Above top: Isla Hinsley, Annabel Hinsley, Millie Newman and Super helper David Hinsley.
Above bottom: Barnaby Main, Jago Hall and Sam Warrick.
Above: Eva Newman and Arthur Nott Bower.
Team above: l to r: Oban Robinson, Kai Dingle, Alfie Chapman, Jack Jolliff, Bobby Godfrey and Harry Jolliff.
St Enodoc’s Juniors, Winners of the Junior Maxam at home on the Holywell.What a Team and what a win for these inspiring young Juniors, that I, the Junior Committee, their parents and the Club, couldn’t be any prouder of.A great way to nearly, end the year, and another win to add to the list of achievements.More detail can be found here https://www.cornwallgolfunion.org.uk/news.php?newsitem=1559
It’s something that not all adults have achieved, but new Junior Member, 8 year old Oliver Mackay got a hole-in-one on the 5th of the Holywell Course today! When asked how he managed it, he said “the ball just spun into the hole”!
Congratulations from everyone at St Enodoc, and thank you for the round of drinks (non-alcoholic for Oliver, of course)
(Oliver receiving his hole-in-one certificate from General Manager, George Tunbridge)
Bobby receiving his prize.
Kai Dingle, Oban Robinson and Bobby Godfrey (U18’s Cornwall Junior Autumn Meeting winner) with their prizes.
Well done to Oli Hanton, one of the 6 young players in the Team, with the winning trophy and his plate
Well done you fab Juniors.
Tom Richards, Quinn Bateman, Junior Captain Jack Jolliff, Bobby Godfrey and Alfie Chapman.
Daisy Lane, picked play for Cornwall and travels with the her Team mates to Cumberwell Park, for an eventful for few days.
Everyone at the Club is wishing Bobby Godfrey many congratulations for winning the Cornwall Golf Union U14 County Championship. Pictured below.
Well done also to St Enodoc member Alfie Chapman who finished tied for 2nd place. The full results can be viewed by clicking on this link.
Cornwall U14s at Erlestoke, Wiltshire
Back row: Oliver Lawrence, Harry Faull, Harrison Gurd, Jack Jolliff, Bobby Godfrey
Front: Ethan Kinski, Rory Hudson, Alfie Chapman
Cornwall U-14’s including three of our upcoming Juniors had an impressive away win over Wiltshire recently. The full report may be seen here https://www.cornwallgolfunion.org.uk/news.php?newsitem=1505
Foursomes Stableford 1/2 combined
Well done to Shane and Will Dingle who won the Buse Shield, with a great score of 43pts.
2nd Lee and Quinn Bateman 39pts
3rd Paul and Matthew Warren 37pts (cb)
With was some tough competition and most of our Juniors now driving so many of the greens, there were bound to be some high scores!
Thank you to everyone who partnered a Junior to make this competition possible.
Shane and Will Dingle
Lee and Quinn Bateman, Shane and Will Dingle, Matthew and Paul Warren.
Holly Justice won the Surrey Girls under 15 title played at Reigate Hill GC in such difficult conditions that it was reduced to 27 holes due to torrential rain. Holly was lucky in that she was playing the 28th hole, before play was halted, and lost her ball only to find it after the 3 minutes were up !
Thursday 30th May on the Holywell Course
Congratulations to this fabulous Young Team, who are very new to competitive golf, let alone Matchplay, 3-4 club freezing cold wind and the rough!
All played in great spirits and all enjoying a sit down meal and chatting about their afternoon and how one player, Leo Facey (St Austell) drove the 17th green!
Well done Everyone.
Sam Hinsley, Alfie Brown, Archie Ball, Eva Newman and Jacob Stone.
The St Austell Team.
Thank you to all those Ladies of St Enodoc, who gave up their time to partner the Juniors in this very popular competition and as I’d expect, the camaraderie and competitiveness was in full swing. Mars bars for nearest the pin were being played for on the par 3’s by two of our Juniors, Tom and Oban!
