Presentation of Fundraising Cheque to The Christie

25 October 2012

Karen Clayton (Lady Captain) has been fundraising for The Christie Charity all year. Now that all fundraising events have finished, Karen arranged to meet Jacky Plant (the Christie Community Fundraising Officer) at Manchester Golf Club to present a cheque for a total of £6,007.00.

The money will be used to fund a mobile chemotheraphy unit
http://www.christie.nhs.uk/about-the-christie/our-ambitions-developments/new-developments/mobile-chemotherapy-unit.aspx

Hopwood 100

Saturday 22nd September 2012

The sun was shining brightly on the 100 competitors taking place in the Hopwood 100 Final. The event that had been organised by the Hopwood 100 Committee and headed by Marlene Spencer and Keith Hough was heralded a great success.

Overall winner Janet Heywood 38pts
Card play off from Matthew Haythorn on back 1

Best Gent Matthew Haythorn 38pts
Best Lady Elaine Clark 34pts
Best Junior Katie Jane Stanley 38pts

Ladies Invitation

4 September 2012

The ladies invitation was held on 4 September 2012, a dry day for once ! A full field of ladies from all local golf clubs attended.

The winners on the day with a score of 42 points were:

Elaine Clark (Manchester GC)
Ann Lowe (Royal Birkdale GC)

Runners up with 38 points were:

Kim Barlow (Manchester GC)
Barbara Wilkinson (Ashton & Lea GC)

Ladies Exchange - Chorley GC

2 August 2012

A fantastic day with lots of laughs throughout the day. I would like to thank Janice (aka Sylvia) for the food and drink on the coach as well as the 1st tee goody bags, Marlene for being Chief Photographer and Brian Connor for a donation of golf balls

Well done to the winners

1st Team
Sarah Penney, Janet McFarlane and Janice Cloran (75 points, winning on a card play-off)
2nd Team
Karen Clayton, Janet Wakefield and Gill Buckley (75 points)

Carol Hampson, Gloria Harris and May Waterworth also scored 75 points but just missed out on the prizes.

Nearest the Pin
May Waterworth

Many funny incidents for all groups which included 3 groups who used the poor green keeper on the 1st hole as target practice (you know who you are !)

I personally had a sinking feeling in a hazard on the 3rd hole whilst my playing partners just stood and laughed (charming)

Just to let you all know that the Chorley ladies had a nearest the pin competition on the 4th hole and one of the ladies had a hole in one !

Festival Week - Ladies Team Stableford

Tuesday 7th August

Although we experienced torrential rain throughout the morning (poor juniors), the weather cleared at lunchtime and most groups experienced a dry and sunny afternoons golf.

The winners on the day were:

First
Lady Captain Manchester 74 pts
Diane Mayne Manchester
Kim Roberts Pleasington
Bev High Springfield Park

Second
Marlene Spencer Manchester 72 pts
Janet Heywood Manchester
Elaine Clarke Frodsham
Ann Coomer Frodsham

Third
Kath Broderick Manchester 71 pts
Beryl Marshall Manchester
Ann Fallows North Manchester
Helen Sloan Blackley

Coffee Morning

28 July 2012

Another successful coffee morning in aid of Christies. A fantastic total of £396.20 was raised for Christies.

A huge thanks to everyone who supported this event by baking cakes, helping on the stall and who bought lots of lovely cakes

Special thanks go to

Sue 'Delia' Smith for her Olympic Cakes and also helping to run the cake stall
Donna Barnes for her beautiful cupcakes
Ebe Camp and Jean Waugh for those scrummy cakes and for helping on the cake stall
Tracy Capal for her cornflake cakes
Brenda Pogson for her bookstall
Mary Hough who sold tickets for the Christie's bear
Sue Gee and Sue Maden and Ebe Camp who accosted all the men into buying cakes
Andrea Whipp for selling raffle tickets

Hope I havent missed anyone off the list !

Hole in One !

17 July 2012

Sue's first Hole in One to halve the match!

Manchester Golf Club's Sue Warrington made her very first Hole in One today and she did it to halve her match against Denise Bodgers!

