Club championship tees off

Last Wednesday, on a very windy and wet day, a depleted field of 34 Lladies, participated in the 1st Qualifying Round of the Mount Gambier Golf Club Ladies 2023 Club Championships. This event, once again, has been generously sponsored by SE Pine Sales. The main event of the day was a stroke round with the D Grade ladies playing a stableford.

The lone golfer to play better than her handicap, thus taking out the winning position, was relatively new Wednesday golfer, Trudy Johnson (Handicap 29), playing four shots under her Handicap (98-29-69 Nett). Trudy played a consistent game having 48 strokes on the front nine and 50 strokes on the long back nine. Her card showed her having pars on the 3rd/8th/16th holes. Lizzie Clements (Handicap 28) was awarded second placing with 103-28-75 Nett. Lizzie also played a very even game and had 52 strokes front nine and 51 back nine. Lady captain Jan Shanahan (Handicap 15) had a great front nine recording 43 off the stick and 48 off the stick on the back nine giving her the best score of the day for the championship. Jan had a birdie on the Par 3 8th hole which won her the Pro Shot and earnt three balls for her shot.

Nine balls were presented to golfers in the ball rundown ranging from Penne Saffin nett 77 down to Faye Mainwaring nett 82. Speciality prizes of a ball each for the 2nd shot on the 1st Hole went to A Grade – Janina Morrison, B Grade – Kate McCormick and C Grade Debbie Sheather.

A stableford event was held for D Grade qualifiers, sponsored by Gabriel’s Electrical, and was won by Linda Boylan with 37 points.

APRIL 15 RESULTS

Seventeen ladies played in the Barry Maney Volkswagen Ladies Stableford competition last Saturday in cold but fine conditions.

Good scoring was hard to attain, however, Marie Douglas (Handicap 23) was the best competitor with 33 points taking top honours for the day. Marie had a better back nine registering 18 points plus 15 points on the front nine. Two points behind and second place was the ever enthusiastic Carol Smith (Handicap 24) and Carol’s split for the two nines was 15/16 points. Losing on a countback also with 31 points was Yvonne Shirley. Yvonne played the nines with 16/15 points.

FIRST ROUND PODIUM: Third placed Jan Shanahan, runner up Lizzie Clements & winner Trudy Johnson