The popular game of a Pinehurst Pairs was held last Wednesday at the Mount Gambier Golf Club kindly sponsored by Lorraine Stratford, with 42 women participating.
Weather conditions varied with rain, sunshine and a very cold wind thus making good scoring difficult overall.
Fortunately, the computer did the calculation of 7/8ths of the combined handicaps making it easier to determine the handicaps.
With 88 off the stick, having a handicap of 13.50, Andrea Pegler and Bernie Jennings were the winning duo with a nett 74.5.
The couple played a very consistent game with a split of 43/45 off the stick, including five pars on their scorecard.
Second placing went to Maxine McGregor and Yvonne Shirley with a combined handicap of 24.38.
They too played very consistently with their split for the two nines being 51/49 off the stick, equating to a nett 75.62.
Coming in third was the combination of Helen McIntyre and captain Jan Shanahan, who had a handicap of 15.00.
Together they had 91 off the stick giving them a nett 76.
The couple had a great back nine with 44, however, the 7th hole, par five on the front nine spoilt their score.
They registered four pars for the day.
Seven pairs received balls for their efforts and went to Faye Mainwaring and Di Norman nett 76.13 down to Carol Smith and Bev Pedlar nett 81.12.
Nearest the pin on the 8th par, three hole was won by sisters Deb Sheather and Susan Ryan.
Yhe Mount Gambier Golf Club Open Day will be held on Friday, September 22 with a shotgun start. Players are expected to arrive at 9am for a 9.30am start.
A Grade will be a stroke round and B, C and D Grade will be a stableford.
Nineteen women teed off last Saturday in beautiful golfing weather with Yvonne Shirley (handicap 30) winning the day on a countback with 104-30-74 nett.
Yvonne carded three pars for the day and if not for the hard 14th par four hole she would have played under her handicap.
Losing the countback was second placegetter Helen McIntyre (handicap 22) who had a great front nine with 44 off the stick, but came undone on the hard back nine with 53 off the stick.
Helen started the back nine slowly but came home very nicely after the 14th hole.
She recorded four pars on her card.
The pro shot on the par three, 8th hole was won by Helen Gregory.
Eight balls were handed out to Leanne Hunt nett 75 down to Helen Gregory nett 81.
