Best Individual Wins

Article by Phil Morgan

The League season 2016-17 had a good crop of surprise results across the divisions.

Jack Litherland	64	beat	James Wellington	125 E
Malcolm Hargreaves	72	beat	J Wellington	125 E
Ian Burridge	156	beat	Alex Posazhennikov	207 E
Steve Burke	165	beat	Jon Tait	216
Ken Heath	72	beat	Alberto Rodrigues	116
Ross Murphy	141	beat	Peter Cusick	179
Matthilde Willson- Drummond	59	beat	M Spencer	97
Mike Hunter	124	beat	Alex Bentley	158
Phil Morgan	149	beat	Peter Mercs	183

John Harrison, Graham Gibson and Graeme Jennings have also defeated players graded 30 points or more above them.

There have also been many draws between players with a wide grading disparity.

What do we make of such results.? The lower your grade is may help your prospect of claiming a good scalp. Often players can play to a higher level than their grading . Some of the winners above had other good results. These were not isolated good performances out of the blue.

I think it’s heartening that such results occur. Higher graded player should be made to work to win, Underdogs with hard work, application and belief can on their day defeat them.

Maybe we got a bit lucky. Then as champion golfer, Gary Player, noted, “ The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.”