West of England Captains' Inter County Championships - 29 March 2018
Teams of twenty four players from Gloucestershire, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire were divided into six pairs on each of Saunton’s East and West courses for a betterball stableford competition with all cards added for the County score.
The weather this year was wet in the morning and the early starters for Gloucestershire had driving rain for he first four or five holes. After that the sun occasionally shone until a big black cloud brought more rain for a couple of holes. The Gloucestershire team fared a lot better, weather wise, than the Counties that played earlier.
The full results are below ... Gloucestershire finished a creditable third.
RESULTS
1st SOMERSET 418 points
2nd WILTSHIRE 409 points
3rd GLOUCESTERSHIRE 381 points
4th DEVON 376 points
5th CORNWALL 375 points
6th DORSET 368 points
EAST COURSE
County Pair 1 Pair 2 Pair 3 Pair 4 Pair 5 Pair 6 Total
Cornwall 29 29 21 33 23 28 163
Devon 31 34 38 24 32 19 178
Dorset 30 39 23 29 23 32 176
Gloucestershire 24 36 28 33 39 31 191
Somerset 39 37 37 31 33 34 211
Wiltshire 30 35 28 33 30 36 192
WEST COURSE
County Pair 7 Pair 8 Pair 9 Pair 10 Pair 11 Pair 12 Total
Cornwall 34 35 34 36 36 37 212