Match & Competition

What a fabulous couple of days we had celebrating Derek Kingsbury’s 100th birthday!

The previous week Rory and Shane Lowry, then we had our very own VIP – Derek himself.

On Saturday 11th July, a fantastic 38 teams took part in the Derek Kingsbury 100 Cup in excellent conditions. It was incredibly calm and clear at 6.30am in the morning, although the wind picked up during the afternoon, which probably came as a bit of welcome relief for some!

Shot of the Day goes to young Lewis Griffiths on the 14th hole. Lewis drove the green before calmly holing the putt for a superb 2, earning himself a brilliant 5 points.

A big shout-out also goes to Russ Combellack and Paul Merritt, who played as a two-ball yet still managed an impressive 69 points. Well played, both!

The winners, however, were Team Pain, who scored a fantastic 111 points. Although I do have to mention that the accountant, Mr Pain, had a slight issue with the maths! Simon proudly asked me, “Is 101 points any good?” I replied, “111 is even better… because that’s what you’ve actually got!” Maybe don’t always trust the accountant!.

Results
1st – Gina Cutner, Alfred Cutner, Derick Rushton & Simon Pain – 111 points – £30 each
2nd – Jamie Beare, Adrian Halling, Norman Evans & Dave Hollyoak – 103 points – £28 each
3rd – Shaun Beare, Andy Griffiths, John Rowe & Lewis Griffiths – 103 points – £25 each
4th – Hugh Maurice, Roz Maurice, Alfie Chapman & Harry Jolliff – 98 points – £22 each
5th – Tuck Clagett, Nigel Connolly, Rob Cook & Mark Meneer – 96 points – £18 each
6th – Andy Worrall, Andrea Worrall, Charlie Miller & Fi Miller – 95 points – £15 each
7th – Andy Carthew, Paul Honey, Kev Richards & Paul Warren – 95 points – £12 each
8th – Joe Combellack, Ed Green, Rob Green & Toby Eddison – 95 points – £10 each

Nearest the Pin
5th Hole: Gary Franks
8th Hole: Martin Wilson
11th Hole: Jamie Beare
15th Hole: Harry Jolliff
17th Hole: Steve Bonham

Pictured: Simon Pain, Derick Rushton, Alfred Cutner & Gina Cutner,

Our international members Karen Teo and Alan Jager make it 2 out of 2 by winning the mixed Friday night Greensomes.18 couples enjoyed the sunshine, golf and food. In second place were Sarah and Stuart Sandercock, 3rd Marie and Patrick Bradbury, 4th Heidi and Steve Guy.

Our next mixed outing is Friday 17th July with the format being foursomes, again followed food.

On a beautiful sunny day, my Kernow Cup Team, along with caddy supporters, headed over to Carlyon Bay for our away match.

Due to being one match down before we even got there, it did not deter them from giving it their all.

With Samuel losing his match, we were now two down. Millie, who was 4 down and yet Again, she turns it around to win her match. Leaving Doug and Annabel, to try and both win their matches for us to take the match!

Unfortunately they both lost on the 18th BUT, what they didn’t lose, was the experience from matchplay, playing  another course and being part of a team!

I couldn’t not have been any prouder of how you all conducted yourselves,
THANK YOU.

One more match to play and that’s at Home, Bring it On!

Congratulations to Paul and his son Jackson, (9yrs old) for winning the Buse Shield with 35pts.

Presenting the Buse Shield to the winners was our Junior Vice Captain, Tom Richards, seen below.

Mixed Foursomes Flag Competition

What a splendid day on the Church Course, with the sun shining and the birds singing as ten mixed pairs set out to see who could carry their flag the furthest around the course.

On a positive note, all pairs returned safely and, perhaps even more importantly, no actual divorces occurred!

The first pairing to complete their round, Charlie and Fi Miller, managed to reach the 16th green. Their playing partners, Andrew and Andrea Worrall, edged ahead by driving from the 17th tee.

