Lady Captain’s Weekly News 17th March 2025

Well, the rain did continue for most of the week. We managed to play on Tuesday but by Thursday the heavens opened up – so plan B came into action. Luckily as you will see we had a miracle over the weekend and both DC Memorial and St Patrick’s Day went ahead – around 70 players both days. DC may have intervened with the weather Gods.Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.

Our team Captain Agi Savitz has been busy rescheduling the postponed Interclubs. Sotogrande away will now be played on the 26th May and Aloha away is now Monday 30th June . I know she will try and keep the same team but please support her as I know different ladies might be around at this time of year.

Borja continues to prioritize course cleanup. Weather permitting, they will fertilize the greens and treat the grass for poa. It has not stopped raining today – unbelievable the reservoirs must be full now !!

COMPETITIONS OF THE WEEK

Tuesday 11th March 6 ladies Non federated friendly Competition Teams of 3

Nicky, Debbie and Pip 79 points
Svetlana, Elaine and Sharon 78 points

We managed to play 18 holes without any rain. It was so good to be out. The course was remarkably playable. The ground staff have done a great job. A new addition to the course are sandbags, which are placed strategically to protect the course – a good temporary measure.

Thursday 13th March COMPETITION CANCELLED DUE TO HEAVY RAIN Plan B – YOGA a la Svetlana 11 ladies

Thank you, Svetlana we all thoroughly enjoyed our chilled yoga session, incense, candles at the club. She is planning to organise more once she is into her Captaincy year. It proved very popular.

WEEKEND COMPETITIONS

Saturday 15th March DC MEMORIAL TROPHY 72 players

1st Seamus Desmond 41 points 4th Frank Breuer 37 points
2nd Simon Fothergill 38 points 5th Keith Harmer 37 points
3rd Mat Charlesworth 37 points 6th Paul Symonds 36 points

Nearest the pin 
Ladies – Yvonne Chu
Men – Phil Fisher
Best lady was Jules Hale with 34 points We had a great day remembering DC and all the fun times we had with him. The prizes were some delicious wines all of which I know DC would approve. Seamus gave a lovely speech remembering DC

Sunday 16th March St Patricks Day – Early by one day !! 81 players

1st Jon Hale
Anne Middlehurst
Jules Hale
Gary Ward 121 points

2nd James Jenet
Klas Brand
Yury Pogiba
Patrick O’Sullivan 116 points

3rd Paul Cambridge
Paul Symonds
Paul Charles
Keith Harmer 115 points

4th Elaine Lee
Mark Lee
Linda Fletcher
Bill Fletcher 114 points

Nearest the pin
Ladies – Malene Bjorlow
Men – Paul Charles

Frank O’Hara kindly donated the Perpetual Trophy and sponsored the Diamond Birdies on par 3.

Graeme Willis
Danny Bristow
Jon Hale
Joachim Friedl
Eduardo Martin
Mike Cowburn
Svetlana Friedl
Ksenia Yamilova

We all had a delicious Irish Stew and plenty of Guinness. I think this was the first time that there were no disqualifications for a wrongly filled out card. Hurray !!!

AND FINALLY

Congratulations to Rory McIlroy for winning the Players. Hopefully he can continue his streak to the Masters. Well done to Jack Draper for winning The Indian Wells title and to the French for the Rugby.

UPCOMING EVENTS – Ladies tee off after the men in March

Monday 17th March Interclub vs Sotogrande Away – postponed
Tuesday 18th March Ladies competition – 49 tees
Wednesday 19th March Interclub vs Aloha Home
Thursday 20th March Ladies Competition – 49 tees
Sunday 23rd March Monthly Medal – 56 tees
Tuesday 25th March Ladies Competition – 56 tees
Thursday 27th March Ladies Competition – 49 tees
Saturday 29th March Mixed flag competition
Sunday 30th March Final Abbeygate Ranking reverse order

HAVE A GREAT WEEK
AND
ENJOY THE GOLF HOPEFULLY !!