\n Showing that you are never too young or old to play golf, 10-year-old Tilly Greatrex and 87-year-old Carol Perks were drawn together for the Mixed Greemsomes competition at Rushmere Golf Course on Sunday, May 17.\n<\/p>\n
\n In Greensomes golf, a two-player team will each take a tee shot at the start of each hole. They then select the best of the two drives, then keep playing that remaining ball as a team, alternating each shot.\n<\/p>\n
\n Both Tilly and Carol had a male partner and took it in turns with to play alternative shots throughout the competition.\n<\/p>\n
\n Rushmere Golf Club will celebrate its 100th anniversary next year (Image: Archant)\n<\/p>\n
\n Tilly, from Rushmere, started playing aged two years ago at the age of eight, while former teacher Carol began in 1974 when she joined Rushmere Golf Club.\n<\/p>\n
\n She was delighted to play with one of the course\u2019s youngest members.\n<\/p>\n
\n Carol, who was previously head of PE at Ipswich Girls High School, said: \u201cIt was fantastic to play with Tilly, she has a lovely swing.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI think it just shows you can play the sport at any age, even with a 77 year age gap.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n This was Tilly’s first competition and she is one of around 50 junior members at Rushmere Golf Club.\n<\/p>\n
\n She said: \u201cIt was only the second time I have walked a full eighteen.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cEveryone was very friendly and I would like to play more competitions this summer and get my handicap down.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Carol and her partner won the Hansbro Shield with a score of 42\u00a0stableford\u00a0points.\n<\/p>\n
\n Golf has been played on Rushmere Heath since the late 1800s when it was the home of the Ipswich Golf Club.\n<\/p>\n
\n In 1927 when the majority of the members elected to move to nearby privately owned land a public appeal and donations from founder members led to Rushmere Golf Club being formed.\n<\/p>\n
\n The club is set to celebrate its centenary next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Showing that you are never too young or old to play golf, 10-year-old Tilly Greatrex and 87-year-old Carol…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-604405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}