WE had dinner, we had dancing, we had a raffle, we had stand up bingo, we had a picture quiz, we had "name that tune" and there was a "turn".
Oh yes, all this merriment and frivolity was part of the end of season celebratory Annual Ladies Dinner at Todmorden Golf Club and I think it can be said that a good time was had by all.
On arrival the clubhouse looked simply stunning with beautif
ully decorated tables and a male line up of eight dashing and chivalrous waiters and barmen notably club captain Neil Whitham, John Whitham, Jack Anderton, Clive Cook, Alan Dickinson, Les Greaves, Mick Parenti and Steve Shone.
Lydia Troy our catering manager and the girls prepared a delicious three-course dinner for forty-six ladies.
This slightly mischievous reporter introduced the first ever Toddies Top Totties Duck Egg Awards last year and these were given to the ladies for any misdemeanours and transgressions throughout the season.
Surprisingly this year I was asked back, but I have to confess I had a slight dilemma as the ladies have been far too well behaved this year. It’s either that or they have been deliberately keeping stuff from me and I suspect the latter!
So I eventually came up with the idea of sharing some of my season's uncut Todmorden News reports and introduced the Mini Queenie Awards because the ladies weren’t badly behaved enough, or eccentric enough for a duck egg award!
Now for a bit of an update, you may remember a few months ago I hinted, very subtly of course, that I was running short of golf balls and merely wondered if Todmorden's “King of the 2’s” captain elect Terry Makin might have some going spare.
Well, as the season progressed I figured Terry must have been too busy writing his speeches in preparation for next year to think about my depleting stock of balls. However, I was wrong and Terry arranged for me to presented with…yes, yes, yes, six new golf balls. Thanks, Terry!
l THE Ladies Golfer of the Year is one of the most highly regarded trophies within the ladies golfing calendar, as it covers most of the competitive individual competitions throughout the playing year.
Consequently this prestigious trophy is awarded to the season's most consistent player.
The points have been added up and I can report that in first place with 28 1/2 points is this season's bookies favourite Irene Muldowney.
Irene has certainly had an outstanding playing season having won this years Captains Prize, Presidents Prize, Helen Gray Trophy and Two Ball Knock-out Championship.
In second place for the second year running was Irena Brown with 20 1/2 points. In third place was last season's golfer of the year Julia White with 18 1/2 points.
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