Out first, were the two Captains, Junior Captain Jack Jolliff with Lady Captain Trudy Tremain playing against Junior Vice Captain Daisy Lane and Past Captain Kath Biddle. Followed by 4 more groups of 4 all playing foursomes Stableford.
Chris Dymond presented the Cup and prizes to Daisy and Kath who won with 37pts and Jack and Trudy 2nd with 36pts and Tom Richards and Suzie Willmott were 3rd with 34pts.
Well done to everyone that took part.
Full results can be found by clicking here
Junior Captain Jack Jolliff, Lady Captain Trudy Tremain, Past Captain Kath Biddle, Chris Dymond, Junior Vice Captain Daisy Lane, Tom Richards and Suzie Willmott.
First and foremost, we want to thank the Cornwall Golf Union and St Enodoc Golf Club for hosting the event and providing excellent food and hospitality to both Devon and Cornwall players throughout the day. We would also like to thank St Enodoc, Steve Chapman, the Devon County U14 / U16 managers, and everyone who worked together to make this fixture possible at such short notice. And we would finally like to extend our thanks to the Devon players, parents and managers for making the trip to Cornwall, both teams were in great spirits and had a friendly but competitive game together.
As a result of the harsh winter weather, all of our golf courses across the county have suffered greatly. We would like to express our gratitude and understanding to St Austell Golf Club, with whom we had the original fixture, but the adverse weather conditions rendered the venue unplayable.
The weather conditions on match day proved to be of two halves. During the morning foursomes, we had persistent rain and moderate breeze. In the afternoon, the rain had given way to strong winds gusting to around 50 mph. Throughout the day, our county boys demonstrated resilience, strength, and determination in the face of the elements, as did a strong-spirited Devon County team. The course was in good condition and played well.
The foursomes pairings were Tommy and Heath, Tiernan and Joab, Alex and Archie and Jay and Sam.
In the morning foursomes Cornwall started off strong with all but the first group holding the lead on the 4th hole Tiernan and Joab 2up, Alex and Archie 1up, Jay and Sam also 1up. Catching up on the 8th hole Tommy and Heath were struggling to find their swing as they were 4 down, Tiernan and Joab were holding their lead and staying 1up, Alex and Archie was playing confidently and extending their lead to 3up, Jay and Sam the home boys doubling their lead to 2up. Moving on through the round the three leading groups became stronger and finishing the foursomes match with Tiernan and Joab winning on the 17th 3&2, Alex and Archie in control ending their match on the 13th by 7&5, Jay and Sam also with a confident finish on the 14th finishing 5&4, Tommy and Heath were having a real battle and brought the match down to the 17th, where the boys shook hands and the match ended 2&1 in Devon’s favour.
At the lunch break Cornwall held a 3 – 1 lead over our neighbours.
A change of kit was required after the mornings heavy rain and this was followed by lunch kindly put on by the catering team at St Enodoc. Then all were ready for the singles matches in the afternoon. As I was the starter in the afternoon matches, I caught up with the boys on the 6th hole Tommy AS, Tiernan 1up, Joab AS, Heath 2up Alex 1up, Archie 1down, Jay 3up, and Sam was 1down.
Moving on to the 12th the wind was getting stronger, but the boys seemed to embrace the conditions. Tommy 1up, Tiernan 2up, Joab AS, Heath 2up, Alex 2up, Archie 3up, Jay 2up and Sam 1 down, as the matches were coming to a close the conditions started to become really challenging with the winds gusting around 50mph but our boys marched on through the elements finishing with Tommy winning 2up, Tiernan winning 2&1, Joab winning 2&1, Heath winning 1up, Alex winning 3&2, Archie winning 5&4. Jay battled on through narrowly losing out on the 16th 3&2, and the final match with Sam Hanton coming from behind to going AS on the 17th and winning his match 1up on the 18th.
Cornwall had taken 7 of the 8 singles on offer and this meant an overall result of Cornwall 10 Devon 2. A super performance by the Duchy Boys!
