Panagopoulos cards best score of the day

Blue Lake Golf Club ladies battle it out in the third round of the Marlene Lingham Memorial Trophy

In what still felt like almost zero degrees, despite the sunshine, a dedicated group of women teed off for the 3rd round of the Marlene Lingham Memorial Stableford Trophy, sponsored by the Blue Lake Bar and Bistro, at the Blue Lake Golf Club last Wednesday..

Once again scores were indicative of the heavy underfoot conditions but in saying that the course is holding up very well thanks to the dedication of the greenkeeper and his many volunteer helpers.

Karen Panagopoulos registered the best score of the day and was best placed winning the first place voucher for division one signing for 31 points off a 26 handicap.

A par on the 2nd, scrub on the 3rd and two three-pointers gave her16 points then turning to the back nine to record 15 points that included two three-pointers and no scrubs.

A four-way countback ensued between Josie Ashby, Rosemary Martland, Dianne Perryman and Helen Stratford all scoring 27 points with Ashby taking second place and Martland third place. Ashby had splits of 10/17 and Martland off 18 had splits of 11/16.

Panagopoulos was the 2nd shot nearest to the pin on the par three 2nd hole. Stratford won prizes for a birdie from a chip-in ferret on the par three 5th as well as the best front nine score.

Winner of Division Two was Jo Gogan off a 33 handicap and signed for 27 points starting slowly on the front nine scoring only 9 points but dug deep posting 18 points that included four threepointers and no scrubs finishing strongly.

New member, Bernadette Pedlar would have pleased with her first Wednesday outing posting 26 points starting with three-pointers on the 1st and 2nd holes, a fourpointer on the 8th unfortunately scrubbing the 9th accumulating 16 points. The back nine was a bit more of a challenge posting 10 points.

The nearest to the pin 2nd shot on the 2nd was Gogan.

JULY 15 RESULTS

Early morning golfers had to contend with damp conditions whilst their aftrrnoon counterparts enjoyed a bit more sunshine later on. The stroke competition did see scores blow out a little from the scratch rating of 72 with the top three winner’s signing for nett 77 a piece creating a three-way countback. The eventual winner was Ronda Edwards 93/16/77 with splits of 47/46 and included pars on the 5th, 12th and 14th. Runnerup was Karen Panagopoulos 103/26/77, splits of 53/50, pars on the 15th and 16th holes followed by Helen Stratford signing for 97/20/77, splits of 47/50, pars on the 2nd and 14th.

Nearest to the pin was Dianne Perryman, long drive and least putts winner was Edwards.

THIRD ROUND MARLENE LINGHAM MEMORIAL STABLEFORD ACTION:

Division 2 winner Johanna Gogan, Div 1 winner Karen Panagopoulos & runner up Josie Ashby