The competition then became extremely close. Rob and Lulu Palmer reached and putted on the 18th green before Alfred and Gina Cutner impressively drove down the 19th. However, the standout performance of the day came from Dr Alan Jager and Karen Teo, one of our newest members, who managed to hole out on the 19th green to secure victory.

Top Three

1st Place: Dr Alan Jager & Karen Teo
2nd Place: Alfred Cutner & Gina Cutner
3rd Place: Rob Palmer & Lulu Palmer

Congratulations to our winners and well played to everyone who took part in a thoroughly enjoyable competition.

Tamar Cup Team

Knocking out Staddon Heights on Saturday 13th June at Carlyon Bay, 2-1.

Some very close matches and as always keeping us on the edge of nerves!

New Kids on the Block!
They only went and won!

It’s a 3-2 Win for our Learner Juniors against St Austell Juniors who played on Sunday 14th June.

What a win, what excitement?

Well done and Congratulations to these SUPER Juniors, pictured below.

Albie Wilson
Harry Vetori
Doug Kennard
Archie Ball
Millie Newman

This is an Absolutely, fantastic result  for what’s been a busy weekend of Juniors competitions for my experienced Juniors and my young up and coming Juniors.

We entered the Kernow Cup this year, not knowing if we would even be able to field a team, due to where we are with the next Juniors coming through.

We  have a few, who are very keen and now learning how to play matchplay and play in match conditions.  All of this is good for them, when in an environment, where we are encouraging and helping them at this stage.

I am Bursting with joy for you all, as are the rest of those involved.
Maria Buckley
Junior Organiser

Bolitho Team Match
Lost 11/2 – 3

It was a tough ask for 3 of these Juniors who had played the night before and all on a high after the Carlyon Bay win and now teeing off again at 9.30am at St Austell.

As always, some great golf was played and the scores do not reflect the way they all played.

Well done to you all and roll on the home match!

(Will Dingle, Matthew Warren, Junior Vice Captain Tom Richards, Oban Robinson and Junior Captain Quinn Bateman)

Jenny Justice triumphed in the Surrey Women’s Senior County Championship at Woking coming in with a 78 Gross despite miserable conditions with unrelenting rain till the last 3 holes in a full field of 66. Her winning form this year has certainly continued following success in the Mothers’ and Daughters’ with Holly.

Jenny learned her golf at St Enodoc from age 11 in the Junior classes run by Andy Simpson, and it was her only club till she joined Walton Heath after university. A Member for over 40 years and with 3 wins as our Ladies’ Club Champion she is a true St Enodoc girl through and through!

Note for 2027: Try not to arrange a match away at Trevose when the Royal Cornwall Show is on – there will be traffic!

On Thursday 4th June, buoyant from our away win at Newquay, Summer Scratch League team took to the road once more to face our friends there again. The 45 mph winds and heavy cloud made the 25-degree sunshine we had enjoyed in Newquay the week before feel a distant memory.

We were without a couple of our South West-Week all stars, Brandon and Louis, who were preparing for their travels to The Isle of Purbeck to represent Cornwall. Their absence provided an opportunity for  ‘Captain Bradly’ to return to the action!

The order was as follows:

• Max Stockwell & Guy Norris vs Charlie Runnalls & George Tunbridge
• Graham Webb vs Lewis Bradley
• Steve Davies vs Bobby Godfrey

In keeping with the last report, events unfolded in dramatic fashion and kept everyone watching on edge.

Runnalls and Tunbridge got to the turn at 1 down, halving the 9th in birdie, Bradley was up against Graham Webb and Godfrey was having a tough match against Steve Davies.

The first result came from Godfrey, who was defeated despite a spirited performance. Trevose led 1–0.

By the 16th tee, the positions were finely balanced: Runnalls and Tunbridge were one down, while Bradley had edged one ahead!

On the par-3 16th, playing 200 yards into a fierce wind, Runnalls found trouble to the left and lost the ball, leaving the pair with an uphill task. Meanwhile, Bradley showed his composure by holing a crucial par putt to maintain his lead.