Cornwall U16 Boys Team: Thomas Miller (Newquay), Tiernan Wallwork (Tehidy Park), Joab Atkins (Trethorne ), Alex Dawson (Perranporth), Archie Haynes (Carlyon Bay), Heath Gillespie (Newquay), Jay Dingle and Sam Hanton (both St Enodoc).
After the recent bad weather Cornwall and Devon Under 14s had a last minute change of venue from St Austell to St Enodoc and instead played their opening Jack Roberts League encounter on the Holywell Course. So a massive thanks to the club for allowing us to play. The course was presented in fantastic condition and the teams were well looked after during the day. The weather when the boys teed off was tough with the breeze getting up to 30-35 mph with rain and wind throughout the morning session.
With 9 holes played in the morning foursomes, it was the St Enodoc pairing of Alfie Chapman and Bobby Godfrey who got Cornwall off to a perfect start winning on the last with a birdie 2 having been 2 up with 3 to play. Next up was the newly formed pairing of Harry Gurd (Perranporth) and Harry Jolliff (St Enodoc) who played well but unfortunately went down 3&2 to Harry Cann and Braydon Cotton. Harry Faull from St Mellion and Rory Hudson from West Cornwall lost 2&1 so it was down to our youngest pairing of Rory Julian (Falmouth) and Oli Hanton (St Enodoc) both making their under 14 debuts to try and make it 2-2 at lunch. They also lost 4&2 so it was all to play for in the afternoon to get a win in the first Jack Roberts league match of the season with Devon leading 3-1.
After a nice break for lunch and some dry clothes it was Harry Gurd who lead the team out for the 8 singles matches with Cornwall needing 5.5 points to get the win. Harry played great and won 4&2 against Harry Cann from Saunton. Alfie Chapman followed this up with a comprehensive win against Will Mulholland winning 5&4. A spirited comeback from Harry Faull in the 3rd match gaining a half point put Cornwall in a commanding position with 9 holes to play. Bobby Godfrey lost the 4th match 2 down after a great game with Archer Johnson. Harry Jolliff got Cornwall back in the driving seat with a great 3&2 win . Rory Julian in the 7th match was well up and won his game with Cyril Gosling. With Cornwall losing the last match (Oli Hanton) it was all down to Rory Hudson to try and find a win in the 6th match for Cornwall to gain a half point. With Rory up most of the way he eventually went down 3/1 to Braydon Cotton.
It was a great first match of the year and congratulations to Devon winning the match 6.5-5.5 and the boys have taken a lot from it. The squad have had some great coaching sessions
over the winter and come a long way and we look forward to the rest of the year. Bobby Godfrey was captain for the day and thanked St Enodoc Golf Club for their hospitality and
congratulated Devon on a fine win. Next match is against Wiltshire in June where we will be looking to get back on track with a win.
Steve Chapman – Team Manager
It is with regret due to Storm Kathleen threatening the safety of both Players and Volunteers that we have decided to cancel tomorrows Junior Open.
We apologise for the late notice.
Well done to all 21 Juniors of all ages and abilities, that played in this very popular format.
1st Jay Dingle, Oban Robinson & Jacob Stone
2nd Kai Dingle, Ben Constable & Annabel Hinsley
3rd Bobby Godfrey, James Godfrey & Will Godfrey
Jack Jolliff takes over as Junior Captain for 2024 and introduces his Vice-Captain, Daisy Lane at the Juniors Presentation Day.
Club Captain, Caroline Hume -Kendall presents the Barbara Robson Trophy to Matthew Warren
Ten teams of three battled it out for this popular Texas scramble competition and the competitiveness was as strong as ever, as we all headed out, hoping to get in before the down pour!
Well done to Kai Dingle for winning the Godfrey Scratch Cup (79 gross) and to Tom Richards for winning the Nett Cup (62 nett) for the second year running.
The standard of golf played and the scores that came in were very impressive considering the greens are very trying at the moment!
Three juniors came in with a gross 79! Kai Dingle, Bobby Godfrey & Alfie Chapman.
Pictured are Meg and Keith Godfrey presenting the cups to the winners.
Results can be viewed by clicking on this link.
Maria Buckley
Junior Organiser
