At the end of Day 1 of the Men’s County Championship, 16 players made the cut. Defending Champ Tony Wilkins of Harpenden Common GC was the medalist on 137 (-5). Rob Watkins of Hadley Wood GC was next 3 back on 140 (-2)

Watch the live scoring from the matchplay rounds here, hertsgolfunion.com/live

Good luck to Tony Wilkins , through to the KO stages of the County Championship. He was leader after two rounds of stroke play yesterday at -5. Watch this space for retweet of link to live scoring.....

Tony unfortunately lost after two extra holes in the first KO round. New County Champion is James Surridge from the Centurion Club.

Can I recommend everyone to read Caddy Corner in our Newsletter on Howdidido. The Lama gives us an excellent insight into warming up and being in the Zone.

Well I never. At last ( first time in 10 years) Harpenden Common win the Jubilee Trophy v Hammonds End 8.5-3.5. Thanks to all our top players who turned out for the team. And thanks to Rob Léonard, my partner, who provided all the inspiration for a great 3&2 win.

The Scottish #HickoryChallenge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ASIScottishOpen #RolexSeries

Can I recommend, yet again, that you read the Lama’s (#The Lama )latest article in our club newsletter in Howdidido. In his fascinating insight into caddying, he recommends the Laurence Donegan book Four Iron in the Soul, which I also read many years ago. Try it-it’s excellent.

Great Captain Pro match yesterday with Doctor Don and Stewart Campbell - true sportsmen - even when they were kicking our backsides !

Big changes ahead.

And now the end is near ( ie here ) and so I face the final curtain etc etc. Time to hand over the Twitter reigns to Captain Rob. Better change the photo too. Sorry I’ve not been over active on the tweeting front. Happy New Year to my 2018 followers. Laurence x

The Captain @ HCGC pls can you RT our fantastic auction - including a fourball at Harpenden Common #Golf Club tylerswonderland-auction.com #herts #harpenden

It’s my last day as Captain! Thanks for all your support. Best wishes to Laurence Weir for the 2018 Captaincy!! Long live the Captain!

Don’t believe us when we say we’re not nervous ! Thanks to everyone for their support on 1st Jan Drive In. 34ft from pin was better than most of my practice attempts during recent weeks. Onwards and downwards !

Thank you to all entrants in the caption competition which featured me and my friendly Giant Tortoise ( from my recent Galapagos Trip). They were all equally insulting, but my favourite was Dave Hall’s allusion to my keeping a spare tortoise up my shirt ! 1day I’ll get some respe

..ct. Photo to follow of my favourite Ecuadorian Rainforest bird - the Potoo. Spot it if you can - it hunts at night and spends all day like this !

HEALTH WARNING to all Golf Clubs‼️ Please don’t be influenced by The Masters next week. Chasing unnecessary goals in course conditioning is damaging to the health of the game. Please RT

Popped over to Berkhamsted to watch back 9 of the Berkhamsted Trophy yesterday. A world ranking event ! Top 10 finish for Tony Wilkins with Ryan Hodges just one shot behind on 4 over after 4 rounds (after Ryan’s best final round of the day 68 ). Congratulations to both of you !

Played our first Captain Pro challenge today. Congratulations to the Willett brothers who won one up. Onwards and upwards! Looking forward to the team photo in Rob’s newsletter. Little and large - talking of which, it’s Liam Cramer and Rabbit next !