Lady Captain’s Message

Sheila McIloy

JUMEIRAH GOLF ESTATES LADY CAPTAIN

LADY CAPTAIN’S MESSAGE

Dear Members,

I hope you have all had an enjoyable break and are easing back into your usual routine and playing golf once again. Over the summer we have been fortunate to have welcomed some new ladies to our Wednesday morning section, its always great to see them settle in and exchange stories with our regular group.

We started off our season with a friendly scramble on Fire, the pairing of Bettina Schrockenfuchs & Mitsuko Emmerson came out best with their score of 69 nearly as hot as the September temperatures.

Another well supported morning was the September Lounge Spa Ladies individual Stableford, winning the desired vouchers were Tanya Harrison with 35 points and NTP going to Anna Abbott. Other notable scores were Glory Xavier amassing 44 points claiming the top prize in our Park Hyatt members event and definitely worth a mention was the 41 points scored by Bettina Smith in her 1st ever ladies competition. Philippa Stumbles also produced her best result with 40 points in our individual stableford on Fire. Our Lounge Spa October Ladies was won by Slyvia van Der Tol securing 37 points and Kristen Blomeley & Jacqueline de Vries clutching the NTP prizes.

Recently, Evelyn Downham, our Vice Captain & I attended the ICC AGM and this year we have been drawn with Emirates & Yas, both part of the Dubai Golf/Viya family. We are all excited about the challenge and celebrating what is, a wonderful ladies tournament. Once again massive thanks to Charlotte Austwick and Ginger Delacretaz for sharing their valuable wealth of experience and assisting in preparing us for our ICC fixtures.

Another great event was the new members 9 hole scramble which was played over the Fire Course. This is always a nice fun evening with the opportunity to sit down afterwards to get to know each other on the terrace, especially nice in these very pleasant evenings

September at Jumeirah Golf Estates usually means the start of the scaffolding work for the much-anticipated DP World Tour Championship

which coincides with heavy testing conditions on Earth, we wouldn’t have it any other way. Credit to Stuart Horwood and his hardworking team for the outstanding work they do in producing a course worthy of the DP World season ending finale and a very worthy champion in the highly competitive field.

Finally, as this is my last time writing for Club Life I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude and thanks to Jumeirah Golf Estates Management for allowing me this incredible opportunity. This has been an exciting year at Jumeirah Golf Estates with all the tremendous improvements made by the club, the restaurants, club facilities and most importantly the outstanding friendly and helpful staff, a really unique community for all of us. I need to highlight the outstanding colleagues that we have at the club, more like family really, a very big thank you to one and all.

To the well spirited Jumeirah Golf Estates Ladies thank you!!! The enthusiasm, buzz and support that we all share has made it a really unforgettable time together, it’s been my privilege to serve a brilliant group of ladies.

Club Captain, Steve Drake thank you for sharing this journey. I hope that as Jumeirah Golf Estates inaugural Captains we have started to build a strong community for our members and with the assistance of our very capable Vice Captains, Evelyn Downham and Jonny Hall and the dedicated commitment from our MCC members the future is very strong for Jumeirah Golf Estates.

Many thanks Sheila McIlroy