| 2012
brings the first tour for the Tonsley Golf Society since the tour
of 2010. And a new venue! The
event will straddle the weekend of 4th - 5th February and will be held at The
Wiltshire in, er, Wiltshire. Two
rounds will be played across a mixture of fourballs and playing stableford formats
with big prizes at stake for the winners. In
2012, the Wiltshire will host the team of 20 in a fantastic winter package. And,
of course, it's all neatly scheduled around the weekend's Six Nations games! |  |  |
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There
is, of course, threat of some 'inclement' weather. Pack wisely and be prepared
for the Sunday competition to turn into bunker-based-snowball-warfare.
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| The
Tonsley Cup 2012 | | |
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Tonsley Cup is a matchplay competition which will loosely follow a Ryder Cup format. |
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| Saturday
we will play ‘singles’ where there will be two matches in each fourball.
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| Sunday
we will play ‘fourballs’, where each hole is won by the team whose individual
golfer has the lowest score. Handicaps will be taken into account. |
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Saturday, we are playing the "Lakes" Course. On Sunday, we are playing
the 9-hole "Garden" Course twice-over (it has two tee's for each hole). |
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players have been designated a team, Floody and Woolfy’s guests are playing
in the Angels team (captained by Floody) and Rob and Joe’s guests are playing
in the Devils team (captained by Rob). |
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| Get
in the Hole Challenge Trophy 2012 |
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Whilst
the emphasis will be on the team competition, there will be also be an individual
competition which will run over both Saturday and Sunday rounds based on a combined
‘stableford’ score. |
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In some cases a player might lose a hole in matchplay for the team competition,
but can still gain stableford points for the individual competition – therefore
it's important to ‘hole out’ on each hole to avoid losing valuable points. |
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| Longest
Drive and Nearest the Pin Competitions |
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| | Scorecards
will be provided, although this year players will also be treated to the Tonsley
‘live score’ system, where the scores of all
players can be monitored around the course at any given moment.
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will also be running the Longest Drive and the Nearest the Pin competitions
on each day. Prizes will be awarded for all competitions. | |  |
And
let's not forget the traditional Tonsley award of the Shiny Trombone (AKA
“Dick of the Day”). | |
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For a glimpse of the live results and available team and player statistics, click
for our very
clever live scoring system. |
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| Check
out the course, hole by hole, here. |
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