We had some lunch with our lady captain Jill Marshall and Sylvia Charter, who had also qualified for the final, our tee time was 1:30pm. Making our way to the first tee, we met our playing partners; a lovely couple from Bingley St Ives, I always have the first tee shot and was relieved to get the first one away. We started with a great par and had a steady few holes dropping one on the first long par-5, but soon picked it back up on the sixth. Our front nine was really steady, having safely made it without any balls in the water we started the back nine with a par knowing we were playing steady golf we tried to keep it going not get into trouble and protect what we had, unfortunately, we dropped a shot on the 16th, picked it back up on the seventeenth just to drop it on the last hole walking off the eighteenth with a six.

After adding our score up finishing with a level par round of seventy-three, we felt a little deflated thinking level wouldn’t be good enough, we handed our card in and got some drinks enjoying the last bit of our little adventure. The scores were been put up on the board after looking in disbelief, we could only see one score that bettered ours a seventy-two with only eight teams to come in, we didn’t have much of a wait when we were asked if we could stay for the presentation as we had come second.

We were both delighted with the result, we both want to thank everyone for the support and good wishes we received before the event and the amazing amount of congratulations we received when we had posted the results. As we all do, we pulled our round apart on the way home if only that one more putt dropped or the one chip on the third was closer, we almost brought the trophy home. We are so pleased with our result and there is always next year we had an amazing couple of days, played some great golf at a stunning course with a great friend.