League match v West Cornwall

League News

Friday saw us head off to West Cornwall for our next match. The met office had forecast strong winds and scattered showers and that is what we got - in fact we were very lucky as there was only one proper shower and in sheltered spots we could take our jackets off!

The course was in good condition and the greens were well grassed, lovely... and fast of course!

The competition was tough as we expected and the result was a win to West Cornwall 6.5 to 0.5.

The matches were well fought and played in a good spirit, we enjoyed a very nice meal afterwards too. 

Well done all.

The team was Fi, Frieda, Hilary, Lindsay, Ros, Sue D and myself; thanks as always to Hils for doing all the prep and leading us into the fray and to West Cornwall for their welcome. 

Thursday Morning

Thursday 25th April

Thirteen lovely ladies played in the competition this morning. Conditions were blue sky with a blustery wind and despite an early morning shower it remained dry.

The winner of the B group was Marion with a fabulous fifteen points - this included a four- pointer on the third! Well played!

In the A group it was a close run thing with countback being needed to decide each of the places! There were three ladies who came in with 14 points - not quite enough to be in the prizes though.

In third place on countback from Sue D was Chris L with 15 points.

In second was Ann with 16 points... but just pipping Ann to first place was Lindsay who also had 16 points!

Well done all! Good job we have countback to separate us!

Saturday's forecast is not good, despite sunshine gale force winds are expected so the Trophy competition has been re-scheduled for Saturday 25th May. 

Tomorrow is our next League match - away at West Cornwall... good luck all!

Eggstravaganza

Eggstravaganza!

Wow!

What a difference!

Thursday was almost unplayable... and today...

...it was glorious!

Eighteen gorgeous golfers came to play the Eggstravaganza!

Many thanks to Di for arranging everything and to Lindsay for helping with the set up.

There were (apparently!) Easter eggs hidden on the course and if we found one we would get a reward! Only a few were discovered however so the others may still be out there?

Conditions were perfect and the course was looking lovely - the sunshine of yesterday had clearly helped the greens and they were playing so much better.

Keeping up the energy!

There was some good play going on with lots of pars on the course. Ann, Lindsay, Judy and Ros had two each; our Capt'n Di had 3;  two ladies - Sue D and Lyn -  had 3 pars and a birdie... Claire and Fi had 4 pars and a birdie; I had 5 pars...but none of this could match Hils who had 3 BIRDIES and a par!

  It is almost needless to say that the scores were very close and we had to use countback to separate us!

The prizes today were not monetary but edible!

Yum!

In first place and choosing from the table first,  was Ann, sharing 34 points with Sue D in second.

In third, again using countback was Liz who shared 33 points with Hils!

In positions 5,6 and 7 were Fi, myself and Lyn... you guessed it... all with 31 points.

And so it went on... next both with 30 points were Claire and Lindsay; Ros and Angie shared 28 points... and it continued on!

Well played everyone - it was so good to be out on the course with no wind - unencumbered with layer upon layer of clothes and with the course looking so lovely.

For the full results click here.

Thanks as always to Mark and Chris for their constant work and to Ashley who welcomes us all with a smile despite everything.

While we were all together Sue D presented the Abbotswood Trophy to Jenny.This is presented to the player with the best scores in our Thursday morning competitions. It was donated by Steve and Sue D, and Jenny was the inaugural winner by a considerable margin.

Well played Jenny.

Di also gave the results of the Winter Eclectic.

The Best Gross was won by Fi with a gross 73!

The Nett prizes were also awarded.

In the B group the winner was Angie with a Nett 72.75

In the A group, in fourth place was Lindsay with a nett 69.5

in 3rd was Frieda with a nett 69.25,

in 2nd place with a nett 68 was Sue D

and in 1st place was yours truly with a nett 66!

Well played all. We are beginning to get busy now with matches, knockouts, friendlies, league and Tuesday evenings... not to mention any trips to other clubs we may have planned.

It almost feels like the start of the golfing year - so good luck everyone!

May we have sunshine and still wind from here on in!  

(Well, you can always dream!)

PS Another reminder... there was an adder crossing the 17th fairway today...so keep alert.

When the Wind Blows

Thursday Back 9

When the wind blows... 

40 mph gusts today at Cape... and yet we still venture forth!

Well done everyone!

We had assumed (rather foolishly as it turns out) that the holes from 12 onward would be sheltered from the strong south-easterly...   they weren't!

And playing up the 18th was nigh on impossible! None of us scored on it!

