Captain’s Peter and Deborah say farewell after a successful season at Al Ghazal Golf Club

The members of AGGC gave their resounding appreciation by competing en-masse in the Captain’s Farewell 18 hole Texas Scramble competition on Friday. Although the Captains don’t finish their captaincy until the end of May, it’s a tradition to have a final bash at the beginning of May each year.

In Captain Peter’s speech he announced that he will be leaving us to return to his ‘very patient wife Pat’ in U.K. in the Summer, so Richard Whiteside and Bernie Blanchard got together some mementoes to take with him as well as a farewell Ode to Peter from Bernie.

The competition was won by the team of Rupert Evans, Emily Gordon, Steve Coulson & Morag Pester with an impressive nett 55.3, runners up were Richard Whiteside, John Kudiarskyj, Chaya Kinder & Abdulrahman with a nett 59.1 and third were Lizette & Jaco Breytenbach, Ria & Eddie Brown with a nett 59.3. Nearest the pins went to Lady Captain Deborah Castle and James Rowan and Straightest Drive went to Bernie Blanchard.

Photo: Captain Peter’s mementoes Bernie Blanchard, Captain Peter & Richard Whiteside.