L/V Challenge

Last Tuesday, the Ladies played against the Vets in the annual L/V Challenge. Heavy rain was forecasted. The format was a Fourball Betterball match-play with matches on both the Griffin and Phoenix. The forecast was correct and with greens flooding, most decided to finish early. The overall score was calculated from the match scores at retirement giving the Vets a narrow win of six matches to five. Thanks go to Alex Morrison and Linda Atkins for organising the day.

18-hole medal and 9-hole Summer Aggregate:

October’s Medal was played last Thursday and whilst it was dry, heavy downpours earlier in the week had made the course rather soggy and with this, bought winter rules into place. With no Ladies playing at the weekend, the winner of the bronze medal was Margaret Swatman with a nett 83 and the silver and overall winner was Penny Gaunt with a nett 79.

Well done Ladies.

The 9-hole Ladies played the final leg of the Summer Aggregate competition which is played on Monthly Medal days from April through to October. The best three scores recorded are aggregated at the end of the period to establish the overall winner. The winners for October were Barbara Munro in Category 6 with 17 points and the winner of Category 5 was Valerie Keating with 16 points. The competition has proved very popular with 35 Ladies entering this summer and 20 Ladies completing the required three cards.

Congratulations to the overall winners as follows:

• 1st place - Caroline East with 62 points.
  
• 2nd place - Valerie Keating with 55 pints.
  
• 3rd place - Hazel Brown with 54 points.
  

Rolling Pin:

Last Saturday, the weather was very kind to us for the annual rolling pin challenge against the men. The Ladies had not won this since 2010 and so we were determined to be the holders of the rolling pin in 2019. With a strong team fielded and pairings were chosen carefully, we were hopeful of a good chance of winning. I was not disappointed, as the Ladies came home victorious with a 3&2 win. Well done to all those who played in what was a very enjoyable day.

A big thank you to the men that took part:

• Martin Bolton-Smith and Malcolm Holmes.
  
• Paul Young and Andy Peate.
  
• Jason Davey and Ady Darker.
  
• Harry Reed and Rob Laverick.
  
• Richard Copeland and Winston Dwyer.
  

Coming Up:

• Sunday, 13 October - Maureen Taylor Shield.
  
• Thursday, 17 October - Ladies Masters.
  
• Saturday, 19 October - Weekly Monthly Stableford.
  
• Thursday, 24 October - Monthly Stableford and 9-hole PK Trophy.
  

Jill Lewis
Lady Captain