Southampton Clout

Maybe the weather will be perfect for clout one day this summer, but it wasn't for the Southampton Tournament. It was sunny enough, but the wind was very unkind and vindictive, so once again it wasn't a good day for improving tassel awards, or national rankings. All the same, Jon's 171 came close to the Sussex County record and won the Gent's recurve competition outright. Russ see-sawed between high scoring ends and next to nothing, but still came second 35 points behind Jon. Rod plodded along in a consistently middling way and came fourth, ten points behind Russ. Liz tried her faster bow, and found it had a near-impossible, truly 'underhand', aiming point, so only managed second place with 146. Graham came second in the longbow class with a very useful 58.
For all that, this was a very enjoyable and well-run shoot in a very pleasant setting apart from the constant motorway rumble. The full results lists arrived by e-mail about an hour after we got home. Put it in the dairy for next year.