Results 2019

CITCO overall champions
1. Jess Have & William Heath 79 points
3. Richard Neale 78 points

Redbridge Recruitment Champion (gross)
1. Arnaud Bouteiller 81 points
2. Jess Have 73 points
3. Craig Ferreira 72 points

Casa4funds Individual champion
1. Mauro Giuberga 45 points
2. Stéphane Ayache 32 points
3. Peter Baxter 31 points

Best gross: James King 32 points
Nearest to the pin: Craig Ferreira
Longest drive: Gregor Dalrymple
Leary: Gregor Dalrymple

Tenth CITCO event
Date: 28 August 2019
Venue: Preisch
1. William Heath 18 points
2. Mark Gillies 16 points
2. Rob McCorduck 15 points

Nearest to pin: William Heath
Longest drive: Rob Lessure
Leary: Jess Have
Worst score: Simon Baker 8 points

Ninth CITCO event
Date: 21 August 2019
Venue: Grand Ducal
1. William Heath 17 points
2. Willem van Rooyen 17 points
2. Peter Myners 16 points

Nearest to pin: William Heath
Longest drive: Rob Lessure
Leary: Jess Have
Worst score: Frank Maitry 6 points

Eighth CITCO event
Date: 14 August 2019
Venue: Kikuoka
1. Peter Baxter 19 points
2. Alan Botfield 19 points
2. Stéphane Ayache 17 points

Nearest to pin: William Heath
Longest drive: Nick Felfoldi
Leary: Maarten de Groot
Worst score: Martin Shapiro 5 points

Seventh CITCO event
Date: 31 July 2019
Venue: Preisch
1. Craig Ferreira 19 points
2. Richard Neale 18 points
2. Arnaud Bouteiller 17 points

Nearest to pin: James King
Longest drive: Jess Have
Leary: James King
Worst score: Andrew Paton 10 points

Sixth CITCO event
Date: 3 July 2019
Venue: Preisch
1. Richard Neale 20 points
2. Arnaud Bouteiller 18 points
3. Neil Underwood 17 points
Nearest to pin: Mark Gillies
Longest drive: William Heath
Leary: Arnaud Bouteiller
Worst score: Luc de Vet 7 points

3 club challenge
Date: 17 July 2019
Venue: Belenhaff

1. Ayzo van Eysinga 18 points
2. Tim van Dijk 14 points
3. John Sutherland 11 points
Worst score: James King 9 points

MIXVOip Pairs competition
Date: 26 June 2019
Venue: Belenhaff

1. Gerry Mullen and Luc de Vet 22 points
2. Graham Paul & Kaj Wouters 21 points
3. Chris McKenzie & Craig Ferreira 20 points

Nearest to pin: Johan Terblanche
Longest drive: Craig Ferreira
Leary: Craig Ferreira
Worst score: Steve Kaiser & Simon Baker 13 points

Fifth CITCO event
Date: 12 June 2019
Venue: Belenhaff
1. Richard Neale 17 points
2. Jess Have 17 points
3. Andrew Paton 17 points
Nearest to pin: Jess Have
Longest drive: Craig Ferreira
Leary: Jess Have
Worst score: Neil Underwood 6 points

Fourth CITCO event
Date: 5 June 2019
Venue: Kikuoka
1. Kaj Wouters 18 points
2. Richard Browne 17 points
3. Paul Goes 17 points
Nearest to pin: Tim van Dijk
Longest drive: Alan Botfield
Leary: James King
Worst score: Frank Maitry 6 points

Third CITCO event
Date: 22 May 2019
Venue: Preisch
1. Tony Nightingale 19 points
2. Kaj Wouters 16 points
3. Mark Houston 15 points
Nearest to pin: Mark Houston
Longest drive: Jess Have
Leary: Rupert Birch
Worst score: Paul Goes 7 points

