Past Captain's Competition

Past Captains

Monday 27th April saw five of Cape's past Captains travel to Carlyon Bay for the County Past Captain's Competition.

The weather was absolutely glorious and the course was in fabulous condition.

There about 56 ladies playing and the Cape ladies were in the final groupings.

Hils is Captain of Captains this year so was  not playing but was our host for the day.

Carlyon Bay may be similar to Cape in that it is close to the sea...but it so different to Cape. The course has a very open feel and one of our ladies loves that aspect in particular!

A couple of winners were Ros who had the best Bronze score of 40 points and myself who had the best front 9 score for silver players of 20 plus a two on the 11th hole!

But nothing could compare with Lindsay who won this trophy for the second time!

Lindsay beat everyone who played with a stableford score of 43 points!

Fantastic play! 

Well done - a course you clearly love playing on!

Dee and Ray's Trophy

Dee and Ray's Trophy 

What a glorious day we had for this lovely trophy competition.

The Dee and Ray Trophy is a Texas Scramble with drawn teams of three players (high, medium and low handicaps ) and taking a minimum of four drives each.

The weather was simply gorgeous, with a warm sun and no wind! We all ended up in tee shirts even if we started out with a few layers on!

Just four teams were able to play and it was particularly lovely to have Angie back playing her first 18 hole comp.

The scores are usually good in this competition and today was no different. Each team received 15 shots except one who received 17 so it was evenly matched.

There was a lot of good play including a two for Liz on the third; a host of pars all round - 34 between us all plus 3 birdies!

In second place, and with the lowest gross score of 77, were Claire, Sue D and Chris L with a Nett 62.

Just pipping them with a Nett score of 61 were Fran, Lindsay and Liz!

Well played guys!

All in all it was such a lovely day!

League v St Enodoc

 League v St Enodoc

Monday 20th saw us play our first League match of the year, at home against St Enodoc.

They seemed to think it was a bit breezy (it was a bit!) and they found the greens slow compared to their own.

In fact the lady I played against said that their fairways were as fast as our greens!

I'm happy to say that our individual match ended on the 12th hole!!! 

The ladies were all actually good company and other than complaining about the greens were good to competitors. Unfortunately only two of them stayed for the meal which was really disappointing.

Cape didn't lose any of the matches - two were drawn on the 18th hole - so we won 6 - 1 which is a lovely way to start the year.

Well played everyone in the team. which was ... Fi, Fran, Frieda, Hils, Ruth, Sam and Captain Sue D.

Our next match is away at Point.

Thursday 23rd April

Thursday was another lovely sunny day but extremely windy!

Just five of us turned up to play and we played two mulligans and in our group also added in the fun of choosing the club of someone else to use on the 3rd!

So Fi and I chose a 7 iron for Sam, and in the end we all three hit a 7 iron and they were all really good shots!  One just short of the green, one on the middle of it and one just left! It showed us what we can do in a tail wind!!!

Sam and Chris D were following on behind - all credit especially to Liz whose trolley had blown over three times on the first hole!

Our winer was Sam who scored 18 points...it was tight between her and Fi till the last two holes!

Lots of fun, thanks all. 

Still Catch up!

 Thursday 16th April

For me, Thursday was one of those chaotic days when you feel at sixes and sevens!

We played the back 9, playing 10 and 16 off the yellow tees. It was a lot of fun and is something I think everyone wanted to repeat! It was lovely to have Angie and Jenny back playing with us 😀

In fact Jenny won with a fabulous score of 22! Brilliant score! 

Well done all.

In the afternoon I had the delight of playing with a visitor from Bath (a neighbour of Keith's).

She plays at Lansdown and absolutely loved the course - it started to rain as we finished but it was fun!

Saturday 18th Polglase 2 Stableford

Thirteen ladies were able to play in the Polglase 2 competition, it was lovely to have sunshine again and some were even in cut-off!

What a spectacular course we play on!

 Once again there was a group of four men out in front of us which is sometimes frustrating. The course seemed fairly full when we were playing which was  actually lovely to see.

In third place on countback from Hilary was Frieda with 30 points.

In second with 31 was Fiona and in first place with a really fabulous 36 points was Fran!

Well played Fran, super play.

Easter and beyond!

 Easter and Beyond!

Easter demands with family visiting meant that I missed the Eggstravaganza and Jamie Crocker competition over that weekend...

However, eight ladies played in the Eggstravaganza with Lindsay winning the biggest Easter Egg with 33 points!

Hilarywas second with 32 and Fran was in third with 29!

