Junior 2nd Team Match v Leicestershire 2016

The match was played at the Lincoln Golf Club in glorious weather. Eight girls took part in the match, four from Nottinghamshire and four from Leicestershire. All of the girls played well on an unfamiliar course and showed great sportsmanship.

The final score of 2 - 2 was an extremely fair result.

We had two girls making their county debut but once they got into the swing of things nerves appeared to disappear. I think that a good day was had by all.

Individual Coaching Bursaries

NCLGA are please to announce these will continue in 2016 having been successfully trialed in 2015.
The application form for these bursaries can be downloaded and needs to be returned by Sunday 10th April. The applications will then be reviewed and bursaries awarded in late April.

Mixed Am-Am 2016

The Mixed Open Am Am took place at Rufford Park Golf Club on Sunday, 24th April, 2016. This is an event that is organised and run by the County Junior Girls in aid of their funds. The event comprises a team of four, 2 ladies and 2 gentlemen, with the best ladies and gents stableford score counting on each hole.

The prize winners were presented their prizes by the NCLGA President Mrs Joan Underwood. They were:

The Junior Girls organised by their Captain, Esme Hamilton, worked extremely hard on the day running the desk, acting as starters, holding a putting competition, cleaning clubs and a raffle. Esme was assisted by Kristina Lazarevic, Jacey Peacock, Charlotte Hazelwood, Charlie Inger and Chloe Steele. Their combined efforts saw them raise over £340 in those activities alone. In addition Esme's mum Katrina should be thanked for her help with club cleaning in the cold!

The whole day realised a net profit to go to the junior funds of just over £1147. A brilliant effort, and our sincere thanks to all those who participated in the day. A real vote of thanks and gratitude must be recorded to Rufford Park GC for agreeing to host the event and for their continued support of County Golf.

Presentation Evening 2015

The Junior Girls Presentation Evening was held at Sherwood Forest Golf Club on Sunday 1st November.

Over 20 girls, their parents, coaches and officials celebrated the end of the season. The Junior Captain Emma Anderson read out the girls successes and presented them with many of the trophies they had won during the 2015 season, as well as their certificates of achievement.

In addition Junior County Colours were awarded by the NCLGA President Joan Underwood to Laura Abbott (Oakmere), Sharna Betteridge (Sherwood Forest) and Jacey Peacock (Rufford.

Emma then gave her report for the season before presenting the incoming Junior Captain, Esme Hamilton (Notts Ladies) with the Captain's pin. Esme then announced that Laura Abbott will be Junior Vice-Captain for 2016.

Friendly Match v Mapperley 2016

On Thursday 7th April the Junior Girls started their season with a friendly match against Mapperley Ladies. The team was Stephanie Firth, Lucy Holbrough, Charlie Inger, Katie Robertson, Chloe Steele, and acting Captain Georgia Viggers.
The match was played in a great spirit and the Mapperley ladies helped mentor the girls with advice on course management and hitting off sloping lies, something they are experts at! For the second year running the match was halved.

This match is used an opportunity to give some of our up and coming players experience of playing in the county team. So, although it was the first match for both Lucy and Chloe, they both remained outwardly very calm on the first tee and hit great tee shots out of sight, well done girls!

Our sincere thanks go to the Mapperley Ladies for the contribution they make to the junior girls by hosting the match and giving up their time to play.

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Rookies Tour and JOM Winners 2015

The winners of the Nottinghamshire Golf Rookies Tour and Junior Order Of Merits were presented with their prizes by Alice Lowe (Nottinghamshire County Development Officer) at the Junior Girls presentation evening on Sunday 1st November at Sherwood Forest GC.

Rowan Arnold was the winner of the overall Rookies Tour.
Katie Robertson won the Gross Order of Merit for the Girls while her sister Charly won the Nett Order of Merit.

Katie Robertson	Charly Robertson

Girls Golf Rocks

This new initiative is being launched in 2016 to encourage girls who have never tried golf in Nottinghamshire to give it a go. The scheme, promoted by England Golf, The Golf Foundation, Sport Nottingham, The County Golf Partnership and NCLGA, offers a free taster session at four different venues in April.

After the tasters anyone interested will be offer a course of 4 group coaching sessions for £10 in May and entry to the Girls Golf Rocks par three competition at Norwood Park on Saturday 16th June.

Some of the girls squad are acting as ambassadors to promote the scheme and help out at the sessions. For more details download the poster.

Junior Jubilee Competition

This competition was reinstated and revamped for 2015 and was held at Sherwood Forest Golf Club on 1st November 2015. The event was changed to an AM-AM with the girls all split into teams so that the handicaps were balanced. This allowed the more experienced players to mentor the girls who were newer to golf.

The day proved a success both with the sun shining and with 15 girls playing in the main event. The overall winners were Stephanie Firth (Beeston), Emily Lyle (Worksop) and Georgia Viggers (Stanton).

In addition we had 7 younger girls play in the 8 hole competition which was set up over the first fews holes at Sherwood. This was split into two age groups, the winner of the U12 was Rebecca Oates (Worksop) and the U9 winner was Heather McCrorie (Norwood).