Richardson Trophy

The Richardson Trophy is a matchplay team event which is participated in by all six Northern Counties of England, i.e. Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Durham, Northumberland and Cumbria. Each County plays the other 5 counties every year in daily matches and seven players per team.

One year there are 3 home matches and the following year there will be two home matches for each County. The matches are hotly contested and winning the Trophy is the Jewel in the Crown for the winning County. To read more about the history of the Trophy, click here.

Lancashire vs Durham

Our first Richardson trophy match was played at Blackwell Grange on 2^nd June, a beautiful parkland setting in Durham.

After a positive practice round, learning about some incredibly tricky greens, our selected team played very well to secure a resounding 5½-1½  win …onward and upward from here.

Lancashire vs Northumberland

We then drove on to Northumberland where we played against their women’s senior team in a mix of torrential rain, gale force winds and beautiful sunshine. Arcot Hall is lovely parkland course with many long and challenging par 4 holes along with very quick, but true greens. Our girls fought well but after a number of matches going to the 18^th, we were eventually beaten 4½-2½.

The team showed great spirit and everyone gave their all but it was not to be our day on this occasion.

We now move on to our 3 home matches which will be played at FLGC on Monday 22^nd June v Cumbria 9.30 start, Sunday 26^th July at FLGC v Yorkshire 9.30 start and Monday August 10^th v Cheshire at FLGC v Cheshire, 9.30 start. Please feel free to come and support our team, we would love to see you there (wearing anything red!).

Lancashire vs Cumbria

Our first home Richardson Trophy match was played at Formby Ladies on a warm but windy day on the 22nd June. As always our links course provided a challenge for all the players, with the long rough, thick heather, and a strong wind making the golf very tricky. The recent hot spell has speeded up both the fairways and greens and shots into the greens were particularly demanding. However, the experience the team had of playing on this course, through the winter training and in more recent months through playing in the championship, proved invaluable and we were able to secure a 5-2 win with some strong play in the last few holes from a number of players.

It was lovely to see so many familiar Lancashire faces at the match and we very much appreciated their support

 We now have a short break until we play Yorkshire at Formby Ladies on Sunday July 26^th and we would love to see any members of the association able to join us, enjoy some good golf and of course good friendships.

Lancashire vs Yorkshire

Oh what a day !!!!!

Our Richardson Trophy team, faced an unbeaten Yorkshire side, with some extremely low handicap players, many of whom are in the upcoming Jamboree team representing the North of England.

Our leading players faced tough opposition and played really well but sadly lost narrowly. However the back 5 were undefeated and thus a 4.5 to 2.5 win was achieved…what a fabulous performance from the whole team.

Winds gusting at over 24mph made for extremely difficult playing conditions for both teams. However it would seem that the knowledge our team had gained through the Winter training at Formby Ladies, paid off.

Thanks go to all our squad of players and of course to our fabulous supporters and caddies.

August 10th is our final match at Formby Ladies  against Cheshire. We would welcome, as always, any one from our association who would like to come and join us to watch this deciding match.