Tuesday 10th December was the last Ladies competition for 2025, 42 Ladies played in the 9-hole Greensomes, which was followed by a Christmas Lunch, which 70 ladies enjoyed. Lady Captain presented the prizes to Sandra Taylor and Hilary Ingram, 1st place with 21 points, Natalie Boyle and Natalie York coming second with 19 points.

On Tuesday 3rd December 39 Ladies played in the Christmas Cracker 12-hole Stableford competition, an annual competition when only 5 clubs are allowed. Josephine Walker was the winner with 27 points, Sue Wilby and Carol Clayton both scored 23 points, Sue taking second place on countback.

Tuesday 26 November saw 41 ladies competing in the 13-hole Stableford competition. There was a three-way tie on 27 points. Hilary Ingram came out on top, her birdie on the penultimate hole of the competition making all the difference to the countback calculation. Jo Walker was second place, Ros Samuels in third.

In the evening the Ladies Annual Dinner and Prize Giving was held with 70 ladies attending. The Club Champion was Ruth Skaife-Clarke, who is pictured below with Lynn Sheldrake, Lady Captain together with all the other prize winners.

Tuesday 5^th November was a 12-hole Ladies TriAM competition, with a field of 41 ladies who are making the most of the dry autumn, there was a tie on 47 points for 1^st and 2^nd place. On countback the winners were Lady Captain, Lynn Sheldrake and her teammates, Pam Dodds and Susie Stuart-Brown. In second place were, Clare Davies, Sandra Taylor and Julie Parry. The third placed trio were Carole Whiles, Hilary Ingram and Gill Roberts, with 41 points.

Tuesday 29 October was a beautiful autumn day, 38 ladies ventured out in the sunshine to play in the Winter Waltz competition, it was great to see many of the new lady members joining the competition. Amanda Dunn, Sophie Jacob and Carole Whiles were the winning trio, scoring an impressive 69 points which was eight points clear of the second placed team, Gail Wilson, Rebecca Booth and Anne Parkinson. In third place, with 57 points, were Hilary Ingram, Carol Wakelin and Moira Rusling.

39 ladies played in an AMAM competition on Tuesday 22 October. Carole Whiles, Natalie Boyle, Jackie Smart and Linda Moore were the winning team, with 70 points. In second, with 69 points were Sandra Dewey, Jo Walker, Carol Clayton and Stephanie Turner. The third placed team on countback, also 69 points, comprised of Ruth Skaife-Clarke, Claire Hutchinson, Sophie Jacob and Ann Whiteley.

The Ladies played their postponed Cooper Brown Foursomes trophy competition on Tuesday 15 October. 13 pairs took part, Hilary Ingram and Carol Wakelin the successful pairing with 33 points, followed by Ann McDonough and Claire Hutchinson, 30 points, and previous winners, Jackie Smart and Alison Kitson coming third with 29 points.  7 Ladies played in the 9 hole Green tee Stableford, reduced to 8 holes due to course construction work taking place, in form Jo Walker was in first place with 17 points, closely followed by Betsy Haldon, 16 points.

The October monthly medal was held on Saturday 5^th October in sunny conditions. The competition was played over 16 holes due to the works on the 2^nd and 3^rd holes.

The Ladies Autumn Greensomes was played on Tuesday 24^th September, in a field of 18 pairs, there was only 1 point between 1^st and 4^th place. Coming 3^rdon countback with 33 points, were Dee Miller and Alison Kitson, second place, with 34 points, were Vicki Nee and Jo Walker with a countback calculation being in place again, the winning pair, also 34 points, were Lynn Sheldrake and Natalie Boyle.

On Tuesday 10^th September, which was another very windy day, 24 Ladies competed in the 18 hole Stableford and Annual Stableford competition. Division 1 was led by Carole Whiles, 39 points, Claire Hutchinson taking second place, 37 points, with Clare Davies in third, 32 points. However, the winner of the Annual Stableford was Sophie Jacob (30 points) as none of the top scoring players had qualified for the annual trophy. Division 2 saw Lydia Scott in first place, and the Annual Stableford winner for that division, 34 points. Katie Burke and Rebecca Booth both had 30 points, Katie taking second place on countback. There were only two 2’s, Claire Hutchinson and Katie Burke, both getting a 2 on the 15^th hole. 3 Ladies braved the conditions for the 9 hole Green course Stableford and Annual Stableford, the winner was Lisa O’Reilly with 18 points.

Tuesday 3^rd September saw 31 Ladies play in the Tuesday Medal and Annual Medal competition. Sophie Jacobs, nett 72 was first in division 1, Julie Parry second, nett 73 and Ann McDonough third, nett 72. Division 2 was led by Susan Asquith, nett 72, Margaret McNeill in second with nett 74 and Lyn Sheldrake in third, nett 76. 4 Ladies played in the 9 hole competition, Sandra Dewey in first place with 22 points.

34 Ladies played in the 18 hole Stableford on Tuesday 27th August, this was also the Grannies Cup competition. Division 1 had two leading ladies with 35 points, Sophie Jacob taking first place on countback, with Vicky Eyre taking second place, in third place was Gail Witcomb with 34 points. Sophie had 6 pars and a birdie on the par 3 15th hole. In division 2 Sue White was outright winner with 39 points, having 2 pars and a birdie on the par 5 6th hole. Jackie Smart came in second with 38 points, Dee Miller third with 37 points. Jackie was the winner of the ‘Red Tee 18 hole’ Grannies Cup. 

Sunday 18th August was the Ladies 36-hole Challenge Bowl competition. 11 ladies competed in challenging windy conditions. After the first round Julie Parry was leading the best gross score with 77, second place was Ruth Skaife-Clarke with 83. The second round saw a change of fortunes with Ruth coming in with 77 gross, Julie 84 gross, so the overall winner of the 36-hole gross trophy was Ruth (160 gross score) by a whisker! There is also a trophy for best nett score over 36 holes, again there was only 1 shot separating 1st and 2nd place, in second was Gail Witcomb, nett 146, Julie Parry taking the honours, with nett 145.  

26 ladies played in the Ladies Medal and Marjorie Whitehead trophy on Tuesday 13^th August. Division 1, and overall trophy winner, was Amanda Dunn with a ‘seasons best score’ of nett 64, including 6 pars and 1 birdie. Sandra Taylor came in second with nett 70, Vicky Eyre third with nett 74. Division 2 saw Margaret McNeill take the honours with nett 66, followed by Gail Wilson, nett 71 and Sue White nett 72. 6 ladies played in the green course, 9 hole Stableford, Jo Walker taking the honours with 21 points.

The Under 16’s Girls International between England and Switzerland on Tuesday 20th was the curtain raiser for the North of England Under 16’s Strokeplay Championship.

42 Ladies played in the 3-ball Texas Scramble, over 15 holes, on Tuesday 30 July. All teams played well, with only 5 shots separating the whole field. Third placed were Clare Davies, Kate Jesper and Mary Duffield nett 51. 1st and 2nd placed teams both had nett 50, Pam Dodds, Lisa O’Reilly and Ann Drinkwater were pipped into 2nd place by Gail Wilson, Alison Stratford and Hilary Ingram who won on countback.