FOURSOMEs isn’t everyone’s favourite format so it was a relatively small field for Dartmouth ladies’ Daily Mail Foursomes qualifier.

One team really gelled, starting with a par on the first, which was particularly hard for their playing partners who had put their tee shot into a hedge! Beccy Barrett and Jules Vincent were the winning pair with 36 points, in spite of a blob on the twelfth. The other scores will remain unreported!

Saturday’s Mixed Stableford saw some good scores. Malcolm Barrett had a great 42 points to win Division One, but his main concern in the clubhouse was that he had blobbed the eighteenth because of a poor chip onto the green and it took a while before he remembered his nine pars!

Mike Whitelaw birdied the eighteenth but still had to settle for second place with 41 points. In Division Two, Jeremy Enticknap led the way, with a solid 38 points, ahead of Karen Oldrieve on 36.

The main competition of the weekend was the Hitchens Salver - the double challenge of a Medal round from the gold tees. The tenth hole - a long tee shot over a ravine - is often the end of a good card, but the majority navigated that hurdle without incident.

Lee Marels had the lowest gross score of the day, but his +1 handicap put him in third place with 77. Ian Black and Stuart Jamieson both finished on Nett 76 and it was Ian that prevailed on countback, winning the Salver. Congratulations to all who took part.

Sunday’s Mixed Open drew a field from across the south-west. Conditions were almost too good - after this summer nobody was ready for wall-to-wall sunshine!

There is invariably a twos competition in an Open in the expectation of such a score on the par three holes, so congratulations to Helen Hayward (Taunton & Pickeridge) who holed her second shot from eighty yards on the par four seventeenth.

It was tight at the top with a single point separating the top five teams. Congratulations to Matthew Treneman, Nigel Harris, Alan Smith and Jamie Parsons who won on count back from the home team of Malcolm Barrett, Keith Sexton, Mark Scrivener and Darren Lockley, both teams scoring 89 points.

Thanks to the Devon Air Ambulance Trust (DAAT) who led a CPR and Defibrillator training course for members at the club. They’re skills we all hope we never have to use but the training gave everyone more confidence if the situation ever arises.

Particular thanks to Adrian Parker, Paul Robinson and Jess from DAAT for their work. The training is free and anyone interested in arranging a session should contact the DAAT Comms Team on [email protected].