Wrexham golf club’s young ladies have again been making an impression on the national scene when, following their successes at the Scottish girls’ Open Championships at Strathmore near Blairgowrie, fifteen year old Chloe Williams and Jessica Jones traveled to Tenby ten days ago for the prestigious Tenby Scratch 36 holes event organized by the Golf Union of Wales.
The trip to Scotland witnessed a team effort from Chloe and Jessica with Georgia Thomas of Tenby golf club as the third member of the squad. Against a par of 72, Chloe came in 4th position with rounds of 73 and 70 with Jessica lying in 44th place and Georgia coming in a little further down the field.
On Georgia’s home course on the lovely South Wales coast. Chloe again managed fourth place with rounds of +5 and +1 against the par. Regrettably, Jessica retired unwell before completing the requisite number of holes.
This past weekend the girls traveled to Aberdovey and to Borth for the Mid Wales Girls’ championships, again over 36 holes of play with eighteen at each venue.
This time, Chloe was not to be outdone and following a round of 77 at Aberdovey against a par of 74 and a competition scratch score of 75, she moved to Borth for the concluding eighteen holes.
Now Borth is not the easiest of courses as I have experienced the Welsh Inter Counties there both as a player and a spectator, and following a poor start on the difficult opening holes, Chloe took a couple of birdies out of the golf course and finished with an 81.
That was good enough for her to win the event by a single stroke from Emily Boyman of Pwllheli with Jessica Evans of Newport in third place.
All in all, an excellent start to her very busy season, well done.
The club Past Captains played their Past Captains’ Day last Sunday with a slightly reduced field of twenty players contesting the eighteen holes from the forward yellow tees. With a strong breeze facing the play down the first hole in meant an equally stiff wind in to the long par fours which required a good clout with a metal wood to even finish close to some of the greens in two strokes.
Played as a Stableford competition the third place in whole number terms was a dead heat between Oscar Jones, Cyril Belton and the Club Captain playing as a guest, Mr. Keith Miller.
On back nine holes reckoning, Oscar was the first to go with a sixteen point nine holes against eighteen from Cyril and Keith. Down to the back six and both had thirteen points so the back three came into account on which Cyril had five points and the Captain had seven – third place to the Captain. Second came Bill Taylor with 39 points with the eventual winner being the 2008 captain Nigel Pritchard with 40 points.
Tradition has it that we invite members of the club who had been captains of their previous golf clubs and they were seven in number on this occasion with us all sitting down to a meal in the evening.
A couple of belated results from our ladies were for a match played as long ago as the 6th of April, namely the GUW medal and Lifeboat competition. Winner of the silver division was Jean Jones with 92 – 16 – 76 from Rita Parry Tunnah on 94 – 17 – 77.
The bronze division was won by Andrea Vaughan Smith with 98 – 27 – 71 followed by Ladies Vice Captain, Janet Brunyee, on exactly the same score and handicap, but a slightly less good back nine holes. Andrea won the lifeboat competition with her net 71 from a total entry of 34 ladies with Gayle Elson scooping the birdie twos to the value of £17.00.