Second CITCO event
Date:
Venue:
1. William Heath 16 points
2. Mark Gillies 15 points
3. Tim van Dijk 13 points
Nearest to pin: Jess Have
Longest drive: Steve Brown
Leary: Simon Baker
Worst score: Paul Goes 6 points

First CITCO event
Date: 23 April 2019
Venue: Kikuoka
1. Paul Goes 17 points
2. Joost Mees 16 points
3. Mark Phillips 16 points

Nearest to pin: Mark Gillies
Longest drive: William Heath
Worst score: Dave Winters 8 points

Results from previous years

Trophy ceremony – Pairs competition 2019

Posted on 12 November 2018 by jhave

Rob handing the trophy to Dennis and James…

Thanks to our sponsor MIXvoip.

CITCO report round 7 – 18 July 2018 – Junglinster

Posted on 20 July 2018 by jhave

What a beautiful evening it was!

First of all, thanks to our starter Maarten, who clearly knows how to organize things. 22 FROGS members and 4 guests were welcomed with a good layer of “huzarensalade”, which is probably the best of Dutch cuisine you’ll ever experience, followed by a shot of nice old Dutch “jenever” and a draft beer. And on top of that a cold beer for during the round, which I’m sure everyone finished before reaching the tee of the second hole. I like this Burgundy style start of our rounds and challenge every next starter to be as original in their choice of food and drinks on the first tee. Just make sure it contains alcohol…

The whole evening seemed to be dominated by many elements of the Dutch culture. Before going to the first tee, I went to the driving range to warm up, but of course without “jetons” for the ball machine. Fortunately Steve B was there. I went up to him and asked how it works here with getting practice balls. The trick worked: he offered me his card so I could buy balls… without spending a dime… I owe you a beer for that Steve!

The round itself was a dream, the course in good condition… or did I hear complaints about the greens…? Anyway, they worked for me… and for Ayzo (another Dutchman – I think we outnumbered every other nationality yesterday), who sank every putt within 4 meters. Junglinster is in my view a course where you leave your Driver in your bag, except maybe for one or two holes. Nevertheless, I did hear many trees being hit around me, by those who couldn’t resist.

I always like seeing so many staying for dinner, like Wednesday evening, and I also say this as a representative of our sponsor. Drinks and dinner after the round are at least as important, and at least as much fun, as the round itself. It is that combination that makes the FROGS. And as a bonus we were treated bottles of a nice Rosé – thanks Craig, much appreciated, hope you had a nice Birthday evening!

The results:

Bijnens LEARY: Jess
NEARY: Maarten, who also scored well, despite the starter stress
LONGEST DRIVE: Jess too

The Undersigned – 16 points (to which I agreed with mixed feelings….)
Paul G – 15 points
Maarten – 15 points
Andrew – 14 points
Craig – 14 points

And then there is the unavoidable Pink Ball, which surprisingly went to one of our best players: Bottie. And also surprisingly, our leader Steve B, whose goal it was to get rid of his worst round of this season, was also in the race for Pink Ball with the same 9 points as Alan (and Rob), but based on countback (I think?) got away with it. Guest Pink Ball went to Paul Cornet, who hopefully didn’t have too much of a traumatic experience joining us.

AKD Match Play: the Final is known! The semi-finals were close matches: Paul G needed 10 holes to beat Dennis, and Craig beat Jess 1up by winning the 9th hole.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Frogmittee and Jess, on behalf of the players and the sponsor, for all the work they are doing. That sort of work is needed to keep a group like ours going, but these volunteers don’t always feel appreciated, partially caused by unawareness among our members, of the amount of efforts behind the scenes.

Three more rounds to go…..hope to see the same number of players as in the first 7 rounds. We are having a nice season so far, in good spirits…cheers!

Tim

CITCO report round 6 – 4 July 2018 – Junglinster

Posted on 6 July 2018 by jhave

Dear all,

21 Frogs and 5 guests ventured to Junglinster on a rather humid summers evening. The clouds were dark and thunder could be heard way in the distance (way way in the distance) Our starter, Marco, and showing his, as always, sartorial elegance bolstered spirits with fine wine, champagne, beer and some sausage. As Botty said there is nothing like a good bit of Italian sausage.

