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English Women's Finals 2017

Felixstowe2 Excitement is building in Notts as our County Team make their final preparations for the English Women’s Finals, taking place from 18th to 22nd September at Felixstowe Ferry Golf Club, one of the oldest links courses in England, sited on the beautiful Suffolk coast.

Nottinghamshire will play against teams from Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Suffolk and Yorkshire. Each day will be played against a different county, playing three foursomes matches each morning and six singles each afternoon, with the winner of the week claiming the title. Our team were successful in winning the England Finals in 2015 and will be trying very hard to achieve the same result this year. I am delighted to confirm the team as follows:

Emma Anderson (Sherwood Forest), Rachel Boulton (Springwater), Emily Cheshire (Notts Ladies), Caron Harrison (Sherwood Forest), Carol Houghton (The Nottinghamshire), Emma Howie (Stanton on the Wolds), Libby Kilbride (Worksop), Kristina Lazarevic (Notts Ladies), Lauren Spray (Notts Ladies), Carol Wild (Notts Ladies) and Glenys Priestley (Reserve – Notts Ladies)

We have a great mix of youth and experience and I am very excited to captain the team in this prestigious tournament. We would love to see lots of Nottinghamshire support at Felixstowe and I know that many have already booked accommodation there. A great excuse for a few days at the seaside and to see some excellent golf being played!

Our website has a dedicated results page and live scoring and results can be followed at www.englandgolf.org/womenscountyfinals

Helen Maber (County Captain)

Midland North Girls Festival of Golf 2017

LeagueFinal17a The MNR Girls' Festival of Golf took place at Trent Lock Golf club on Monday 21st August with over with 100 girls from the 6 counties aged 6-18 taking part in a variety of activities.
The event, now in its second year, proved again what a fun day is had by all involved; a mixture of golf on the course, the pirate golf challenge, a drive chip putt competition and a firm favourite the trick shot show!

I’m pleased to say on the day both the handicap and scratch teams won their final matches of the season, The scratch team 4-1 against Derbyshire and the handicap team 3-2 against Staffordshire.
The win for scratch team meant that they were in the running to win the overall league this year. After a short wait to see the result for Staffordhire who were on the same number of wins prior to the day we discovered they had also won their match. The results were then calculated on game wins and Nottinghamsire managed to finish half a point ahead so won the league for 2017!
Well done to the team this year who was represented by Esme Hamilton, Libby Kilbride, Laura Abbott, Kristina Lazarevic, Sharna Betteridge, Jacey Peacock, Leonie Muir, Charlie Inger, Rebecca Oats, Safi Durant.

2nd Team Final 2017 v Derbyshire

teamfinal17b After completion of our matches against Lincolnshire and Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire qualified for the Regional Final. This year it was played at Worfield Golf Club, Shropshire, on Thursday 24th August, where we played Derbyshire, who qualified after their matches against Staffordshire and Shropshire. There was an autumnal feel in the air when we arrived in the morning for our foursomes, although thankfully it was dry.

Our girls played some very good golf but the greens proved to be very slick and we were 2 - 1 down after the morning matches. Our team rallied in the singles and we saw some exciting golf, with Vicki Johnson securing an early win to level the scores. Jacey Peacock had the toughest match of the afternoon against a very experienced Derbyshire player but, despite battling hard, Derbyshire won the match regaining the lead. All four remaining games went to the 18th, Louise Wilding losing 1 down despite some great golf, Kristina earned a well fought half, with wins for Wendy Kerry and Emma Anderson.

We went down fighting with the result ending as 4½ each, only missing out on countback of games won, proving again that golf is a game of fine margins! Congratulations to Derbyshire on winning the trophy.