Ladies’ Section
Welcome
Ross on Wye G.C. has a thriving Ladies’ section with approx 500 ladies, that includes some social members who have retired from golf.
Competitions
Tuesday is Ladies Competition day, with a time sheet, and playing mostly in twos. On average 50 ladies take part, competing for many and various cups and trophies, plus the LGU medals.
Ross Ladies are affiliated to the North Gloucestershie and District League. In a very competitive league, the Ladies have two teams, A and B, fielding 9 ladies in each, playing head to head, and visiting many Cotswold clubs. There are County Competitions and Events and one lady plays for the County Second Team.
There is also a friendly team of higher handicaps playing 4BBB matches and visiting other local clubs.
General
The Ladies’ Section has it’s own Committee headed by the Ladies’ Captain, this year being Mrs. Wilma Macnamara, and deals with everything appertaining to the ladies section.
Lady Captain’s Day is a very friendly Event and supported by most of the ladies.
Each year the Ladies’ Captain has an Away Day to a course of her choice, and the Past Captains also have a day to visit another course.
Two Coffee Mornings are held in the year, the proceeds of which help towards the Ladies’ Captains’ Charity.
The ladies are always ready to help with events connected to the club, be it flower arranging (on a weekly basis), helping in reception on open days, or ball spotting on special occasions.
There are the annual nail- biting matches against the gentlemen and the senior gentlemen.
There are ladies Bronze and Silver open days ,a Ladies’ AM-AM and a Senior Ladies’ AM - AM Spring and Autumn meetings are held
After the final Trophy Competition in October the competitions on a Tuesday are mostly fun competitions for the Winter Months where handicaps are mixed whenever possible.
In November the Ladies’ AGM is held and the new Ladies’ Captain takes over, with a fun day for her drive-in. Ladies help to decorate the clubhouse for Christmas and a nine hole comp and Christmas lunch.
Golf and Social News
Past Lady Captains Lunch
On Friday 27th April the present Lady Captain, Wilma Macnamara hosted the Past Lady Captains from Ross Golf Club for 9 holes of golf and lunch. It was wonderful to see 22 ladies who enjoyed an excellent round of golf followed by a delicious lunch provided, as always by the club steward Trevor.
Tewksbury Park
Monday 23rd April was another glorious day for the Helen Palmer, Jill Oates, Shan Powell, Joan Malim, Alison Harvey, Lin Bennett, Dinah Johnston, Chris Crane and Di Honey who travelled to play Tewkesbury Park in the Alliance League despite some closely fought games the ladies lost 5.4.
Spring Meeting
Tuesday 8th May was the Spring Meeting for the Ladies of Ross Golf Club. 63 ladies went out to play a Stableford. The gross score prize in the Silver Division went to Jean Reynolds with 84 and in the Bronze Division to Maureen Turner with 96. The Silver Stableford was won by Wilma Macnamara with 36 points, second was Val Watts with 34 and Christa Wolf was third, after count back, with 33 points. In the Bronze Division Joan Punnett was first, after count back with 34 points, with Pam Duke second also with 34 points. Norma Hebdon was third with 33 points. Nearest the pin on the 12th in the Silver Division was won by Jean Reynolds and Dorothy Rees won the Bronze Division on the 7th. Jane Teague was delighted to win the Bronze Lady awarded for the best gross score to a lady with a handicap of 30 – 36.
Salver Competition
26 pairs of ladies entered the J.Salver competition. The Cup was given in memory of Shirley Jones who was a member of Ross Golf Club from 1990-1997. Winners of the competition were Helen Palmer and Alison Harvey with a score of 35 points. The County Greensomes were also played on the same day and the winners of this competition were Wilma and Erica with 34 points and Jenny Eckersley and Dorothy Green in second place with 29 points.
The ladies enjoyed and extremely good day out on the Lady Captain’s Away day, when they took a trip to the seaside to play golf at Weston-super-Mare. They fortunately found a window in the rather wet weather that we have recently experienced and everyone enjoyed the opportunity to play this very different course.
Ross A and B teams recently both played against Cotswold Hills in the Alliance League, with mixed results, unfortunately the A Team lost 6 ½ to 2 ½, but the B team faired better with a 6 to 3 win.
The monthly LGU and Club Medal was played on Tuesday with a good turn out of 60 ladies playing. Denise Laird won the Silver Section with a gross score of 89 net 70 with Dinah Johnston in second place with gross 85 net 71. In the Bronze Section Maureen Turner was first with a gross 94 net 72 and Margaret Farr in second place with a gross 103 net 73. Helen Palmer was the overall gross winner with a score of 78 strokes.