Countback needed to decide winners

LAST Thursday, 49 South East golfers played at the Lucindale Ladies Open Day in near perfect weather conditions with little wind and welcoming sunshine.

Unfortunately, the fine weather didn’t positively influence the scores, with only two ladies playing to or below their handicap.

Greenskeeper Don Thiele presented the course so well considering the challenging weather this year.

Once again, the club is indebted to Malcolm Collins and his team at Naracoorte Toyota for their generous support.

It’s now the 16th consecutive year of sponsorship and it was great to have the Toyota team represented by Alicia Munro and Jessica Dunstan to present the prizes.

Alex Lambert (Millicent) and Karena Higgins (Lucindale) both had 86 off the stick and needed to play the 1st hole again to decide the champion .

Congratulations to A Grade gross winner Alex and runner up Karena.

A Grade nett winner was Jacki Baker (Lucindale) on 76 and Elaine Morrow (Kingston) was nett runner up with 77 on a countback from Sharon Menz (Lucindale).

Karena Higgins won A Grade longest drive and Megan Watson (Lucindale) was A Grade NTP winner.

B Grade winner was Kerry Gilkes (Lucindale) with 37 Stableford points and runner up was Marlene Bull (Naracoorte) with 33.

Third was Issie Carracher on 29, fourth was Shylie Yelland with 28 and fifth was Cheryl Fitzgerald on 27 – all from Lucindale.

Vanessa Stone (Lucindale) had the longest drive in B Grade and was also B Grade NTP recipient.

All C Grade winners were from Lucindale – Petrina Smith was first with 37 stableford points and Julie Wilks was runner up on 34 points.

Third on 31 points was Judy James, fourth Sally Clarke with 29 and fifth was Fionna McInnes with 28 on a countback from Chris McDonald (Naracoorte).

Judy James won C Grade longest drive and Karen Gould won NTP in C Grade.

Veteran’s prize was won by Petrina Smith and the teams event was won by Lucindale trio Karena Higgins, Petrina Smith and Karen Gould with 101 points.

The day was well organised by captain Fionna McInnes and her match committee, while president Vanessa Stone organised the generous amount of raffle prizes.

Local artisan Margot Di Giorgio made all the amazing pottery prizes, while Kate Jolly donated her honey and Rory Paltridge for the Rowallan Olives.

It was also great to have some of the male club members who helped in the kitchen, bar and scorecards with multiple countbacks.

The famous Lucindale hospitality continues at the Lucindale Golf Tournament to be held July 18-20.

Rabobank are sponsoring a Mixed Pinehurst Championship (& a stableford for players without partners) on Friday, July 18, with an 11.30am hit off.

CASE IH are sponsoring a Men’s and Ladies 4 Ball Better Ball.Stableford on July 19 (hit off at 11.30am) as well as the Men’s 18 Hole Championship at 10am on July 20.