Ladies Coffee Morning

 Ladies Charity Coffee Morning

Today was St Petroc's  Charity Coffee morning. 

 Eighteen ladies were able to join Sonia for her Coffee Morning and she had cleverly arranged for Sunshine!

There was a lovely raffle table...

  a Bring and Buy...

 ...and there was delicious coffee and fabulous cakes...

...oh yes and there was golf!

The ladies played a Stableford over 11 holes and some good scores were recorded. The weather was good... 

...though it did threaten otherwise at times!

After the golf the ladies enjoyed a good catch up. It was especially lovely to welcome back old friends who joined us for the after-golf refreshments!

The winning visitor was Anne with a score of 19 points.

The battle for the top among the Cape ladies was very close and came down to countback between Chris J and Ruth.

Ruth's tee shot on the 5th! There was muttering  'it could've gone in the hole!' but she did get a two!

 Chris was our winner with 20 points.

Ruth was second also with 20, and Judy third with 19 points.

Well played ladies!

Thanks go to the staff for our lovely coffee and cakes; to Rosemary for her help in organizing the Raffle and Bring and Buy, and to Pam for the absolutely wonderful flower arrangements - thank you.

And finally... £165 was raised for Sonia's Charity, St Petroc's. 

A lovely morning - thank you everyone. 

Pam's gorgeous flowers

White post disintegration!

Just a quick update on the effect of a drive... this is what happened last Thursday to the white out of bounds marker on the 5th!!! Beware ladies... this was done by one of our number!

Surprise!

Course Information

Winter Rules have been reinstated until further notice.

Fun Tuesday

Three Cheers!

Hooray! Tuesday evening golf has started again. We try to tee off at about 5pm and play 9 holes... more if the weather and light allows. 

 This evening Lyn chose a 4BBB competition on the front 9. Some weren't able to make it because of other commitments but 8 folk came and played.

Mark and his team have begun top dressing the greens which is so welcome.

The winning team came in with a fabulous score of 22 points. Well played German and Jayne! Sue D and Sarah B were second with 19 points. 

Our winners!

Thanks Lyn for arranging everything... it's lovely to think that we are at the start of Tuesday's evening golf... roll on lots of fun, good food and sunny evenings.

Polglase 2

Polglase 2 Stableford

Saturday morning was bright, breezy and cold. Arriving at the club there was a bitter rain shower but the 22 ladies that came today were undaunted. A Stableford/ Polglase 2 and England Golf Trust competition beckoned.

Before we began!

The conditions were challenging to say the least!  Two ladies came in with 30 points - a great score for today - Jan won on countback from Lyn, well played both!

Some of us might have been distracted by the amazing clouds...

                                               ... and worrying about showers... 

or bunkers... ...but thankfully we escaped them - the showers that is!

Several ladies wondered what Ruth was doing in the gorse on the 14th...  she wouldn't tell... but she didn't score on that hole!

Ros lining up a putt on the 14th

Our other prize winners today, were Claire who was third, Sue D 4th and Di  who was 5th.

Everyone deserved an award for completing a tough round. Scores were generally low, mostly in the twenties, and with thirteen ladies within three shots of each other!

This may not be  exactly what you want to read, but between us we had over 100 'blobs'...  over 4 each!  

On the plus side, there were 21 pars between us, with Lyn having 4 and Claire and Sue scoring 3 each.

The England Golf Trust Competition aims to raise funds for youngsters to play golf. Our best silver and bronze division scores are added together and entered - so Lyn and Jan's combined score of 60 points will go into the Competition pot. 

Next Saturday is a medal! 

But before that we have our Coffee morning on Thursday with glorious golf; delicious coffee and cakes; a bring and buy and a raffle... should be fun!

And a reminder - Tuesday evening golf is starting again. This is a relaxed, fun golf time with the chance to relax socially too. We often have a golfers-special meal afterwards. Lyn organises the golf; we usually play 9 holes - more if weather and light allow, the format varies but we aim to have fun.  This is open to everyone - beginner or expert, lady or gentleman - everyone is welcome.

SW Vets

China Fleet

  At the end of March some of our ladies went to China Fleet to compete in the SW Vets 

Competition.

 Now apparently being unprepared can be a good thing... 

  "Am I caddying?" asked Judy as she met up with Lyn.

 "No, it's a Betterball" was the reply. 

When they got to China Fleet it was an individual Stableford.... and Judy won the Venerable Vets Trophy! Well done, Judy!

And, Chris was third overall. 

Well played ladies.

Thursday

7th April

What a beautiful day...

Beautiful... but very windy and bitterly cold!

Sixteen lovely ladies turned up for golf this morning and despite it looking beautiful, the golf was a struggle.

 We played the Front Nine and it has to be said that only 5 ladies made double figures... and three of them only just!

In the "A" group, Judy was our wonderful winner with 15, Chris J in second with 14 and Lindsay 3rd (on countback). 

The "B" group winner was Jean, and Lynne was second - again on countback.
Well played ladies! 

One of our number clearly had a good breakfast! Her drive on the 5th connected with an out of bounds white marker post. The ball lay innocently on the fairway! The post? Disintegrated into tiny pieces! Ooops!

Di decided she would have won a 'blobs' competition had there been one... but she was not alone - between us we racked up 64 blobs! An average of four  each!!!

This was despite the fact that the rough between the fairways has been cut to a good length making the ball easy to find and play out of. Many thanks to the greenkeeping staff for this!

The New Rough

Talking of which, Mark Prisk is taking over as Head Greenkeeper. He is hoping to begin top dressing next week and to repeat the process in May. Leather jackets, the larvae of the Daddy Long legs, have damaged the 12th, 14th and 16th greens but he will treat these as soon as is possible.

'Winter Rules' are over, so back to normal play.

Sonia putting the third.