2022 Runners Up:
Rochford Hundred
2022 Winners:
Stock Brook CC
Congratulations to Jubilee Cup Champions
Stock Brook Manor G&CC defeating Rochford
Hundred on 2 October 2022”
Rochford Hundred the 2022 runners up
The Finals day for the Jubilee Cup 2022 Final was, as always, hotly contested, and
gloriously hosted by Colne Valley Golf Club - our full thanks got to Tom, Sharon,
and the Colne Valley crew for a fantastic event, and all their help in arranging
and hosting.
Team photos below for Rochford Hundred ( in blue) and Stock Brook (in Black)
A great day was had at Colne Valley Golf Club where we held the final events to deliver
a fantastic Jubilee Cup 2022 Final. CVGC was in excellent condition, following the
invite to host from Tom Smith and Sharon Patmore at the club, which we gladly accepted.
Our thanks also go to a wonderful alternative offer from Canons Brook GC near Harlow,
where a clash of dates meant we just could not host the 2022 Final. Despite the lateness
of the year, both an early tee time, and fantastically blue skies, greeted the teams
as the tucked into pre-match coffee and bacon rolls, and preparing themselves for
the battle ahead.
Having won through from some terse Semi Final matches, both competitors, Stock Brook
Manor and Rochford Hundred, were no strangers to the latter stages of the competition
– with SBM also having been Champions back in 2006.
Almost immediately a flurry of red (representing SBM) started to spread through the
mobile scoreboards roving around the course, catching the latest results. However
we have often been here before, and it does not take much to turn the tide, and at
around the third way through the match, green shoots of promise has started to come
through as Rochford’s Captain, Levi Upton, become three up, and Albert Smith 2 up
through five holes. Hole-wise, however, Nigel Cole’s SBM team the points were with
the ultimate winners being 5 matches up. Only one match hung in the balance, between
Adrian Jones and Ian Maher remaining All Square after four holes.
And unusually the slight dominance from the ultimate winners did continue to deepen
as the matches continued, despite the first winning point for SBM soon being followed
by another big winning margin by the Rochford captain. It was to be an uphill battle,
that ultimately Levi Upton’s Rochford team just could not pull back.
Eventual and final result, 7 & 2, to Nigel Cole and his 2022 Jubilee Cup winning
team Stock Brook Manor G&CC.
With the match, and the 2022 season, over, it just left us to have a delicious meal
supplied by Colne Valley, and some very magnanimous speeches from the two Captains
and their teams, before our Chairman went on to present all participants with their
trophies, and ultimately awarding Nigel and his team the Jubilee Cup Trophy for 2022.
All Singles and Pairs player results are showcased on the Order of Merit tables within
our website, and as we watched the Finals at Colne Valley there were still many competing
players who could gain position and award based upon a positive result – and even
some that could place even by not being part of either of the finalist teams.
The Singles OOM was decided on the day, with two Stock Brook Manor players positioned
for the top spot. Both players won their matches against Rochford Hundred, confirming
Darren Booty (pictured below in a black top) as Runner Up, and with a totally undefeated
winner throughout the entire competition taking the Winning trophy. Graham Page,
pictures below in the white top, receiving trophy for our suited Chairman Phil Redhead.
We won’t repeat here what Darren said upon finding out his team mate Graham had one..but
you can guess in our friendly spirit of Jubilee Cup competitiveness!
Stock Brook Manor's, Graham Page, totally undefeated winner of the singles OOM title
throughout the entire competition taking the Winning trophy, (left picture), and
the runner up Darren Booty (right picture), receiving their trophies from our suited
Chairman Phil Redhead.
A very different position with the Doubles/4BBB Order of Merit. The top two spots
were largely sewn up by the end of the Quarter Finals (never mind the Semis or actual
Final!). A further winning point from Rochford’s Colin Fletcher saw him secure Third
place. However, a superior hole difference on 5 winning points meant that Upminster’s
Daniel Conway became our 4BBB OoM Runner up. With 6 winning points (and so undefeated
in the matches he played), Woolston Manor’s Mo Patel took the top spot, after consistent
appearances in previous Jubilee Cups. I am hoping to have both achievers represented
here in due course, as their Home clubs will be presenting their trophies in due
course well done to all competitors, all of which are listed on our website, and
on one page you can see how you all did within your own clubs..just for bragging
rights of course!
Here below is the Pairs Order of Merit Runner up Daniel Conway
TThank you to all competing clubs and all your players – your feedback has been gratefully
received this year, and from Neil, Alan, Christer and myself, we wish to thank you
for all playing in the spirit that we try and uphold. You will all be aware now
that there will be a changing of the guard on the Committee for 2023. I am pleased
however that we have some initial volunteers seeking to support a newly refreshed
Committee, and so I am confident that the competition will continue for the enjoyment
of all Essex golfers.
2022 Semi finals
Thanks to our host clubs Crondon Park Golf Club and Rochford Hundred Golf Club for
offering up their courses to hold these key matches – which saw both The Essex and
Crondon Park, fall by the wayside to our finalists.
Semi-Final 1 – Rochford Hundred defeated The Essex, 5.5 & 3.5
Semi-Final 2 – Stock Brook Manor defeated Crondon Park, 5 & 4
Both matches were very closely contested, and for the majority of the matches the
trend was either the reverse of the final scoring or indeed tightly compacted.
Photos here show the teams that did not make it through to the final
Full results shown down to individual match levels on our website, and proved key
for Order of Merit final results also to singles and pairs players
2022 Winning Captain Nigel Cole, from Stock Brook Manor (on left) holding aloft the
Jubilee Cup trophy, with Jubilee Chairman Phil Redhead (on right)
