| 7 May 2008 |
Jubilee jubilation for Nicola TEENAGER Nicola
Chilcott won the ladies' May Medal for the Jubilee Cup at Tiverton on
Wednesday.
The youngster posted a one-under nett 73 in the sunshine to get her
handicap cut from 30 to 29.
Jackie Leonard topped the Silver Division on 74, which earned her a
handicap reduction from 17 to 16, while ladies' captain Gail Stuckey was
cut 23 to 22 after winning Bronze Division One with 75.
Results: Silver Division – 1 Jackie Leonard (91-17=74); 2 Judy
Phripp (96-19=77); 3 Hannah Grant (79-2=77). Bronze Division One – 1 Gail
Stuckey (98-23=75); 2 Joan Reed (100-24=76); 3 Anto Hajduk (104-27=77).
Bronze Division Two – 1 Nicola Chilcott (103-30=73); 2 Karen Allsopp
(110-36=74); 3 Kathryn Hall (109-33=76).
Jim Walton and Hannah Grant fired 42 stableford points to win the Kyle
Trophy mixed competition on Bank Holiday Monday.
The event was played in greensomes format, with partners drawn out.
Captain Peter Boax, who celebrated steering Tiverton into the second round
of the Palairet Trophy the day before, finished second with youngster
Mollie Budden on 39 while Malcolm Eden and Charlotte Snow were third with
38.
There were three twos, for Mike Jewell and Jane Walton on the 4th, Boax
and Budden on the 14th and Keith Chilcott and Joan Reed on the 14th. |
| 4 May 2008 |
Tivvy edge through in Palairet
TIVERTON
moved through to the second round of the Palairet Trophy after a
hard-fought 3-2 victory over Okehampton at Dawlish Warren on Sunday.
Third pair Jason Frost (5) and Kelvin Woodgate (7) hit back from a bad
start, when they went three down after three, to beat Del Owen (6) and
Malcolm Hosper (10) and secure the clinching point.
The Tiverton duo won the 7th and 8th to get back to
one down and went ahead early in the back nine.
Their opponents found a bush on the par-three 16th and a half
in bogey fives on the 17th was good enough for Frost and
Woodgate to seal a 2 and 1 win.
Okehampton picked up the first point of the day when their second pair of
Harry
Hawking (6) and Keith Harkness (8) disposed of Tony Allsopp (4) and
debutant Ben Wessely (6).
The Tiverton pair were not firing on all cylinders but, two down on the
par-5 12th, looked like getting back to one when their
opponents went over the back and found a precarious spot.
A great chip turned the tables and instead Okehampton went three up,
before they won two of the next three holes to secure a 5 and 3 victory.
First pair Chris Audin (2) and Jim Bray (4) brought Tiverton level but
were made to work for their 3 and 1 win against John Mansell (4) and Chris
Hurley (6).
Debutant Audin and Bray birdied the first two holes and were level par and
four up after 10, but they struggled to put their opponents away.
Mansell and Hurley got it back to one down before pars for Audin and Bray
on the 15th and 17th made the difference.
Ollie Taylor (5), in fine form out of bunkers, and Mark Sangster (7),
celebrating his 48th birthday, were Tiverton's biggest winners
of the day.
They lost the 1st to Martin Cox (8) and debutant Phil Martin
(10) but won the next two to go ahead and were three up after nine.
Victories on the 11th and 12th, both par-5s,
increased the advantage and a half on the 14th earned them a 5
and 4 triumph.
The win for Frost and Woodgate meant the result did not ride on the final
game between Tiverton's Bob Tye (6) and James Lambden (9) and Okehampton's
Dave Bickle (8) and Barry Down (11).
Tye and Lambden were two up after two but were left frustrated by a ruling
on the 9th, when their opponents seemed to take an incorrect
drop from a rabbit scrape.
The Tiverton duo were two down with three to play before winning the 16th
and 17th but, with the overall result already decided, they
went out of bounds on the last and lost one down.
Forecasts of rain proved wide of the mark but despite the fine, breezy
conditions, some bare lies and tough pin positions near the edge of
virtually every green made Dawlish a stern test.
Okehampton lost in the first round to the eventual champions in 2006 and
2007, and Tiverton hope that sequence continues as they chase their first
ever Palairet title.
Peter Boax's men now face a tie against Yelverton in the second round
after the Dartmoor side put out recent three-time champions Teignmouth at
Bigbury on Sunday.
The captain hopes key men Simon Waddington and Richard Jessop will be fit
for the June 1 showdown.
Waddington is unlikely to make it as he is still struggling with a back
problem, which has been confirmed by a scan, but Jessop is back in action
after a shoulder injury.
