St Mellion Golf & Spa resort, 7th – 10th July

Day 1 – Elfordleigh Golf Club – Team Competition

A mixed format for the team competition enabled our group to play as 3 and 4 balls.

The Stableford games played out as follows:

Group 1 – Steve C – 38 pts, Pete C – 34 pts, David W – 33 pts

Group 2 – Laura C – 28 pts, Paul N – 28 pts, Martin S – 21 pts

Group 3 – Reg B – 28 pts, Phil R – 27 pts, Nigel W – 32 pts

The matchplay games played out as follows:

Derek C / Chris W won 3&2 versus Rob A / Sue S

Trina B / Dave S won 6&5 versus Steve M / Helen C

James A / Phil W halved with Richard E / Matt O

The end of day score for the teams was 3.5 pts for the Christie Team and 2.5 pts for the Craston Team.

Day 2 – St Mellion – Team Competition

Group 1 – Dave S / Rob A won 4&2 versus James A / Pete C

Group 2 – Chris W / Helen C won 3&1 versus Jane W / Richard E

Group 3 – Laura C / Sue P won 3&2 versus Phil R

Group 4 – Steve C / Nigel W halved with Steve M / Paul N

Group 5 – Phil W / Martin S won 3&2 versus David W / Sue S

Group 6 – JP halved with Derek

The end of day score for the teams was 2 points for the Christie Team and 4 points for the Craston Team.

The Craston Team proved victorious once more in 2024 by 6.5 pts to 5.5.

Day 3 – St Mellion – The Championship

Challenging course conditions and classic Cornish weather was reflected in the scoring for this year’s championship. Only 7 of the field managed to score in the 20s, and the result was very close in the end. On 27 points was our 2022 champion, Chris Wain. With 28 points, but losing out on count back over the second 9 holes, was JP.

However, our champion for 2024 – also with 28 points – is Sue Scott pictured below receiving the trophy from Pete Cosford.

St Mellion Golf & Spa Resort, 7th – 10th July, 2024.

Steve has once again kindly organised our tour this year which will see us returning to St Mellion and also playing a new course for the tour on the Sunday.

Details are as follows:

Sunday 7th July – Elfordleigh Hotel, Colebrook, Plympton, Plymouth, PL7 5EB

Meet from 11:00am with first tee at 1:00pm.

Monday 8th July – St Mellion – Kernow and Nicklaus Courses

First tee on Kernow is at 10:17am, the Nicklaus course tee time is 10:20am.

Tuesday 9th July – St Mellion – Nicklaus Course Championship

First tee time is 11:00am.

Wednesday 10th July – St Mellion – Kernow and Nicklaus Courses

First tee on the Kernow is 10:26am, first tee on the Nicklaus is 10:20am.

Team Details and groupings for Sunday at Elfordleigh.

We have 24 attendees this year, although not everyone will be present on every day. Once again, the team competition will see Team Craston (current champions) taking on Team Christie.

The teams (before the usual Sunday evening horse trading) look like this:

Team Craston

James Austen (Sunday and Monday)

Pete Cosford

Derek Craston

Helen Craston

Laura Craston

Steve Mulford

Sue Pritchard (Monday – Wednesday)

Phil Reay

Chris Wain

Nigel Wain

Phil Williams

Gangy (Tuesday & Wednesday)

Team Christie

Rob Austen (Sunday & Monday)

Reg Brown

Catrina Brown

Steve Christie

Richard Edmonds

Paul Needle

John Pritchard

Dave Scott

Sue Scott

Martin Sykes

David Wain

Jane Wain

Groupings for Elfordleigh – first tee 1:00pm

We have 21 players for Sunday, so we’re proposing to tee off as 3x 4-ball groups and 3x 3-ball groups.

We’ve also tried to factor in buggy use and sharing thereof.

For team competition purposes, we propose that the four balls will play better-ball matchplay as normal. The 3 ball groups will play Stableford and team points will be allocated for the top 3 recorded scores. That way, we have a total of 6 points to play for on the first day. Of course, points allocation can be finally negotiated after the result in the bar on Sunday evening.

The running order is as follows:

• Steve Christie, Pete Cosford, David Wain

• Laura Craston, Paul Needle, Martin Sykes

• Reg Brown, Phil Reay, Nigel Wain

• Derek Craston & Chris Wain vs Rob Austen & Sue Scott

• Helen Craston & Steve Mulford vs Trina Brown & Dave Scott

• James Austen & Phil Williams vs Richard Edmonds & Jane Wain