Notes from the organizer: At the midway point it’s Tom C, Matthew T and Tom F who jump to the front with defending champion Adam L and serial front-runner Ravi C a couple of shots back.
It's still tight with six other people all within 5 of our leaders, but the field will likely to spread out as the greens firm up in R3.
(A couple of holiday-related extensions given).
Leaderboard can be found here - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hvpd9iYODZXcUlxMwjdbZjl-llgqNeEDAEG_GcDrr8U/edit?gid=582648009#gid=582648009&range=A1:BM1
Round 3 - and the greens are beginning to change colour. Lower scores are possible on each hole, but so are higher scores, so we move to a Hypergoat Letters Attack with some tough scoring at Amen Corner (see below).
Scoring is as follows…
12 letter word - Albatross
11 letter word - Eagle
10 letter word - Birdie
9 letter word - Par
8 letter word - Bogey
7 letter word - Double Bogey
6 letter word or worse - Triple Bogey
Amen Corner (holes 11, 12 and 13) is there to punish you in R3. On these holes, words beginning with a consonant will count as TWO letters worse than they actually are. This means if you declare something like NATURALISED (11) then instead of an Eagle, you’d be left with just a Par. So it’s likely a case of vowels all the way there.
Rounds 19 and 20, as always, don’t count.
Good luck!
Runs from: 14 – 21 April 2026. Format: Hypergoat Letters Attack. Matches: One-off. Approved.
Fixtures: 36. Completed: 11.
Key. Green: winner. Red: loser. Grey: tie. (Stripes: provisional, match in progress.)
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