The tranquility of a Bank Holiday Monday morning was shattered by a slugfest between basher Chris Ivey and smasher James Woodman. The Plate final (for Open Championship first match losers), closed out the Winter tournaments.
Both players were not prepared to give any quarter and both showed excellent speed and reactions to make the three games far from one-sided. In spite of taking his frustrations out on both his legs and his (former) racket, James was unable to stay with the furious pace set by Chris.
James borrowed a spare racket from the Club's stock for the last game, in vain. The third game about the same as the first two. So Chris took his third trophy of the Winter 3-0 (9/6, 9/5, 9/6).
Let's hope the scars are too bad, James.