Captains’ drive-in … wet wet wet!

The new ‘raining’ Captains had a challenging start to their year with atrocious weather conditions for their ‘drive-in’ on Sunday 19 November. Stoically Cavendish members braved the elements and turned out to support their new captains for 2024 and a brilliant (if not a little damp) atmosphere was created! Mulled wine and mince pies were…

Bags of Support

During the course of my 2023 Captaincy we have published photographs of the hundreds of pounds worth of donations made by Cavendish ladies to support Buxton Ladies and Girls Refuge. We have now received photographs showing Jean Hayward (a Cavendish and Soroptomist member) along with other ladies packing the handbags with all our donations in…

Cavendish Captains Farewell

On Friday 17 November the clubhouse was full to bursting with family, friends and members to say farewell to Bob, Pam and Alex and to welcome Steve, Wendy and Harry. Speeches started with Alex who had been Junior Captain for two years. Alex introduced Harry the new 2024 Junior Captain, who expressed he was honoured to…

Cavendish Ladies Support Local Charities

Cavendish Ladies prize night was held at the club on 19th October 2023. Lady Captain Pam Brindley invited representatives from her chosen charities to attend and presented cheques for money raised throughout 2023. Both charities received cheques for £645. Soroptomist Society & Crossroads Elaine and Elizabeth from the Soroptomist Society and Crossroads explained that they help…

4th Consecutive County Win!

For the fourth consecutive year Cavendish secured a convincing win in the 2023 Derbyshire County Henrique Memorial Trophy. They beat a strong Mickleover GC team by 5 points. Congratulations to the team members Pat & Chris Campbell, Phil & Anna Major and Neil & Fiona Flynn who came 2nd overall with 41 points..  

Ladies ‘On Tour’ at Oulton Hall

18 Cavendish ladies spent a wonderful weekend at Oulton Hall near Leeds, travelling on Sunday 6 August. The event comprised dinner bed and breakfast with two rounds of golf leaving Monday. After all the recent rain the ladies were so lucky that the sun shone on them all the time! Oulton Hall has three nine…

Day 3 Cavendish Festival: Texas Scramble

Today we hosted our ‘any combination’ Texas Scramble open. The weather was kind to us for a change this week with no rain after an early flurry. The winners were D Oldfield, A Morris, L Kelsall and A Kennedy from Blackburn GC with a fantastic score of 52 nett, winning by 1 stroke from 4…

Day 2 Cavendish Festival: Seniors Open

Day 2 of our festival of golf week saw the Seniors take to the course. The AmAm competition is always a popular event and once again we attracted another full field. Testing rainy conditions saw some lower scores with 81 points being the final winning score. Congratulations to our prize winners. Seniors Open AM AM…

Cavendish ‘Festival Week’ Underway

Today marked the first day of our annual ‘Open Week’ celebrations which sees us host an Open Competition every day for a week. As always, we started with a Men’s 4AM with the best 2 stableford scores counting on each hole. Breezy conditions for most of the day with rain for the later starters to…

First Mens Open – Results

We hosted our first Mens Open of the year today with 196 players taking Cavendish on under blue skies.  The field were extremely complimentary about the course with the greens taking top billing as usual! The format was a 4 AM with the best two stableford scores to count on each hole.  The winning team…