By Dave Bruce

I am delighted to report that Axe Cliff Ladies have won through to the quarter-finals of the Shelagh Creasy Bowl as the best runners-up. They will play it this week at Crediton Golf Club against a strong team from Sidmouth.

To get ready for the match they played a medal last Wednesday and it was close with everyone vying for a place in the team, but not surprisingly, the winner was Stella Thompson with a fine net 76. However, she was pushed all the way by two former captains, Margaret

Kenchington, net 77, and Sandra Walker, net 78.

Good luck Ladies.

This was also their fourth Axe Cliff Cup round. I wonder who is in the lead?

A great turnout, as always for the Seniors last Friday in the club's August Stableford with good dry weather, but a little breezy.

The DivisionOne podium produced good results from some fine players. Tony Strong was the best with a solid 37 points; Nigel Pritchard second

with 36 pts and retired popular Axminster bus driver, Stuart Mackie took third place with 35. There is talk of a petition to get him back on the buses but no chance as he is enjoying his retirement.

Division Two also saw some regular guys taking the honours. The clear winner was Richard Bush with 39 points and I think there were about six/seven players on 34 points, including Geoff Hughes and yours truly but, the third place went to a deserved Ron Bragg on countback.

We had a very enjoyable match away against Cricket St Thomas and came back with the silver medal. That leaves us a chance for gold on our return home game, or so our captain John Hanna hopes for.

I'ts good to know that a Senior can also play in the Main Club with our younger generation. Sometimes we show the youngsters the way as did Alan Morgan last Friday in the Geoff Davis Trophy. Despite being the oldest competing, he won with a very good 35 points either on countback or courtesy from Tony Snell and Paul Clode. You can see the determination on Alan's face in our photo of him.