Euro Tour 2019 - Portugal, Vilamoura

Red Team Blue Team

Round One - Singles - Laguna

Pos.	Player	Starting H/C	Front 9	Back 9	Total	Finishing H/C
1	Peter Tweddell	16	18	14	32	14
2	Bob Crouch	23	13	14	27	22
3	Barry England	9	13	14	27	9
4	Peter Self	14	14	11	25	14
5	Paul Keenor	15	15	10	25	15
6	Darren Parker	20	14	10	24	20
7	Stewart Ryan	7	12	11	23	7
8	Tim Grimes	22	13	9	22	22
9	Steve Tothill	21	8	12	20	21
10	Ian Marshalsay	23	11	8	19	23
11	Bryan England	23	9	7	16	24
12	Mark Moore	14	9	7	16	16

Lost Balls = 51

Round One - Singles - Millennium

Pos.	Player	Starting H/C	Front 9	Back 9	Total	Finishing H/C
1	Paul Damper	13	14	16	30	11
2	Phil Parker	0	13	15	28	-1
3	Gary Kisby	15	12	14	26	15
4	Dean Priestman	9	10	15	25	9
5	Simon Muir	17	13	12	25	17
6	Dave Verga	20	7	16	23	20
7	Kevin Warncken	24	11	11	22	24
8	Sean Downs	25	10	11	21	25
9	Ian Rowan	23	13	7	20	23
10	John Burbridge	24	7	11	18	24
11	Mark Parsons	29	8	10	18	30
12	Steve Farley	33	5	7	12	35

Lost Balls = 23

Daily Lost Balls = 74

Round One - Ride Her Cup - Laguna

Red Team	Blue Team	Winners	Score
Darren & Tim	v Pete T & Bob	Blue	5 & 4
Keenor & Self	v Ian M & Stu	Red	3 & 2
Moore & Tots	v Barry & Bryan	Draw	A/S

Round One - Ride Her Cup - Millennium

Red Team	Blue Team	Winners	Score
Ian R & Dean	v Verga & Farley	Red	4 & 2
Gary & Kev	v Phil & Sean	Draw	A/S
Damper & Parsons	v John & Simon	Blue	2 & 1

Round Two - Singles - Laguna

Pos.	Player	Starting H/C	Front 9	Back 9	Total	Finishing H/C
1	Barry England	9	14	17	31	7
2	Dean Priestman	9	15	13	28	9
3	Simon Muir	17	14	12	26	17
4	Peter Tweddell	14	13	11	24	13
5	Darren Parker	20	12	11	23	20
6	Paul Keenor	15	10	12	22	15
7	Dave Verga	20	11	11	22	20
8	Peter Self	14	15	7	22	14
9	Gary Kisby	15	10	11	21	15
10	Paul Damper	11	9	10	19	11
11	Bob Crouch	22	11	8	19	22
12	Phil Parker	-1	11	6	17	-1

Lost Balls = 35

Round Two - Singles - Millennium

Pos.	Player	Starting H/C	Front 9	Back 9	Total	Finishing H/C
1	Mark Moore	16	17	15	32	16
2	Stewart Ryan	7	15	15	30	7
3	Ian Rowan	23	8	19	27	23
4	Kevin Warncken	24	9	17	26	24
5	Steve Tothill	21	10	16	26	21
6	Bryan England	24	9	16	25	24
7	John Burbridge	24	12	12	24	24
8	Sean Downs	25	13	11	24	25
9	Tim Grimes	22	10	13	23	22
10	Ian Marshalsay	23	7	12	19	23
11	Mark Parsons	30	8	11	19	31
12	Steve Farley	35	6	8	14	37

Lost Balls = 18

Daily Lost Balls = 53

Round Two - Ride Her Cup - Laguna

Red Team	Blue Team	Winners	Score
Damper & Gary	v Pete T & Phil	Draw	A/S
Dean & Keenor	v Bob & Barry	Blue	2 up
Self & Darren	v Simon & Verga	Red	1 up

Round Two - Ride Her Cup - Millennium

Red Team	Blue Team	Winners	Score
Tim & Kev	v Stu & Sean	Red	1 up
Tots & Ian R	v Ian M & John	Red	1 up
Parsons & Moore	v Byran & Farley	Red	5 & 4

