Downpours

Saturday 28th July

It looks benign above doesn't it...?

Today was scheduled to be the Admiration Cup and Godolphin Goblet.

As  I arrived at the club there was a massive downpour... it wasn't worth getting out of the car and being drenched, but after a few minutes it had passed and blue sky and sunshine appeared.

We had hoped that we would just have a couple of showers during the morning... but that was not to be.

There was a good turn out for the competitions (19 altogether) and off we set.

A brisk wind sent us on our way. The most amusing happening for me was up on the edge of the first green.

Judy was preparing to chip on to the green... and I was stood nearby watching... when I suddenly noticed behind her, her trolley had set off on its own accord towards the 2nd tee.

Maybe it was on a timer?

 It didn't slow... it reached the tee...tried to climb on to it - (it didn't fall) - but turned itself to face down the second fairway and off it set again!!

It clearly wasn't going to stop... and it followed the neatly cut path... only one thing to do... so I chased after it! Judy shouted encouraging remarks... and eventually I caught it just before the mound on the second fairway... the speed had been set on 8!

I trudged back to the first green catching my breath! What a start to the round!

I'm afraid to say our golf after that wasn't riveting... we got very wet on the fourth/fifth...dried out a bit on six and seven and then were wet again on 8. On 9 the green was getting very wet and it was difficult to putt...

More clouds massing

By the time we were on the 10th the rain was torrential... literally. Torrents ran down pathways and the greens filled up even more. Claire and Angie behind us on the 9th couldn't putt because of standing water... and ahead of us on the 13th the green was completely flooded.

All of the later starters decided to stop, conditions were impossible for proper golf. Most of the early starters completed their rounds despite the flooded greens. 

Sue decided to abandon the two trophy Competitions and hold them another day.

So today as a straightforward stableford - the winner was Fiona with an amazing 36 points.

Sue S was second with 33 and Lyn was third with 32. Well played ladies and thanks to Di for doing the cards 😊

Brave souls all who ventured out today.

Friendly v West Cornwall

Friendly v West Cornwall

Friday saw a team from Cape wend their way to West Cornwall for a friendly.

The chosen format (as always for W.C.) was betterball matchplay.

 The lowest handicap player in the group played off scratch and the everyone else played off 90 % of the difference between them... it is a challenging format - but you know what I think about that for a friendly...I won't go on!

The course was fast and furious... it was difficult to keep a ball on the fairway... or the green... and putting was well nigh impossible! Needless to say we lost.

However we gave it our best shot and we did stay dry!

ps

Many thanks to Mark and Chris and the team at Cape for all their work on the course.

Thursday Front Nine

26th July

What a place!

Twelve wonderful women came and played Cape today...and it was glorious! The weather was still and warm - we are so fortunate to live in this amazing place.

There was some very steady scoring out there today... two socres of 13;

five ladies came in with 14(good job we didn't need Countback for them!); one of 15; one of 17; two of 19 and the winner had 21!

The course is looking really dry and even the greens are not the colour Mark would want. However, needs must and they are doing the best they possibly can in the circumstances... many thanks to them for working on such hot days.

In third place on Countback was Beautiful Bronwen with 19 points; she was just pipped to second by Sublime Sarah... but both blown away by Pulchritudinous Pam who scored 21 points!

Well played everyone!

Sydney Grose

Sydney Grose

Eleven lovely ladies played in the competition today and we really couldn't have had better conditions. 

There was sunshine, fluffy clouds and a gentle breeze.  The course has benefited from the recent rain and it had greened up in places.

There were 7 birdies and 27 pars among us today!

In third place on 37 points (on countback of course!) was Fran who birdied the second and the twelfth!
In second place also with 37 points was Lyn who birdied 12 and 13 and finished her round with three pars! Great play!

And our Sydney Grose winner was Sue S with 38 points! Well played Sue - a worthy winner - scoring on every hole!

For the full result click here.

There were also birdies from... Hilary (the 6th); Antoinette (the 12th)  and myself the 14th.

Well played everyone... we missed those who couldn't make it today...hurry back soon!

38,44,50

Numbers

What do 38,44 and 50 have in common?

Truro 

And Cape's Awesome Crew!

These are the scores from a Betterball competition played at Truro on Thursday! 

Di and Lindsay were pleased with 38 till they met Bronwen and Jane who had 44!

Super pleased with that till they discovered Frieda and Liz had scored 50!!!

Fabulous scores ladies... scissors needed? 

Super scoring! Well played! 

A Friendly Friendly

Friendly v Budock Vean

Today we welcomed 7 ladies from Budock Vean  to enjoy our wonderful course.

The day hadn't started well with fog...and very heavy rain, but Lindsay checked the met office weather forecast which said it would be fine from 11am onwards... and it was!

In fact, conditions were nigh on perfect. There was a light breeze and the heavy rain from earlier had done the course some good.

Friendlies are such fun when the chosen format is a friendly one!  Lindsay had chosen a Greensome and everyone had a good time.

We had a very enjoyable meal - many thanks to George and the team - and the Cape Ladies turned out to be the winners.

Many thanks to Lindsay for organising today - great fun!

Hilary and Norman's Powerplay

Powerplay Trophy

What a wonderful day!

And look what we found on our 9 hardest holes!

Two flags!

Today it was Hilary and Norman's Powerplay Trophy and conditions were perfect.

