Getting your name on a competition club board is one of the biggest honors a golfer can have, especially when it’s a Club Championship.
These tournaments are when the crème-de-la-crème at the club rise to the top. A weekend of full-on, traditional, competitive golf.
If you’ve ever played in one, you know anything can happen and, at St Enodoc’s Club Championship, that’s exactly what occurred, as an incredible 10-hole playoff was needed to determine the Men’s Scratch champion.
(Image credit: LinkedIn: St Enodoc Golf Club)
Located on Cornwall’s North Coast, and ranked among the top 100 golf courses in the UK and Ireland, competitors were in for a day of 36-holes of traditional Links conditions – firm and fast fairways, thick juicy rough, 30-35mph gusts and plenty of rain.
However, despite the incredibly tough circumstances, it didn’t stop some great scoring from two of the club’s best players – Finn Ellis and Louis Archer.
Ellis, a 19-year-old who is heading to Wingate University in North Carolina in September on a golf scholarship, and Archer, the defending Club champion who also claimed a second Cornwall County Championship in May, both finished on one-over-par scores.
In fact, before the playoff even commenced at 7pm, Archer had rolled-in a massive 50-foot putt on the 18th for birdie to shoot one of the few under-par rounds of the tournament.
The famous Himalaya bunker on the par 4 6th hole at St. Enodoc Golf Club
(Image credit: Stuart Morley)
Here in the UK, we are in the midst of summer and, in terms of the sun setting, it will usually happen at around 9.30pm. That left around two-to-three hours of play to determine the winner which, on paper, left plenty of time… or so you’d think.
The playoff holes for Ellis and Archer would be the par 5 1st, a 515-yard hole that had been playing into the wind, and the par 4 18th, a 444-yarder that had been playing downwind, albeit to a narrow strip of fairway.
Order-wise, it would be the 1st, 18th, 1st, 18th and so on until a winner was decided, something that, over two hours later, eventually happened.
Certainly, both men would likely agree that they didn’t expect to see each hole a total of five times and, below, we have listed how the mammoth 10-hole playoff played out.
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