Launceston Golf Club

Ladies Section

FOR the third week running, Sarah Ross was in the winning team, this time in a three-ball betterball competition with two scores to count.

Winners: Elizabeth Swords, Sarah Ross and wildcard Irene Bessell — 71pts; Runners-up: Jan Harrison, Barbara Murton and wildcard Irene Bessell — 68pts

Men’s Section

Cornwall Bowl quarter-final v Falmouth at Newquay — Sunday, January 6

WITH the Christmas festivities out of the way, thoughts turned once again to the county winter competitions as the Cornwall Bowl reached the quarter-final stage.

Launceston travelled to Newquay Golf Club to play against a strong team from Falmouth Golf Club.

Holidays, illness and injury forced three changes to the team which had played the previous rounds but strength in depth was shown with those three altered pairings all winning their matches to bring home a place in the semi-finals.

The winning pairs were Derek Basford and Noel Gorman, Joe Dickinson and Rob Sweetzer-Sturt and Darren Chapman and very last minute replacement Chris James, who holed the winning putt on the 18th green of the very last match to secure victory.

This sets up a very interesting weekend of February 2 and 3 when teams from Launceston will be playing teams from West Cornwall Golf Club in the semi-final of the Bowl and the quarter-final of the Cornwall Team Championships.