Tunbridge delivers an all time motivational speech to Runnalls, who then knocked his 9 iron to a few feet on the tricky 17th – game on! Tunbridge converts for the birdie and the pair make their way to the 18th tee. Looking behind, Bradley had hit a signature bombed drive down the middle of the fairway and pitched one on to 20 feet.

Runnalls hits a good drive up the 18th leaving about 150 yards to the pin. Tunbridge then hits a 9 iron to about 25 feet. Guy Norris hits their second to the back of the green, which was proceeded by Max Stockwell trickling one down the green to about 4 feet. Runnalls then putted one down the green, tracking, tracking, tracking, IT IS IN! A birdie, birdie finish to tie the match!

With uncertainty over how a tied match would be resolved, Captain Bradley initially pointed back towards the 1st tee. It was soon clarified that the overall result required a definitive outcome, with the foursomes point proving decisive if needed. So the Foursomes match made their way over to the 1st hole that is playing 45 mph into the wind – joy!

Looking back Captain Bradley has hit another fantastic drive and the match in front assumes he is 1 up playing the last!

Tunbridge sends a drive down the 1st, when attention turned to Bradley, whose position looked strong, only for it to emerge that he had suffered costly three-putts on the 17th and 18th, resulting in a 1-down defeat to Webb.

This left the final score at 2.5–0.5 in favour of Trevose, marking our first loss of the season. A disappointing outcome, though on another day the match could easily have gone the other way.

Well played to all involved.

Postscript: George did, in fact, sprint down the 1st to retrieve his golf ball.

On Wednesday 27th May, St Enodoc commenced their Summer Scratch League campaign with an away fixture against Newquay GC at Newquay.

The Club finds itself in what will surely prove to be a challenging group this year, facing Newquay, Trevose, and reigning CTC champions Carlyon Bay. Across the season we will play six matches in total (home and away), with three points available at each fixture: two singles matches and one foursomes.

The matches were drawn as follows:

• Charlie Runnalls & George Tunbridge vs Neil Robinson & Dion Keyser
• Louis Archer vs Matthew Heap
• Bobby Godfrey vs Jon Hancock

Louis was the first to finish, securing a comfortable win over Matthew Heap. Remarkably, this was Louis’s first round at Newquay since winning the County Championship there in 2023 — clearly a course that suits him well.

Bobby followed shortly after, coming up just short against the highly respected county player Jon Hancock.

That left Charlie and George out on the course. After a birdie blitz through the middle of the round, they built a commanding lead: 4 up with 5 to play, then 3 up with 4 to play, then 2 up with 3 to play, and finally 1 up with 2 to play. With the match tightening, Charlie produced a superb iron shot into the 17th green, setting up a decisive moment. The pair went on to close out a 2&1 victory, securing the overall match win for St Enodoc.

A fantastic start to the campaign. Our next match is away at Trevose on Thursday 3rd June.

Charlie Runnalls putting on the 4th green at Newquay GC. 

Congratulations to Louis Archer who makes it to the Semi-Final defending his County Championship.

Louis started the County Championship hosted by our neighbours at The Point at Polzeath. Louis qualified in 15^th place with scores of 77 (+5) and 82 (+10) in what were very testing conditions on Wednesday. He then won beat Tiernan Wallwork (Tehidy Park) 2&1, followed by an impressive 5&4 victory against Billy Downing (Truro) on Thursday afternoon. Louis then got back to action on Friday morning holding his nerve with a 2 Up victory against Steve Waddell (Carlyon Bay).

Louis unfortunately came up just short against Joseph Ibbs-George (Perranporth) by a score of 4&3.

Congratulations Louis on a fine few days of golf. Everyone at the Club is immensely proud of your achievement.

Good luck to everyone from St Enodoc Golf Club who are competing in round 1 of the Cornwall Men’s Amateur Championship at The Point today!

Wishing you steady nerves, great shots, and a fantastic day out on the course.

