Last week on a beautiful autumn day, with the Mount Gambier Golf Club course in excellent condition, 45 women golfers participated in a Stableford competition.
The Hudson Plumbing competition, generously sponsored by Lyn Hudson, comprises four rounds, however, the best three are taken into account to ascertain the winner.
Scoring was excellent with Division 1 winner being Kathy Ewer (handicap 22) with splits of 18/21 – 39 points.
Kathy had a sum of six three pointers, one Birdie on the 18th and not one wipe-out.
Heather Teakle (handicap 22) had a very nice 38 points – her split being 21/17=38.
Consistency played a big part in Heather’s score recording four three pointers and no wipe-outs on her card.
With another fine score of 38 points and being placed the winner of Division 2 was a popular golfer Julie Hanel (handicap 41).
Julie’s split of the two nines was a very even 19/19 points, registering six three pointers and scoring on every hole.
Beaten on a countback also with 38 points Betty McKechnie (Handicap 28) took out second place in Division 2.
Betty had a great 21 points on the front nine and 17 points on the difficult back nine.
Betty’s score on the front nine consisted of five three pointers, plus two three pointers on the back nine.
Due to the large field there were 12 balls collected by players ranging from Carole Smith (36 points) down to Penne Saffin on 33 points.
The Pro Shot, winning three balls was won by Heather Barry and the Speciality prizes of a ball each for the 2nd shot on the 16th Par 3 Hole were won by A Grade – Penne Saffin, B Grade – Lorraine Stratford and C Grade – Heather Chapman.
This week the first of the Qualifying rounds for the Club Championship commences, sponsored by S E Pine Sales.
The Grades are as follows : A Grade 0 – 18, B Grade 19 – 26, C Grade – 27 – 36 and D Grade 37 – 45.
A, B and C Grade will be played in a Stroke format and the D Grade will be playing a Stableford.
Seventeen women played a Stableford competition at the Mount Gambier Golf Club course on Saturday in cold and very windy conditions.
Yvonne Shirley (handicap 27) claimed the honours and won the competition with 35 points.
Yvonne had a great front nine with 20 points and 15 points on the long back nine.
Jess Parsons (handicap 21) was placed second very close behind Yvonne with 34 points.
Jess’s split for the two nines was 15 points/19 points – 34 points.
Lois Harvey (handicap 30) recorded 33 points and her split for the nines was 18 points/15 points – 33.
