Away Match at St Enodoc

 Wednesday 17th June

On Wednesday seven of our lovely ladies headed for our latest league match against St Enodoc.

The first hole at St Enodoc

St Just was in thick fog so we were a bit anxious about conditions but everything was fine in the end. There was a bit of damp in the air but it was warm so I think we all ended up in tee-shirts.

The course itself is in fabulous condition and the greens were wonderful. Very true, faster than ours but not by masses partly because of the damp I think.

We were fortunate to all be getting shots as they had a lot of good players out.

St Enodoc is long and my watch had me down as walking about 7 miles altogether...in my case a lot of the time scaling the sides of the steep dunes while we looked for my ball!

The dunes were covered in wildflowers and it smelt gorgeous as we scrambled  over it, but it could be very tricky to get out of.

Looking across to the estuary

I'm happy to say that the rest of the team were not as wayward as me!

The result was a win to St Enodoc 4 -3. 

So three of the team won - absolutely fantastic, and in the others games, three of them went to the 17th and 18th holes! Very hard fought!

We missed Sue very much...(laid low with her ruptured achilles) but were very pleased to fight as hard as we did.

View over John Betjeman's church

Well done everyone who played!

Thursday 18th most of us were recovering from the match plus we had fog rolling in and out again!

Anniversary Scramble

Anniversary Scramble

Nine teams of four were entered in to this competition. The aim is always to have one lady per team but we could only manage 8 of us this year so one team were all men. Unfortunately Fi's team were  a man down which was a real shame.

The weather looked glorious but there was a fierce wind blowing! None of us had seen it forecast so it came as a bit of a shock! Constant strong wind that blew over trolleys and balls off the tee! 

However we soldiered on!

Claire and Ryan had arranged for longest drives for the men and ladies on the 14th (with the wind helping) and Nearest the pin on the 16th as we all played off the yellow tees!

Fran won nearest the pin for the ladies and Bob 'Tiger' Joint for the men. The longest drive for the ladies was me...and for the men it was Joe who hit a monster drive - well past the new bunker on the right hand side of the 14th fairway...way beyond that! It was outrageous!!

We all had to get 4 drives in each which was really tricky, especially in those conditions!

The winning team were Lindsay, John Tweedie, Martin Uren and Andy Taylor who were 13 under.

In second on countback were John Fildes, Alan Cragg, Rob Celentano and me who were 11 under.

In third place, also 11 under, were Frieda, Joe McMullen, Felix and Terry Pugh.

(not the actual trophy but the one that looked most like it!)

Many thanks to Claire and Ryan and for the draw which they had used AI to create  for random but balanced teams. The teams had  10, 11 or 12 shots which was excellent.

The course itself is looking in better and better condition thanks as always to the team.

Aussie Spoons

 Saturday 13th June

Australian Spoons

We were welcomed with warm sunshine and a gentle breeze for the Aussie Spoons foursomes stableford competition.

It really was beautiful out there.

There were only 5 pairs available to play and there were some good scores.

Fi with Ros and Claire with Lyn both had 35 points, but our deserved winners were Hils and Fran with 38 points and going on to represent us in the Regional final. Well played you two.

Well done everyone!

Baron Rose Bowl

 Baron Rose 

Thursday 11th June was the Baron Rose Bowl Competition, this is a 36 hole foursomes medal!!

Our amazing team was Frieda, Fi, Sam, Lyn, Hils and Fran!

This wonderful team played in rain and wind...and yet somehow they are still smiling!

Hils and Fran, Sam and Frieda and Fi and Lyn were the teams and their scores totalled was 472 (157, 157 and 158).

There were 18 teams representing Clubs across Cornwall and our girls score was only beaten by one other team!  And only by one point!

China Fleet had a total of 471!

WOW! 

What an amazing result.

I think this is one of our best scores ever! Well played team! A superb result and hast off to you all for battling the elements so well!

Ooopsy!

Thanks for the pictures Sam!

Update

 Update

Saturday 6th June should have been Polglase 4 but it was blowing a hooley and it had to be postponed... almost 60 mph gusts are not conducive to golf!

The Thursday before (the fourth) was also a non starter because of the weather!

What an odd year we're having - and it has felt so cold over the last few days...a few of us played in the Land's End Open on Sunday 7th and the weather was dry...but layers needed to keep warm!

Tuesday 9th

Tuesday evening saw a lovely get-together of 19 of our ladies! 

It was a pretty full house as only Claire, Judy, Di and Jayne were missing! 

We met at the Barbican Bistro in Penzance and in true Cape style we had a fabulous time!

Taking pics usually leaves someone out...like this one...

But we had a volunteer who took one of us all!

And of course....we had Sue trying to keep warm!

It was a fabulous evening, many thanks go to Sue D for arranging it for us - it was also lovely to have Sarah and Bronwen back with us for the evening!

Polglase 3 to Coronation Foursomes

 Polglase Three 

The 16th May was the Polglase Par competition. This is where we play matchplay against the course! You can see from the picture it was grey and overcast and we did have a little shower but it didn't stop us!

Ten of us were able to play and there was a runaway winner although the next 5 players were within one shot of each other!

Who beat the course?

That was Fran who won 3 up!

In second place was Lindsay who was two down, then Claire, Liz, Antoinette and I were all 3 down!

Well done everyone but particularly Fran with that super win!

Thursday 21st  May was foggy in St Just but I was away up at Cubert visiting my brother where the sun came out! I believe it stayed foggy in St Just most of the day!

It was also foggy on Saturday 23rd when we should have been playing the Wheeler Bowl - so this has been postponed till a later date!

Foggy here...but actually over 30C in London!!!

The heat eventually reached us and it was hot from Sunday till Wednesday!

Thursday ...where is the third tee?

But Thursday 28th was also foggy; 5 of us turned up so we went over to the practice are and hit shots to the assorted flagged 'greens'. This was huge fun with Chris L, Lindsay, Sam, Jenny and me...while we were having fun with this the fog lifted! 

So then a few of us played some of the front 9.

Coronations Foursomes

Saturday 30th May was the Coronation Foursomes and the weather was perfect! At last, warm sunny and just enough of a breeze for us to be comfortable!

Six teams were able to play in this R&A Foursomes Stableford competition where the winners go through to a regional final and if you win that - like Sue S and Lyn did, then you get to go to St Andrews for a grand final! What a joy it was to watch them play there!

The competition today was very close with Lindsay and me coming out on top with 40 points...beating Claire and Lyn by just one point! 

In third were Fi and Ros who beat Frieda and Liz on countback (36 points)

It was the perfect day to play... a rare beast at Cape!

11th May League match v Looe

 Cape v Looe

Moday 11th May saw the lovely ladies of Looe come for our next league match!

It was still a bit breezy but conditions were good.

The team won 6-1 which is another fab result!

Well played everyone, the team were Captain Sue, Fran, Frieda, Hils, Lyn, Ruth and Sam.

Thursday 14th was wet, very blustery and cold again so no-one played!

Hoping for better weather on Saturday for Polglase 3!