County Captain's Day 2015

This year the fund raising County Captain's Day event was again held at Coxmoor golf club and took place on 27th July 2015. We were fortunate with the weather as the rain that was forecast held off - unlike the previous day which saw heavy rain. The course was in excellent condition and had recovered from that bad weather. The format was an am-am teams of 4 Stableford with 2 scores to count on each hole. 40 teams took part with players from 17 clubs. The first tee tee-off time was 8.30 and it proved to be the early starters who set the pace for the prize winners.

The team from Beeston Fields of Helen Maber, Linda Alliott, Clare Jones, and Karen Palmer opened the event and returned an excellent score of 79 points. However they were soon overtaken by the next team out from The Nottinghamshire namely Aileen Kynoch, Bernie Barton, Steph O' Connell and Alison Harrold who returned an amazing score of 82 points.

This proved to be the winning score but was closely followed by a great score of 81 points which was returned near the end of the field by the team of Tina Gillott, Chris Hodges and Helen Lister all from Rushcliffe together with Janet Doleman from Trent Lock. This moved the Beeston Fields team into 3rd place. 4th place went to the team of Joyce Hayward, Marion Beeston and Angela Robinson all from Coxmoor and Gaynor Tunney from Sherwood Forest. They also returned a score of 79 and beat 3 more teams on that score by having the better back 9.

Nearest the pins on all the par 3s were generously sponsored by Sandy Loch, Jane Fowler and John Fowler and these prizes were won by Anne Whitchurch of Notts Ladies on the 2nd, Jo White of Trent Lock on the 7th, Rosemary Skill of Beeston Fields on the 10th and Gill Mottershaw of Coxmoor on the 17th.

There were many complements of how enjoyable the day had been especially due to the condition of the course, the gorgeous selection of cakes at the halfway house and the delicious meal afterwards. My thanks to the staff and numerous people who have supported with their time towards running this event.

We have raised a fantastic amount of nearly £2600 which will be used towards covering the expenses of the county 1st and 2nd teams. £576 of this was due to the raffle which raised £406 plus donations amounting to £170 from several individuals and clubs. Thank you so much for your generous contributions here with donations of prizes and buying tickets. Also it must be acknowledged that we could not have raised so much money without the support of the Coxmoor members who gave us the courtesy of the course.

This year the 1st team has finished top of the Midlands North Region of counties and will be competing in the county finals week at Frilford Heath Oxfordshire from 14th to 18th September. So the funds raised will be put to good use towards lifting the profile of Nottinghamshire ladies golf.

I had a wonderful day with so many happy memories to treasure and for this I owe a big thank you to the players and donors and everyone who helped towards running the event.