However, despite the wind there were some good individual moments... Sue D parred the 15th while the rest of us struggled (Liz, Ros and Lynne were the only other ones to score on that hole!)

Jean hit a wonder drive on the 14th...

Jean's drive on 14!

...it bounced on the bridge twice and sped to a lovely position on the fairway! She scored a 5 for 4 points on that hole!

Judy parred the 17th for four points and Liz parred the 12th for four points too.

The winner in the B group today was Angie, and the A group winner was Liz!

Well done both!

Sue D and I fought over second place with Sue pipping me on countback!

A huge well done to everyone who played today - apparently it does us good! 

Daily Mail Foursomes

Finally, Judy and I played two ladies from Perranporth on Tuesday in the Daily Mail Foursomes. It was not the easiest of rounds despite the benign weather and unfortunately we lost on the 15th; we had given it our best shot. 

Many thanks to Sue S and Chris L who came over to support us (against instructions!), it really did cheer us and for a while we hit some great shots!

Thanks guys!

Don't forget... Adders are around, they have been spotted on the 6th in the usual spot along the hedge. 

Adders

Be aware that the adders have stirred - please keep a special eye out when on the course.

Polglase 2 Stableford

Polglase 2

Twenty two wonderful ladies were ready to compete today. We started in lovely sunshine and very strong winds. We were hoping that they might relent, but they only became more fierce.

We also wondered if it might be more sheltered as we went on but on the fourth teeing ground we couldn't even get the ball to stay on the tee.

It was time to call it a day  - it was becoming unsafe to play with trolleys tipping over - and with the ball moving on the green and off tee pegs so the decision was straightforward.

The Polglase 2 competition will now be played on Saturday the 29th of June.

The Abbotswood Trophy results were announced.

In the A group - in equal fourth place were Lyn, Frieda and myself with 62 points.

In third place was Chris J with 64 points.

In second place was Sue D with 66 points and the runaway winner was Jenny with 78 points!

In the B group the winner was Lynne with 52 points.

Well played all

Thursday 11th

Thursday 11th April

Glorious sunshine greeted us at Cape and there was another great turnout!

Eighteen lovely ladies signed in and headed out on the course where we found it was a lot chillier than it had looked! We needed our coats!

A few extra holes practice

However conditions were good and there were some good scores in.

The B group played off the blue tees and the winner was Lynne with a score of 19 points!

Well played.

In the A group Chris L was third with 16 points; Sue D was second with 17 points and our winner was Lyn with 18 points.

Well played all.

Maybe a timely reminder... I forgot to write my handicap on the card! 

Disqualification followed as is necessary!

Hopefully I'll be more careful next time!

Saturday is the Polglase 2nd round - the Stableford; 22 are ladies signed up 😃 and the weather is looking fairly promising!

Dartmouth Day 2

Dartmouth Day 2

It dawned bright and sunny with a chill in the air early on.

After a good breakfast, Hils gave us our tee times for the round. In my case I was in need of a buggy a yesterday's round had taken its toll.... getting on for 10 miles walking in the day had left my back painfully tight, so taking Hils and Angie's advice I opted for a buggy.
It did the trick perfectly!

3rd hole

The weather was really lovely and was even warm and the course was looking even better than yesterday.

It was lovely to have Dorothy with us for the first 9 holes... she really enjoyed walking the flat parts in the sunshine.

Freida and Dorothy

One of the things which we had to learn to deal with was penalty areas, (having none at Cape). i for one needed to check up on how to deal with a ball in the Red staked areas.

Frieda playing to the fourth green

Liz and Jean on the 5th tee

Another good thing was having par threes that were within reach of one shot! It was nearest the pin on the 5th; huge well done to Val G in the silver Div and Chris J in the Bronze for getting nearest to the pin.

There were also positively enormous bunkers, FULL of soft sand - and lots of them!

The longest drive competition was on the 10th and the winner in the Bronze group was Liz who actually managed to hit the Bronze marker before the ball bounced onward!
The winner of the silver group was Claire - well done ladies!

There are several really tricky holes at Dartmouth where you have to carry the ball over a good distance, and the final hole is like that!

Jean surveying the 18th green

There aren't really any lay-up areas on the 18th

Plus there's this great tree to get past (plus nesting Canada goose!)

It has to be said that we left several balls out on the course in water... but I am delighted to report that after a long deliberation (while we watched the group in front) Liz decided to take her driver and go for it - and she succeeded!  Brilliant!