Round Three - Singles - Laguna

Pos.	Player	Starting H/C	Front 9	Back 9	Total	Finishing H/C
1	Stewart Ryan	7	15	16	31	6
2	Kevin Warncken	24	12	15	27	24
3	Sean Downs	25	13	12	25	25
4	Mark Parsons	31	16	7	23	31
5	Steve Tothill	21	10	11	21	21
6	Bryan England	24	16	5	21	24
7	John Burbridge	24	14	6	20	24
8	Mark Moore	14	9	10	19	14
9	Ian Marshalsay	23	10	7	17	24
10	Tim Grimes	22	8	7	15	22
11	Ian Rowan	23	6	7	13	23
12	Steve Farley	37	5	7	12	39

Lost Balls = 44

Round Three - Singles - Millennium

Pos.	Player	Starting H/C	Front 9	Back 9	Total	Finishing H/C
1	Simon Muir	17	12	19	31	17
2	Gary Kisby	15	14	17	31	15
3	Darren Parker	20	15	15	30	20
4	Barry England	7	14	15	29	5
5	Dean Priestman	9	11	15	26	9
6	Bob Crouch	22	11	14	25	22
7	Peter Self	14	12	12	24	14
8	Paul Keenor	15	8	15	23	15
9	Peter Tweddell	13	11	12	23	13
10	Phil Parker	-1	12	7	19	-1
11	Paul Damper	11	6	12	18	11
12	Dave Verga	20	8	8	16	20

Lost Balls = 17

Daily Lost Balls = 61

Round Three - Ride Her Cup - Laguna

Red Team	Blue Team	Winners	Score
Tim & Ian R	v John & Steve F	Blue	1 up
Totti & Parsons	v Stu & Bryan	Red	2 up
Kev & Moore	v Ian M & Sean	Blue	3 & 2

Round Three - Ride Her Cup - Millennium

Red Team	Blue Team	Winners	Score
Gary & Self	v Phil & Bob	Red	4 & 3
Dean & Darren	v Simon & Pete T	Red	1 up
Paul & Paul	v Barry & Verga	Blue	4 & 2

Round Four - Singles - Laguna

Pos.	Player	Starting H/C	Front 9	Back 9	Total	Finishing H/C
1	Ian Rowan	23	13	17	30	23
2	Gary Kisby	15	17	13	30	15
3	Paul Damper	11	19	9	28	11
4	Mark Parsons	31	10	16	26	31
5	Sean Downs	25	10	15	25	25
6	Dean Priestman	9	13	12	25	9
7	Simon Muir	17	10	12	22	17
8	Phil Parker	-1	10	11	21	-1
9	Dave Verga	20	8	10	18	20
10	John Burbridge	24	12	4	16	24
11	Steve Farley	39	5	8	13	41
12	Kevin Warncken	24	8	5	13	24

Lost Balls = 43

Round Four - Singles - Millennium

Pos.	Player	Starting H/C	Front 9	Back 9	Total	Finishing H/C
1	Peter Self	14	15	16	31	14
2	Bob Crouch	22	10	20	30	22
3	Ian Marshalsay	24	11	18	29	24
4	Barry England	5	13	16	29	3
5	Steve Tothill	21	11	17	28	21
6	Stuart Ryan	6	12	16	28	5
7	Darren Parker	20	13	14	27	20
8	Paul Keenor	15	8	16	24	15
9	Mark Moore	16	9	15	24	16
10	Peter Tweddell	13	10	14	24	13
11	Bryan England	24	7	11	18	24
12	Tim Grimes	22	6	11	17	23

Lost Balls = 19

Daily Lost Balls = 62

Round Four - Ride Her Cup - Laguna

Red Team	Blue Team	Winners	Score
Damper & Dean	v Phil & Verga	Red	5 & 4
Ian R & Gary	v John & Sean	Red	2 up
Kev & Mark P	v Farley & Muir	Red	2 & 1

Round Four - Ride Her Cup - Millennium

Red Team	Blue Team	Winners	Score
Keenor & Darren	v Stu & Pete T	Blue	1 up
Totti & Self	v Bryan & Ian M	Red	4 & 3
Tim & Moore	v Bob & Barry	Blue	3 & 2