Jenny and Holly Justice won the 2026 Mothers & Daughters competition at Royal Mid Surrey, an event that goes back over 60 years and has always attracted a quality field. The generations move on as Jenny played in it several times in the 90s (not so successfully!) with her Mother Jane. This is the second time Jenny and Holly have played in it together.

The 27 hole scratch medal event saw them tie on 1 over Par with 2022 winners Jo and Lottie Woodham, who were their playing partners on the day, finally winning on countback. Holly and Lottie were both in the winning Surrey Ladies team, winners of the National Counties title last year.

Jenny and Holly are the last 2 winners of the St Enodoc Ladies Club Championship but with it going to be played over 2 successive weekends this year sadly with other golfing and family commitments they could only make one of the dates so will not be taking part.

Friday 5^th September saw the last of the 2025 fun night mixed golf competitions – a series of fun competitions held on a Friday night, followed by food, laughs and few drinks.  We went out with a blast with 14 couples taking part in a greensomes competition on the Holywell.  It was a fantastic experience the atmosphere in the club afterwards was buzzing with one of the best turnouts for a mixed fun social since pre covid.

 On behalf of the Captain, Mike Roach, I would like to thank everyone who has taken part in these competitions this year and we look forward to seeing you all again next year, please spread the word!  If anyone has a fun competition they would like us to introduce next year please let either Mike or Carole Waights know.

 Thank you to Chris, Sarah and Lauren who have helped with the cards and the running of the competitions.

 Pictured are the winners Tony and Di Mindel with a staggering 48 points (full results on IG).

Yesterday was the big grudge match of the year, Cornwall v Rest of the World.

We had a Cornish Captain in Dick Rundle and a New Zealander for RoW in Dennis Brown. This was billed as Cornwall & Devon v New Zealand, just like when the All Blacks played rugby down at Redruth in 1973.

The day started calm and peaceful just like the weather and ended breezy and stormy, just like the weather.

There was plenty of banter in the Clubhouse before going out to play. The “Oggie” was brought out on show, so both teams could see what they were playing for.

The Captains went out first and New Zealand came back victorious, a big blow to Dick and the Cornish contingent. Next in were Rob Cook and Kai Dingle and they managed to bring home victory against father and son the Robinsons. Rest of the World then started to pull away a little until the Ahearn boys managed a half and Bradley and Dingle took a Cornish win to steady the Cornish ship. Then there was another sea of RoW wins with Dick staring down the barrel of defeat.

The final result was RoW 8 Cornwall 4. Another victory to RoW to go on the “Oggie”.

There was plenty and banter flying around in the Clubhouse after the matches and it was good to see so many people enjoying themselves.

Next year Cornwall need to dig deep and reverse the tide of RoW wins.

Chris Smyth

Member Services Manager

17.08.2025

above l to r: Frank Harper, Mike Roach (Club Captain) and Lorna Harper.

Age is no barrier when playing golf and as testament to this statement Frank and Lorna Harper came first on Friday night in the mixed foursomes competition with a fabulous 40 points.  They pipped Norman Evans and Larry Barnecutt into second place with the same score but they lost on count back.  The competition was great fun followed by excellent food in the clubhouse.

We have various mixed events in the calendar for the remainder of the year, please look at IG or ask Chris Smyth for the dates.  The next event on the Holywell is Friday 1st August which is a Greensomes competition followed by a mixed aggregate competition on Sunday 3rd August on both courses.

Golf Monthly approached the Club to write an article after hearing about our 10 Hole sudden death play off to resolve the Club Championship on Saturday 5th July.

You can view the article by clicking on this link: Click Here

A dream start for Alfie Chapman with two wins out of two on his debut for Cornwall in a Channel League match vs Somerset at West Cornwall GC last Sunday. In the morning foursomes he won 2 up and then had an outstanding 6 & 5 win in the afternoon singles. Full match report here https://www.cornwallgolfunion.org.uk/news.php?newsitem=1656

Above top – Shane & Jay Dingle.