Play started with a matchplay (NB: please ensure all matchplays are played as per the schedule or risk disqualification) between our very own Lord of Montrose, Dennis, and our Ryder Cup highheedyin, Gregor. They were joined by Neil who had the unfortunate role of running behind the buggy of Lord Montrose.

The groups were tightly packed, each struggling to reach the bar before the rain started. One group, who will remain nameless (Botty, Goes and Mastroddi) saw a flicker of lightning in Belgium and decided on safety first and sprinted walked to the bar.

Colin Cameron teeing off

Dennis and Gregor were closely matched but started to slow up as the pressure mounted. Would the Menace be able to put off our low handicapper enough to secure a victory? Dennis took advantage of his captive audience in the buggy and in his inimitable style managed to get Gregor to agree to:

A lifetime membership of the BCC;

Selling 25 books of raffle tickets for the British Stand;

Establishing a Luxembourg arm of the Montrose Boys FC

Collecting the Merc from the airport car park, do a quick valet and delivering it to his house…

Back in the clubhouse the lightning quick trio had secured ample seating and the stories were, as always, around what could have been… Steve Brown apparently “could have” finished more than just 3 holes but felt the home course advantage was unfair and used his time helping his playing partners. Well done Steve.

Prizes on the night went to:

Longest Drive – Maarten de Groot

Leary – Marco Bus

NTP – Chris Lowe

4th place – 17 points, Rob, where is my fleece, McCorduck

3rd place – 17 points, Jess I Have a fleece

2nd place – 18 points, Luc de fleece is too large Vet

1st place – 18 points. Mark, I still need a fleece, Houston

The Pink Ball was hotly contested but the honours on the night went to Daniel Kaiser [with 6 points, Ed.].

Best guest went to Jarvis Smith.

Finally our Ryder Cup Captain, Gregor, announced the team for the 14th July, the full list I’m sure will be on the website in due course. There was some consternation as no one seemed to know the location of the actual trophy itself. Who had it last? Did it ever get engraved? I’m sure we will hear more on that later…..or perhaps Confucius will have the answer.

The requested dress code for the 14th shows a Scottish hint with the Blue Frogs top and white trousers/shorts being order of the day. Anyone wishing to complete the ensemble with Braveheart facepaint are welcome.

Well done to all who finished the round in such dangerous conditions and thanks again to Marco for starter duties.

I almost forgot, the matchplay on the night was won by The Menace, well done Dennis! [Jess beat Arnaud to move to the semis as well, Ed.]

Look forward to seeing everyone on the 14th!

CITCO report round 5 – 20 June 2018 – Kikuoka

Posted on 21 June 2018 by jhave

Tree golf by Rupert Birch

Bonjour mes copains!

Yesterday evening +/- 30 FROGS gathered at Kikuoka CC to demonstrate their golfing skills in round 5 of the CITCO Grand Prix. With the mercury heading towards 29C our starter’s cool box full of chilled beer was greatly appreciated – thank’s Martin!

What did we learn?

1) It’s not how you start it’s how you finish!
2) Luminous green FROGS shirts are not recommended attire when there’s a plague of flies of biblical proportions on the course – ask Roby!
3) 6 points is more than enough to progress from the group stage of the World Cup but sadly not sufficient to avoid the ‘pink ball’!

So to the golf…

As usual there was a mixture of the good,the bad and the ugly! As for the golf shots played these followed along the same lines. A topped,low and left tee shot on the 1st tee from yours truly found the the first bunker. 5 hacks and a couple of club slamming tantrums later and a scratch was safely in the bag! Meanwhile my 2 playing partners (Stevie B & Steph) placed 2 great drives straight down the middle.

From there on in things improved or deteriorated depending on your perspective.

