Midland North Foursomes 2015

Burton on Trent Golf Club hosted the England Golf, Midlands North Regional Foursomes Competition on 27th April 2015. Dry but cold weather with fast, tricky greens resulted in challenging conditions for the 26 pairs who entered from the 6 counties within the region.

The Challenge Cup winners for the best 36 hole aggregate nett score and foursomes champions were Andrea Stockdale and Sue Penfold of Sherwood Forest Golf Club. With a 36 hole nett score of 162 (82.5 ‐79.5), a back 18 countback was needed to settle the top 3 positions.

The Scratch Salver winners for the best 36 hole gross score were Sarah Haslam and Suzanne Pretty of Longcliffe Golf Club. With a 36 hole gross score of 171 (86 ‐85), a back 18 countback was needed to settle the top 2 positions.

Congratulations to Andrea and Sue.

Nottinghamshire Golf Rules Course

The Nottinghamshire Union of Golf Clubs and the Nottinghamshire County Ladies Golf Association are looking to add to their panel of men and lady tournament referees who officiate at our County Championships. We are therefore planning to hold a rules course over two half-days and are inviting applications from individuals who would be interested in attending this course and also being a member of the Nottinghamshire Golf Tournament Official panel.

Numbers on the course will be restricted to twelve and therefore places will be allocated to those responding early. The sessions will be on Saturday 11 April at Wollaton Park Golf Club and Saturday 25 July at Wollaton Park Golf Club.

The Nottinghamshire Golf Intermediate 2-day Rules Course is conducted by qualified Referees and there will be an examination on the second day. A small fee of £15 will be charged to cover costs and details on payment will be provided at a later date.

To register your interest for a place on the 2015 course, please email the NUGC Secretary at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your name, contact details including your email and telephone number and your current home golf club.

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County Waltz 2015

England Golf Rules School

Congratulation to the three ladies from Nottinghamshire who attended the England Golf Rules School at Market Rasen and took the exam. They are the first ladies from Nottinghamshire to take the England Golf Level 2 examination and should be congratulated on their achievements.

Joanna Smith, Sherwood Forest Golf Club:   Distinction

Val Peat, Radcliffe-on-Trent Golf Club:  Distinction

Julie Lindsay, Sherwood Forest Golf Club:  Pass

It will be brilliant to have more ladies with the necessary qualifications willing to help out at our County events.  

Golf Rules Course Update

The NUGC together with the Nottinghamshire County Ladies Golf Association will be holding a further Intermediate Rules Course on Thursday 11 June at Wollaton Park Golf Club. Details on this course and the follow-up second day to be held on Saturday 25 July are in the attached download. Those wishing to attend the course are invited to email the Secretary of the NUGC at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  with their name, home club and contact details.

Lauren to help inspire women & girl golfers

England Golf has launched a drive to attract more women and girls to play the game and join golf clubs. It's being led by Nottinghamshire's Lauren Spray, the new Women and Girls' Participation Manager, who is herself a keen golfer and huge enthusiast for the game.

"There are so many reasons to play golf," said Lauren. "There are lots of health and fitness benefits, it's something you can do with family and friends and you can enjoy the great outdoors on hundreds of different courses across the country."

The England Golf Strategic Plan 2014-17 aims to increase participation and club membership and it highlights the current state of the women's game, showing that only 15 cent of the membership is female. This is in contrast to the average in Europe where women and girls make up around 30 per cent of club membership. In addition, latest participation figures from Sport England show that 113,300 women and girls are regular, once-a-week golfers, compared with almost 600,000 men.

England Golf will support clubs to attract more women into the game with targeted programme to grow female participation and membership, which will be launched in 2015. Guidance on good practice will also be available to clubs. Support for junior girls will also form part of England Golf's Club Junior Offer. Details will be available soon on the England Golf website.

Read more: Lauren joins England Golf

Match v Sheffield Union 2015

The customary fourball match against the Sheffield & District Ladies Association took place on Thursday 9th April 2015, away at The Chesterfield Golf Club, Walton. The weather was glorious and the course was in excellent condition having recovered from the recent closure due to the heavy rain. The match was played with the usual friendly, competitive spirit and there was some good golf by both sides. I am proud of my team even though we lost the match by 4 games to 1. The match was played off scratch and our opponents fielded a strong side with handicaps ranging from +1 to 7 which meant most of our players would have received shots in a handicap competition.

In the top match Carol Wild and Caron Harrison went to the 18th where Carol narrowly missed a tricky downhill putt for a half. In the next match Chris Hargreaves and Jane Fowler took their opponents to the 17th. Then congratulations go to Laura Morris and Carol Houghton in the third match for achieving our only point with an impressive 6/5 win. In the next two matches Glenys Priestley and Helen Maber, and Pam Loch and myself, took our opponents to the 16th and 17th respectively.

Tasker's Trophy will help fund Juniors

The organising committee of the Tasker's Trophy competition have awarded £910 to the NCLGA Junior Section, to be used for the furtherment of junior golf at grass roots level in our county.

The funding is proportional to the number of teams entered from NCLGA clubs into their Interclub competition. This year 19 teams entered from Nottinghamshire and they would love to see all of them back next year, and hopefully even more teams will join them.

Entry to the competition will open later this month so if you could encourage your Senior Ladies to enter then you could be helping further junior golf even more next year.