Overall - Singles

Pos.	Player	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total Points	LBP*
1	Barry England	27	31	29	29	116	306
2	Stewart Ryan	23	30	31	28	112	280
3	Gary Kisby	26	21	31	30	108	288
=4	Darren Parker	24	23	30	27	104	402
=4	Simon Muir	25	26	31	22	104	321
=4	Dean Priestman	25	28	26	25	104	275
7	Peter Tweddell	32	24	23	24	103	168
8	Peter Self	25	22	24	31	102	327
9	Bob Crouch	27	19	25	30	101	307
=10	Sean Downs	21	24	25	25	95	274
=10	Steve Tothill	20	26	21	28	95	235
=10	Paul Damper	30	19	18	28	95	206
13	Paul Keenor	25	22	23	24	94	292
14	Mark Moore	16	32	19	24	91	277
15	Ian Rowan	20	27	13	30	90	297
16	Kevin Warncken	22	26	27	13	88	222
17	Mark Parsons	18	19	23	26	86	313
18	Phil Parker	28	17	19	21	85	328
19	Ian Marshalsay	19	19	17	29	84	345
20	Bryan England	16	25	21	18	80	210
21	Dave Verga	23	22	16	18	79	328
22	John Burbridge	18	24	20	16	78	348
23	Tim Grimes	22	23	15	17	77	256
24	Steve Farley	12	14	12	13	51	354

Total Lost Balls = 246
*Lost Ball Prediction. Winner - Tim Grimes - 256

Overall - Ride Her Cup

Team	R1	R2	R3	R4	PB	Total
Red	8	13	9	12	-10	32
Blue	8	4	9	6	-2	25

Euro Tour 2019 Captain's Report

Fellow tourist, what can I say? With very little chance for any in depth review, it certainly seemed to me that things went unusually smooth and rather well.

Everyone not only managed to attend Gatwick at the allotted time with the prescribed paperwork but they also managed to board the plane and depart. Not only that but (and I have checked) we all made it home on the same day! A new epoch in the world of Rowan tours and the first time ever this achievement has been reached I think we all deserve a pat on the back.

Arriving at the good old Dom Pedro was like returning to a favourite restaurant or bumping into an old friend. There we were again littering up the foyer, frightening children with our gargantuan pallid frames in the pool and wondering if they might have anything nice for brekky.

In order that we didn’t all get too bored with the same fodder we had a slight twist to the format this year by the introduction of the Ride Her Cup red and blue team format. After the first day both teams were exactly level and on the last day with the pink ball adjustments there was still only one point in it, Dave having marshalled his forces wonderfully to overcome a mid competition hammering.

Personally, I felt the format worked well, firstly as it meant only waiting for three four balls, secondly it added a new dimension and thirdly I enjoyed (ish) playing two courses twice. I have no idea whether playing one twice then the other twice was better than daily alternating because I think there were probably more influential factors in play than the familiarity with the course. So much so that the second time of playing Millennium we tee’d off from the wrong hole on day two despite playing the course the day before.

My scores wavered from poor on day one to adequate day two abysmal day three and winning on day four, again more by luck than judgement I’m sure. This trip more than any other, I was amazed at just how much my game can vary not even from one round from a front nine of 8 points on day two to a back nine of 19? I would love to suggest that there was a technique I adjusted, and it all came right but as far as I was concerned I was doing the same stuff each time.

I would like to thank all those who suffered a round with me on the bad days (you know it’s a bad day when your buggy partner runs out of supportive things to say about hole 8 and starts on about the weather) and also those who got to witness the emergence of some actual golf on the better days. It was lovely to have a round with some of our newbies this year, Messers Marshalsay, Farley and Downs and witness the emergence of Mr Farleys game whereby he was outdriving some of us and putting out to win the match for the blue team. It was lovely to see the joy at being successful at such a simple game, sadly the older sages amongst us were less surprised when the following day all had not gone so well, such is the fickle nature of the game there is always enough to bring us back and always more to do.

Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to get a round in with Phil Parker or Bryan England, who were both also on tour for the first time but maybe next year. It was great to have you both along this time thank you.

In terms of the results the gold prize envelopes went to messers Tweddell and Damper on day 1 with scores of 32 and 30 on Laguna and Millennium respectively

Day 2 it was messers England Jnr and Moore with 31 and 32

Day 3 Stewart Ryan and Simon Muir both shot 31 to win and day 4 myself and Mr Self scored 30 and 31 to take the cash, although it being the charity day and us being lovely chaps the prize pot was put back into the charity bag.

