Category: General News

Well today we celebrated our session organisers Diamond Wedding Anniversary, although it’s not until the 27th March and they are away enjoying a return to the place they spent their honeymoon.

The club members had for the last 2 weeks arranging a collection and signing a suitable card, in secret, not easy as Ann and John are the backbone of the club and without their organisational skills, the sessions would not run as smoothly as they do. They have been with the club since it started in 2018, and are very appreciated by all the members. They were presented with the results of the collection in cash, so that they can decide on something they need.

Many thanks to Carol for arranging the card and collection, to Maureen for the Brownies from The Best Ever Brownie Company and to Pip for putting the spread together that the members enjoyed.

So when you look at the photographs you will understand why they look a little stunned!!

Pictures can be found at 24th March 2025 Ann and Johns Anniversary session

At our session today we had the next draw and the winner was Pat Watson and the Runner-up was John Edwards.

Well done to you both, the next draw is on the 23rd April 2025.

Ann, John, Phil M and myself attended the above celebration of the people who make Calne a great town.

We were very grateful to receive a Certificate of Achievement in recognition of our clubs outstanding voluntary contribution to the Community of Calne.

We accepted this award on behalf of the members who contribute so much to making Calne S.M.B.C. such a great club to be connected with.

Well done to all.

Many thanks to Gill Howard for decorating the Clubs entry to the above, excellently done

Here is Courtney (Beversbrook) accepting the ‘bunny’ from Gill.

Following our AGM last December 2024 we have now received the final acknowledgements of donations made.

Wiltshire & Bath Air Ambulance – £200

Calne Welfare Charities – £300

Hi all, just been advised that we have been nominated in the category of Outstanding Voluntary Contribution to Calne.

As a result the Club’s committee will attending the Civic Awards on Friday 14th.

We are very honoured to have been nominated as it has always been the aim of the Club, since we started on 2018, to be involved with the great community of Calne.

We had a great time on Sunday, the food and service was good as always, North Wilts Golf Club did us proud. Unfortunately we had 3 people taken ill and could not attend, get well soon Doug, Jennie and Malcolm.

presentations were made to the following

Ladies

Top Player –

Winner – Jilly Read (1.31pts)

Runner-up – Mary Edwards (1.30)

Attendance Awards

Winner – Mary Edwards (89)

Runners – Kay Dando (80)

Men’s

Top Player

Winner – Dennis Barnett (1.38)

Runners-up – Phil Woods (1.28)

In addition he received a special award from John Edwards for his calling of weight in such a forceful manner!

Attendance Awards

Winner- Phil Milham (107)

Runner-up – John Edwards (87)

A special one off award was made to Gill Rickards, for her support throughout the year, Spectator of the year.

Presentations were made to Ann and John Harris for making sure our sessions ran so smoothly and to Stuart and Pip Beard for all the work behind the scenes, catering and secretarial/treasurer activity.

The 5th draw of the 50/50 Club was made with Edwina Yates (13) winning, with Mayumi Lewis (3) second place.

The raffle also raised £123 towards our charity fund.

You can find the photos at Annual Luncheon, North Wilts Golf Club Sunday March 2nd 2025

With apologies for the delay. I have now received various reports about the above competition. It started with a “round robin” of 3 matches of 7 ends. Phil’s team of Maureen, Mike and Esther unfortunately lost their first 2 games but managed to draw in their last game after changing the playing order. Terry’s team, of Nick, Carol and Angie, fared much better. In their first game in the “round robin” they came back from being 0-4 down to win 6-4 and went on to win their next 2 games. They then entered the quarter finals of the Knockout but lost that game, qualifying for the Shield semi-finals, which again unfortunately they lost.

The competition ran well over time, and sadly our players started to lose concentration – remember, at our sessions, we play for less than 2 hours, but this was a full day of competing, which most of our players had never experienced before. Overall, this was a very successful outing, remembering that for Angie, Esther and Maureen, this was their first County Competition.

Overall opinion was that they did Calne proud, with one team even making the latter stages of the days competition. It bodes well for the future as we have other players coming on. All in all it was an overall good experience.

The winner was Ann Harris (43) taking home the £17 first prize and the runner-up was Margaret Hill (18) collecting a very useful £8.

After our success in winning an end at Crudwell this week, we entered 4 teams in the above competition and found ourselves meeting up with a lot of the players we had played in the league. There were 24 teams entered and we managed to get 2 of them through to the quarter finals of the shield, well done to Les and Terry, as well as Mike and Mayumi. Unfortunately Mike and Mayumi lost, but Les and Terry went on to the finals, ending up as Shield runners-up..

Hi, a little late in posting, last Tuesday we were away to Crudwell, our penultimate game of the season. As usual we got off to a bead start losing the 1st half 9-33, in the 2nd half we did better – winning one rink 8-5- congratulations to Terry Brewer, Pat Watson and Esther Grey, whilst Les Fish, Nick and Carol Phillips slightly improving on their first game losing 4-13 – total 12-18. Overall score 21-51 but we did take 2 points losing 2-7pts.

We are currently off the bottom of the league, with a comfortable gap between ourselves and Devizes Dragons.

Our last game is at Beversbrook on Tuesday 25th, start time 6-45pm.

Unfortunately, I only had the chance to take many photographs, however the bowls picture shows the standard we were up against. We did win this end.

Yesterday we held the above, the winner was Dennis Barnett, second was Edwina Yates, well done. Our Secretary also took the opportunity to congratulate the Winter league team on the first win and Terry for getting to the National finals as part of the Wiltshire triples team.