Weekender Alicante South Issue 109

30 FRIDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER 2019
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El Plantio 2
Golf Society
IN the first club competition
since the great deluge,
13 members turned
up to compete in a Team
Yellow Ball.
The course was playable
despite the amount of water
it had been subjected to.
As numbers were not ideal,
the only four-ball outfit
had to discard one score on
each hole.
Five points were deducted
for every team who did not
return the Yellow Ball.
This worked against the
team finishing second as
they scored most points but,
a deduction left them level
and they lost on count back.
Indeed, of the four teams
competing, only one Yellow
Ball was returned.
Nearest the pins – Hole 2
Barry Walthall, Hole 8, Helen
Beddows.
Second place, Henry Mellor,
Janice O'Brien, Lyn
Young – 126 points.
First place, Helen Beddows,
Barry Walthall, Mike
Davies – 126 points.
If anyone would like to
join our Society, we play at
El Plantio Golf Club every
Tuesday, Friday and Sunday.
We use both courses - the
Par 3, 9 hole course and the
main 18 hole course, so we
cater for all abilities.
The membership rates are
very competitive, so call for
more details. Anyone who
wishes to play in the Society
as a guest or join as a
new member, contact David
Swann on 865 779 983 or
648 476 752.
Summertime
was special
From L to R: Lyn Young, Barry Walthall, Helen Beddows, Mike Davies, Henry Mellor,
Janice O’ Brien
ENGLAND’S cricket captain
Joe Root says coming
from behind to draw the
Ashes series rounded off
a summer that has been
a “huge success” for the
national side and the
game.
It was certainly a season
of thrills that will last long
in the memory. A ‘super over’
victory in an amazing World
Cup Final saw England lift
their first 50 over World Cup
in July.
And though they did
not regain the Ashes, Ben
Stokes remarkable performance
in the third Test, followed
by a massive team effort
at the Oval in the final
game, ensured the series
ended level. Root, who was
also a member of the 50-
over side, has repeated his
desire to still be in charge
when England fight to win
back the urn on the tour of
Australia in 2021-22.
And he has declared she
wants to be captain for the
“long haul”. He said: “I’m
desperate to take this team
forward.
Speaking after England’s
Oval victory he said: “I’m in a
very privileged position to be
captain of the Test team and
I’ll do everything I to can to
get us very well prepared for
going down there and hopefully
doing something very
special.”
The Yorkshire batsman
added: “What a summer of
cricket it has been. It’s been
phenomenal.
“That World Cup was incredible,
for it to finish how
it did, made for fantastic
viewing – not just the England
games, but across the
board. It was backed up by
such an evenly matched
Ashes series. We were
blessed by brilliant support
throughout and the cricket
was pretty gripping. It was
quite hard to be involved in
at times, especially when we
were on the wrong end of it.
It has been a huge success
for English cricket and a
great opportunity to spring
the game forward in this
country.”
Flying Dutchman Mathieu takes centre stage
DUTCH cycling star Mathieu van der Poel won the 2019
Ovo Energy Tour of Britain after taking the final stage
which ended in Manchester city centre.
It was his third stage win of the week and the final day’s
racing came to a close with a thrilling spring to the line, the
overall winner taking the stage by the smallest of margins.
The 24-year-old said: “I was focused on the line and think
I timed it perfectly. I was pretty confident I could hold off the
guys around me but you cannot react to everyone.
“There were maybe 20 guys who could have won. But in
the end I did a perfect job and the team did a perfect job.”
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