Captain’s Charity Day

Cricket St Thomas Golf Club

SENIORS SECTION

Part of CST Open Week

Monday Ladies

Wednesday Seniors

Friday Everyone, S/M/L/J

Sunday Mixed Pairs

Largest Golfing extravaganza since the Ryder Cup was played at Vivary Park

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OPEN WEEK 2024

Monday 15th July: Ladies Southwest Rally - £26.00 per Format: 6 players per team (playing in 2 teams of 3)

Stableford, best 2 scores from 3 per hole.
Scores from both teams added together.
Handicap limit: 36
Allowance: 85%
Buffet after your round of golf.

Wednesday 17th July: Seniors Captain's Charity Day - £30.00 per person ( Home Teams)

Format: 4BBB (4 teams of 2)

Coffee and bacon roll on arrival and one course meal after your round.

Maximum Playing handicap: 28 (over 55's only)

Raising funds for the Senior Captain's Charity - SSAFA.

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Friday 19th July:  Four Person Texas Scramble - £25.00 per person

Format: Texas scramble (men, ladies, seniors and juniors)

Maximum 2 juniors per team. White (men) and Red (ladies).

One course meal after your round of golf.

Sunday 21st July: Mixed Pairs Open - £25.00 per person

Format: Greensomes stableford.

60%/40% handicap allowance. 28 (Men) 36 (Ladies)

One course meal after your round of golf.

All Bookings via CST Club Website - Open Competitions

65+ Charity Golf Competition 2023

in aid of

What a Day as Storm Agnes threatened to blow away the Gazebos and all those lovely cakes. But we got away with it as rain finally arrived as some 90 People sat down for a Buffet Lunch.

Committee were up there at 06:30 to prepare as registration with Quinny started at 07:30 with the Branchflowers running the raffle.
We missed Dickie & Jenny hall up there - get well soo both of you.

Nice to see lots of old friends, Tim Ackland, Mike King, Stuart Forbes etc

Once again you all came up trumps with the raffle
..and plenty of sponsorships prizes 'organised' by Dave Walgrove & Clive

Then it was  time to head off to the Starting Holes - with the much-fancied 'Team England'  starting on the 7th - after a 30 minute pep-talk from Manager Jim Lauchlan - whoe lovely smile lasted for nearly 4 minutes..until that first 'whoosh'..

At EVERY HOLE WAS A SPONSOR RAISING SOME £1,600 ALONE !!

THANK YOU ALL 

As usual, lots of Cakes.

Everywhere were chances for an ACE - from Cash to Holidays to Club memberships

The Ladies of the Air ambulance had another Cake Stand with the ever-popular Pope cider

Steve Holt fires one to 5th Green as clouds lingered but retained their wetness for those further North.

Around Midday it was all over for the earlies as they saw their fine 54  sit in 2nd place on Leader Board..but at the TOP of the Par 3 Competition.

Dennis, Jeremy, Gordon & David

We were delighted with the continued support of Poundbury Wealth Management who sponsored  a hole and the Hole-In One Prize. New Girl Kirsty is taking over from Katie and seen here presenting Phil Hunt with the Large Bottle of Red Wine for winning the Registration Draw.

It could not have gone to a more worthy Liver...sorry Winner !

Farmer Bob looking particularly impressed with the Buffet !

Lots now began to happen..starting with Sir Clive who put his heart & Soul into boosting the fund-raising - earning a special Thank You from the Skipper.

Another £200 was raised by the Auction of a Henry Hoover....

just kidding..Henry Vacuum Cleaner generously donated by Numatic and The Hamper donated by Dickie & Jenny Hall

Dave got mighty close on 3rd hole to an Ace, with his ball stopping 16 inches from the pin.

Mark Kilpatrick was closest on 13th - with Paul England just falling 5 centimeters further away - as Captain had supplied measuring tapes on every hole.

Paul was last to play in his group as JKP was in bunker, Jim was even shorter and martin thumped an iron onto left band. Team England were mighty relieved when Paul put his 8- Iron into heart of green.

Think other NTP's were won by Long Sutton who not surprisingly won the Par 3 Competition by finishing the 5 Holes in just 12 shots.

