The Golf Section held its traditional spring weekend outing from April 25-27 at Sancerre, returning to the same venue that had been a success 8 years previously.

Despite dire weather forecasts, and half an inch of rain falling on the course on the Friday morning, we were quite fortunate with the weather overall and it was more a case of April showers than pouring rain, and the course stood up well to the test.

32 golfers, plus 3 non-golfing partners, enjoyed the weekend, and there were some notable scores.

In our individual stableford competition on Saturday, the top score was recorded by first-time invitée Céline Girardot (a member at Villarceaux and spouse of Villarceaux committee member Didier Girardot) – an exceptional 44 stableford points. In addition, Céline scored 27 gross stableford points and therefore won the Dean Trophy for the best gross score. She has been told that she needs to come back for our next weekend away (Limère, October 3-5) to defend her title!

The Kiwi Cup, presented to the best net score by an SAC member, was won by Patrick Lavelle with an excellent score of 38 points (Patrick arrived on Friday evening and had not even seen the course before teeing up on Saturday!). Other notable net scores by SAC members were: 36 points by both Ebba Dean and Sue Hall, 33 points by Alex Murphy and 32 by Dougie Anderson.

Our traditional friendly Sunday competition was a 3 ball scramble “à la française”. Overall scoring was good, and the winning team was Neil Anderson, Muriel Jones and Alison Lavelle.

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