Decades old competition

Lucindale Country Club hosts two day event

Earlier this month Lucindale Country Club hosted the highly successful SE Ladies Ambrose, and the following day was The Scramble incorporating the Yakka Challenge. They were very grateful to family-owned Quality Wool, their major sponsor, for their generous ongoing support of this popular event. They also appreciate Tasco Petroleum who have kindly sponsored the SE Ladies Ambrose for the 41st consecutive year. It was RUOK Day, a reminder to be mindful of others as a conversation can save or change a life.

The 24 teams of 4 ladies who played on Thursday represented 8 clubs from the Limestone Coast & from Adelaide to Apsley.

Congratulations to the Bordertown team, J Rohrlach, K Mackenzie, A Dawes & S Leigh, who won the SE Ladies Ambrose Championship with 68 off the stick. Gross runners up on 69 were V Scullion, P Hood, F Norcock & H Mort from Naracoorte.

Third Gross winners on 73 were K Higgins, R Smith, M Watson & R Legoe (Lucindale) & 4th Gross Winners with 74 from Millicent S Agnew, Alex Lambert, K Bailey & M Winser.

Congratulations to the Nett winners V Snodgrass, C Fitzgerald, S Higgins & F McInnes (Lucindale) on 57.75. Nett runners-up on 60.875 were R Shanks, A MacLennan, L Barlow & L Tilley from Millicent.

Lucindale’s P Smith, J Baker, V Stone & J Wilks with 62.875 were 3rd nett winners with & 4th Nett winners with 1 more stroke were Robe team L Price, H Ashby, K Pedlar & B Rivaz. An encouragement award was given to Blue Lake team L Gill, J Gogan, B Pascoe & A Ford. A Grade Long Drive winner was A Lambert, B Grade H Mort & P Smith was C Grade winner. A Grade NTP winner was J Morrison (Attamurra), B Grade Heather Anderson & C Grade Julie Wilks. Thank you to Lucindale Ladies Patroness, Isobel Carracher who helped present the prizes.

Everyone appreciated having Craig Davis of GolfnMore, Mount Gambier with his great array of golf products. Craig was invited to vote for best dressed, although dress ups are optional, they add a fun & frivolous element to the day.

The winners were the Beachport Ladies dressed as Monty Python & The Holy Grail. the Robe team dressed in theme ‘Come on Barbie, Let’s go Party’ were next best dressed.

Thank you to Carol Helle from Lucindale Area School who provided a wine tasting from grapes grown at the school that were made by the Di Giorgio Family Wines winemaker. Funds from bottles sold go to the Ag Program for students.

Once again, fine weather prevailed on Friday for the 10 teams of 4 ladies who competed in The Scramble competition. Since the Scramble’s inception in 2005, the Lucindale Country Club has hosted it for 14 years.

The 2023 Scramble winners were the Lucindale team comprising Nicole Hocking, Michelle Justin, Sharon Menz & Kerry Gilkes with a great nett score of 60.125.

All the very best to this team in the Regional Final to be held at Blackwood Golf Club in October.

Runners up were Heather Tucker, Marg Lawrie, Anne Foreman & Pam Brown (Robe) on 60.25 closely followed by Millicent team of Kirsty Bailey, Alex Lambert, Mary Winser & Sue Agnew on 61.625. NTP B Grade Winner on 12th was Kay MacKenzie (Bordertown) & Nicole Hocking was A Grade NTP on the 16th as well as A Grade Longest Drive, whilst Deb Frith (Apsley) won B Grade Long Drive.

The Great Yakka Challenge is derived from the best nett score from the SE Ambrose combined with The Scramble. The club is indebted to Tallageira Pastoral Company and thanks the Koch family for nine continuous years of support of this fun & unique competition.

Congratulations to the winning Lucindale team Vickie Snodgrass, Cheryl Fitzgerald, Fionna McInnes & Shannon Higgins with fabulous Nett 121.5 &rRunners up were Michelle Justin, Sharon Menz, Nicole Hocking & Kerry Gilkes on 125.25. Third was Marg Lawrie, Pam Brown, Heather Tucker & Anne

PRELIMINARY FINALS

A GRADE • Tantanoola 45 d Glencoe 35
A RESERVE • Kalangadoo 44 d Port MacDonnell 29
B GRADE • Robe 59 d Glencoe 33
B RESERVE • Mt Burr 33 d Kalangadoo 30
17 & UNDER • Tantanoola 55 d Port MacDonnell 46
15 & UNDER • Hatherleigh 39 d Port MacDonnell 30
13 & UNDER • Glencoe 36 d Hatherleigh 32

MSE Netball

PRELIMINARY FINALS SENIORS
Hatherleigh 5.1 8.5 10.11 14.14 (98)
Port MacDonnell0.1 1.2 2.4 2.9 (21)

Best – Hatherleigh: Michael Telford, Jed Telfer, William Chay, Lyndon Smith, Bradley Mitchell Pt Mac: William Macdonald, Wade Chant, Ethan Gladman, Joshua Woodall, Ben O’Dine, Jake Turner

RESERVES

Hatherleigh 9.10 (64) d Robe 7.7 (49)

SENIOR COLTS

Robe 9.8 (62) d Tantanoola 6.6 (42)

JUNIOR COLTS

Port MacDonnell 6.8 (38) d Hatherleigh 0.3 (3)

Mid South East Football

Foreman on 125.5 and 4th with

126.25 was Sharon Leigh, Anna Dawes, Kay MacKenzie & Janeen Rohrlach (Bordertown).

The club also appreciated the other generous sponsors for this 2-day event – Mini Jumbuk, Di Giorgio Family Wines, Henri Post Jewellers & Craig Davis GolfnMore for their continued support.

Ladies president Julie Wilks commented on how wonderful it was to see so many happy golfers & thanked all ladies for participating in these two fun filled days. The Lucindale golf course was immaculately presented, thanks to their skilled greenskeeper Don Thiele for all the preparation involved and kind pin placements.

Lucindale Country Club is very fortunate having wonderfully cohesive & committed members who take pride in ensuring thesetwo days are enjoyable for all players. A very big thank you to all in the kitchen who sustained us on both days, as well as the bar attendants for quenching our thirst.

LUCINDALE LADIES WINNERS: (Below from top) Scramble Winners Nicole Hocking, Sharon Menz, Michelle Justin & Kerry Gilkes; SE Ambrose Nett Winners Shannon Higgins, Cheryl Fitzgerald, Vickie Snodgrass & Fionna McInnes and SE Ambrose Champions Anna Dawes, Kay MacKenzie, Sharon Leigh & Janeen Rohrlach.