Last week, summer arrived in Wales and the ladies' team of Holly Watkins, Heather Morgan, Pam Cole, Sue Griffiths, Anita Davies and Anne Morris went east for the Welsh Ladies Golf Union Team Championship at the Monmouthshire club, near Abergavenny. Our first round opponents on Tuesday were St. Mellons and the team won fairly comfortably 3-2. In this competition, with so many teams and a tight schedule, the team which achieves a winning margin concedes the final matches, which can be galling if you happen to be up at the time. The next opponents were Monmouth, who had outplayed Aberdovery by a narrow margin, and on a beautiful day the excellent Monmouthshire course was playing very well. The first four matches were shared and at this point Anita Davies was one up at the 15th. She lost the 16th and 17th and it became essential for her to win the 18th. Both players were not at their best and after some rather wayward shots, Anita finally had two putts to her opponents three. At the 19th, Anita played two fine shots and her opponent conceded the match. The next day the opponents in the third round were Borth and Ynyslas. In this match, the scores were closer, but again the team came through to win 3 -2, with one conceded match. In the fourth round, the quarter-finals, played on Thursday afternoon, the weather was cooler, but inevitably the opposition, St. Pierre, was stronger. The team played steadily, but somehow had lost their touch round the greens and this time the concession came to us as we lost 3-2. St. Pierre went on to win the Western Mail Team Championship Trophy for the third time since 1994 - we seem to have made a habit of losing to the eventual winners and as has happened in recent years, the match against St. Pierre could have gone either way. It had been an exciting week with a variety of shots, good ones, bad ones, out of bounds, holing out from off the green, long drives, putts sunk and putts missed and even one shot 'bent like Beckham'! However, the ladies' captain, Jean Charnock and I, as team captain, were full of admiration for the team's performances and they would all agree that the efforts of the caddies - Ann Follon, Anne Morris, Lyn Bonar, Ann Wilks, Liz Storey, John Hancock and Bryn Rowell - on a hilly course, played a big part in their success, as did the presence of so many supporters. As Jean would say, there were pros and cons on every day, but it was a week to remember.