Hole 6 – longest drive…Myself and Stevie B decided to lay up short of Jessica’s LD marker in order to leave our favourite approach distance to the pin – 225 metres! Mr B creaming a 3 wood to within 8M below the pin and myself hitting an even more impressive 5 wood pin high. Unfortunately Steve walked off with a par 🙁 but fortunately for me I sank my put for an eagle!

The half-way house was a welcome sight after 9 holes in the sweltering heat and the vending machine rapidly sold out of ice-cold beers so after sharing each others stories of missed putts, swarming flies,eagle putts, scoring 21pts the previous day, we adjourned proceedings to the terrace for food and drinks.

The aftermath

The atmosphere on the terrace was great with the beer & wine flowing but the usual chaos with ordering continued however everyone eventually getting what they ordered….. I think?!!

A gusto rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’ was belted out for Denis’s birthday and his generous offering of Rose wine for everyone was much appreciated – Cheers Dennis!

So to the important stuff (for some of us anyway!)

First of all a big thank you again to our starter Martin!

Standard Scratch on the day was 15.

1. Nick 18
2. Chris McKenzie 17
3. Franco 17
4. Dennis 16

Longest Jessica
Nearest: Nick – prize went to 5th place (Chris Juste) under the ‘1 prize/person’ rule
Bijnens Leary: Dave Winters
Pink Ball: Colin Cameron 6

Other results:
Ronaldo beat Morocco 1-0
Scotland 161/3 – Netherlands 160/6
England 481/6 – Australia 239 all out!

Matchplays:
Paul won against Botty
Craig won against Delboy
Gregor won against Colin

Dennis to play Gregor winner to play Paul in the semis!
Joost or Arnaud to play against Jess with the winner to play Craig in the semis!

Matchplay – message from committee:
Players are responsible to play their match before the deadline. If you cannot play your match by the deadline, you must give your opponent a bye.

Round 6 takes place on 4th July @ Junglinster. Your starter Marco will no doubt be in touch nearer the date.

Cheers!
Nick

MixVOip pairs – 13 June – Junglinster – in memory of two great frogs David Moody and Don McGregor

Posted on 21 June 2018 by jhave

MixVOip Pairs Champions

Well guys, here you go, not easy to summarise what was a remarkable evening from many accounts. Don and Dave would have been proud of us!!

Several questions lay unanswered as the crowds gathered on the first tee supping gently the grateful beer supplied by our event Sponsor Frank Maitry and MIXvoip,

1)Where did all these folks come from-some 40 frogs itching to show their skills in a tantalising competition format? Who dares suggests the Frogs’ spirit is dying?.

2) Could the Scoring Committee, given the absence of the IT maestro Jess, sadly due to illness, cope with the challenges of the handicapping proposals and competition format?

3)Would the Club’s new bar and catering staff cope with the demands of our vibrant group?

4)Would the Menace be able to retain the trophy with a different partner (Maarten not being available) with the top frog in form, the suave mr King?;

Daggers drawn, saw the groups tee off, not always with the customary etiquette being shown by the amassed crowds; maybe that’s why we saw so many poor opening tee shots; Had there been a novelty prize for most entertainment on the first tee—it surely would have been won by Mr PG, although Johnnie, Bruce and Fred were not far behind.

Each of the novelty prizes had their own little twists and one had to pay attention on the first tee to fully appreciate what they were. Here we go, in order of brilliance;

11th -nearest the pin—Arnaud—to get that close to the pin, which was so far forward must have been a wonderful shot.

1st -longest drive on the fairway- Nathan,

3rd -Nearest the pin in one shot- Big Dave,

With the novelty prizes awarded with little or no fuss, little did we know what was in store for us;

The best score in the club house with four groups to come in was a 3 under gross from Catweazle and Stef and with their handicap adjustment of 2.03, they were sitting pretty at 43.97 net. Just one stroke behind them was Mark and Chris at 1 over gross, 45.0 net – all getting tucked into their grub and red wine and with light failing badly , with it now being 9.45pm,were surely going to be well in the frame.