Well done all...

The following day was the Jamie Crocker competition, I don't have all the details of the scores but Liz and Sam were third, Lindsay and Fi second and Fran and Steve Revill first were some of the prize winners!

Since then we had a very damp Thursday when no-one played.

The following Saturday had very blustery winds and the competition was shortened to 9 holes for a practice round.

Normal service should be resumed now the family have gone back!!!

Ladies Away Weekend!

Sunday 29th March

Bowood Park 

Sunday morning - clocks change day - the Cape Ladies headed for Bowood Park for our Ladies away-days trip!

Everyone arrived in really good time and met for coffee in the bar area, then headed out in groups to play a singles stableford with secret partners for the final result!

As usual we kept a record of lost balls too! And there were quite a few!

The weather was overcast and a bit damp at the start, turning to rain on the back 9 so everyone was a little damp when we finished! Especially those who teed off later!

Lucky Frieda!!

The course was in fabulous condition with wonderfully wide fairways - we could still miss them though and could find ourselves in the rough or behind trees or both!

There were some lovely scores recorded (10 ladies had opted to put in cards for handicap - thanks go to Di back at home for entering all the scores for us both on the Sunday and Monday!)

It is lovely to play a course that is so different to Cape - offering different challenges. 

Along with the rain it was a bit windy too but we all looked forward to better conditions on the following day as the forecast was for unbroken sunshine!

In the evening we met up as usual for pre-dinner get together, and then headed to the dining area for our meal.

It was absolutely lovely to have Val with us, and Una too. There was lots of catching up to do and the evening shared many laughs.

Monday 30th

Well...what can I say? We expected to be playing in lovely warm sunshine...but the wind was so strong! It ended up being harder to score well despite the fact that it was dry!

Once again many put cards in for handicap, 11 of us today, which was great!

You can see how well wrapped up we were despite the sunshine!

Once again we enjoyed the forgiveness of wide fairways and big tees.

There are some interesting holes at Bowood, this one which runs along the valley floor, has water to one side, trees on the other and then in front of the green a babbling brook runs across.

Such a pretty hole! 

We crossed a little covered bridge to reach the green.

So another good but challenging golf day was enjoyed by all!

In the evening we had another lovely meal and the presentation.

Winning the lost balls competition was Jayne!

The longest drive and nearest the  Pin on Day One were won by yours truly!

On Day two, Longest Drive was won by Claire

And Nearest the Pin was won by Hils herself! 

The secret pairs competition played on the first day resulted in Fran and I in third place...

In second place were Hils and Frieda

And in first place our very worthy winners were Lyn and Sue S!

Well played Both!

The Individual Spring Break trophy was a close run thing other than for the winner!

In fourth place on countback with 31 points was Sam who also provided us with these lovely photos 🙌

Also on 31 points in third spot was Sue D!

...and so it continues... in second place, also on 31 points was Fi!

Well done you three!

But our winner, with an amazing 35 points was Sue S!

This was a fabulous result, especially as Sue had been feeling unwell!

Brilliant, Sue, well played and one hundred percent deserved!

What a lovely evening, and a lovely weekend. Many thanks to Hils for all the organizing!

Captain's handover and Drive In

 Captain's Handover and New Captain's Drive in

Saturday 28th March

Saturday morning was bright and breezy and lots of us were able to turn up for Claire's Drive in and the AGM.

Claire did a brilliant job and hit her drive almost to the wall...Ryan had a hilarious nightmare and didn't even reach the pond!

As has become tradition now, we chose where we thought the two new Captain's would hit their drives - paying a pound for each guess. 

Claire's shot was guessed by Fiona's Will, and Ryan's drive was guessed by Fran's  Brian!

Well done everyone - £28 for the Captains' Charity - the Gaiety Girls.

We then had our agm which was well attended.

Hilary was presented flowers and a gift from the Ladies for all her work over the year.  

A lovely picture of dogs on the seashore.

The business of the AGM was dealt with smoothly, deciding to return to practice/fun comps on a Thursday instead of the once a month Qualifying Comp, and a desire for real notice to be taken of course conditions during the winter months. We played Qualifying rounds several times this winter when really the course was not fit for qualifying. The new Competition and Handicap committee will (hopefully) be responsible for this.

With the arrival of Spring hopefully  we will get more players back on the course on both Thursdays and Saturdays - remembering we can also enter the 18 hole Stableford competition on Wednesdays which is open to ladies and men.

The handover then took place.

Thanks for everything you did for us over the year Hils, and here's to a great year for Claire!