Burnham on Crouch Lady Captain, Elaine Mason held her Captain’s Day.

She requested that every lady wear a pink flower to represent the team colours so it was a very colourful field of 44 players.

The course was in excellent condition on a hot sunny day and the scoring had seven ladies within three points of each other.

Results: 18 hole stableford: Nearest pin (5th) - Debs Wolton.

Longest drive: Barbara Church.

Back 9: Dee Wells 20 pts.

Front nine: Linda Sinden 20 pts.

Captains Day Shield: 7 Joyce Leach 37 pts ocb, 6 Liz Clark 37 pts, 5 Hilary Skeens 37 pts, 4 Linda Stevens 38 pts, 3 Anne James 39 pts, 2 Debs Wolton 40 pts ocb, 1 Liz Tolhurst 40 pts.

Nine-hole Burnham scramble: Front nine: R/up Jae Bray, Liz Tolhurst, Linda Stevens, Anne James 32.6; winners: Heather Sullivan, Jeanette Wilson, Linda Stevens, Claire Brown 32.1.

Back nine: R/up: Jane Hull, Debs Wolton, Vera Oates, Chrissy West-Webbe 33.8; Back nine winners: Shelagh Edwards, Elaine Elphinstone, Denise Howat, Hilary Skeens 33.

Over the weekend the men played 36 holes of golf over two days for the Jacqueline Louise Trophy (scratch) and 36-hole stableford.

There were 17 players in contention for the scratch competition and on Saturday there was some surprising scoring with no-one below par.

But scores in the clubhouse were Tom Howard and Mickey Leonard on 72, Ryan Davies and Brian Roche on 74.

On Sunday new names had good scores with Lewis Wilkin scoring an excellent 69 and Paul Hegarty and George Grimes on 73.

Scoring on Sunday was crucial to the overall results.

Results: 1 Lewis Wilkin 147 grs, 2 George Grimes 149 grs, 3 Matt Hawksworth on 150 ocb, 4 Brian Roche and Ryan Davies.

In the stableford competition, with 21 players, scoring was competitive with some high scores meaning handicap reductions.

On the Saturday, Jamie Gold was the leader in the clubhouse having posted 43 points with Fred Banfield on 39 and Roger Miles on 38.

Sunday also saw some high scores with Michael Pratt on 42, Dan Munro on 37 and Jamie Gold with 38. This was enough for Gold to take the trophy with an excellent 81 points.

Michael Pratt was second with 72 and Roger Miles third on 71.

There were very few entries for the midweek medal but Gordon Rolph had a good round scoring 65 and cutting his handicap by two.

Early on last week the Veterans beat Stoke by Nayland 5&3 to avenge a 6-2 defeat at SBN earlier in the year.

Twenty-nine Veterans played their August medal competition this Monday.

Result: 1 Ron Nethaway 69 nett, 2 Bob Willett 70 nett ocb, 3 Don Evans 70 nett.

Two cadets, Sam Gorringe and Oliver Reardon, played in the County Boys Foursomes at Gosfield Lake.

With many single figure golfers in the field they did well and have gained good experience for next year’s competitions.