Golf round-up: Fast Lane winner...

The Ladies Champion for 1999 is Kirsty Lane, who returned a gross score of 84 in the morning and 88 in the afternoon.

In second place was Kirsty's sister, Michelle, with a score of 80 in the morning and 94 in the afternoon.

A Handicap Competition was run alongside the scratch and the winner of this was Denise Irving, with a net score of 73 in the morning and 66 in the afternoon.

Second place on countback went to Beryl Platts, with a net 74 in the morning and 78 in the afternoon.

The July Medal results were: Division One (1st) Beryl Platts net score 76 (2nd) Elaine Atkins net score 76. Division Two: (1st) Heather McCullough net score 68 (2nd) Denise Irving net score 76.

Forrester club raises charity cash

The Forrester Park Golf Club Ladies section played for the Granny Middleton Trophy, a strokeplay competition with all proceeds raised donated to the Riding for the Disabled.

The winner was Laura Ship, with a gross 72, net 64, and Jennifer Wall's net 67 gave her second place.

On Sunday, the men played a Pairs Texas Scramble of exact handicap with each pair having to use six drives each.

The winners were Chris Hurrell/Jed McDonagh, second John Cove/Peter Andrews and third Mark Bond/Ian Fletcher, who also had the lowest gross score.

Warren win over Clacton

The Warren Golf Club's Ladies Silver team of Fiona Smith, Gill Gordon, Val Nicholson, Joan Wilson, Ditte Galbraith, Penny Smith and Lady Captain Linda Aylett beat hosts Clacton 5-2 in the last of their matches and gave the Warren a 4-2 overall result.

The Men's 4 ball aggregate competition was won by Alan Bond, Murray Edward, Jeff Gadsden and Gerry Redman with a total of 124 points from the best three out of four scores.

The July Monthly Stableford Qualifier winners were: Division One: John Woods with 38 points and Division Two: John Haydon, with 36 points.

Fiona reaches last eight

The English Girls Closed Amateur Championships were played at Chigwell last week.

With two strokeplay rounds, the top 32 progressed to the matchplay stage.

On a windy day, Fiona Smith carded rounds of 81 & 80 to qualify in sixth place, and she continued her good form with wins in two matchplay games, thus taking her into the quarter finals.

In an exiting match which ebbed and flowed, Fiona lost on the 22nd green to the eventual runner-up, Alexandra Cook from Coventry .

Fiona's reward for a fine weeks performance was to be named as one of the reserves for the forthcoming Home Internationals.

Fun on Guest day

Wednesday saw The Warren host an enjoyable 18 hole Mixed Guest Day, played as a 4BBB. Taking first place was past Captain John Morley, partnered by his daughter Jo Batley from Benton Hall GC with 45 points, on countback from Lynne Kirkham (Warren) with Maurice Atkin from Three Rivers GC. In third placel, and just one point adrift were Gill Hinton (Warren) and her son Mark from Forrester Park GC.

On Sunday, the Warren GC Club Championship was played over 36 holes in glorious weather.

Three players, Grant Lawrence (hcp 4), Colin Rushbrook (hcp 4) and Paul Wrench (hcp 3) tied on gross 147, three shots clear of Cadet Captain Rob McLaren (hcp 6).

The resulting keenly fought 3 hole play-off confirmed Rushbrook as champion - 18 years after his previous success.

The President's Cup, for the best net score, was won by Geoff Bond (hcp 12) with 133, followed by his playing partner BobbyBrent (hcp 12) on 137 and Steve Townsend was third (hcp 7) on 138.

The President, John Durham, presented the Veterans Cup to David Walker (84/15/69), while Bob Trueman was second on 80/9/71.

The two other prizes for best net morning and afternoon scores were taken by Andrew Sunderland (83/17/66) and Dennis Cox (86/19/67).

On a warm day, the Ladies of Channels competed in their Summer Trophy, a par/bogey competition.

The winner with a good +5 result was Joan Mitchell who took first place on countback from Connie Bloy who also recorded +5. Elaine Jewitt was third, on +4.

On Friday, a Captain's team of eight played against a Veteran's Captain's team in a 4 Ball Match Play Competition and Channel's Captain, Chris Simmons, recorded a 3-1 win over Geoff Lance's team of Veterans.

