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Ladies Summer Meeting 2024.
The Ladies summer meeting of 2024 was played in relatively good weather with some rain on the Saturday morning and rain during late morning and early afternoon of the Tuesday competition.
The first day of the meeting saw the ladies playing in a team of 4 competition with 2 scores to count on each hole. The winners of this competition were Rebecca Gray, Connie Barnard, Patricia Booth and Susan Lloyd. They won by a margin of 2 points with a score of 86 points.
The 2nd competition of the week was the Florida Scramble, 22 teams entered this competition with some excellent results. The winners with an excellent score of nett 59 were Ladies’ Captain Elaine Calvert, Rebecca Gray, Susan Lloyd and Pip Settle of Porthmadog Golf Club.
Monday’s competition saw 72 ladies compete for the Penrhyn Trophy. An individual stableford competition played from the red tees. Again, there were some excellent scores with only 1 member of Royal St. David’s featuring in the prizes. Denise Burchell was that member who scored 37 points to receive 2nd prize. But winning the Penrhyn Trophy with 38 points was Kathryn Gulam of Northenden Golf Club.
The Ruth Ferguson Trophy in memory of the late Mrs Ruth Ferguson is an individual medal competition. The weather although not favourable did not deter the 27 brave ladies. Second place for this competition was awarded to Suzanna Bunting with a nett 79, but the winner with a nett 78 was Denise Burchell.
Denise Burchell, Susan Lloyd and Rebecca Gray with 2 victories each for the week, could any of them turn it into a hattrick of wins with a victory in the Tlws Cambrian Greensomes? This competition was played on the last day of the meeting. Second place was awarded to Debbie Naylor and Heather Partridge of Harborne golf club with 41 points, but the winners with 42 points were Claire Dowley and Kitty Wallace.
Ladies’ Update September-October 2024.
The Welsh Women’s Team Championship was held at Rhuddlan this year. Congratulations to our ladies for reaching the semi-finals. Our team of Ann Lewis, Jenny Deeley, Jeanette Williams, Lesley Fox and Jane Hallows beat Pennard in the round of 16 and Rhuddlan in the quarter-finals but lost their semi-final to Aberdovey. The eventual winners were Newport. Elaine (Captain), Jenny, Jeanette, Mair, Jane, Lesley, Ann
The Caernarfonshire & District Championship Meeting held at Porthmadog was won by Ann Lewis with a gross score of 72. The winner of the best nett score was Ann-Marie Magee on 72. The annual Trentham match was away this year and was won by RSD 3 – 1. The friendly match against Abersoch was won 3 – 1 at home on a beautiful day, a pleasant surprise at the end of a rather poor summer. AJ excelled himself with an amazing tea after the match!
4th April 2024
Mrs Ann Lewis – Many congratulations to former British Ladies Senior Champion Ann for being the first recipient of Wales Golf’s PING Senior Female Player of the Year Award. Ann received her award at the Wales Golf Awards Lunch, the event sponsored by DotGolf, held at Ryder Cup venue Celtic Manor’s 2010 Clubhouse, recognised a series of top performers in the world of Welsh golf.
Ann was part of the combined men and women Senior’s team which drew with England in the last Home Internationals and only lost to Scotland and Ireland by a single point.
Yesterday, Ann retained her title as Caernarfonshire & Anglesey County Champion after beating Conwy’s Linda Carruthers 5&4 in the final at Conwy. Julie Snelson won the Nancy Wright Trophy, beating fellow RSD member Ann-Marie Magee in the final.
Welsh Ladies Team Champions 2023
Dear Ladies
Many thanks for your cards and messages of support for the team who were playing in the Welsh Team Championships at Pyle & Kenfig over the weekend. The team played extremely well and were ably assisted by their caddies.
We won the first round against Ashburnham and the second round against Glamorganshire. We lost in the semi-final against Pyle & Kenfig. The golf was exciting to watch, and some fantastic golf was played in a great spirit. It was very tough to play against P & K on their own course and we lost to the eventual winners. Pyle & Kenfig have completed the double this year by winning both the Ladies & Men’s Team Championships. I have attached some photos, the weather was extremely kind to us, however, it was very windy, so we felt very at home!
Many thanks to Iwan Evans from Toyota, Harlech who sponsored our golf shirts.
