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!

Hello!

 Hello again!

Well! it's been a bit of a gap but here we go again for 2026!

The weather has taken its toll our competitions, both in numbers available to play and if they took place at all!

We had four comps in January when about 6 players played each time... our scores were well below our handicap - often the best scores were about 9 or 10 below handicap! 

February weather didn't improve and we just had two comps, 8 played in the first and only 5 in the second. Again our scores were well below what we'd expect except for Frieda who relished the conditions on Valentines day!!

Then we began March and our numbers are beginning to pick up. 

March 7th was the Polglase 1 Medal and 9 players entered. 

Our winner was Lyn with a nett 75; in second came Fi with nett 76 and in third was Hils with a nett 81. Well played all!!

The following Saturday was a stableford which Hils won with 32 points; Frieda was in second with 29 and Claire third on 26.

Then at last we had Sunshine!!

Saturday 21st March was beautiful and was the last Saturday comp with Hils as Captain - 12 of us were able to play. 

Countback was needed of course for the first few places!

Our winner was Sue S with 36 points on countback from Liz!

Third also had to be decided on countback with Fi, me and Hils all having 33 points...and Hils came out on top in that race!!

It was glorious to be out in the sunshine and with hardly any wind!

As you can imagine Thursdays were also seriously impacted by the weather with often only two or three people around to play.

Hopefully this will improve as the weather becomes kinder!

Thursday 9 hole fun! (19th March)

Finally, Sunday 22nd was Trevelyan scramble! Fourteen teams of four played in this mixed Scramble.

The weather was fabulous to start with but along with the blue sky and sunshine was a bit of a chilly wind!

It certainly looked gorgeous!

The course is looking better and better now - the green-keeping team are doing a great job.

Afterwards there was the presentation of the Trophy itself, along with the presentation of a cheque to "withyou" Hils and Norman's charity - and then presentation of various trophies.

"withyou" charity cheque presentation

https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/

Hils and Norman had raised over £4000 for this charity - an amazing amount for a special charity.

The Trevelyan Trophy winners were Frieda's team!!!

And Hils and Norman also awarded the Wills Trophy to the Cape Men's team. A huge achievement! With a special framed photo of the team too. 

Congratulations everyone !