2025 - County Championships

2025 County Champion - Daisy Kennedy (Beaconsfield GC)

The Buckinghamshire County Ladies Golf Association 2025 County Championships incorporating the County Championship, the Intermediate Championship, Handicap Championship, County Seniors Championship and a Club Team Competition was held at Buckingham GC comprising 3 days of Competitions on 8th, 10th & 11th May. Qualifying players were awarded WAGR (World Amateur Golf Ranking) points. The 36-hole qualifying rounds and the Seniors Championship were held on Thursday, 8th May (results below) with the top 8 Scratch players and Nett players moving forward to match play on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th May.

The year 2025 marks the fifth year that the County Championships have been held at Buckingham GC and the second time for the Seniors Championship.

Thursday 8th May – 36-Hole Qualifying

On Thursday the 8th May, the ladies tee’d off in handicap order with the Seniors Championship ladies following the first 18 of the 36-hole players. The first scorecard returned was Ella Butteriss’ with a score of 67, 4 under par, the best score for ladies on the Buckingham GC red tees; unfortunately, it cannot stand officially as a Course record because the Competition was played with preferred lies.

Ella Butteriss (Beaconsfield GC) won the best 36-hole gross score with 140 (2 under par) followed by Sommer Chan (Woburn GC) and Amelia Curtis (The Lambourne GC) who came-in with a nett score of 151. Our Intermediate Champion was Ella Butteriss for the second year running. Bernie Howe (Buckingham GC) won the 36-Hole Qualifier Handicap prize with a nett score of 142 and finished 8th in the Scratch Competition thus qualifying for the Scratch Matchplay.

Our Club Team Competition, based on the lowest nett scores for 3 members of the same Club over the first 18 holes, was a resounding win for the ladies from Buckingham GC (Mo Dawson, Bernie Howe and Diane Hofman) with a nett score of 211.

Thursday 8th May – Seniors Championship

The Seniors Championship was last held together with the County Championships in 2019 at Burnham Beeches GC and, after having been a standalone event for 5 years, it was rightly back with the County Championships. The Seniors Championship was last held at Buckingham in 2018.

Here’s how our 22 ‘senior’ ladies from 7 of our Clubs performed this year.

Four ladies entered the 36-Hole qualifier for the County Championship where the first 18 holes score counted for the Seniors Championship.

Mo Dawson (Buckingham GC) and Denise Goodacre (Burnham Beeches GC) tied on gross scores of 79, which meant there needed to be a play-off. However, this was complicated in that Mo was playing in the 36-Hole Qualifier, whereas Denise had only entered the Seniors Championship. Denise kindly stayed on and waited for the Mo to complete her 36 holes. It was past 6pm when they finally headed-off down the 1st – for Mo for the 3rd time that day. Mo parred the first, beating Denise, to become the 2025 County Seniors Champion. What a great spirit; well done, ladies.

Bernie Howe (Buckingham GC) won the Seniors Handicap prize with an impressive nett 69 beating Mo Dawson on count-back

Saturday 9th & 10th May – Match Play

On Saturday, our first day of match play, 4 of our matches went to the 17th or 18th holes.

On Sunday, we all arrived ‘even’ earlier at Buckingham GC for a 0750 tee time and, by lunchtime, we had our finalists.

The Scratch Final was played between Daisy Kennedy (Beaconsfield GC) and Amelia Curtis (The Lambourne GC), a tight match which was ‘All Square’ after 13 holes. But Daisy then took the initiative and won the next 3 holes winning the Championship 3&2. Daisy is now a three-time County Champion having previously won in 2018 at Buckingham GC and 2021 at Denham GC. The County Championship Cup was presented to Daisy by our current President Maura Spencer.

The Handicap Final was played between Eloise Feely (Woburn GC) and Ajuni Bains (Hazlemere GC). Eloise playing off 4 had the challenge of giving Ajuni 9 holes. The match was won on the 18th hole by Ajuni with a jubilant Dad spinning his daughter around in a circle with excitement. Ajuni also won the Lynda Hilton Centenary Salva in 2024 at Gerrards Cross GC and what could have better than our President from 2019-2023, Lynda Hilton was with us to present her own Salva to Ajuni.

A GREAT 3 DAYS WITH SOME OUTSTANDING GOLF.

This years County Championships was truly a ‘festival’ of golf played by both amazingly talented young ladies alongside the very experienced.

Many thanks to Buckingham Golf Club for their generous and friendly hosting throughout the Competition. Over the 3 days, the Course was presented in exceptional condition considering all the Winter rain and then the Spring dry. Our thanks therefore go to all Buckingham Golf Club Members and staff for the unstinting support they gave to this prestigious occasion in the County’s Calendar.

Finally, congratulations go to the very deserving Daisy Kennedy from Beaconsfield GC, our 2025 County Champion, and to all our ladies who competed over the three days. More photographs follow below.

Jackie Maher

Competitions Secretary

36-Hole Combined Results

Results Seniors County Championship

Scratch Match Play

Handicap Match Play

Results Archive

2024 - Report & Photographs, Scratch Matchplay Results, Handicap Matchplay Results, 36 Hole Qualifying Scratch Scores, 36 Hole Qualifying Net Scores &  18 Hole Competition Results

Results 2023 - Matchplay Results & Photographs,  Qualifying Rounds - Gross &  Qualifying Rounds - Net & 18 Hole Competition Results

Results 2022 - Matchplay Results & Photographs,  Qualifying Rounds - Gross &  Qualifying Rounds - Net

Results 2021 - Matchplay Results & Photographs,    Qualifying Rounds - Gross & Qualifiying Rounds - Net

Results 2020

Results 2019

Results 2018

Honours Board

County Champions

Intermediate Champions

County Handicap Champions

Seniors County Champions