Thursday Front 9

Last day of May!

Fourteen wonderful women from Cape played the front nine this morning.

We had woken to mist (thick fog in PZ I believe) but conditions were fine for golf at Cape.

A huge cheer resounded round the patio when we heard the name of the winner of the B group... well done Angie!!! 

In the A group, as is typical of us, (Countback Capers should be our name) we had 2 ladies with 15 points (Lindsay and Lyn); three with 16 points (Antoinette, Sue D and Frieda) and three with 17!

In third place was Di who had a four for 4 on the fourth and also parred the 5th; in second was myself with pars on the 3rd, 5th and 6th;  and our wonderful winner today was Liz - who parred the 9th and had three 3 pointers in her round!

In fact there were a good number of pars today; Sue D parred 4, 5 and 9; Lindsay parred the 6th and 9th, holing a wonderful long putt from just off the green to get that par on the 6th! Lyn parred the third, Jenny the 9th.

Well played everyone, Polglase 4 on Saturday - a medal; and the Presidents' Cups on Sunday. 

Early morning starlings!

Trevelyan Trophy

Trevelyan Trophy

Sunday 27th May saw 31 golfers compete in the Trevelyan Trophy Scramble.

Conditions were a little perverse, misty, wind, the odd ray of sunshine... jackets and jumpers came off...and were then needed again! 

However... we did not get wet!

Mike reminded us of the background to the trophy before the presentation.

Well played to the winning team who posted a score of 58!

Yes! 

58!

Super play by Fran, Paul F and Dave M.

In second were a team of four; Frieda, Bill, Rob A and Brian; they scored 59.3!

In third were Sue D, Martin U and John T with 60.2!

Well played everyone.

Aussie Spoons and stuff!

Stuff

Firstly, well done to these three gorgeous girls!

Fiona, Antoinette and Bev went to the West Cornwall Open and WON!

Well done!

Winning ladies modelling their prizes!

Whilst these ladies were winning at west Cornwall, Lindsay, Sarah, Liz and I were having huge fun at Truro in Mo Hammond's RCH Charity Day. We didn't win anything but had huge fun...the format was so lovely... a four-ball with just two scores to count.  Very enjoyable :-)

Aussie Spoons

7 Pairs of ladies played in the Aussie Spoons today, with two others having completed their rounds earlier in the week.

Conditions were lovely although the wind was swirling.

Foursomes always throws up some interesting shots... we find ourselves in different places, playing different shots.

In second place were Liz and Antoinette with a score of 34.

In first were Frieda and myself with a score of 37 (and that included 3 blobs!)

Well done everyone.

We are sending our love to Val G who had a very nasty fall on Thursday. She has a broken arm and cut leg.  We're all hoping she has a speedy recovery.

Cape v West Cornwall

Cape v West Cornwall

We had beautiful weather for the fourth of our league matches - blue sky and sunshine; the wind picked up towards the end.

Our matches were close, but weren't good enough for a win... Cape lost 4 matches to three.

Well done all who played, especially to Fran and Jane who had to go out again and play their knockout afterwards!

Cape was represented by Di, Fran, Hilary, Jane, Lyn, Sue D and me.

Wheeler Bowl

Wheeler Bowl Trophy

May is such a beautiful month for wildflowers. The bluebells are prolific and the foxgloves are shooting up and beginning to show their colour.

Fourteen women were available to play in the Wheeler Bowl today. 

The format is a Foursomes Medal and we were blessed with absolutely perfect weather.

The course was looking great but we all still found the rough difficult! Finding the ball in it was often time consuming and playing out of it not always guaranteed!

But despite these challenges our winners brought in a score of 77.

Well played Jane and Lyn!

In second place with a score of 80 were the two Sues... Sue D and Sue S!

Well persevered everyone; particularly Di who stood in at the last moment... 

...for the full scores click here.

Thursday 17th May

Thursday 17th May

Nine lovely ladies played the back nine on Thursday.

The weather was perfect and there was some good scoring. Sue S pipped Lyn to third place on countback with 15 points.

In second place with 16 points was Jenny and in first place was Jane with 17 points .

Well played all.

The ironing!

Perranporth

Bev and I went to the Spring County Meeting at Perranporth yesterday on a glorious day.

The weather was perfect, warm sunshine and a gentle breeze... nigh on perfect  conditions for Perran or anywhere for that matter.

The groundstaff had been out early putting special St Piran flags on the flagsticks.. and they had ironed the greens!

Ironing the greens!

For those who've played on ironed greens before you will know what we faced... for those that haven't... imagine putting on glass!

It proved to be almost impossible to play a ball onto a green and keep it there...and then the putting itself was quite an experience.

The slightest of touches and the ball ran and ran.

Needless to say we three putted frequently...and sometimes 4 putted!

The course itself was looking fabulous, the wispy rough was covered with buttercups, cowslips and birdsfoot trefoil... so playing with a yellow ball to make it easy to find was a ludicrous idea! 

 (I ended up playing with one of those bright pink ones from The Brison Babes/Tregeseal Tramps competition!) 

The dunes also smelt beautiful with wild thyme and all the flowers... you can tell we visited the rough quite often... and often stayed in it for some time!

We both felt we would like to have started again after we'd played the first few holes because we would have adapted our club choice...but it was good experience, especially the putting! Makes you realise how good the pros are with the putting in particular!

We thought that it would have to be the Perran players who would win because of the challenge of getting it on to the green as much as the putting and so it proved. 

Well done to them.

Bev birdied the Par 5 17th... and between us we had some pars... but we both took over 100 shots on the round (along with a few other ladies) and ended up with Nett scores in the 90s.

Would I do it again? 

Most definitely... but spend even longer on the putting green than I did...

ps We also had a great catch up with the ladies from Looe!