Royal North Devon Match Report

On the 9th September 2022, 17 of our members made the 4 hour journey down to Royal North Devon Golf Club in Westward Ho! to take part in our historic annual fixture as the 2nd and 3rd oldest club in England. This is a two day match with the winning club taking away the trophy, made by Royal North Devon member, Graham Bowden, from a piece of driftwood and a porthole retrieved from ship that had run aground in Bideford Bay!

We travelled down on Friday morning to play our practice round which was slightly damp (understatement of the year) but most of us managed to get round the full 18. Well done to Adam Lamb for winning the practice day with a great score of 37 points in the conditions!

Unfortunately, we are obliged to feed back the results of the match so…. both Saturday and Sunday had 8 fourball better ball matches. Day 1 finished 5.5 - 2.5 to RND with the winning pairings being Adam Lamb & Dave Groom and Mark Proud & Calum Bavin and the halved match coming from John Prigg and Gordon Hay. Suffering from slightly sore heads, day 2 didn’t go as well finishing 7.5 - 0.5 to RND, with John Prigg and Jim Boyes securing the only half - well done to John for being the only unbeaten member of LSGC’s 17-man strong team!

The weekend was fantastic as usual and thank you to RND for being such wonderful hosts. Looking forward to seeing you all again for the return match in May!

Inaugural Joint Event between LSGC and WCGC

On the August Bank Holiday on Monday, LSGC hosted the inaugural joint competition with WCGC. The day was a great success with the team of Charlie Matthews, Tommy Tighe, Sarah Waller and Andy Ryan coming out on top with a fantastic score of 114 points.

The format for the day was best two scores of the fourball count on each hole apart from the five par 3's, where the pressure was on and every score counted! Thank you to the three Captains for organising such a memorable day, Adam and his team for putting on a wonderful selection of food as usual and Ian and his team for getting the course in stunning condition despite the incredibly dry conditions they have been faced with.

“I have heard nothing but good feedback and positive comments from the ladies who played”
— Jackie - WCGC Ladies Captain

We're looking forward to next year already!

2022 Club Championship

Wonderful weather dawned on us for the Club Championship; Ian Jennings and the greenkeeping team presented the course in flawless condition with beautifully defined fairways, tricky pin placements and true, fast greens!

Just under 60 members competed on the day, and the winner of the Club Championship trophy was Kevin Metcalfe for a second year in a row, with a very solid score of 73 + 73 = 146. The runner up was LSGC Captain David Paul.
The Silver Jubilee Trophy, for the best aggregate score on handicap over the two rounds, went to David Groom who beat Nigel Cattle countback, with a nett score of 140.
The Gordon Coombs Trophy is awarded to the player, with a handicap of 10 and over, with the best scratch score over the two rounds. This was won by long standing member John Prigg with a 166 combined total. The 18 hole stableford event was won by Richard Flood with a total of 40 stableford points.

Adam and his team put on some fantastic food for all the competitors and a big thank you must also go to John for expertly acting as a starter and Joe for producing the scoreboard and helping with entering the scores on the day. Adam and his team also produced an excellent summer buffet.