The first Order of Merit event of 2023 saw a record 171 different players competing in at least one OOM event. This quadrimestre, for the first time ever we saw the leadership of one of the tables changing due to the Div 2 leaders handicap moving and them being promoted to Div 1. This event was composed of 11 games and the 'cut-off' handicap for Division 2 was again 18.7, with anyone lower being in the Division 1 category. A total of 50 players managed to complete the full 4 qualifying games with 33 managing to hit the maximum 6 game tally & 42 managing 5 games.

This division was all settled several weeks before conclusion with the biggest risk to the winner coming from leaders in Div 2 being promoted into Div 1. Garry Elderbrand quickly built a clear lead but was promptly overhauled by our winner in the second half of the Quadrimestre. Garry was subsequently pushed into 4th place by John Burgess who was promoted from Div 2 leadership with 146pts, and by Mick Lynch who was similarly promoted into 2nd place with 147pts. Many congratulations go to Andy Wasik who takes the Div 1 trophy with a 153 points.

We had some great scoring this Trimestre with a total of 10 (qualifying) scores of 40+ points with the standout score being the 49pts that Harry Rice achieved at Bonalba. There was 1 score of 44 points, 2 scores of 42pts, 3 of 41 points, plus 3 others of 40 points. Only Andy Wasik managed two qualifying scores in the 40's with Bob Lancaster's 2 scores of 40+ coming after he had already posted his 6 qualifying scores (sorry Bob - bad timing).