Above bottom – Junior Vice Captain Quinn Bateman, with Millie and  Anthony Newman, Shane and Jay Dingle, Jim and Jago Hall and Junior Organiser Maria Buckley.

 Buse Shield.  Sunday 29th June Holywell course.

On Sunday 22nd, the Saunders Cup was contested at Trevose Golf Club in challenging conditions. A true test from the Championship Tees measuring just under 7000 yards and with winds gusting up to 35 mph. The 36-hole medal competition featured both a handicap event and a scratch prize, drawing some of the best amateur talent from around the region.

Brandon arrived at Trevose in fine form, fresh from a 3rd-place finish in the strokeplay section of the County Championship. He carried that momentum into the morning round, carding a composed gross 72 made up of three birdies, three bogeys, and a steady run of pars. That effort placed him 2nd in the gross competition at the halfway mark and just two shots back in the race for the Saunders Cup.

In the afternoon, Brandon stepped it up once again, posting an impressive gross 70 in tough conditions. Highlights included back-to-back birdies on 9 and 10 – incredibly, both after finding fairway bunkers from the tee – and a superb birdie at the last to close with style. His total of 142 gross and nett stood as a benchmark for the field.

Ultimately, Brandon finished just one shot behind Leigh Jones of Teignmouth Golf Club in the Saunders Cup standings. However, his birdie at the 18th proved decisive in securing the lowest gross score of the day across 36 holes – a tremendous achievement in such testing conditions.

This marks another standout performance in a superb season for Brandon, whose handicap has now moved to an impressive +2.9.

You can view the full results by clicking on this link.

Maxam 2025 Report

On Sunday 1st June, our Maxam Cup team travelled to a well-presented St Austell Golf Club.

The team featured three debutants – Kai Dingle, Bobby Godfrey, and Alfie Chapman – all making their first appearances for both the Maxam and the Scratch team. They were joined by Steve Chapman, George Tunbridge, and Lewis Bradley.

Leading the way for St Enodoc were Steve Chapman (celebrating his birthday) and George Tunbridge, who returned a morning round of 75. A special mention to County Secretary Chris Pountney, who marked the occasion by presenting Steve with a birthday badge on the 1st tee!

Next out, debutants Kai and Bobby posted a solid 77, giving us a morning team total of 152 and placing St Enodoc in fourth position at the halfway stage.

The afternoon rounds saw consistency from Steve and George, who again carded a 75. Alfie and Lewis followed with a 77, bringing our overall team total to 304 – securing a strong fourth-place finish.

Steve and George’s combined score of 150 placed them in a tie for 5th overall, narrowly missing out on the podium.

A big shoutout goes to our three young debutants – with a combined age of just 48 (only slightly more than Steve on his own!) – who all made valuable contributions. Their performances helped deliver the club’s best finish in the Maxam Cup for six years and showcased a very bright future for St Enodoc.

Lewis Bradley – Team Captain

Come and support the Bolitho Team in the Finals against Falmouth

Trevose Golf Club on Sunday 8th June.

The Kernow and Bolitho Finals had to be cancelled last year due to bad weather at Merlin Golf Club. This is a huge event and so many Juniors were disappointed and have been desperate to get it played.

That day has finally come, and we are now playing, thanks to Nick Gammon at Trevose Golf and Country Club, on  Sunday 8th June. First tee time is 4pm.

We would love to have some support from as many of you as possible, if only to see them all tee off.

St Enodoc Member, Alfie Chapman, represented Cornwall County in the South West Boys Schools Championships at Enmore Park on Tuesday 27th May 2025.

Alfie finished in 4th place in the individual competition which means he has qualified for the National Schools Championships at Woodhall Spa later this year. The full results can be viewed here: CLICK HERE

Well played Alfie and good luck in the Final!

Very many congratulations to Louis Archer and who today at Trevose GC became 2025 County Champion golfer with a 9 & 8 win over Max Gay from Carlyon Bay GC.