Captain's Newsletter - 10 Sep 2016

Congratulations to Kathy Morris and Rogie Taylor who played in the Ping Pairs Final at Gainsborough Golf Club this week. With thousands of players from 846 clubs participating they needed exceptional scores to qualify. It is a huge achievement to play in the Final of this prestigious tournament. “A great day with some amazing prizes.” 

Chesfield Downs Ladies qualify for the National Golf Club Challenge Final at Turnberry 

I am delighted to announce that the Ladies will be sending a team to Turnberry again this October. The qualifying round was held on 9th June at Chesfield and those who were the top five scorers have been notified.

Crown Champion of Champions at Sherfield Oaks – Saturday 10th September
Good luck to our Ladies Club Champion Virginia Chan and Handicap champion Kathy Morris

Finals of the Knockout Competitions
The Singles final will be contested for between Sarah Faircliff and Lauren Pitcher to win the Ann Grist Trophy. The Pairs Knockout finalists are Jenny Feaver and Sally Weekes against Lauren Pitcher and Kathy Dale. The winners will collect the Mary Warmoth Trophy.

Congratulations Lauren, on reaching the Final of both our Knockout competitions

Autumn Meeting – 22nd September
You can sign up to play in the Chris Leary Chalice on HowDidIDo. Please pay your £12 by 15th September so that we can confirm numbers for lunch. If you would like to attend for our 2-course lunch only please sign up or let Diane Chapman know.

We will be presenting prizes to the winners of Cups and Trophies and to those who have won the monthly Medal and Stableford competitions. Also prizes will be presented to the winners of the Tuesday Summer Eclectic competition held in August.

Pearson Team – The draw for 2016/17 has been made. The clubs in our group are: Moor Park, Ashridge, South Herts and Bishops Stortford. The dates for matches are on the Notice Board. Please sign up for all the dates that you are available. Teams will be chosen from those available.

A HOLE IN ONE on the 9th for the Ladies Captain during the semi-final of the pairs knockout this week. Drinks all round!!!

GOLF RESULTS
7-Day 

The September medal was won by Megan Bonner with a superb score of nett 69. 2nd place with nett 73 was Kathy Dale.

Tuesday

Double on the Even Holes format resulted in some big scores! A tremendous 59 points gave 1st place to Julia Goodwin. In 2nd place was our Tuesday competition organiser, Hazel Brunnen, with 54 points. Thank you to Di Rogers and Mary Hooper for checking the cards. Well done to Di Rogers, Elaine Bragg and Mandy Unger, who achieved birdies today and Julia Goodwin who accomplished two birdies in one round today.

Thursday

Round 2 of the Eclectic Cup was hotly contested. Congratulations go to Virginia Chan. Three birdies today and two birdies last week helped to create the lowest gross score of 71 – less than course par!!! A worthy winner of the Eclectic Cup 2016. 2nd place goes to Pat Ward with gross 76.

There is also a prize for the best nett score. After a very good score in round 1, Rogie Taylor recorded her best ever score in Round 2 to achieve an exceptional nett 67 and secure her place as our nett winner. Her final eclectic score was an amazing nett 60. As well as her great gross score, Virginia had a brilliant nett score of 61 giving her 2nd place in the nett competition. Well done to all players.

Kathy Dale, Ladies Captain