade Français.
Great fun. Golf Bag and partner were in sparkling form, going round in about 3
over par for a full 3 points, despite some erratic iron play (both playing
short and wide from 120m or so), with lots of sand saves and good putting (on
excellent greens at about 2.8/2.9 metres despite early frost!).
So what's strange? Well the handicap and scoring. See
19th Hole.
Incidentally Golf Bag has finally come to the conclusion, third time around,
that he really quite likes Le Coudray! Not too long, and much more difficult
than it's slope would imply, and in excellent condition. This has obviously
nothing to do with the fact that first two times he played abysmally.
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- 11/10/03 -- Autumn
Vase results highlights
- John Greenwood, Pam Constant, Alan Peacock, Mary Rosset and Martine Howard
feature strongly for SAC.
John also takes the SAC Trophy for best score by a SAC member.
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- 4/10/03 -- Centenary
Cup
- Oh, woe, again! - Villarceaux take Cup from uninspired SAC.
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- 2/10/03 -- Villarceaux Wrinklies Win Challenge 95
- Challenge 95 is Val d'Oise Seniors team stableford competition including
Ableiges, Domont, l'Isle Adam, Rebetz, Seraincourt and Villarceaux.
Congratulations and thanks to participating SAC members, including Claude and
Joyce Jacques, Peter Engelen, John Willatts, Pam Constant, Jill Forrest, Naomi
Moore, and perhaps others I've forgotten. Paul Miller won the 2nd Gross prize,
1st was Isle de France Seniors Champion Serge Denoix. Christian Etencelin won
the player of the season award for his fine showing in the Net and Gross
averages, and 2nd place in the highest net score (45ish) - he's had a 73 and a
couple of 74s at Villarceaux recently. We are looking forward to a winter
season playing Patsome matchplay against Gadancourt, Montgriffon (new), Rebetz,
Seraincourt and Templiers.
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- 27-28/9/03 - Limère Golf
Weekend Limère
- Françoise Hibbs wins everything! See also here.
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- 17/9/03 -- Another Hole in One!
- Well done Jill! Jill's once-in-a-lifetime
exploit (unless your name is Lacey) met with rapturous silence in Ireland.
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- 11/9/03 -- Trophée Lancôme starts
- Visit the site for coverage (
or the uncoverage of the girl with the flashing n*pple)
10/9/03 -- Swedes take Riders cup on a recount!
- Oh woe! Marauding Swedes whisk Riders Cup from SAC by a whisker - 208 to
203, despite a sterling Gross/Net performance from Simon Murphy! Bravo! See
you all again next year!
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- 6/9/03 -- Men's Matchplay matches Michael and Murphy
- Michael Dean and Simon Murphy all set for Final of
Men's Matchplay after defeating Anderson
and Miller respectively. Keep tuned to Sacgolf for exclusive live(ish)
coverage of this never-to-be-repeated event.
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- 30/8/03 -- Villarceaux - Molly Willatts gets Hole in One
- During today's Quadrathlon Greensome round at Villarceaux today, Golf Bag
and party were calmly proceeding from the 4th tee towards their drives when
exuberant cries alerted them to the fact that Molly Willatts's drive on the
3rd had disappeared from view down the hole. Thanks to husband John for
supplying the assembled multitude at the club house with the traditional glass
of bubbly. This makes the third hole in one by a SAC member this year (see
below about Eric Two-Ace Lacey), but the first at which Golf Bag has been able
to toast the victim!
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- 29/8/03 -- Golf du Val de l'Indre (Châteauroux) St Sauveur National
Finals
- In the end 47 or so clubs turn up for the finals. As in the Eliminatoires
at Bondoufle (see below) the qualifying for the quarter finals is based on 6
stroke play rounds per club with the best 5 scores counting. (In principle the
finals are based on 4 singles and four foursomes matchplay.) Villarceaux were
in contention for one of the last two places with three other teams up until
mid morning Friday, since thunderstorms on Thursday caused a two hour delay
and termination of the day's play at 8 o'clock, the interrupted rounds
restarting at 8:30 AM (Villarceaux on the 16th).
- Unfortunately in the end two clubs posted strong scores late to take the
last two places, so Villarceaux ended up 10th. A creditable score, but
unfortunately missing the final stages again by a couple of strokes for the
third year running. See the FFG match report here. Paul Miller turned in a creditable performance of
85, 47th out of 135 odd players on the first day. Note only 10 rounds under 80
out of 250 players a majority of whose handicaps were between 7 and 10!
- The Val de L'Indre course is similar in difficulty to
Villarceaux, with a lot of holes wooded like those of Rochefort with a couple
of really spectacular finishing holes in the 9th and 18th. The clubhouse is
not the world's greatest, basically just a (public) restaurant/bar run by
Formule Golf. A lot of the high scoring was due to the pressure of the event
as the course itself was in pretty good nick, except the greens, which though
vast and flat, were too soft and bumpy with the several hundred rounds of golf
played on them for the event and its preparation. A lot of the successful
players went round the course using nothing longer than a 3 iron to stay out
of trouble. (Paul's one venture into the woods earned a triple, and one of the
playing partners notched up a round hundred (never saw a fairway in fact)!
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- 13/8/03 -- Rochefort - Paul Miller beats par!
- Paul Miller recorded his
(and the Section's?) first sub-par round today during a private competition at
the Rochefort Chisan Country Club with a one under 70. "I was spurred on
by marker Eric Two-Ace Lacey's recent second hole in one, and I could see Ian
Jones, playing behind, seemingly hole everything in sight; then Murielle Jones
identified all the trees and other rough stuff that needed avoiding ," he
said. "The greens were true and I didn't miss a single putt and got some
good ones in to boot," he added.