So a mix up of names from both teams winning with between 30 and 32 a vote of confidence for the handicap system and also fairness of the teams I think. A special mention for Mark Moore scoring the highest of anyone on either course with a 32 especially as this was twice what he scored the day before in last place on Laguna day 1 a real turn around well done.

As previously mentioned, the Reds were victorious by 7 points thanks to a great performance on the last day.

The lost ball competition was won by Timmy TT who despite not being sure if the hotel was left or right of the entrance road and also wandering out of the 19^th hole bar, not left back to the hotel but right to go around the back way! Did have an accurate assessment of how wasteful, wayward and generally wonky we all could be around a golf course. With scores after the day one losses of 74, predictions ranged from 168 to 402 with TTT plumping for 256 and the actual lost being 246 a shade over ten each. Well done Tim!

Thank you all for your contribution to what felt like a happy, enjoyable and successful trip. A special thanks to our ever faithful statto Pete who despite throwing me a slight curveball on day three, put in a lot of effort at a time most of us were relaxing and enjoying ourselves and probably fielded more inane questions than even I did. Your input and suggestions with little tweaks and improvements were invaluable especially as after the first night I was operating on severely reduced capacity and what was left was utilised on keeping me mostly upright, thanks mate!

As ever planning has started for 2020 so expressions of interest please.

We can go back to Vilamoura with its well-known charms and do exactly the same again. Or play two different courses or a new one each day. The two I chose this year were the cheapest so any variations will be at greater cost. We could go to a cheaper hotel?

We are also looking at an all inclusive deal to turkey it would be a 7 night break, four rounds of golf all buggies booze and food included and its about £680 plus flight so I would suggest about a grand - if you factor in food and drink costs for Vilamoura I would suggest it’s a better deal. Hotel is evidently five star with usual amenities four or five restaurants, pool etc but probably no where local to go off site?

If you have any other good options ie somewhere with good courses that’s not going to be wet and cold and we can reasonably afford, please let me know. Sorry I can’t make Poultwood but at MAGS on the 19^th,I will be presenting (or dropping off on way home as it isn’t staying in the house) the glorious Wedgwood urn which traditionally has been the presented to the tour winner.

Thanks once again to one and all and here is to next years tour

Cheers

Ian

Euro Tour Group 2019

Mags 2020 Touring Party

Rowan tours we never sleep, are overwhelmed by all your quick and positive responses, were feeling the love guys thank you x

The following have all signified their interest in 2020 turkey tour: Sunday 7^th June to Sunday 14^th ,Belek golf hotel, all inclusive, two courses, four rounds, airport transfers buggies etc all in, budget (£995)

ROWAN

GRIMES - EVENTUALLY

VERGA

BURBRIDGE

PA PARKER

DOWNS

KISBY

WARNCKEN

PRIESTMAN + HIS MATE Rufus

PARSONS

DAMPER

TOTTHILL

MOORE Snr

TWEDDELL

CROUCH

SO 16 SO FAR WHICH GETS US A TOUR THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT GENTS. IN ORDER TO GET THE VERY BEST DEAL WE NEED TO BOOK THE GOLF BREAK BY END OF JULY.

Flight costs rise slowly as times gets closer to departure so ideally the sooner the better.

Two key points I will need a deposit for the flight and the break by end of July so please bear that in mind. (We are negotiating exact levels at the moment but worst way its circa £135).

Secondly if you know someone who may be interested but isn’t on the list chase them up. If we can get to 24 again that would be great. Mags members in preference but tbh anyone who you can vouch for, with the deposit money by the end of the month works for me !

I would rather avoid the sweat of being saved by private Ryan again next year, so will close the book at the end of the month and as we can’t go with an odd number realistically 20 or 24 would be our targets. If we get to 24 its marginally cheaper as we get a 1 in 8 go free deal so try your best gents

I will keep you updated but see what you can generate by Dale hill on 19^th the earlier we can book flights the better really

It would be good to see Lewis, Marshalsay, Englands, Parker, Muir et al all on the team sheet for TT2020 get calling make someones day!

PIP PIP roddy (head of Entertainment and complaints) Rowan Tours