Myers secures win Blue

Lake Golf Club ladies tackle short course

With the weather a major talking point, the drizzly showers came at tee-off time then quickly cleared making for reasonable condtions for the 5th and final round of the Grant and Dianne Perryman Short Course Trophy, the daily prize vouchers kindly donated from The Mount Gambier Oatmill cinema as well as the Blue Lake Golf Club.

The format was stroke whilst other rounds have also included stableford. The short course had the handicaps adjusted by golflink still making it a challenge. The handicap range for Division One was 0-19 and the top scorer was Helen Myers returning from holidays all refreshed posting 77/12/65 and included pars on the 4th 5th, 6th and 7th holes in the 39 strokes on the outward nine along with pars on the 10th and 13th finishing with a birdie on the 18th in the inward nine hole 38 strokes.

Runner up was Trudy Herbert 86/19/67 with splits of 44/42 and included pars on the 3rd, 5th and 6th holes with the minor placing going to Karen Panagopoulos 83/15/68 with splits if 43/40 with a good spread of pars on the 8th, 9th, 10th 12th and 18th.

The handicap range for Division Two was 20-45 and the winner Bernadette Pedlar made good use of her 25 handicap signing for 89/64.

Pedlar had splits of 44/45 with pars on the 3rd, 5th, 14th and 18th holes followed by Vivienne Wilson, also back from a holiday in the west, posting 93/24/69, there were no pars but consistent scoring did the job.

Johanna Gogan saw herself in the winners’ circle again also making use of her handicap strokes carding 83/32/71 from splits of 48/45 with pars recorded on the 2nd and 18th holes.

Nearest to the pin winners second shot on the par three 16th were Ronda Edwards (Div 1) and Bev Pascoe (Div 2). The pro shot winner on the 5th was Rosemary Martland and ferret/birdie prizes won by Beryl Mahoney 2nd and Helen Myers 18th and other chip-in ferrets were won by Josie Ashby 2nd, Herbert 15th and Lynda Nannings 17th and birdies Edwards and Ashby 13th. This week is the August monthly Loader Mt Gambier Services President’s trophy with count putts.

AUGUST 19 RESULTS

It was young gun Jorja Morale showing the way in the stableford competition signing for 34 points off her 27 handicap to take the top voucher. Morale had a good start carding 20 points on the outward nine but faulted a little on the home run to post only 14.

Her card included five threepointers and was enough to put her over the line just ahead of Dianne Perryman signing for 33 points. Perryman is off 22 and recorded splits of 16/17 with pars on the 2nd, 14th and 15th holes.

Karen Panagopoulos was 3rd with 32 points off a 26 handicap with splits of 17/15, pars on the 2nd, 5th and 14th, adding to her prize with the nearest the pin ball voucher on the 5th.

SHORT COURSE WINNERS: (Above) Division 1 winner Helen Myers, runner up Trudy Herbert & third placed Karen Panagopoulos with Division 2 winner Bernadette Pedlar, runner up Vivienne Wilson & third placed Johanna Gogan

SATURDAY STABLEFORD WINNER: (Left) Jorja Morale