Team of low handicappers

N Griffiths (9) ; M Hawkins (8); A Lyons (12); R Body (12)

4th Place

winning Ironing Board covers were The Earlies

Jeremy; David. Dennis & Gordon
..Nett 54


3rd Place
Steve ; Mark; Roger & Clive

All we could hear was 'We need you on this one Steve !"

Nett 53 Scored

2nd Place

and leaders for most of the Day, not a single shot dropped

Ian Hildred; Dougie Oliver; Farmer Bob & Jolly Roger

..so close with Nett 51

And of course the Winners

Nett 49

Steve Sutcliffe; Mark Ward; 

Mark Kilpatrick and Rob Coombs

..and Photo Bomber of the year

PSF

The Captain made a long speech so maybe if he has it in hard copy he can paste it here.  Ladies got special thanks, especially Ruth & Mari who were sat by the par 3's all day adjudicating for the Aces - looking a little chilly at times.

2022 Fund raiser

Captain John Wandless with his Team Members who amassed  174 to win the magnificent Stuart Pope Trophy
Jim Lauchlan, John Pearce, Peter Spencer-Farr, John Wandless, Gordon Brent, David Asquith, Jeremy Blackburn and Danny Dowell 

Lyme Regis were the best Visitors, seen here with Bob Shepherd 
David  Binns, Graham Winter, Martyn England, Graham Pichard, David Lines, Andre Morency & Neil Critchley - 5 of these having been CST / Windwhistle members in in a former life.

Cricket St Thomas Golf Club

SENIORS SECTION

65+ Charity Golf Competition 2021

in aid of

     

Tuesday 24th August 2021

One of Devon's oldest courses, Wrangaton sent 2 Teams to support our Charity Day.

The clear winners on the day were Wrangaton 1, with 158 points.

Bill Purser, Peter Scott, Phil Edwards, Dave Roase, Pete Bryant, 

Steve Bryant, Neil Parker and Pete Barravel.

..with of course the magnificent new Trophy from the mind of Mr Stuart Pope...

Runners-Up were a Team of renegades and Brigands, who were re-named "The Sinners" after their interpretation of the Smart-Casual Dress Code...unlike the vert smart Seniors Captain ... 

The Dress Code was rather a strange one as this is usually a dressy affair as everyone dines together at a formal dinner. This time, with people eating and playing in their groups, meals were served from 13:00 right through to 18:30 as it got warmer & warmer in the Marquee..the reluctance to put on long

SENIOR SECTION

65+ Charity Golf Competition 2020

in aid of

       NHS Together

Thursday 17th September 2020

A day that could have been a success story for our charity event, turned out to be disappointing due to management decision not to allow us to do what other clubs are doing following the same guidelines and yet interpreting it differently to what our club management did. We were not allowed to run raffles, even though we had suggested alternative ways of doing this with no gathering or contact and without handling cash. We had put a lot of efforts to get two hole-in-one prizes which were again ruled against and denied us a substantial amount of funds for our nominated charity. Today (Sat 19^th) it was captain’s day at CST and they had all sorts of money raising competitions such as NTP and if I am not mistaken raffles and other bits and pieces. I will dig out more information very soon and be asking for explanations as to why we were not allowed to do the same.

So far we managed to raise around £2700 which is an excellent amount considering the restrictions we were faced with. We were given the score cards yesterday because they were quarantined for 24 hours. We could have had the results almost instantly on the day if we were allowed to set up our computer and enter results as and when they came in. This would not have put anyone at risk and would have been safer than getting the cards home and recording the scores. Any way it is done and hopefully we will have this awful condition come to an end with emergence of a safe vaccine soon.

I like to thank everyone that contributed to this charity event and am very grateful for your good deeds. Impressions from the visiting teams were very complimentary and they all enjoyed a very nice & pleasant day at CST.

·         I'd like to thank the staff for their hard work and lovely service. Everyone I spoke to were very pleased with the quality of food and the service level.

·         A big thank you to Dave King and his groundsmen for having the course in mint condition. The only minor negative feedback relating to the course was the condition of tees and one or two greens with a hole in the middle. 

·         A big thank you to Lisa for running this event smoothly and efficiently.

·         A special THANK YOU to PAUL MATTHEWS and MARK CORDING for making very generous donations to our charity.  And Finally

·          I'd like to thank Stuart and all those who worked hard to make this event a success. 