Still out on the course were the King/Menace and De Vet/Cameron pairings, the latter being the complete outsiders—could either provide a surprise and whip the trophy from under the cheezy grins of the Cat and Stef?

Well, with a tap in birdie at the 9th, followed by a birdie on 10, the Menace and King were making a late charge at 3 under gross. After par on 11, they were standing on 12 wondering where the fairway was, trying to remember what score won last year; we concluded we needed a birdie minimum to finish and lets see!! Menace went first, found the fairway ok but not a massive drive(whats new)- James then hit his usual stonker but awfully close to that bloody tree but somehow it flew through the branches and landed up past the bunker on the right. The Menace then hit a lovely hybrid just short of the green or should I say just short of someone in an orange shirt, leaving the opportunity open to show us why Mr King is Top Frog in the current rankings. With nothing to lose, he hit the most wonderful 5 wood, we thought onto somewhere near the green—little did we know it was to land up 15 feet from the pin. Undaunted by the grimaces coming from the group behind including Bill, Joost and Christian who were desperately waiting to play their shots in the last sparks of daylight, yours truly sank the putt for a memorable eagle- maybe I should putt more often in the dark with my glasses off! That gave us a score of 5 under gross and with a handicap adjustment of 0.93, gave us the leadership position in the clubhouse at 43.07.

Given the noise and banter in the clubhouse when we finally got in, clearly much beer and wine had been drunk and an excellent atmosphere prevailed; despite highly commendable efforts from Colin and Luc literally playing the last two holes in the dark, recording a net score of 45.2, a whisker behind Mark and Chris, they were not to take the glory away from us.

There was one final twist to the tail, when Catweazle and Stef were initially excluded from the prizewinners, I thought because they were both badly in need of haircuts, but upon appeal, their score of 43.97 was duly noted and they were awarded second place—worthy runners up I may add!

As to the initial questions they were duly answered,

1) The frogs spirit is flying high,

2) We cannot do without Jess when it comes to checking score cards,

3) The club’s staff were fantastic, although I understand bar service could have been more efficient early on- james and I left at 12.30am leaving two Aussies, a Frenchman and an Englishman still going strong in the bar—guess who?

4) The Menace was able to retain the trophy with his new partner, James—was there ever any doubt!!

Finally a big than you to Frank and MIXvoip for his superb sponsorship and to Dave and Botty assuming the card checking role which to be fair, notwithstanding the little glitch, was extremely difficult given the competition was over 12 holes with the inherent handicapping challenges which it brought.

Thanks to our playing partners, Martin and Hersh for keeping up the friendly banter throughout.

And finally a big thank you to all of who were able to participate in making this a wonderful event. Maybe one point for improvement for next year, lets start 30 minutes earlier, if we can.

CITCO report round 4 – 29 May 2018 – Preisch (Luxembourg)

Posted on 31 May 2018 by jhave

On a stunning summer (yes, I have now officially jinxed us for the rest of the year) day, 23 FROGS members and 0 guests (that’s more like it!) crossed the border to the land of “le strike” to strike unsuspecting little white orbs into strange places (except Gerry on the 5th tee: am sure that I heard his Pinnacle giggle: thanks for the (unsolicited) G&T, it seems that there is only one golf playing Irishman in the entire world who hasn’t heard of this little tradition – for avoidance of doubt, I am not referring to Gerry but if you don’t know yet, a subtle clue lies below).

Steph was mistaken for a 70s “low budget” San Fran movie producer (grow it back) but shot a respectable score. Craig was mistaken for Calamity Sam after an unfortunate backfiring incident (shave it off) and didn’t score so well… The rest of the mob looked and played pretty much as expected. Standard scratch was a pretty decent 14 points.

A big thank you to our starter, Neil, not only for the cold Norwegian beer [The beer was Danish, not Norwegian, Ed.], even if it wasn’t Aass (look it up) and for allowing me to join the second last flight without a pre-booking: the early bird catches the worm, but the eagle shows up and has himself a freshly fed bird(ie).

