Walton Heath Golf Membership in Surrey have been topped the primary ever winners of the English Ladies’s Champion Membership after beating 17 different groups at St Ives Golf Membership.
Nicola Taylor and 14-year-old twins Annabel Peaford and Emily Peaford helped their crew win the occasion by 14 photographs forward of Ganton Golf Membership. Emily’s 74 and 67, together with sister Annabel’s pair of 70s throughout each days, helped them to a snug victory.
In second place was Ganton’s Staveley, Sara Gilmore and Heather Butcher with Northamptonshire County’s Hattie Billson, Lila Bissett and Olivia Holioak Church in third place. Eighteen golf equipment represented every of their counties on the first annual Ladies’s Champion Membership, with three gamers from every membership enjoying 18 holes on every of Saturday and Sunday, and the 2 finest scores from three gamers on every day counting.
Nevertheless it was a very extraordinary match due to the course file for his or her class being damaged not simply as soon as, however 3 times over the 2 days.First it was Walton Heath’s Annabel Peaford with a 70 (-2) on day one, earlier than Ganton’s Amy Staveley made 69 (-3) on the second day. Nonetheless, Annabel’s twin sister Emily broke the file simply two hours later, with an eagle and 4 birdies on her solution to 67 (-5). Emily’s astonishing eagle included a shocking 257-yard drive on the par 4 thirteenth gap, which completed only a foot from the pin for a tap-in.
She mentioned: “I used to be excited as a result of I knew I might attempt to drive it however on the primary spherical I hit right into a bush! The second day I used to be simply pondering to get it to the inexperienced for a birdie or par and it ended up a foot away from the flag. It was superb! I’ve by no means had a hole-in-one and I do know fairly a number of who’ve, together with my sister, so hopefully I’ll have one sooner or later!”
Emily and Annabel weren’t conscious of Annabel’s course file on the Saturday till they arrived for the ultimate day of motion. Emily continued: “It was unusual, we didn’t realise it was the course file on Saturday, it was solely after we acquired to the course on the second day. No person had informed me, so afterwards when folks mentioned I had taken the file away from my sister, it was fairly pleasing. She’s had a very good season and overtaken me, so it was good to get again at her with that one!”
Much more remarkably, Emily has now damaged two course information in every week, with a shocking -9 at North Hants Golf Membership simply 5 days earlier than her St Ives success. She admitted: “It was a Justin Rose Each day Telegraph Qualifier on the Tuesday morning and I didn’t play too nicely so I didn’t qualify, however within the afternoon it was a Stableford competitors, so I attempted to play freely. I birdied the primary three holes, earlier than an eagle on the 4th and one other birdie on the fifth. I used to be six-under by means of 5 however one bogey on 7 introduced me all the way down to earth earlier than a pleasant eagle on the 18th! I completed with 45 factors to win it which, off scratch, I wasn’t anticipating. One of many eagles was a par 4, the place I drove it over the again of the inexperienced and chipped in! There has clearly been some wind serving to however I’ve undoubtedly gained a ways in the previous few months.”
Commenting on the inaugural Ladies’s Champion Membership occasion, Emily, mentioned: “All of us labored actually exhausting and there’s at all times such environment at Walton Heath so to convey a crew collectively to not simply play within the first yr of the Ladies’s Champion Membership, however to win it, was superb! The occasion was nice as was the membership, the course and the environment.”