Results

The winners of the event were CST team 2 with a total score of 165

The wining pair were Dorset 1 with the score of 45 (B9)

James Siabi Ⓒ

CST Seniors Captain's Charity Results Table
Pairs Rank	Team	Player A	H/C	Player B	H/C	F9	B9	Total	Team Total
5th	CST 2	M Cording	12	R Davis	13	22	22	44	165
6th	CST 2	A Beale	23	K Branchflower	24	20	23	43
19th	CST 2	M Light	23	B Barrow	13	19	22	41
49th	CST 2	I Housham	14	E Paoloni	17	22	15	37
3rd	Wrangaton 2	T Dart	19	A Smith	20	22	23	45	163
10th	Wrangaton 2	D O'Connor	18	B Truscott	27	23	20	43
29th	Wrangaton 2	N Edwards	10	M Daniels	14	19	21	40
57th	Wrangaton 2	G Tremayne	17	M Tremain	17	17	18	35
11th	Dainton	D Singleton	17	D Martyn	15	20	22	42	163
27th	Dainton	J Hobson	18	B Ainsworth	15	22	19	41
33rd	Dainton	B Myers	23	T Sewell	9	21	19	40
35th	Dainton	M Langdon	12	P Kelley	17	22	18	40
4th	Yeovil	J Docherty	13	A Sinclair	18	23	22	45	162
24th	Yeovil	D Brocklebank	14	K Funnell	12	20	21	41
26th	Yeovil	R Bateman	18	G Wallace	13	21	20	41
59th	Yeovil	M Barber	10	H Heard	12	18	17	35
7th	Bridport	K Pereux	27	B Feiron	14	20	23	43	161
25th	Bridport	A Bentley	24	M Kelson	19	21	20	41
45th	Bridport	G Roberts	27	K Rogers	20	17	20	37
34th	Bridport	P Croker	28	G Brown	11	21	19	40
2nd	Honiton	D Scott	13	R Graham	17	21	24	45	160
12th	Honiton	A Neil	24	A Pollock	16	20	22	42
40th	Honiton	D Keen	14	J Birch	18	15	23	38
58th	Honiton	B Underwood	24	J Fleetwood	21	18	17	35
14th	Sidmouth	J White	17	S Nunn	18	22	20	42	160
20th	Sidmouth	P Blay	25	C Brown	22	19	22	41
31st	Sidmouth	M Davis	16	R Seaver	19	20	20	40
46th	Sidmouth	C Paddon	22	B Rice	16	18	19	37
9th	Sinners	N Markby	17	A Davis	18	21	22	43	160
15th	Sinners	S Southgate	9	J Evans	16	22	20	42
30th	Sinners	S Pope	20	A Chance	16	19	21	40
56th	Sinners	P Dewar	16	S Holt	15	17	18	35
17th	Wrangaton 1	D Rowe	26	P Swift	15	18	23	41	156
22nd	Wrangaton 1	P Manning	18	T Dardi	12	20	21	41
47th	Wrangaton 1	P Bryant	9	S Bryant	11	18	19	37
48th	Wrangaton 1	N Parker	13	P Edwards	19	20	17	37
16th	CST 1	D Mugridge	5	R Stone	12	24	18	42	155
23rd	CST 1	J Siabi	13	P Taylor	7	21	20	41
39th	CST 1	R Hall	25	R Sutherland	19	20	19	39
61st	CST 1	B Heath	10	J Pearce	21	17	16	33
13th	Teign Valley 2	B Mountfield	20	S Lewis	19	22	20	42	154
38th	Teign Valley 2	B Skelton	17	B Hathaway	18	19	20	39
42nd	Teign Valley 2	R Cox	18	J Palmer	21	18	20	38
54th	Teign Valley 2	P Duncan	10	R Brigg	20	16	19	35
1st	Dorset 1	J Adhern	9	F Norman	15	18	27	45	152
32nd	Dorset 1	M Dixon	13	R Bassagar	17	20	20	40
55th	Dorset 1	B Drammis	12	D Martin	23	16	19	35
63rd	Dorset 1	P Forster	7	B Allen	19	16	16	32
36th	Dorset 2	D Kimberley	20	D Llewellen	21	18	21	39	152
37th	Dorset 2	G Plant	6	B Gormley	21	18	21	39
44th	Dorset 2	A Giles	15	D Coulson	23	22	16	38
52nd	Dorset 2	M Waterhouse	22	A Painter	16	18	18	36
21st	Teign Valley 1	D Stevens	13	K Sampler	16	20	21	41	149
43rd	Teign Valley 1	S Jones	14	T Ridgewell	8	19	19	38
51st	Teign Valley 1	L Thomas	19	B Gribble	23	18	18	36
60th	Teign Valley 1	P Wengraf	26	A Mercer	26	16	18	34
18th	Axe Cliff	T Atkins	18	B Hanson	25	18	23	41	148
41st	Axe Cliff	P Christmas	25	S Bond	11	17	21	38
50th	Axe Cliff	R Grove	19	G Cox	22	16	20	36
62nd	Axe Cliff	B Polley	17	S Wellington	13	18	15	33
28th	Vivary	C Woodford	13	K Wood	13	17	23	40	146
8th	Vivary	P Nicholls	17	S Baker	12	21	22	43
53rd	Vivary	D Thomas	13	P Vaughan	14	16	19	35
64th	Vivary	S Burn	19	J Fisher	23	18	10	28

