06/2016 May 26th saw 30 members and guests of fuente old guard make their way to the ever improving course at ALTORREAL. A fine day and a warm welcome from the staff promised to make this an enjoyable golfing experience .And so it was with KEITH GREEN in fine form ,playing off his new handicap of 14,coming in with a score of 37 points to be overall winner and winner of division one. In second place overall and in division one with a near professional performance was NEIL MACFARLANE with a score of 36 points off a handicap of just 4.8 .Well done guys. In division two ROGER OLORENSHAW took top spot with 26 points with MAURICE NAFZGER close behind with 23 points and in division three PETER HANSFORD was ahead of the rest with 33 points closely followed by PAUL WESTERN and his 31 points .Our winning guest was MARTIN HILL while the nearest the pin winners were won by ALAN SULLIVAN, ,ROGER OLORENSHAW,CAMERON DICKIE and NEIL MACFARLANE .The twos money pot rolls over to our next game .Our next outings is a visit to our local course at CAMPOSOL on JULY 14th.
05/2016 Two fixtures in April kept the OLD GUARD busy in our tenth anniversary year with the doubles match play event held at the hacienda academy course on the 14th and the monthly stapleford competition taking place at Condado de Alhama on the 28t.h. Following the game the old guard moved on down to the impressive Condado Club situated at the southern end of the complex where we enjoyed an excellent buffet and commenced to make our presentations including awards to our three founder members JIM KINNIBURGH, GAVIN ELBOURNE and BOB DAFFON .The match play winners this year were RAY GREENHAM and CHRIS ANDREWS who narrowly beat GAVIN ELBOURNE and MICHAEL LAYCOCK in a hard fought final .The overall stapleford competition was won by PETER HANSF0RD with 35 points and was also clear winner of division three. Runner up to PETER overall was JEFF BRAIN with 35 points but this was enough to give JEFF top spot in division two with the runner up in that division being COLIN MAY with 29 points .Mean while ANDY PAUL took second place in division three with 25 points but in division one NEIL MCFARLANE took first prize with 33 points with GERRY MCROBERT a close second with 32 points .Nearest the pin winners were NEIL MCFARLANE,JIM KINNIBURGH,BARRY MARTIN and PETER HANSFORD with BARRY and PETER sharing the rollover twos pot of 130 euros. Our next game is at Hacienda del Alamo on June 30th.
04/2016 Two fixtures in march kept the OLD GUARD busy with the inaugural inter society match against AGUILON golf soc. on the 17th and our stapleford event at LORCA on the 31st. The inter society game was held at HACIENDA DEL ALAMO followed by a fish and chip lunch at the SPANIARDS INN. On this occasion AGUILON came out as winners and received the trophy which was kindly donated and presented by our sponsors AVALON EUROPE. The LORCA stapleford event was played in ideal conditions, sunny, dry and not too windy which helped MAURICE NAFZGER achieve a points score of 37 points to be overall winner and winner of division two. ALLEN EVANS came second overall with 35 points which also gave him top spot in division three and DAVE GRAY was runner up in division two with 29 points with PAUL WESTERN in second place in division three with 28 points . .Meanwhile ,up in division one ,DAVE SIMPSON took first prize with 34 points and ROY QUIGLEY was in second place with 29 points .The nearest the pin winners were DAVE MAY, DEREK HAYWARD, MAURICE NAFZGER ,PETER COURT and JOHN MCFALL but the twos money pot rolls over once again and now stands at 103 euros.