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!).