YELVERTON Golf Club’s Caitlin Evans-Brand competed last week in the ‘Home Internationals’ at Ballybunnion Golf Club, Ireland.

These internationals have been running since 1895 with 107 competitive years. Caitlin’s singles’ debut for Wales was against Scotland and previous Scottish and English Amateur champion Gemma Batty.

Caitlin spent most of the match two down to the Scottish player but dug in over the back nine and managed to pull off a memorable first win by 2 up.

Day two matched Wales against Ireland. The morning fixtures were the foursome matches and Caitlin’s team debuted in a closely fought contest in which Ireland narrowly won. In the afternoon Caitlin was matched in the singles against Curtis Cup reserve Mairead Martin.

With five holes to play Caitlin was four down but fought back to halve the match. On the last day Caitlin was rested for the singles but played a part in the morning foursomes.

Her partner was Lucy Jones and they were against an English pairing which included Women’s British Open competitor Hollie Muse. The Welsh pairing got off to a great start and were one up early on but by the turn it was a different story and the final result was a four and three win for the English pair. A great Home International and Welsh ladies debut for Caitlin with a singles record without blemish.

Brothers Peter and John Adams took top spots in this month’s 56-competitor strong veterans’ Stableford at Yelverton. With just one point splitting the brothers, family rivalry was strong with Peter just edging out John by one point.

Overall results: 1, Peter Adams 41 points; 2, John Adams 40pts; 3, Len Waterfield 39pts. Division one: 1, Peter Adams 41pts; 2, Len Waterfield 39pts; 3, John Greenwood 38pts. Division 2: 1, John Adams 40pts; 2, Peter Wright 39pts; 3, Ken Elliott 38pts. There were five players who scored a two: John Adams; Mike Ayres; Mike Martin; Eddie Primmer; Len Waterfield.

This month ‘Pounders’ Stableford at Yelverton Golf Club fielded 35 competitors in what turned out to be a close finish with six players all within three points. Result: 1, G Warren 39pts; 2, Z Braund 38pts; 3, I Ellicott 38pts.

The mid-week Stableford saw 33 competitors compete for honours but one player pulled away from the rest. Overall results: 1, N Davis 42pts; 2, K Blaber 37pts; 3, N Blanchard 37pts. This week’s Pro-shop Stableford results: 1, S Rosewell 45pts; 2, J Turfrey 44pts; 3, M Blampey 39pts.

Yelverton Guest Day results: 1, Conner Warren (Staddon Heights) and Paul Merrin (Yelverton) 44pts; 2, Martin Wallace (Staddon Heights) and Des Carty (Yelverton) 43pts; 3, M Hughes (China Fleet) and Paul Taylor (Yelverton) 43pts.