Lady Captain's Day

Lady Captain's Day

What can I say?

Never underestimate our Ladies  - what a brilliant turnout!

What amazing stars Cape has!

Because the weather was forecast to be very windy and a little damp I decided on Friday to make this a contest over 11 holes and to start half an hour later.

The Met office forecast turned out to be spot on - it was blowing a near gale and the occasional dampness whistled through - but they were right and I am so grateful that we didn't have proper rain.

Many thanks for playing - it took some degree of fortitude to get out there and in a perverse way there seemed to be a degree of enjoyment too! 

Signing in!

We played an Individual Stableford teeing off different tees on the front nine... we could call it a Tee Waltz! It went Red Yellow White; Red Yellow White etc!

This meant that the third hole was teed from the White Tees and we had a nearest the pin in two competition for each of the three handicap groups that we had today.

Fi was the winner of the Orange Group;

 Sarah was the winner of the Green Group; 

and the Blue group didn't have a winner so we will play for this prize on another day! (Maybe next Saturday!)

We had Nearest the Line on the 10th hole... 

Pam's drive!

Pam was closest for a long time but she was pipped to the prize by Bronwen who was only 1 foot away from the line!

Well played Bron and hard luck Pam!

The longest Drive competition was won by Bev who had a beautiful drive down the middle of the 11th. Well played!

Playing the 5th

 Conditions were 100% tricky but everyone kept going!

As the ladies finished the 5th they were offered something to warm them... port...drambuie or Rochester's ginger... or a combination thereof!

What a sight!

Everyone soldiered through to the end!

In the blue group (handicaps 29 and above) third place was won by Frieda with 12 points. 

In second place with 14 points was Jayne

and winning this group was Val with 15 points! 

A fantastic score today!

Well played!

Teeing off the whites on 6

In the Green Group (handicaps 21 to 28) Chris J was third with 11 points. We had to use countback to decide 2nd and 3rd, with Di just pipping Chris to that position.

In first place was Lindsay with 13 points!

Well played!

In the Orange group (handicaps 20 and below) Fran was third with 12 points;

Hilary was second with 13 points 

and the winner was Fi with 15 points.

Well played!

Conditions were so tough.. only 5 players scored in the teens - so well done everyone for soldiering on! 

We stopped at the club for a cup of coffee (or similar!) and then headed to Sue D's for wonderful food!

Huge thanks to Sue for opening her house to us and for providing us with a fabulous spread!

Sue's new kitchen was absolutely perfect for hosting us!

Some final thank yous...  to Sue for all her work (she was making eclairs at 6am this morning!);

 to Mark for helping me yesterday set out the line on the 10th, and for coming early this morning to prepare the course for us; 

and to all of you for being such wonderful adventurous spirits...taking on the elements and winning!

Thank you!