Bring and Win and Birthday Trophy

 Bring and Win and Birthday Trophy

Thirteen lovely ladies played on Saturday in the Bring and Win. The forecast fair weather didn't happen and we arrived to rain and cold...but our hardy ladies decided to play as soon as it had stopped and eventually we even had some blue sky and sunshine. But it was heavy going!

Off we set in groups of three and a couple of twos...

Fran's chip on to the 13th!

Because we hadn't played the Birthday Trophy on Thursday due to the cold weather we combined it with today's comp.

Waiting on the 14th

I believe everyone was feeling tired but the sun was a very welcome guest when it appeared!

The Birthday Trophy was won by Sue D with a Back 9 score of 15, winning on countback from Liz!

Well played both.

The Bring and Win itself was won by Liz with 30 points, followed by Antoinette and Fran who both had 27 points. 

These three chose their gifts first and then the cards were drawn at random. as in previous years we bought a fun gift for approx £1 and put the remainder into the charity. It looked as though there were some clever gifts...well done everyone.

It was lovely to see Di, Judy and Chris L who came and joined us for coffee,  and special thanks to Chris L who supplied us with yummy mince pies which Robyn warmed up for us.

Di also told us about the birdie trophy winner...which came as a surprise!

Birdie Trophy winner!

 

Saturday 11 holes and lunch

 11 Holes and Christmas Lunch

Saturday dawned very cold, icy and with occasional showers. The order of play was adjusted and we had already reduced the round to 9 holes. We were playing Bingo, Bango, Bongo with the additional Bungo!

Suitably attired!

The Bungo addition to the format means that everyone that ends up on the fairway with their drive gets a point... so there are more points on offer!

We delayed the start a bit as there was black ice on the roads and we wanted everyone who wanted to have time to come if they could make it. 

In the end there were 18 players which was brilliant, but we had the reminder of how risky these conditions can be with an upturned car on the corner near Leswidden, Fran and Brian's car sliding gently down their hill in Newlyn and Chris D slipping on black ice on the pavement - ouch!

But, we managed to play and there was laughter ringing across the course as folk got quite competitive!

Once back in we warmed up by the roaring fire and some had a mulled wine.

Then we had our Christmas lunch - it was lovely to all be together again with everyone looking so festive.

Frieda had a lovely gift for us all and also gifts for the first 5 places.

Of course we needed countdown to separate people with four of our number on 15 points - Frieda, Jayne, Liz and Antoinette!

In second place was Super Sue S with 16 points - Sue was the only one of us achieve the almost impossible feat of four points on one hole...brilliant Sue!

And our fabulously attired worthy winner was our Happy Hils with 17 points!

Despite some folk having doubts about the format before they started it seems to have been enjoyed by all.

It was a lovely day - thank you Frieda for our gifts and all your hard work.

We missed Marion, Sue D and Di and also Viv who had hoped to come but had to withdraw at the last minute.

Hopefully we can have lots more get-togethers like this in the coming year.

Thursday Front 11/9

Thursday 8th December  

Eight ladies played on this cold morning. We shortened the competition to 9 holes after a heavy shower while we were on the 5th/6th holes.

There was an amazing precursor to the shower...a spectacular vivid rainbow.

It was great to be out despite that shower. The scores were much of a muchness except for one, Frieda had 14, I had 15 but our winner was Sam with a super 17 points!

Sam took these next four fabulous photos... 

It was awesome!

Trophies!

 Trophies!

On Monday 5th December it was the County AGM and... 

Sue collected our Division 1 Shield and the Play off Trophy too!

Well done to everyone who played this year and to Sue for organizing us so well!

We re-entered the League in 2017 going into Division 4... and each year we won promotion to the next Division...and this year was our first opportunity to play in Division 1 and to come out winners is amazing!

For those who like details we had 16 points...as did Perranporth!

But we were awarded the trophy because we had won more individual games than them...it was 45 individual games to us and 42.5 to them! 

Incredibly close contest and every single point and half point mattered!

Well done everyone! 

Brilliant achievement!

Jack Arnold Trophy

 Jack Arnold Trophy

December 4th - unfortunately there were only a handful of ladies able to play this year in this mixed trophy competition.

Cold and very grey conditions meant even more layers were needed to keep us warm!

 

This competition is supposed to be a drawn Scramble and should if possible have a lady in each team.

This didn't happen this year and our winning team turned out to be two men!

Well played to Lindsay Brian and Mark for second place with a nett 58 and to Frieda, John T and Malcolm for third place with a nett 63.9!

Let's hope for a return to a better supported and more competitive field next year. 

Medal and WRVS

 Medal and WRVS

December 3rd

This competition had been delayed at least twice so we were hoping we would get it done at last!

Unfortunately there were only 7 playing and it's quite understandable - it was very cold and windy with it so we all needed many layers and that was reflected in our scores!

Good job we'd marked the balls!

Our winner today was Hils! WRVS Trophy winner plus a sleeve of balls from Steve behind the bar! 

Well done Hils! 

Full Net Result

Overall Position	Player	Score	Placing	Countback
1	Manley, Hilary	94 - 14 = 80	Overall Winner
2	Bowers, Ruth	99 - 15 = 84	Overall Runner-Up
3	Pring, Frieda	107 - 20 = 87	Overall 3rd

 

A change in the weather

 All change!

Not quite all change because the last week or so of November saw more wet and windy weather with the competitions cancelled...and then the colder clearer weather arrived.

Several of our ladies went to Mullion for their winter Open and although the low lying 7th was flooded the course was in fabulous condition.

Forward tee on the 7th, the fairway is to the left and under water!

Sam's fabulous pic!

Conditions for play were superb, hardly a breath of wind and for most of the time... sunshine!

How lucky were we?

So happy to be out playing without wind and rain!

Cape had two teams in the prizes... these two lovelies were fourth

and in second place were these two!

(Not taken at Mullion)

Thursday 1st December

The weather was still bright on Thursday when 9 of us took to the course to play the Back 9, this was not a qualifier because we were off the forward tees on the 12th and 14th.

Cape is renowned for needing countback but it was ridiculous today!

There was a winning score of 13 points and then 6 players with 11 points!

It turned out that Jenny was third on countback from Lindsay who came second... and the winner was Sue D who won despite snapping her driver and having a migraine!

Well played Sue!