The girls team played their rearranged match with Lincolnshire at Torksey Golf Club on Monday 26th October 2015. In her final junior match, our captain Emma Anderson, led a strong Notts team to a comfortable 5 – 1 away win.The 1st team played their penultimate match of the season on a very sunny day at Ruddington Grange on Sunday 26th September.
Shropshire brought a strong team and manged to navigate their way around the course as if they had played there before! The Notts girls found a few too many trees on the tight Ruddington course but, despite some good short game skills, couldn't survive the pressure applied by the Shropshire team.
Overall Notts lost the match 5-1, but displayed a good fighting spirit!
The match was played at Uttoxeter GC on Sunday 13th September, on an extremely tight course which caught out quite a few of the girls, who had to contend with a few blind holes. The match was played on a sunny day and the course was in a very good condition. After nine holes it looked as if we were in for a whitewash but the Notts girls rallied really well for a final score 3½ to 2½. The girls are always well behaved, polite and it is always a pleasure to be the organiser on the day. Seven girls played on the day but only 6 match scores counted. I would like to say a big thank you to all of the Notts girls but a special thank you to Emma Hammond, who played but whose score did not count. A big thank you also to Uttoxeter Golf Club who made us feel extremely welcome.
Esme Hamilton (Notts Ladies) won the North of England Under 16 Girls Open Amateur Championship at Heswell GC, held 19-21 August.
In a field that attracts international junior girls Esme led from the first round, and returned two sub par rounds out of her four round total of 302.
It also resulted in a further handicap reduction to 2. Well done!
The Taskers Trophy is a competition for teams of golfer's aged 50 and over which uses the proceeds from its entries to help support Junior Golf within their own counties.This year they have given us £1020 for the 21 teams that entered from within the NCLGA region.
This is a fantastic donation for Junior Golf and really helps support our Junior training programmme at all levels. We would like to thank Taskers for this donation and encourage clubs in the county to enter as many teams as they can as each extra team entered will produce more funds for our juniors.
Entry for the 2016 competition for over-50's is now open at http://www.interclub.org.uk
In 2015 we have continued to work with the Notts Golf Union Nippers tour to provide fun 9 hole golf events for all boys and girls aged under 12.
Seven events ran between April and August, finishing at Trent Lock on Thursday 20th August, where all the end of season order of Merit prizes were presented by Roger Poole, President of NUGC and Kathryn Horberry,Captain NCLGA.
This year the NCLGA introduced specific trophies for the best girls in the order of merit, in two age groups, under 12 and under 10.
Pictured with their trophies are Rebecca Oates (U12) from Worksop and Amelia Wan (U10) from Norwood Park.
They also qualified to represent the Nottinghamshire Nippers Tour against the Pee Wee Tour of Shropshire and Herefordshire at Shrewsbury GC on Thusday 27th August, where Nottinghamshire won!
Nottinghamshire played host to Derbyshire at Radcliffe-On-Trent Golf Club on Friday 28th August 2015.
On a fine but breezy day, our junior captain Emma Anderson, led our experienced team to a convincing 5 – 1 win.
Congratulations to the Notts team of Esme Hamilton, Laura Abbott, Emma Anderson (Capt), Jacey Peacock, Sharna Betteridge, Emily Jane Golder and our reserve Georgia Viggers.
Esme Hamilton (Notts Ladies) wins the Four Counties Girls Championships held at Rushcliffe GC on Monday 17th August. Having had a good run of form and reducing her handicap to 3 she shot a fabulous gross score of 73 on the day.
Eliza Davidson (Wollaton Park) also continued her run of form with a fantastic nett 66 to win the handicap cup and another handicap cut. So far this season she has dropped from 17 to 11!
The remaining Notts players Emily-Jane Golder, Jacey Peacock and Georgia Viggers all played well and contributed to Notts winning both the Net and Gross Team Shields!
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