Devon Ladies' Golf League

LADIES DEVON LEAGUE
23rd Annual General Meeting
Monday 6th October 2008 held at Fingle Glen Golf Club

Attended: Representatives from Saunton, Hele Park, Portmore, Ilfracombe, Churston, Tiverton, Fingle Glen, Bigbury, Great Torrington, Okehampton, Thurlestone, Dawlish Warren, Tavistock, Wrangaton, Staddon Heights.
Apologies: none

Introduction by Karen Thomas (Portmore) of Marise Mackie (Vice captain of Portmore) and Alison West (Secretary)

Presentation of Kay Sharp Salver & Runners up cup

Presentation of the Kay Sharp Salver by Karen Thomas (Portmore) to Sandra Townsley (Fingle Glen)

Sandra thanked Portmore and all their ladies for the organisation for the Finals day and well done.

Presentation of the Runners Up cup by Karen Thomas (Portmore) to Marise Mackie (Portmore).

Adoption of the Minutes of the 2007 AGM

Taken as correct and approved.

Report for Portmore Golf Club – Devon League Organisers 2008

Welcome to the Ladies Devon League 2008 AGM and thanks, once again to Fingle Glen for providing us with the venue.

208 has been a challenging year for the Ladies Devon League. Once again the weather has played a major part with the fixtures and well done to Dartmouth who played at least four of their games before the end of April!

As host club I hope that you found the information on the website easy to follow and was kept up to date as much as possible.

For me it was not a straightforward year (although I was informed by Ilfracombe last year that it was easy). We had a couple of walkovers, mainly due to the weather, a tie in one division, both on points and reserve points and a change of venue for the Finals. The play off was between Dartmouth and Ilfracombe and was played at Portmore, with Dartmouth being the eventual winners.

When I realised that Portmore, as host club, were going to qualify for the Finals I made provisional plans for it to be held at either Fingle Glen or Teign Valley. This was after asking Downes Crediton and Tiverton. However Fingle Glen also qualified and unfortunately Teign Valley had to let this booking go. So the fifth club I approached was Torrington, who, at very short notice, agreed to provide the venue for the day. It should be remembered that the Devon League does not hold enough money to pay for these venues and we depend upon the goodwill of golf clubs to book out a whole day for us.

Luckily the Finals Day had glorious weather with the Semi finals being between Fingle Glen and Saunton, and Portmore against Dartmouth.

Torrington golf course was playing well with a good standard of golf from all teams. The match referee noticed “the Ladies don’t give many gimmies”. The final in the afternoon was between Fingle Glen and Portmore and you couldn’t have asked for a closer match. Talk about tension and drama. It came down to the last match of the last hold with the last putt!! Fingle Glen just clinched it so many congratulations to Sandra and her team and commiserations to Portmore. It was a superb day.

Finally I would like to thank everyone who supported me and gave me advice over the year and I would like to wish all the best to Okehampton for hosting next year’s Ladies Devon League.

There is a financial statement in the packs given out. As you can see there was very little money for this year but with the fees going up for next year it should be easier for Okehampton

Proposals – none

Draw for 2009

Three teams have now withdrawn, Dartmouth, Teign Valley and Crediton. They have explained that they would like to go for the Sheila Creasey or the Presidents cup and each club did not have enough to play all competitions. It may be that for the future we could encourage other Devon teams to play in the league for the future.

Group A
Hele Park
Ilfracombe
Dawlish Warren
Portmore
Group B
Fingle glen
Tavistock
Wrangaton
Staddon Heights
Group C
Okehampton
Churston
Thurlestone
Saunton
Group D
Bigbury
Great Torrington
Tiverton

Winners of each Division: in the Semis: winners will play as follows: A play C and B play D.

Questions: General discussion on Zoning – Karen suggested that this be brought as a proposal for 2009.

Questions: How does the scoring affect the group with only three in – Karen advised that it would still be the winner of that division that went through.

Introduction of the 2009 Host club - Okehampton Golf Glub – contacts are K King and J Warren.

Thanks from Jane to Karen and all her team at Portmore for running the league for this year. And Okehampton will try and do as well for 2009. Jane did note that it was Okehampton who started the Devon League 21 years ago and Kay was part of that group. Good luck to everyone for the coming year.

Date of 2009 Devon League Final 24th September 2009

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Date of Next year’s AGM October 5th 2009 at Fingle Glen Golf Club, Tedburn St Mary.

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