Countbacks decide winner

THE Blue Lake Golf Club women played in the prestigious Club Foursomes Championship last week and was sponsored by Caffe Belgiorno.

It was played in good spirit and camaraderie by 16 groups of two playing for gross and nett prizes, as well as for the chance to represent the club in the upcoming South East District foursome’s championship playing against the winners from several other clubs to be played at a later date at Penola Golf Club.

The teams of Rosemary Martland/Geraldine Scott and Ronda Edwards/Karen Panagopoulos could not have been any tighter with both playing off combined/halved handicaps of 19 and both teams finishing with gross 96 forcing a countback (49/47) making Martland/Scott the victors and knocking out last year’s district winners Edwards/Panagopoulos (46/50) who were unfortunately going for a back to back win.

In the nett section of the event the winning team of Vivienne Wilson and Annette Ford combined very well off their 30 handicap to have even splits of 51/51 to give them a nett 72.

Runners up team Lee-Anne Medhurst and Helen Myers followed signing for nett 76.5 off their 20.5 handicap with splits of 51/46.

In the rundown taking fourth place was team Beryl Mahoney and Sue Agars nett 78 off their 24 handicap and fifth place was team Cherryl Hill and Carolyn Melhuish nett 79.5 off a 30.5 handicap.

APRIL 5 RESULTS

Once again favourable weather conditions greeted 30 women competing in the par round with some excellent scores recorded.

After a light sprinkling of rain the previous night the course came up a treat and the winner Mandy Bartholomew would agree after posting +4 playing off her 32 handicap.

Her card included three pluses on the outward nine and five on the inward nine.

The runner up was Josie Ashby also with a good score of +3 off her 21 handicap after scoring pars on the 1st, 11th, birdie plus on 15th, 17th with pluses also on the 8th and 18th.

Anita Klem was third signing for a very respectable +2 off her 37 handicap with even splits of +1/+1 that included seven pluses.

Ball rundown placings were fourth Annette Ford +1, fifth Helen Stratford square c/b sixth Judy Hunter c/b. Nearest to the pin winner on the 5th was Ronda Edwards, BF