Tiverton also take on Okehampton in the Mail on Sunday knock-out
tournament on Thursday evening and may meet in the juniors' Basil Steer
Trophy as well.

Tiverton's Palairet Trophy squad, who beat Okehampton 3-2
at Dawlish Warren on Sunday, are (back row, from left) caddie Mike Holder,
reserve Matt Woodgate, Ollie Taylor, Tony Allsopp, Kelvin Woodgate, Jason
Frost and reserve Andy Alford; and (front) Mark Sangster, Ben Wessely, Jim
Bray, captain Peter Boax, James Lambden, Chris Audin and Bob Tye.
Ollie
Taylor warmed up for the Palairet Trophy tie against Okehampton by hitting
an excellent nett 65 to win the men's Amory Cup on Saturday.
The teenager made it a double by also winning the Amory Scratch Cup with
his gross 71, which cut his handicap from six to five.
Tony Sykes came second and took the Division Two prize after a nett 66
while John Hanson, playing in the last group of the day, was third overall
on 67.
Results: Division One – 1 Ollie Taylor (71-6=65); 2 John Hanson
(82-15=67); 3 Andy Alford (77-9=68); 4 John Sargeant (75-7=68); 5 Ricky
Cruse (86-18=68); 6 Graham Dyson (81-12=69). Division Two – 1 Tony
Sykes (93-27=66); 2 Ian Budden (91-20=71); 3 Tom Pilling (91-19=72); 4
Russell Jarman (100-28=72); 5 Shaun Hughes (92-19=73); 6 William Dunn
(92-19=73).
The
ladies' President's Trophy I team beat East Devon 5-2 and halved 3½-3½
with Okehampton.
Sheila Ball won 8 and 7 and Judy Phripp triumphed 7 and 6 against East
Devon, to add to victories for Sue Norris, Jackie Leonard and Annette
Cardwell, while Rachel Bray and Carolyn Maynard both lost on the 18th.
Against Okehampton, Cardwell, Maynard and Ball won, Phripp halved and
Norris, Bray and Leonard lost.
The
ladies' President's Trophy II team lost 5-2 in their first match of the
season at Sidmouth.
Liz Hall (6 and 5) and Pat Higgins (3 and 2) were the winners but Phyllida
Dunn, Rosemary Perry, Chris Bacon, Ivy Radford and Alison Kelland all
lost. |
| 01 May 2008 |
Jess lands Devon
ladies hat-trick
TIVERTON'S new
England girls player Jessica Bradley came away with three prizes after
another fine performance in the weather-interrupted Devon Ladies'
Championship at Bigbury.
The 15-year-old came third in the qualifying stages, won the under-18s
scratch prize and picked up a trophy for reaching the semi-finals.
Friday's qualifying was reduced from 36 holes to 29 after a sea mist
rolled in on the South Hams coast and caused a two-hour stoppage.
Bradley, who completed six holes of the morning round before the delay,
returned to post a four-over gross 76 and then scored 47 over 11 holes in
the afternoon.
The six-over total of 123 qualified her for the knock-out stages in third
place – four behind the winner, Exeter's Julia Norman.
She took on Royal North Devon's Georgina Snow in Saturday's first round
and won on the third play-off hole after being two down with two to play.
Bradley won the last two to make it all square, halved the 19th
with a birdie, the 20th with a par and then triumphed on the 21st.
Her afternoon quarter-final with Sally Charnock proved to be more
comfortable as she took out the Saunton player 7 and 6.
She returned on Sunday to meet Yelverton's Kayleigh Cann in the
semi-finals – and yet again the fog came in to disrupt play.
Bradley returned from a three-hour delay to win the 13th to go
all-square and after it remained level after 18, Cann took the match on
the 19th.
The under-18s scratch trophy Bradley collected at the prizegiving was
newly donated by the Devon ladies' captain – fellow Tiverton member Sue
Persey.
Meanwhile, Cann lost the final 2 and 1 to new county champion Charlotte
Dommett, of Torquay.
The ladies
played their April Par in the rain on Wednesday and Chris Bacon topped the
scoring with -1.
Bacon qualified for the Kirkman Dish alongside Hannah Grant, Shirley Ward,
Marian Stevens and Kathryn Hall.
Results: Silver Division – 1 Hannah Grant (-3); 2 Jackie Leonard
(-4); 3 Sheila Ball (-5). Bronze Division One – 1 Chris Bacon (-1);
2 Shirley Ward (-3); 3 Marian Stevens (-3). Bronze Division Two – 1
Kathryn Hall (-3); 2 Karen Allsopp (-7). |