Sue's golfing career has spanned more than 50 years and we don't use the word 'career' lightly as this lady has won more trophies and accolades than most have us have had hot dinners.

I am sure that Sue must be absolutely thrilled but you have to spare a thought for Denise after all it's not every day that your opponent brings a hole in one out of the bag!

Congratulations Sue!

Lady Captain's Day

3rd July 2012

What a fantastic day ! The weather was much kinder to us than anticipated and everyone managed to play their round. I would like to congratulate all the prize winners

18 Hole

1st Place - Jackie Catlow
2nd Place - Sophie Powell
3rd Place - Elaine Clark

Best Nett (front and back 9) – Carol Hampson and Brenda Bellis

13 Hole Stableford

1st - Gill Buckley
2nd - Margaret Salmon

Foundation
Jacqui Mills

I am pleased to report that the raffle raised a fantastic £365.00, this money will be given to Christies.

I would like to thank everyone who helped on the day especially Betty Green for the beautiful flower arrangements, Tracy Capal, Diane Mayne and Kim Barlow for their help with the raffle, Marlene Spencer who took the photographs on the night, Phil, who took photos during the day.

I would like to thank everyone for their kindness, for all the gifts, cards and messages. I am again overwhelmed by everyone’s generosity

1st Place - Jackie Catlow

Elaine Clark, Jackie Catlow and Sophie Powell

All prize winners

Foundation Ladies - First time on the Golf Course

25 June 2012

The Foundation ladies have been practicing hard and today was their first day on the course. We all played 4 holes and they were all fantastic !

Explaining the scorecard and how to mark the score

From Left to Right - Jacqui Mills, Karen Clayton, Denise Schofield and Andrea Whipp

Longest Day Golf Challenge (72 holes)

18 June 2012

The morning after the day before and I am pleased to say that my legs, arms and shoulders are still working and I don’t feel too bad.

It was a memorable day for my challenge, the weather was fantastic for once and the golf for the most part was pretty good. I started my day at 05:00 hours and completed my challenge at 20:00 hours

All 4 rounds took between 3 hours and 3 hours 10 minutes for each 3 ball. The men that played have never been around the course so fast! All playing groups let me through straight away; it was like a parting of the waves. The visiting golf society were fantastic, they gave me £50 and ensured that everyone playing didn’t hold me up at all.

I am completely overwhelmed by everyone’s support and generosity for this challenge and I cannot thank you all enough. I would like to thank all the people that played with me and also caddied for me yesterday, they really kept me going throughout the day with a lot of laughs

I would particularly like to thank the following people

Phil (my long suffering partner who was a little treasure yesterday)

Andrew Schofield (who ably assisted Phil)

Trevor and Diane Mayne who donated 2 sleeves of Prov V1 golf balls for me to use for this challenge (and I only lost one !)

Dave Smith who was already at the golf club at 4.30a.m. when I arrived to take pictures of me before I set off and who was there on the 18th for my 72 hole

Barbara Whiting who appeared just before I started my first round of golf and was there to cheer me on my 72nd hole

Jenny Colley and Margery Ball who both appeared on my 71st hole and walked the last 2 holes

Marlene Spencer who was there to cheer me on my 72nd hole

Keith Hough, Mary Hough (who fancied a little wander), Bev Dodd and Janet Wakefield who took the early shift. Keith and Mary were also there to see me complete my 72nd hole

Jennifer Fallows, Tracy Capal (who had the cheek to par the 6th and 15th holes) and
Margery Ball who played/caddied on the second round.

John Collinson (who was miffed as I outdrove him on every hole except 1 hole) , Alan and Rita Bottomley who played the third round

Kim Barlow, Kath and Martin Broderick who played/caddied in the final round

I am pleased to report that I managed to raise £1,533 in online and offline donations which is really fantastic (http://www.justgiving.com/Karen-Clayton2012 )

Our first round of golf at 05:00 hours

First round completed ! Still looking OK

On the first tee - Second Round

18th Green - third round completed and still looking OK (surprisingly)

1st tee on the final round

Final putt for PAR on the 72nd hole - will I make it ?

Nailed !

One happy girl, very relieved I made it !