 

Lovely touch by Mike Light, remembering Gracie, his love of 62 years whose ashes were scattered at his favourite Golfing Venue in Cornwall last week.

Typical Yorkshire language, but rather more generous that their County men's long held reputation - well done Bryan & Richard....

,,but there were so many more and hopefully we'll get the full list later.

We were finished before Midday and preparing ourselves for a 3 course meal.

Cards were simply dropped into the locked container and we were escorted to our tables where drinks orders were taken...

It is difficult to decide where to start with the Seniors Charity Day because I thought it was a tremendous day but it is for others to judge. I do know that 104 over 65 Seniors played from twelve different clubs, enjoyed a days golf with friends in dry weather,  ate a fine three course meal in lovely surroundings, raised a lot of money for a worthy Charity and went home promising to come back next year.

These days do not happen without a huge effort from a large number of people. Commander in Chief was Stuart Pope who with his adjutant,  Alan Chance put hours of hard work and personal expense into organising the day and deserve all the plaudits and the major credit.

However even they could not do it on their own. Therefore I want to list those principally involved with my warmest thanks.

Donna Adey, Ladies Captain, and the ladies section for handling the registration, doing the raffle and two's comp, manning the two half way huts and baking cakes.

Mick Aldridge for printing the welcome and score cards.

Head Chef Andy and his team for producing a lovely meal.

Dave and the green keepers for presenting our course in its best possible light.

Denise and the Bar and Catering staff who served us with style and a smile.

Sam and Mark in the Pro Shop with, among other things, printing signs and organising seating plans.

Bob Barrow and James Siabi for handling the arduous task of entering the individual scores on the computer and producing the list of winners.

Jenny Chance for the beautiful flower table settings.

Our treasurer Keith Branchflower who keeps superb accounts and makes sense of the monies that were coming at him from all directions.

To Jacqui Hill, a great friend of our section, who supported the event and presented the prizes.

Nick Hill for taking photographs and, as always, helping in every way he can and also to John Pearce for his considerable input with the playing schedule and using the blog to such great effect.

Last but not least to all our wonderful sponsors and generous Seniors who gave money, auction items and raffle prizes. I am told if we raise over 5000 pounds this year we can name a Guide dog puppy, we are well on the way!

A great day. I hope to give, with Keith's help, a final figure for the sum raised on the day for Guide Dogs but in the meantime may I say how proud I was to front such a fine event.

The team results were as follows :

1	Vivary	158
2	The Dorset B	158
3	Cranleigh	153
4	Cricket A	153
5	The Dorset A	151
6	Wrangaton B	150
7	Cheddy/Lyme	146
8	Enmore Park	145
9	Teign Valley	142
10	Stover	139
11	Cricket B	138
12	Oake Manor	124
13	Wrangaton A	113

Individual results were as follows :

1.     Paul Manning and Bryan Truscott – Wrangaton               46 pts

2.     Barrie Heath and John MacOmish – Cricket A Team       44pts

3.     Carl Netto and Jeffrey Saunders    - Enmore Park             44pts

Peter Spencer-Farr Seniors Captain.