Chris Simmons enjoyed another win during the week when he and his guest Vice Captain Bill Dunbar played in the Society of Essex Golf Club Captains Guest Day at Braintree Golf Club, and Chris and Bill won the first prize on countback with 44 points.

Ballards Gore members win through

On Monday it was the turn of Channel's Golf Club to play host to the Regional Final of the NSPCC Ladies Golf Classic.

The winners were Chris Coles, handicap 21 and Lisa Barker, h/cap 12 from Ballards Gore Golf Club, their winning score was 44 points.

The runners up from Maylands Golf Club were Sally Hickson, h/cap 30 and Lynn Headon, h/cap 35 (43 points).

Honours even

On Friday, a team of Regiment Way Ladies and Gentlemen golfers played against a mixed team from the Epping Golf Club in a friendly 4 ball match.

The resulting honourable half was in the home club's favour this time but Epping will try to make it evens when they entertain Regiment Way at their own course today (Friday).

Earlier in the week, on Wednesday, David March, PGA, started his summer Golf Foundation Course.

This concentrated five day course enables youngsters to receive instruction in the rudiments of golf and to continue onwards through different award schemes until they reach a single figure handicap.

The present courses are nearly full but others will follow so interested children, parents or grandparents with potential golfing stars should contact David March, or the club secretary, Roger Pamphilon on 01245 361100.

On the same day, Wendy Dicks the European Tour Professional attached to Regiment Way Golf Centre, organised and with some help from other touring professionals, Alison Munt, Queensland Australia; Nicola Moult, Sutton Coldfield, and Anna Radford from Chobham, in Kent, ran a successful Lancaster Charity Day on behalf of The Willow Tree Animal Sanctuary, in Topplesfield, near Halstead.

The main prizes were organised as "Mystery Pairs", individual stableford scores, which after the game were drawn from a hat to give a pairs aggregate score.

The winners were Cindy Newell and Deborah Waire with 90 points. Second prize went to Paula Hawkins and Lee Jones who scored 87 points.

The best Lady on the day was Paula Hawkins who came in with 49 points and the best man, eight points behind, on 41, was Des Farrell.

All these scores were aided and abetted by the Lady Tour Professionals, who, in addition to serving drinks on the turn, also played a drawn amateurs tee shots event on the 10th.

The winners received prizes as well as a day at Lancasters test driving their Ferrari cars.

Lancasters also had a Ferrari and a Porsche at the club all day which allowed people the thrill of riding in one of the cars.

The competition was played in beautiful weather, and the barbecue finish to a perfect day, raised £862 for the Willow Tree Animal Sanctuary.

Chelmsford Ladies lose out

The Chelmsford Golf Club Ladies Silver II team visited West Essex for their last league match with both sides needing a win to take them to the top of the table.

Whichever club held the top position would have meant that on promotion to the Silver I League, that club would have had two Silver I teams in the same League.

After nine holes the match was finely balanced, both sides being up in three games and level in the seventh.

The last four holes at West Essex are both testing and tiring and as befitting the game, five of the matches reached the 18th hole.

Two of these went on to the 19th where the result split with a win apiece.

Of the two games that finished before the 18th, these two had split evenly, making the score even at two matches each.

However, Chelmsford lost out on the remaining three matches going to the 18th, giving a win to West Essex by five matches to two.

The Chelmsford Captain for the Silver II team was Mavis Watkinson and the team comprised Brenda Murray, Helen Underwood, Brenda Parsons, Linda Parrott, Sue May, Pat Vincent and Rita Caton.

The Ladies have also played their competition for the Dixon Rose Bowl, a trophy which was presented in 1934 by J D Dixon as an 18 hole strokeplay competition, limited in handicap to 27.

The winner, with a nett 69, was Nita Lloyd, followed by Rita Caton (nett 71), Hilary Beck (nett 72) and Maureen Quinn (nett 73).

In the Ladies July Medal the winner, with a nett 72, was Diane Robinson, and the runner-up, on countback, was Brenda Murray, on countback from Nita Lloyd and Alison Evans, and Mary Crook (nett 74), on countback from Brenda Parsons, Sue May, Mavis Watkinson and Amanda Colgate.

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