Astrong field of 27 ladies teed off last Wednesday at the Mount Gambier Golf Course to participate in the 51-year-old Veterans Salver, generously sponsored by D.J. Interiors.

The course was set up for championship play and the women struggled to register great scoring as the pin placements and T Blocks were difficult to negotiate.

The overall winner and 2023 Veterans Champion was Karen Forster (handicap 18) with a nett 74.

Karen had a blue ribbon day out as she won her age division 55-69 years with the very respectable 92 off the stick, just tipping out Carol Davis (handicap 16) by a countback, who also had 92 off the stick.

Karen had six pars on her scorecard.

The best nett in the age group of 55-69 years was taken out by Helen McIntyre (handicap 21) having 91-21-76 nett.

Helen won on a countback from twice unlucky Carol Davis, who also had 92-16-76 nett, but McIntyre had a better back nine over the last six holes.

In the Super Veteran class 70+ age, lady captain Jan Shanahan (handicap 17) had the best gross score with 96 off the stick, followed by Di O’Donnell (handicap 23) who carded the best nett score of 80 nett.

Four balls were handed out to Carol Davis, Faye Mainwaring, Lois Harvey and Di Norman in the ball run down.

The Pro Shot went to Jess Parsons, whilst the second shot on the 16th Par 3 went to Helen McIntyre for the Veterans and Jill Johnson took out the prize for the Super Veterans.

Only three ladies played in the Non-Veterans section and second shot went to Lizzie Clements on the 16th and first placing for the stableford competition was won by Jennifer Van Ritjhoven with 28 points.