SOCIETY of LADY CAPTAINS of KENT GOLF CLUBS

President - Sheila Ball
Captain - Ann Lake
Vice Captain - Janet Alldread
Treasurer - Sylvia Worboys
Secretary - Val Harrison
 Immediate Past Captain - Sue Batchelor

                                                     2012  FIXTURES

AGM -  Monday 5 March  – Weald of Kent Golf Club
Spring Meeting - Tuesday 10th April – Sundridge Park Golf Club
Cobnuts Monday - 18th June – Kings Hill Golf Club
Autumn Meeting -  Monday 17th September - Weald of Kent Golf Club
Kent Captains v Kent Girls - Monday 22nd October - Sundridge Park Golf Club

                                      REPORTS
                                   AGM 7th March
We held our 50th Annual General Meeting and luncheon on Monday, 7 March 2011 at the Weald of Kent Golf Club where 174 ladies enjoyed lunch and listened to a very interesting and enlightening speech by Mrs Linda Bayman, Performance Director of the English Women’s Golf Association about the changes in women’s golf.
Photographs attached (from the left in cream jacket) Jean Stirling our retiring President; Linda Bayman, EWGA; Sheila Ball our new President and Ann Lake, Captain plus a shot of the dining room uitably decorated!

                                          SPRING MEETING
                                18th April - Redlibbets Golf Club
1st - The Armada Dishes - Janet Alldread (Sundridge Park) &
Ann Greatorex (Royal Blackheath) 43pts
2nd – The Major Cups – Ingrid Long (Sundridge Park) &
Pat Styant (Royal Blackheath) 43pts
3rd – Theodora West and Sheila Pitt (Shortlands) 42pts
4th – Lesley Willcocks and Avril Fenwick (Sidcup) 42pts
5th - Beverley Drake and Jenny Williams (Shortlands) 42pts
NTP’s – Mary Robinson (Chestfield) & Julie King (Rochester & Cobham)

Sheila Ball

Ann Lake

Janet Alldread

The Society was founded in 1960 as a result of a conversation between Mrs Ursula Urquhart of Rochester and Cobham Park and Miss Dorothy Lammin of Littlestone. Mrs Urquhart was unhappy about not being eligible to play in the London Lady Captains’ meetings as her club was outside their boundary and she thought it would be good to have a similar society in Kent. Past and current captains of Kent clubs were contacted and six ladies across the county were co-opted onto the committee. Wanda Morgan was invited to be President, Miss Norah Holland of Littlestone and Folkestone became Captain, Mrs Urquhart became Hon Secretary and Miss Lammin became Hon Treasurer. The Society have an AGM and luncheon in early March each year and have a Spring and Autumn Meeting as well as a Cobnuts meeting for members of 65 and over.
Membership of the Society is open to all past and present Captains of Kent Golf Clubs – for further details please contact Ann Lake (email: philannlake@talktalk.net).

SOCIETY HISTORY

COBNUTS
Boughton Golf Club - 8th June

st – Cobnuts Salvers – Pat Davoodbhoy and Jenny Critchley (Rochester & Cobham) 36 points
2nd – Gill Poulter and Betty Galbraith (Sundridge Park) 35 points
3rd – Jennifer Lukes and June Tompkins (Mid Kent GC) 35 points
4th – Pauline Creighton and Rhona Hunter (Canterbury) 33 points
NTP’s – Pat Davoodbhoy (Rochester & Cobham Park) and Sue Batchelor (Rochester & Cobham)
2’s pot – Shirley Dunlop and Jean Macridge (Dartford) and Lesley Willcocks and Joan Whitehead (Sidcup)

SLCKGC v KENT MEN CAPTAINS
West Kent GC - 19th August

1st Colin Smith and Marion Sellar 
2nd Harry Wanless and Judie Smith
3rd Robin Fullager and Christine Steed

This is our annual match, format American Greensomes Stableford with ladies and men pairing up and either playing as a pair in the ladies team or the mens team. Result was the mens team won. It was a lovely sunny afternoon and the men looked after the ladies extremely well. At the end of a very enjoyable day and at the following dinner to commemorate our 50th Anniversary, the mens Captain, Harry Sargent presented Ann Lake with an inscribed gavel.

50TH ANNIVERSARY GOLF DAY
Rochester & Cobham GC - 8th September

Every golf club in Kent was invited to send a representative who is a member of the Society to take part in a 4BBB competition to celebrate our 50th Anniversary. Pairs were randomly drawn and around 70 ladies took part. Although the weather was overcast and rather chilly, rain held off and everyone very much enjoyed the golf as well as the luncheon in the clubhouse afterwards.

Photographs attached, one of our prize table exhibiting photographs of the lady founder members, as well as one of Barbara Shepherd, past President with the winning pair, Ann Lake, past Captain of Redlibbets and Jane Ingram past Captain, Wrotham Heath and Wildernesse

AUTUMN MEETING
 Royal Cinque Ports - 12th October

1st The Armada Dishes - Jenny Knight and Hilary Burdis (Nizels) 41 pts
2nd The Anne Vines Cups - Julia Martin-Harper and Dawn Irving (The Ridge) 40 pts
3rd Diana Reese (Wildernesse) and Jacky Taylor (Nizels) 39 pts
4th Amanda Rose and Denise Carr (Nizels) 39 pts
5th Sue McGavin (Boughton) and Robyn Judd (Lamberhurst) 38 pts
NTP’s 4th Robyn Judd (Lamberhurst), 14th Penny Perkins (Chestfield)
Hole in one (8th) Chris Lohan (Mid Kent)

SLCKGC v KCLGA JUNIOR GIRLS

A team of 12 lady members of the Society played in
the annual match against a team of Kent Junior girls at
Knole Park Golf Club on the 24th October..
It was a close fought battle with the Girls just winning
by 3 1/2 - 2 1/2. 3 matches going to the 18th.
The match is in its 14th year and we are sorry to report
that the result is 11 wins to the Juniors and only 3 to
the SLCKGC. Perhaps next year??
We thank Knole Park for
allowing us courtesy of
the course.