This time last year Cape had torrential rain and the contest was reduced to play over 9 holes... what a different story today!

The course is running fast and it puts questions in our minds as to which club to select!

We were able to choose 3 of the Powerplay holes to boost our scores... doubling the score if we had a 3-pointer or better!

It is amazing what the mind does to us... when the pressure was on we missed putts and drives... with no pressure we parred holes!

This is a great competition to test our mental strength!

Mine was so good(!) that on the 16th... which I had nominated as a Powerplay hole... I did an air-drive!

I hit the ground about a foot behind the ball...the club jumped up in the air and completely missed the ball...leaving it sat happily on the tee! There were witnesses too... Fi and Jayne can vouch for it! That put paid to extra Powerplay points for me on there!

However... some didn't have this problem... Ros came in with 44 points and was in third place! Well played!

Countback was needed to decide the winner... both Fran and Di had 45 points... and Di was our winner!

Well played everyone, and many thanks to Hils and Norman for sponsoring this competition.

Many thanks too for the very welcome refreshments before the 12th... your sausage rolls remain delicious!

Well played everyone!

Aussie Spoons and Ladies v Seniors

Ladies v Seniors

Congratulations to the Seniors on their win over the Ladies on Thursday... looking at the results there were some amazing score!

How is it possible to score 81 points? Well played Kenny and Geoff! (Where are the scissors?)

I await hearing details!

Aussie Spoons

Frieda and I had a lovely time up at Bradford on Avon for the Regional round of this Competition.

There were 40 pairs of ladies competing and we were out last with a pair from Falmouth!

It actually felt like a local competition as there was no real representation from England Golf. The one lady who was there was from a club in Swindon and she was basically left holding the baby, having to register everyone and point them in the direction of the first tee and sort out problems when folk didn't turn up! There was no starter and nothing to indicate that we were playing in a regional final.

The course itself was very interesting with an abundance of large bunkers! I seemed to put Frieda in an awful lot of them!

It was a parkland course with some water features too, (there were three holes where we had to carry over water). 

Our playing partners played very well and were just two points ahead of us at the turn, (19 v 21)

We matched them over most of the back nine, even almost catching them at one point, but they were very steady and came in with a score of 43 points. They came second altogether. The winning team (the local team as is so often the case) had 45 points.

We were very content with 5th! 

Frieda is now very good at getting out of beautiful, deep, white-sand bunkers!

She is also hitting absolutely breathtaking drives... one was over 250 yards...and on the final hole she hit a drive about 200 yards UPHILL! She had spotted John and Di standing on the skyline and thought she'd better hit a good one!

It was lovely to have Di there at the start and at the end... and John who organised the B&B and chauffeured. Thanks to them for their support, and all the encouraging WhatsApp messages we received - that was lovely.

Altogether a very enjoyable time just disappointing that England Golf seemed not to care.

Club Championship

Club Championship

and Saturday Stableford

Seven intrepid ladies took on the Club Championship today...36 holes in one day!

Well done all who took part - especially with the warm weather!

Our umbrellas were vital today!

Several groups of men had gone out in front of us... we eventually caught them up and had a log jam on the 12th...

That said... the weather was amazing (remember last year's fog?) and the course was fabulous. The ball was running miles... even miss-hit ones... and the greens were running true.

Many thanks to Mark and his team and particularly to John who prepared the greens today.

Our Club Champion 2018 had rounds with gross scores of 89 and 90!

Congratulations Captain Sue for your gross 179!

A great score - well deserved winner!

Captain Sue - Club Champion 2018

Our Best Nett Champion had Nett scores of 72 and 76. Great consistent play!

Congratulations Fran for your Nett 148!

Nett Champion - Fran

Well done everyone who played today!

There were Six more ladies who played today in the 18 hole Stableford competition. Well played Di for your win with 38 points... including a 2 on the fifth!

Jane was in second place with 31 points.

Well played ladies.

Many thanks to Di for doing the cards...the eclectics...waiting for us to complete the second round etc etc! Thank you!

Next Saturday is Hilary and Norman's Powerplay Competition. This is a fun competition and, maybe best of all, Hilary is making her delicious sausage rolls! Can't wait!

Please sign up or contact Hilary if you want to play, there are still some spaces to fill!

Thursday Back 9

Thursday Back Nine

and the Case of the Missing Money!

Ten terrific tee-ladies turned up to play today. Numbers were low with folk away or playing knockouts matches, but it was lovely to see everyone.

We had swirling mist rolling in from the sea but only enough to make it difficult to keep the ball in sight ...never so thick that we had to consider coming in. 

By the time we finished of course we were in glorious sunshine!

The course is looking amazing, the greens have been watered and were considerably slower than they have been, but we had great conditions.

The winner of the B group was Lynne - well played!

 In the A group Pam was in second place with a super 21 points (including a 4 for 4 on the 10th!) 

but our winner was Chris J with 22 points - which included 4 pars!

Fabulous scoring!

Many thanks to Di for doing the cards - and making last minute adjustments because of the missing money.

For an unknown reason we were £6 short today. It's an odd amount to be missing...we all checked each other, the box and checked our purses but none of us could find an explanation for how the money (some of it loose change), had disappeared.

So a request please... if you are last out on a Thursday or Saturday please take the money envelope with you and lock it in your car, or carry it with you in your bag. 

We can't quite understand what has happened.

Saturday is The Club Championship... or a Stableford... weather is forecast to be hot...