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- 6/7/03 -- Bondoufle - Eliminatoires St Sauveur
- Villarceaux men won their place in the National finals (along with 3 other
IdF teams) at the end of August at the Golf Val de l'Indre near Chateauroux,
where 49 teams will be competing.
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- 5/7/03 -- Bondoufle - Eliminatoires St Sauveur
- Outstanding performances by today's medallists (74, 77, 80) in admittedly
slightly milder conditions hoist Villarceaux to 2nd place in the standings,
allowing them a slight lie in to 8:45 before Sunday's matchplay matches.
Curiously Bondoufle, 1st or 2nd after the first day leading Villarceaux by 9
or so points, fail to qualify! The National finbal is to be played at the Golf
du Val de L'Indre at the end of August.
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- 4/7/03 -- Bondoufle -
Eliminatoires St Sauveur
- Loyal to Captain's orders to post a 10 over in the qualifying round for the
St Sauveur competition - the male equivalent of the Commission Féminine
thing below (or vice versa), Paul Miller produces an electrifying triple bogey
(wrong club, OB, water, etc!), soon followed by a double in windy
conditions at Bondoufle. After first 3 medal rounds (81, 82, 82) team lies 7
or 8 equal.
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- 4/7/03 -- Saint Cloud - Trophée de la Commission Féminine
- Saint Cloud unfortunately put their local knowledge to good use and defeat
out valiant Viallarceax Ladies.
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- 3/7/03 -- Saint Cloud - Trophée de la Commission Féminine
- Celia Berry and Julie Peacock help Villarceaux Ladies advance to 1/8 Finals
(vs St Cloud) at St Cloud in the team stoke play phase.
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- 26/6/03 -- Villarceaux - Wrinklies Thrash Ableiges
- In the latest round of the summer "Challenge 95" interclub Team
Stableford Villarceaux beat visiting Ableiges 290 point to 259, thanks to the
generous support of Joyce and Claude Jacques.
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- 21/6/03 -- Villarceaux - Trophée Lebon
- Naomi Moore takes net prize in 1st Series Ladies with 38 Stableford points.
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- 15/6/2003 -- Villarceaux - Bad Day for Macs in SAC Matchplay
- Ireland suffered a double defeat in the SAC 2003 World Matchplay
Championships today with Michael Dean inflicting a resounding defeat on
Maurice and Celia Berry doing the same to Deirdre.
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- 14/6/2003 -- Villarceaux - Les Amis de (or Peacock's progress
- Julie and Alan with their respective friends fare outstandingly, with Julie
taking firts brut and net, while Alan is 4th brut and 3rd Net. Congrats.
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- 11/6/2003 -- Villarceaux -- Anderson triumphs
- Stealing a considerable advance on the rest of the field, Douglas Anderson
(84) today booked a prime place in the SAC Men's Matchplay semi-final by
defeating Peter Engelen (92) in an outstanding display of the golfer's art.
"A most enjoyable game, the more so since I won," quipped Anderson.
"Seriously, this was a closely fought battle in which we matched each
other blow for blow right down to the last putt," he added. "Phew,
what a scorcher," said Engelen enigmatically referring either to the
weather or the game.
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- 26/4/2003 -- Arras weekend --
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- 21/3/2003 -- Spring is here.....
- and with it comes one of the last opportunities of the season to catch a
glimpse of one of the region's unique features - the Manoir de Ninon at
the heart of the Domaine de Villarceaux - which has recently had considerable
sums of money invested in restoration of the buildings, the pools and lakes,
and in particular the gardens. The Manoir, and Ninon's eponymous
"Tour" (as distinct from the big Chateau up the hill, the New, or
Château du Haut) can just be seen during the winter from the 2nd Tee between
the Yellows and the Blues. Click the image to see the full-size
for a photo taken by Monica Greenwood recently. Shortly the burgeoning foliage
will obscure this beautiful sight for another 6 months or more.
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- 15/3/2003 -- Villarceaux Ladies robbed of Coupe de Paris glory by
Ableiges at L'Isle Adam.
- After frost delayed start by 30 minutes, the tie was played in perfect,
cold and sunny but windy conditions a L'Isle Adam. Unfortunately the
stronger-on-paper Ableiges team shattered the hopes and dreams of the
10-strong Villarceaux Ladies Team, which included such SAC stars as Celia
Berry (ably caddied by Naomi Moore), Julie Peacock (supported by charioteer
husband Alan), Pam Constant and Sue Hall, by being stronger on the course
too.
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- 14/3/2003 -- Indefatigable Pam Constant voted in again for another term
as Chair.
- Peter Engelen, Malcolm Forrest, Sue Hall, Claude Jacques, Nigel Law, James
Moore re-elected and joined by Maurice McCullough, replacing Jas Saini
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- 1/3/2003 --
SAC Golf Section goes live on the Web
- See the press release for more information.
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What the media say
- Leighton Buzzard Advertiser, 2/3/03
"Did I hear anyone mention tedium? ...Yawn..."
- Hemel Hempstead Herald, 3/3/03
"Deeply unfulfilling..... almost entirely unsatisfactory..."
- Cleethorpes Clips, 1/4/03
"Really stimulating .... an absolute must .... more bracing than a day at
Skegness ... unreservedly recommended ... deserves a medal..."
- Tiperary Times, 13/3/03
"Should really go far ... far ... far ... away. What, is it still
there?"
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