News & Updates

Abbie Symonds beat Alice Barlow  by 3/1 in the Junior Matchplay Championship final at Stowmarket.   This was a very even match, with both girls playing off five handicap and, despite the stiff breeze which made clubbing tricky, they produced some fine golf.    Abbie...

Eloise Aldous, Alice Barlow and Abbie Symmonds are currently playing in the English Girls Open Amateur Championship at The Warwickshire Golf Club (29th – 31st July).   Set in very English countryside just a few miles from the county town, The Warwickshire has 36 holes...

The Felixstowe partnership of Jo Woodward and Amanda Norman (the Hockley girls) finally got the better of Aldeburgh’s Lotti Edmunds and Blaize Esmond on the 35 th hole of the 36-hole match played at Ufford Park today (15 th August).   The aim, of course, was to find...

The 100 Club has just completed its most successful year since its inception with individual members and some Ladies Sections from 24 clubs joining in the fun.   Coincidentally, we have given out 24 prizes and the remaining money from subscriptions to the Club has...

Bury St Edmunds golfer, Fiona Glasswell, sets off shortly to play in the England Grand Medal Final at Peterborough Milton Golf Club on June 28th.   Returning the best four medal scores for the year from Bury took her to a regional final which she won, qualifying for a...

Philippa Collett, currently Aldeburgh Ladies’ Captain, had a great  round on Tuesday, 3rd June, made significantly better by a hole-in-one at the par three fourth hole.   That’s the one with the daunting sleepers all the way around three-quarters of the green.   ...

Fynn Valley’s Mary Sparrow and Mandy Bouttell have made it to the fifth round of the Daily Mail Foursomes.   So far they have beaten players from Seckford, Stoke-by-Nayland, Rushmere and Woodbridge.   News of anyone else still ‘alive and kicking’ would be exciting but...

The 100 Club Draw took place at the Delegates Meeting on 30 May 2014. £100 - Halesworth Ladies Section £50   - Anne Cunningham  (Bungay) £25   - Southwold Ladies Section £25   - Susan Barnard (Fynn Valley) £25   - Sue Brinkley  (Bury St. Edmunds) £10   - Coral George ...

The first Weston match of 2014 resulted in a hard fought, but friendly, win for Stowmarket playing at Home against Flempton and a Hole in One for Ladies' Captain, Liz Laflin.  Liz took a 6 iron off the tee at the 11th and, according to spectators, her ball pitched 3...

The first GB First Aid course was held in March and a month later 14 of us are the proud recipients of our First Aid Certificates. Chris Lynch-Bates has been the first of us to put her training to use, as she so eloquently (and with a few embellishments) describes...

The Bungay Junior Spring Cup took place, on Thursday 17th April, when Sarah-Jane Barker achieved a notable treble, by winning the 18 hole competition, breaking the Ladies' Course record with a 4 over gross 75, off her 10 handicap and, during the following Junior AGM,...

The 100 Club Draw took place at the Delegates Meeting on 21 March 2014. £100   Sylvia Jarvis (Bury St Edmunds) £50     Helen O'Connell (Bury St Edmunds) £25     Pat Kennedy (Haverhill) £25     Irma Suttle (Woodbridge) £25     Julie Latimer-Jones (Aldeburgh) £10    ...

The 100 Club has had a bumper harvest for the coming year and two clubs have done spectacularly well in selling tickets.   50 members from Bury have taken the plunge and 21 from Cretingham, so perhaps it's  no surprise that most of the winning numbers belonged to...

The R&A has launched a new free online course to help golfers and administrators improve their knowledge of the Rules of Golf. The Rules Academy is available at www.RandA.org/RulesAcademy and is based on the Etiquette Section and the Quick Guide to the Rules of...

Lily Kent's Mum writes: "Thought you might like to know that Lily is having a great time.   She has qualified for the second tournament and is playing in Bonita Springs, about 800 miles away from the University in Pensacola.   She says it's beautiful.   The night...

Abbie Symonds (Ipswich) finished in first place amongst the girls playing in the Aldeburgh Junior Open (Sunday, 22nd September).   She returned a 78 gross against the girls’ CSS of 74, reducing her eight-handicap to six which was an excellent result.    Melissa...

On August 23rd Lottie Whyman joined in the Prince Of Wales Under 21 Amateur Challenge Trophy over the Duke’s Course at Woburn.   Playing at 6060 yards for ladies, with a SS and Par of 75, Lottie returned gross 80 and 76 for the two rounds, finishing second, just two...

Lottie Whyman (Ipswich) was declared the winner of the Junior Matchplay Final which should have taken place at Bury St Edmunds on Wednesday (28th August).   Unfortunately, when the day came, Eloise Aldous (Newton Green) was not well enough to play so, according to the...