AKD Matchplay: Jess made FROGS history by winning two matches, both going into sudden death, all in one easy(?) step: out go No G&T Baxter and Lots of G&T Tony. BTW, a great number of matchplay matches are behind the OFFICIAL scheduled dates, sort it out ASAP, over the w/e or before or after work if you must, the ‘Mittee seem to be getting jittery and if previous decision-making is any indication, some (but probably not all) of us will face some sort of unpleasant consequences. Joost, stop faking injury, I have now been cut so you have a (small) chance if you play really, really well…

Pink ball: guess. If you have a kind heart and half an hour to waste, please offer help. No one? It can’t be the half an hour requirement ??

NTP: Mark Gillies
Longest: Jess
Bijnens Leary: Johan, closely beating Rob McC, but the hand back prize mysteriously went to Tim (who was unlucky to only score 16, to be fair)

Top 5:

5 – Dave with 16 on countback
4 – Tim with 16
3 – Stephane with 17 came within a whisker… (2 puns in there, work it out)
2 – Steve B made a solid (?!) 18 and probably only lost 2 balls (in addition to his patience)
1 – Johan made an almost godly 19 with lots of help from the angels and a can of Norway’s 4th finest – good bye any chance of breaking 12 points in FROGS ever again

Next event is on the website already, your starter will be in touch whenever it takes his fancy, if at all (yes, we truly empower our starters)

Report from Casa4Funds Frogs Individual Championship

Posted on 27 May 2018 by jhave

Hello gentlemen !!

Yesterday we played the Individual Championship and our thanks for this lovely and pleasant day go the sponsor Casa4Funds represented by Arnaud.

At 9 o’Clok we had smooth start thanks to:

– the starter Johan
– a delicious breakfast
– the course in perfect condition
– the sun which shined bright in the clear blue sky
– the hot sticky weather that maybe favoured golfers coming form southern Europe used to “tropical climate conditions”

Talking about results:
– Starting from gross, the winner was James with 28 points who scored one point more than Craig.

– A special mention should go to Arnaud who closed the round with a remarkable 76 !! However, being a sponsor he kindly left the stage to other players.

– Moving to the net scores, James was ranked third with 30 points, number two on the chart “il Maestro”… Marco and the winner was Mauro… the student becomes the Master.

To complete a “glorious” day for Italian golf Francesco Molinari close the third round on the first place in Wentworth (Craig, I apologize if might not pronounced it correctly, I hope at least the spelling is correct). It seems that the world is changing drastically because Italy is “gaining ground in golf course” and loosing it in soccer field; apparently we will attend the World Cup on TV from the couch.

Concerning contest prizes:

Nearest
7th Marco
12th Natham

Longest
2nd Steve
11th Nick

Leary
18th Jess

Last prize pink ball, the honour was for Martin Shapiro with 13 points.

The “Ch’ti” Richard won best guest and pink ball awards at the same time

Finally, a special thank to one star “Goodyear” Chef John who cooked delicious fish and chips.

Thanks to everyone e alla prossima !

Mauro

PS: JFYI writing this email took me exactly the same time as playing 18 holes… David, I hope you appreciated my efforts.

CITCO report round 2 – Kikuoka – 2 May 2018

Posted on 4 May 2018 by jhave

Sunset at the fourth hole

Fellow FROGS,

The month of May is upon us, the sun is shining, and 2nd May saw the FROGS landing at Kikuoka for the first time in the 2018 season.

There was a distinct buzz in the air as your humble scribe wandered onto the practice ground this Wednesday, and he was met with some very strange sights indeed… not only was there Mark “Medicine Man” Gillies dancing wildly round the scattered contents of his entire golf bag, obviously deep in some ancient golfing ritual, but there was Tony Nightingale … PRACTICING … (I assure you, this is genuine!) What could all this mean? Would Mark be guided by the Golfing Gods to the winner’s circle (spoiler alert – Nah) would Tony be practicing his way to the top? Watch this space.

