2nd Team Finals 2015 v Staffordshire

The 2nd team county finals between the winners of the leagues of the two areas of the Midland North Region saw Nottinghamshire playing against Staffordshire. The event took place at the Cavendish golf course, Buxton on 28th August. The course is renowned for its beautiful views of the surrounding countryside.
The weather could have been kinder as there was a strong blustery wind and several heavy showers, but it was sunnier towards the end of the afternoon. The greens proved tricky as they were rather fast and shaped so that the ball easily rolled off from approach shots.

Staffordshire were able to master these conditions earlier than Notts and took all 3 of the foursomes points from our pairings of Laura Morris and Glenys Priestley, Sarah Riddell and Kristina Lazarevic, and Andrea Stockdale and Sue Penfold. However Notts produced some excellent results in the afternoon singles and those 6 points were halved with 3 wins to each team.

Credit goes to Laura playing top and winning by 1 up against their team captain Rachel Bishop. Further wins came from Kristina against one of her regular rivals Emily Sutton, and Andrea against Lauren Birch. There was great excitement for Sarah, playing against Gina Wilkie, when Sarah had her 1st hole in one. This was achieved with an 8 iron at the 113 yard 15th. This helped her to fight back and only lose by 2 and 1 to Gina who was a losing finalist in their championship. It was the Staffordshire players Ann Edwards and Debbie Eaglesfield who took the points from Glenys and Sue. Staffordshire took the trophy winning by 6 games to 3, but our team are to be congratulated for reaching this final and showing that we have great promise for the future.

Although I was captain of the team for the day, thanks go to Pam Loch for all her hard work to prepare for the day. She and Helen Maber would have loved to have been there to follow their team but due to a last minute change of date they had prior commitments.

Kathryn Horberry
County Captain 2015