The Ladies' March Stableford at Holsworthy Golf Club being blessed with ideal spring-like conditions attracted a large field with Carol Skrzypcyak being the best of them, her 34 points total giving her top spot and a cut in the handicap, too. Carole Baker's 32 points put her into second with the back nine coming into the reckoning to relegate Glenys Mead into third place.

Unfortunately for the Veterans although the weather locally was good albeit a little misty, having arrived at Ilfracombe it was to find the course surrounded by dense fog with visibility about 20 yards and having stayed around for 90 minutes with no let up the match was abandoned to be played at a later date.

The Thursday competition with each pair's better ball to count, featured some high scores, 48 being the best of the day brought in by Des Best and John Masters. Alan Abrams and Reg Daniel were one point behind to take second with John Bullman third, a further one point behind.

Forty eight turned out to savour the ideal conditions, which did not last long enough when the Ryder Cup was staged, Devon residents versus Cornwall residents with eight 4 B.B.B. matchplay matches in the morning and 16 singles following a sumptuous lunch.

For Cornwall, captain Colin Walmsley and Syd Pearce beat Devon captain Syd Clifford and Dan Daley by 6&5 Alan Richardson and Mike Herbert lost 2&1 to Bob Bentham and Albert Taylor. Ian Hemmings and John Faithful lost to Reg Daniel and Brian Axford 4&3. Tony Downing and Chris Woolley lost 3&2 to Roger Turner and Ray Holness. Bob Byrne and Tony Houghton lost 4&2 to Tony Tomassi and Brian Toop. Eric Lake and Brian Glidden lost 5&4 to Alan Abrams and John Westaway. Ivor Barriball and Gordon Dimbleby lost 1 down to Alan Saunders and Brian Bowler and finally Colin Gardner and Dick Webb beat Peter Hoyland and David Smith 3 and 1 to leave the score at Cornwall 2 Devon 6.

Obviously lunch and a talking to by Colin inspired the Cornish to a fight back with him leading the way by defeating Syd Clifford 4&2 quickly followed by Syd Pearce's 2 up win over Dan Daley and Alan Richardson similarly recording a 2 up win over Bob Bentham. Albert Taylor stopped the rot, defeating Mike Herbert 1 down and wins, too, by Devonians Reg Daniel against Ian Hemmings 1 up and Brian Axford's 2 up defeat of John Faithful made it 3 matches each.

With Tony Downing, Chris Woolley and Gordon Dimbleby each halving their matches against Ray Holness, Roger Turner and Brian Bowler respectively, it was left to the tail to wag and so it did. Tony Houghton won 2 up against Brian Toop, Eric Lake won 2&1 against John Westaway, Colin Gardner defeated Peter Hoyland 2 up, Dick Webb won 2 up against David Smith with Ivor Barriball losing out to Alan Saunders to 5&3 the scoreline read 9½ to 6½ in Cornwall's favour and overall in similar fashion to last year Devon took the day's honours with a 1 point margin 12½ to 11½. Caroline and Joe's culinary efforts saw to it that the day ended on a high for Devonians and Cornish too.