THE Bigbury GC Ladies always look forward to the annual Lady Captain’s Away Day and certainly enjoyed their day hosted by Linda Hanbury at the China Fleet Leisure Centre and Golf Course.
Linda reports that, “After a very wet and windy weekend our ladies were happy to see the sun in Cornwall when they arrived for the Bigbury annual Captain’s Away Day. Following coffee on arrival and armed with caramel wafers and cereal bars,22 ladies played a Stableford competition, with a few muddy areas underfoot, as expected. This year of persistent rain has accustomed us to wet golf courses!However - no rain!
The long Championship course proved quite testing for most although there are a number of short par threes which provided three birdie twos - one each for Cathy Harrington,Rosemary Sharps and Sue Winzer.They received a bottle of fizz each for their efforts.
Prizes were also awarded for a nearest the pin in two on the 3rd and a nearest the Pin on the 15th holes.
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Cherry Patterson earned the Captain’s prize with 36 points, this being her first ever round at China Fleet.
Cherry obviously enjoyed the course and wants to return and I enjoyed presenting her with the cut-glass trophy as well as a Christmas Rose plant for her garden. Prizes were awarded for the best seven scores and the rest received small token gifts.
A delicious meal followed with lots of chatter. Overall - it was voted a successful day out.”
Mary Wilcox, the Vice Captain, adds that it was a very fun day.
A weekend of 3-2-1 Team Stableford competitions took place at the end of September. The format is on the first hole, all three players' score counts, on the 2nd, two scores count and on the third one score counts, repeated over the 18 holes.
On Saturday, September 28, there was a convincing win for the team of Pip Fisher, Cathy Harrington and Ruth Bickle with their score of 79 points. In second place (75 pts) were Janet Burton, Lorette Logie and Margaret Taylor; in third place was the team of Sheila Mathieson, Rose Corbett and Eve Naylor (74 pts).
As well as winning, Pip bagged the only two of the day.
Finally, it was the turn of the men on the Sunday for their 3-2-1 Stableford and again there was a convincing winner
Crispin Manners, Tim Dando and Paul Newman prevailed with a score of 74 points.In second place were James Keetley, Eamonn Byrnes and Aneesh Parmar (70pts) and in third place, with only one point less, were Eddie Inch, Jed Spedding and Ian Harris.
There were four birdie twos during the competition and winning team players Crispin Manners and Paul Newman recorded two of these, along with Ian Harris and Jed Spedding.