Ladies take Captains Cup

This week at Freshwater Bay began with the junior’s Walton Colts Cup on Tuesday 28^th July, Ryan Harmer (10) came in second with a nett 69 to Connor White (27) with a solid 67. Connor also took pride of place in the mid week stableford the following day with 35 points holding off Andy Ran and Chris Griffiths in second and third places respectively on 34 and 33 points.

In dank conditions on Saturday four teams of ten players defended the honour of their sections in the Captains Cup. Due to the weather conditions the event had to be reduced to 10 holes but still some excellent individual scores were returned with George Faulkner carding 25 points, Maureen Couse and Anne Smith both scoring 24, while Joan Martin and Ryan Harmer returned creditable 21 point rounds. Overall the Ladies team ran out the winners by 2 point margin totaling 180 to the Juniors 178, the Men’s Team were adrift with 160 and the Seniors brought up the rear on 132.

Sunday saw a greensomes competition incorporating the Dadson Trophy, with Club Secretary Terry Riddett (8) coming out of retirement to partner his son Nat (5) to take the tournament with 41 points ahead of first time entrants Les (14) and Stephen Mew (24) on 40.