Our last meet of the 2009 - 2010 Badgering Season took us on a welcome return to South Essex Golf Club, with prizes and sponsorship provided by those generous chaps at PIP Electrical who were out in force.  Well, they turned up at least.  South Essex would produce the highest number of attendees for a Badgers Day ever with 38 Badgers and guests in attendance; unfortunately it also produced the highest number of 'sorry, got to piss of earlys' hence why the photos make it look like Chris Knapp and Genty walked away with the majority of the prizes on offer.  Some chance. 

Winning team was won by Nigel Smith and Chris Knapp, with the bottles of wine being some compensation for having to share their rounds with Marco and his guest Russell.  No wonder Nigel wanted to leave early, four and a half hours of Marco is enough for anybody.  Winning Guest was Alan Skinner with 35 points.  With Chris enjoying the view from the winners rostrum is was only fitting that he should pick up the Longest Drive on behalf of Peter Gallagher, with Longest Drive won by Mark Doughty.  Last Place aka The Turd was won by sponsor Gary Pascoe, his business is obviously in a lot better shape than his swing.

Winning Team - Chris Knapp (last man standing and accepting on behalf of his team), Marco Franchi, Nigel Smith, Russell Pooley

 

Winning Guest - Alan Skinner (accepted on his behalf by his host Tony Mills)

 

 Longest Drive - Peter Gallagher (accepted on his behalf by Richard Gent)

 

Nearest the Pin - Mark Doughty

 

Last Place (The Turd) - Gary Pascoe (accepted on his behalf by Chris 'Shit Licker' Knapp)

On to the big money prizes, and third place was won by Chris Knapp on count back form Gary Lang, both on a credible 35 points. One point ahead on 36 was our Nude Golf World Champion Marco Franchi, a good performance when you bear in mind how restricting he finds clothing is to his normally naked swing, but our winner was Mark Doughty with an impressive 37 points, considerably more than his beloved West Ham have managed for a long time.

3rd Place - Chris Knapp

 

2nd Place - Marco Franchi (accepted on his behalf by Chris Knapp who must have misheard it as Eugenio Caruso) 

 

1st Place - Mark Doughty 

 

Results from South Essex;

1st Mark Doughty, 37 points off 25, new handicap 23
2nd Marco Franchi, 36 points off 24, new handicap 23
3rd Chris Knapp, 35 points off 25, new handicap 24
4th Gary Lang, 35 points off 16, new handicap 15
5th Alan Skinner (G), 35 points off 28, new handicap 27
6th Dave Cresser (G), 34 points off 13, handicap remains 13
7th Jeff Craven (G), 33 points off 28, handicap remains 28
8th Nigel Smith, 32 points off 25, handicap remains 25
9th John Deely, 32 points off 27, handicap remains 27
10th Derek Slatford, 31 points off 23, handicap remains 23
11th John Pye, 30 points off 13, new handicap 14
12th Mike Stone, 29 points off 20, new handicap 21
13th Andy Bawn, 29 points off 27, new handicap 28
14th Stuart Wright, 29 points off 18, new handicap 19
15th John Barnes, 29 points off 23, new handicap 24
16th Colin Johnson, 29 points off 23, handicap remains 23
17th Steve Brewer, 28 points off 16, new handicap 17
18th Peter Gallagher, 27 points off 19, new handicap 20
19th John Thorpe, 27 points off 23, new handicap 24
20th Richard Gent, 27 points off 26, new handicap 27
21st Paul Ives, 26 points off 28, handicap remains 28
22nd Tony MIlls, 26 points off 28, handicap remains 28
23rd Russell Pooley (G), 26 points off 26, new handicap 28
24th Harry Cutts, 26 points off 25, new handicap 26
25th Wayne Dexter, 26 points off 17, new handicap 18
26th Richard Maggs, 26 points off 20, new handicap 21
27th Keith Ives, 26 points off 27, new handicap 28
28th Dave House, 25 points off 18, new handicap 19
29th Roy Daniels (G), 25 points off 28, handicap remains 28
30th Mike Healy, 24 points off 24, new handicap 26
31st Tony Morgan (G), 22 points off 22, new handicap 24
32nd John Merralls, 21 points off 28, handicap remains 28
33rd Tim Holt, 19 points off 28, handicap remains 28
34th Ian Ferguson, 19 points off 27, new handicap 28
35th Eugenio Caruso, 18 points off 18, new handicap 19
36th Chris Jones, 17 points off 28, handicap remains 28
37th Noel Healy (G), 17 points off 24, new handicap 16
38th Gary Pascoe (G), 14 points off 28, handicap remains 28

Winning Team - Chris Knapp, Marco Franchi, Nigel Smith, Russell Pooley
Longest Drive - Peter Gallagher
Nearest the Pin - Mark Doughty
Best Guest - Alan Spinner

Attendees at South Essex;

Team 1 - Chris Knapp, Nigel Smith, Russell Pooley, Marco Franchi

 

Team 2 - John Deely, Peter Gallagher, Gary Lang, Mark Doughty

 

Team 3 - Tim Holt, Eugenio Caruso, Gary Pascoe, Steve Brewer

 

Team 4 - Tony Mills & Guests

 

Team 5 - Andy Bawn, Guest, Dave House, Harry 'The Rampant Rabbit' Cutts

 

Team 6 - John Pye, Terry Tibbs, Mike Healy

 

Team 7 - Guest, Guest, Wayne Dexter, Paul Ives

 

Team 8 - Keith Ives, Derek Slatford, Richard Maggs, Colin Johnson

 

Team 9 - John Barnes, Mike Stone, Ian Ferguson

 

Team 10 - Richard Gent, Guest, Stuart Wright, John Merralls