A special thank-you to all the players and caddies for doing such a great job in representing the club and making the team championships such an enjoyable experience.
With Many thanks
Ann-Marie
Welsh Ladies Team Champions 2022
Congratulations to the Scratch Team for being crowned Welsh Ladies’ Team Champions after beating Newport 3-2 in the Final. The Team, lead by Ladies’ Captain Jeanette Williams, included Julie Brown, Ann Lewis, Julie Snelson, Jane Hallows and Clare Warman.
Finalists RSD and Newport
The winning team and caddies.
C&A County Championship 2022
Many congratulations to the ladies of Royal St David’s who competed in the recent C and A County Championships held at Holyhead Golf Club.
Ann Lewis retained her county title by defeating Jeanette Williams in the final for the second successive year. Jane Hallows had the best net and gross scores and Shuna Sweeting was runner up in the Nancy Wright Trophy
Six members of the club were selected for the County Squad : Ann Lewis, Jeanette Williams, Jane Hallows, Julie Snelson, Clare Warman and Mair Eluned.
Ann Lewis who beat Jeanette Williams in the final, together with the County Captain Mair Eluned Jones
Mair with C&A County Champion Ann Lewis
Mair with Runner-up Jeanette Williams
Mair with Jane Hallows, who returned the best Net and Gross scores.
Mair with Shuna Sweeting, Runner-up in the Nancy Wright Trophy
Summer Meeting 2021
Lady Captain Jeanette Williams welcomed 38 competitors for her Ladies’ Captain’s Day. Penny Elsmore, with 38 points, won the first prize, a painting of the golf course by Sue Mills.
The bank holiday weekend continued with the Castle Bowl, won by Mair Eluned with a nett 75 and then on the Sunday the Coronation Trophy, a par competition. Carol Magee was the winner of this with a score of 4.
The following Wednesday the Nancy Wright salver was won by Ann-Marie Magee with a nett 72.
Mair Eluned
Ann-Marie and Carol Magee
May
Ann Lewis and Elaine Calvert both had a nett 77 in the May medal. Ann, who was placed second in a card play-off, won the Eve Breen Turner salver – to qualify you must have been a medal winner or runner-up during the previous 12 months.
Elaine won the BonBon Dish, competed for by ladies who did not qualify for the Eve Breen Turner salver.
The May stableford was won by Mair Eluned with 34 points.
- June Stableford Lynne Hawksworth 37 points
- July Stableford Lynne Hawksworth 41 points
- Well done Lynne!!
Wales Golf competitions
Medal & Bowls: Rebecca Gray came 4th in the area final at Abergele with a net 75 and will play in the Final at Cradoc Golf Club near Brecon in August.
- Australian Spoons: Liz Daplyn and Joy Lacy 33 points
- Centenary Greensomes: Elaine Calvert and Sue Mills 41 points
- Both these teams go through to the finals at Mold in September.
Congratulations to all the winners!
Spring 2021
Jeanette Williams was appointed as Lady Captain for 2021-22 at the AGM held by Zoom at the end of March. We very much look forward to her year in office, a year late because of the pandemic.
Here are photos of the socially-distanced presentation: Jeanette presented the outgoing Captain, Ann Lewis, with a floral bouquet and Ann gave Jeanette her Captain’s badge.
We also welcome Sue Lapsley as our new Vice-Captain.
Results:
Easter Competitions: On Good Friday The Countess of Winchilsea was won by Chris Wheatley with 33 points and on Saturday Chris John won the Miss J D McKay Memorial Bowl with a score of 35 points.
Wales Golf Challenge Bowls
Through to the area final in Abergele are:
- Silver Bowl – Rebecca Gray
- Bronze Bowl – Penny Elsmore
April winners:
- Medal – Carol Wolstenholme nett 70
- Stableford – Chris John 36 pts Chris also won the Eryl Gwyn Griffith trophy (To qualify for this you must have played in at least 6 Wednesday competitions during the winter)
Easter Bowl (played in May!) Jeanette Williams nett 73
The Winchilsea Foursomes was open to ladies for the first time this year. Congratulations to Clare Warman who reached the semi-finals with her partner Brendan Shiner.
We are looking forward to a full programme of events over the remainder of the year.