Martland & Herbert take the win

The pinnacle of the golfing year, the 2024 club championships for the women, were played last Wednesday at the Blue Lake Golf Club.

The weather was a bit of a dampener at times but the scores were not.

In the Division One, the final between Rosemary Martland and Ronda Edwards proved to be a battle over 33 holes not quite going to the full 36.

Martland opened up the first nine holes to be 2-up then advancing to the next nine with six squared and three wins making it 5-up for Martland.

Going to the 19th Edwards was trying to make a move both having wins with Edwards taking back one from Martland the score now 4-up Martland’s way.

The last nine holes were now crucial for Edwards, squared holes 28th and 29th, a win each on the 30th and 31st, a win for Edwards on the 32 was unfortunately not enough with Martland taking the win on the 33rd hole 4/3.

In Division Two the battle was definitely on between Trudy Herbert and Jaynee Oberer going to the 27th hole as required.

Both have match play finals experience and didn’t disappoint going down to the wire.

The first nine holes saw Oberer 1-up then scores see-sawing in the next nine with four wins to Herbert and three to Oberer making it all square after 18 holes.

With the last nine holes crucial to both it was a mix of wins, loses or squared until the 25th was another square then the breakthrough came for Herbert with a win on the 26th then squaring the 27th to take the win 1-up.NOVEMBER 13 RESULTS

A stableford competition was organised for those not involved in the finals and at the presentations women’s captain Annette Ford thanked those that caddied and refereed in the finals.

The Division One winner was Josie Ashby off a 22 handicap coming in with a very respectable 36 points playing to her handicap from splits of 20/16 that included three point pars on the 4th, 5th, 11th and 12th.

Runner up was Sue Agars (21) with a worthy 35 points from splits of 19/16 with three-point pars on the 5th, 9th and 11th.

Division Two winner Lynda Nannings (33) had a blinder posting 39 points three strokes under the scratch rating. In her splits of 18/21 there were five three-pointers as well as a four-pointer.

Runner up was Carol Melhuish (36) signing for 32 points from splits of 18/14 that included six three-pointers.

Nearest to the pin 2nd shot winners were Agars (1.92) and Nannings (2.04) and the pro- shot winner was Ashby. Dianne Allen had a chip-in ferret on the 11th.

NOVEMBER 9 RESULTS

As it turned out it was a prelude to a championship win for the winner Rosemary Martland.

On the previous Saturday Martland had a win four strokes under her handicap signing for 84/16/68 that was set up by a good back nine 41 off the stick with five pars.

She then added a birdie on the 11th to finish with 43 off the stick on the back nine.

Martland did have to wait on a countback from Geraldine Scott before taking the top honours.

Scott posted 92/24/68 also scoring well on the front nine with 43 off the stick after a birdie on the 2nd hole with pars on the 5th and 6th.

In the back nine 49 strokes there was a par on the dog- leg 15th

Third went to Helen Stratford 92/22/70, also going to a countback with Ronda Edwards 87/17/70.

Stratford had pars on the 5th, 11th, 14th and 16th holes in her 50/42 splits.

In the rundown were Annette Ford nett 72 countback Dianne Perryman and Vivienne Wilson.