Up on the first tee, it way mayhem! The place was rammed, the beer was flowing, everyone was happy (or should that be “Hoppy”?) All that was missing was some US of A-style walk on music…..What should we have chosen ……”What a difference a ~~day~~ Starter makes”? “~~Grandad~~ Hoppy we love you”? Whatever, this “Starter” thing all seemed a great success, and I for one think that we should make this a regular feature. Why the Committee didn’t think of it earlier, I don’t know…

Anyhooo, everyone was too busy to do any actual golfing, so yours-truly was rushed with indecent haste onto the tee, only to disappoint everyone by failing to hit his usual “where the **** did that go”, and instead launch one a goodly way down the middle… (cruelly robbed of LD by petty rules…)

And so they were off. And very soon they had all thrashed and cursed their way round, and made it to the 19th (do we officially have to call this “the 10th in the FROGS”? Ruling please…..) where the usual entertainment was laid on by the Kikuoka cabaret team (or “staff”), who did their usual routine of wilfully misunderstanding drinks orders, and ostentatiously showing that yes, there are 70 religious / cooking channels, and some very interesting lawn mower programmes on, but no we won’t let you watch the football (which is playing on the TV in the other corner)…..

Anyway, who wants to see part 2 of a 13-goal thriller, when you can be enjoying the FROGs Grand Official Prize giving ??!! There was a hushed anticipation in the room, with the atmosphere being only soured by a certain Fat Frog, who insisted in conducting the entire (let’s face it, semi-religious) ceremony, wearing a “they-who-shall-not-be-named” jumper!!! Through shame, the offender shall remain nameless here… just remember that he is a dead ringer for Nicola Sturgeon, from a shallow angle…

Back to the results, and at this point I must thank Jess, (my saviour), who obviously heard me mutter “why the ****** would I want that” when the Fat Frog handed me the list of prize winners, as he took a photo of it (after I had left it behind) and sent it to me, which is why I know the following…..

Bijnens Leary Catweasel (this is sticking, even if he does get a house and a shave sometime)
NP Nick
LD yours truly, but with the prize going to….
5th Dave, with 15 points
followed by
4th Nick (again…did he get 2 prizes?) 16 points, off Bugger-all handicap
3rd Rupert (who obviously needs the balls, as he was risking his life on the range to nick a couple)
2nd Stuart “sneaky-long” Rowlands, an excellent 17 points off just 2 handicap
1st Yours truly [18 points]

Being the FROGS, the contest for the pink ball was tight, and at the wrong end of the single digits (as is depressingly common in the FROGS). The list tells me that Gerry and Will were contending, on 5 points (which means that my scoring of Will’s card was way off … Sozz), but in the end, no-one could compete with Tony “Practice” von Knittingale, on a range-improved 4 points. Gents, there are as many theories on pre-round practice, as there are FROGS, but this should surely be a warning…

Finally, I’m glad to report, that with this victory, I have achieved a lifelong ambition, having actually earned more from golf, than from regular employment this year (although I would have preferred it to be from turning pro and winning a Major, instead of being sans employ / en chômage, and winning EUR 150 in golf vouchers … but c’est la vie!!)

In the match play (and I’m winging it slightly here) I believe the following occurred:

Catweasel beat Ayzo

Jess beat Marco

If I’ve missed any, feel free to tell your missus / any close relative… they might care.

All in all, a successful FROGGIE evening. The thanks were both numerous, and given out on the evening, so no need to repeat here, other than to say well done again to Hoppy, who we hope to see on the course again soon (if only to give Tony “Two-Pink” some competition).

Next event is, I believe, 16 th May, at Preisch.

