The Farrington Park Ladies Coppers have enjoyed a tremendously successful year in 2015. Coppers are ladies new to golf or who have been playing for a short time.

At the Ladies Christmas meal and presentation evening held on 9th December at Farrington Park, an amazing one third of the trophies presented were won by Coppers. The successful ladies are as follows:Coppers Salver: Tracey Watts, Warren Trophy: Maureen Tayler, Hobbs Match Play: Fiona Hassard, Coppers Eclectic: Lally Gibson, Coppers Novice Salver 2014: Linda Rogers, Manor Course Nett Champion: Lally Gibson, Coppers Cup: Sandra Hares, Captain’s Spoon Bowmaker: Lally Gibson and Fiona Hassard along with experienced golfer, Liz Thomas. Alhberg Assiette: Sandra Hares and Tracey Watts, The Spirit of Mara: Lally Gibson, Hole in One: Sue Forshaw.

Pauline Young, who has organised Coppers for the last three years, with the help of a sub-committee and experienced helpers, was delighted to see everyone’s dedicated hard work paying off, with so many ladies enjoying success.

Following on from the presentation evening, the Coppers and helpers held their Christmas Competition on Tuesday, 15th December. This was a fun bowmaker once around the Manor Course dressed in festive adornments, followed by Christmas lunch with a quiz thrown in for a little extra light-hearted fun. The buoyant party

atmosphere contributed to a wonderful end to 2015.

The winners of the Manor Course fun bowmaker were Maureen Charlton, Marjorie Robertson and Sandra Hares, with an amazing 65 points, second were June Symonds, Bridget Rylance and Debbie Jones, with 47 points and third were Pauline Young, Maureen Tayler and Sue Barnes, with points on countback. The winners of the fun quiz were Margaret Seery, Linda Rogers and Julie Toogood.

Men

In rather windy and sometimes wet conditions, scoring was very difficult. In Division One Lee Bruton won with 35 points, followed in second by Gary Prater, on 34 points, beating Phil Howells into third on countback.

In Division Two, all the top three had the same score of 34 points, with Clive Perry in top spot followed by Steve Harmer and in third, Des Deane.