The weather was so lovely we were able to sit out on the balcony while the remaining groups came it...we didn't waste that time!

As we enjoyed our refreshments Hilary collected in the fines we may have incurred whilst we were playing! Some more than others!
However, one of our number had incurred NO fines... so she was fined anyway for being perfect!

All the fines added up to £90 which Hilary presented to Di after Saturday's medal. The money will go into the charity - the Blood Bikes and Riding for the disabled.
Well done all for your generous behaviour!!!!!

After our refreshments we had time to change before meeting in 204 for our award giving!

This didn't start strictly on time because  DI Hils Brown was trying to get to the bottom of a mysterious note that had appeared under her door early in the morning asking her to go to reception! 

Remember the date?

Eventually the culprit owned up... and received her just desserts!

There wasn't a lot of space in 204 but we all managed to get in...

Just a tiny space for Angie!

As you know we all had a guess at the number of balls we might lose over our two rounds... and our winner was Frieda with a perfect guess!  
How many did we lose... 93! 

 The Marilyn Pengelley Trophy

This was awarded for the first day's round of golf. We had each played an individual stableford and then sleeping partners were drawn.
In third place were Sarah and Judy with 52 points,
in second were Chris L and Sue D with 57 points
and in first place and winning the trophy were Jane and Chris L with 61!

 Well done all!

The Away Days Trophy

The results of our individual stableford on the Monday were  as follows...
in 5th place on Countback (of course) was Bev with 30 points; in 4th was Hilary with 30 and in 3rd place was Sarah with 31.
Well done ladies!
In second place with a lovely 36 points was Sue D

and the winner of the trophy with a fantastic 38 points was Jane!
Super job!

Val G thanked everyone for the invitation back to the away days and read a lovely poem which Anne had written, we then raised a glass to all our absent friends.

 To finish, Lyn presented Hilary with a thank you present from the ladies - well done Hils, a great weekend!

 Finally... some assorted pics...

Nearest the Pin winner Bronze

Longest drive winner Silver

Nearest the Pin winner Bronze

Nearest the Pin winner Silver

Medal

April Medal

The 6th April saw us back at Cape ready to compete in the medal. Seventeen lovely ladies competed today with three in a blue tee competition.

It looked beautiful out, the sea a wonderful blue with a well formed swell and an off shore breeze. It was tricky though. 

The winner of the B group was magnificent Marion with a Nett 70! This was on countback from awesome Angie who had the fabulous achievement of getting over the orchard on the 15th for two!

Well done both!

In the Red tee group our winner with a Nett 78 was super Sarah! (She birdied the 9th!)

Well done!

In second with a Nett 80 was fabulous Fi (who also birdied the 9th!)

and in third was fabulous Frieda who had a Nett 81.

Hilary and Fi were the only ones to take less than 100 shots today - it really was difficult out there.

Dartmouth Day 1

Dartmouth

Early Sunday morning, as the sun was coming up a host of Cape ladies set out for Dartmouth. The weather was good and the roads were clear so a couple of hours or so  later we were meeting up with old friends in the dining room of Dartmouth. 

Dartmouth is in a beautiful setting and we were lucky with the weather. 

Hils had already sent us a list of who we were playing with so we were soon getting clubs out and ordering buggies!

First out was our chief of staff Hils with Sue S and Lyn. Many thanks to Hils for arranging everything and thanks to Una who joined Dorothy in a buggy and took the photos on the first afternoon.

Sue D, Fi and Fran followed on behind, the weather was overcast and a bit chilly to start with but it brightened up as the day went on.

Jane, Sarah and myself were the last of the three balls; fourballs and buggies followed on behind.

It was good to see Doris again  and great that Angie's back was strong enough to play.

It was also great to see Val!

The other fourball seem to have stayed well hidden from Una!

The course itself was in fantastic condition. It is a challenging course though... Frieda shared that at one point that she had lost more balls than she had scored points!

After we played we had time to check in to our rooms and sort ourselves out before meeting up for dinner.

As always we had animated discussions over dinner...

 It was lots of fun...  during the evening it arose that Lyn had been put off as she was about to putt. The interruption emanated from one of her playing partners...(Sue S!)... as a result of this Hilary introduced a fines system for the next day.

There was to be NO alcohol consumed on the course; NO farts and absolutely NO swearing. 

There was a noisy discussion about this, with some ladies expressing themselves forcefully and in no uncertain terms... these ladies were promptly hounded by Lyn who started to collect the fines during the evening!

All in all it was a great day... what will tomorrow bring?