TTFN, and may the Frog be with you,

Steve

Results 2018

CITCO Grand Prix
1. Paul Goes 78 points
2. Nick Felfoldi 74 points
T3. Steve Brown & Rob McCorduck 73 points

AKD Match play champion
Paul Goes beating Craig Ferreira 1up

Leary champion
James King

Tenth CITCO event
Date: 6 October 2018
Venue: Kikuoka
1. Simon Baker 18 points
2. Grahma Paul 15 points
3. Gregor Dalrymple 14 points
Nearest to pin: Chris Lowe
Longest drive: Craig Ferreira
Bijnens leary: Alan Botfield
Worst score: Bruce McKay 7 points

Ninth CITCO event
Date: 12 September 2018
Venue: Kikuoka
1. Rob Lessure 19 points
2. Mark Gillies 19 points
3. Stéphane Ayache 16 points
Nearest to pin: Andrew Paton
Longest drive: Steve Brown
Bijnens leary: Gregor Dalrymple
Worst score: Bruce McKay 4 points

Eighth CITCO event
Date: 15 August 2018
Venue: Kikuoka
1. Mark Houston 16 points
2. Chris MacKenzie 16 points
3. Dave Fisher 16 points
Nearest to pin: Daniel Kaiser
Longest drive: Nick Felfoldi
Bijnens leary: James King
Worst score: Steve Brown 6 points

Seventh CITCO event
Date: 18 July 2018
Venue: Junglinster
1. Tim van Dijk 16 points
2. Maarten de Groot 15 points
3. Andrew Paton 14 points
Nearest to pin: Maarten de Groot
Longest drive: Jess Have
Bijnens leary: Jess Have
Worst score: Alan Botfield 9 points

Sixth CITCO event
Date: 4 July 2018
Venue: Junglinster
1. Mark Houston 18 points
2. Luc de Vet 18 points
3. Jess Have 16 points
Nearest to pin: Nick Felfoldi
Longest drive: Maarten de Groot
Bijnens leary: Marco Bus
Worst score: Daniel Kaiser 6 points

Fifth CITCO event
Date: 20 June 2018
Venue: Kikuoka
1. Nick Felfoldi 18 points
2. Chris McKenzie 17 points
3. Franco Mastroddi 16 points
Nearest to pin: Nick Felfoldi
Longest drive: Jess Have
Bijnens leary: Dave Winters
Worst score: Colin Cameron 6 points

MixVOip pairs
Date: 13 June 2018
Venue: Junglinster
Winner: Dennis Robertson?James King
Runner up: Craig Ferreira?Stéphane Ayache
Nearest to pin: Arnaud Bouteiller & Dave Winters
Longest drive: Nathan Sneyd

Fourth CITCO event
Date: 29 May 2018
Venue: Preisch (Luxembourg)
1. Johan Terblanche 19 points
2. Steve Brown 18 points
3. Stéphane Ayache 17 points
Nearest to pin: Mark Gillies
Longest drive: Jess Have
Bijnens leary: Johan Terblanche
Worst score: Martin Shapiro 6 points

Casa4Funds Frogs Individuals Championship
Champion: Mauro Giuberga 33 points
Runner-up: Marco Bus 31 points
Third: James King 30 points

Third CITCO event
Date: 16 May 2018
Venue: Preisch (France)
1. Christian Lowe 23 points
2. Joost Mees 20 points
3. Graham Paul 19 points
Nearest to pin: William Heath
Longest drive: Jess Have
Bijnens leary: James King
Worst score: Frank Maitry 4 points

Second CITCO event
Date: 2 May 2018
Venue: Kikuoka
1. Steve Brown 18 points
2. Stuart Rowlands 17 points
3. Rupert Birch 17 points
Nearest to pin: Nick Felfoldi
Longest drive: Steve Brown
Bijnens leary: Craig Ferreira
Worst score: Tony Nightingale 4 points

First CITCO event
Date: 25 April 2018
Venue: Preisch
1. Stefano Ciccarello 16 points
2. Steve Brown 16 points
3. Peter Baxter 15 points

Nearest to pin: Robert Lessure
Longest drive: Craig Ferreira
Bijnens leary: James King
Worst score: Tony Nightingale 5 points