Panagopoulos hits purple patch

FIRSTLY the Blue Lake Golf Club would like to congratulate its club captain Helen Myers on her recent win in the 36 hole Bronze Salver event at the 2025 South Australia Country Week Championships played at the Murry Bridge golf club.

Myers was in the handicap range of 16.1-30 and played off 18 scoring 34 stableford points in wet and windy conditions on the Tuesday and 29 points in much better weather on the Wednesday.

Myers also was the runner up in the veterans event.

Also a special mention to Geraldine Scott and Lee-Anne Medhurst who also attended the event representing the Blue Lake Golf Club.JULY 30 RESULTS

It what could be described as a perfect winter’s day and the 24 women enjoyed a stroke competition incorporating the July Monthly Medal sponsored by Bev Pascoe and 2nd Round of the Scotty’s Loader Services Mt Gambier President’s Trophy.

Karen ‘Pana’ Panagopolous was a happy first time monthly medal winner adding to her Division One win and previous Saturday’s win.

The daily difficulty rating on the Wednesday was a +2 due to the very heavy underfoot conditions and the long course set up with many signing well over handicaps and pars hard to score.

Division One winner Panagopoulos 94/22/72 had splits of 46/48 with a par on the dogleg 15th, holes of even scoring and four double bogeys was good enough for the win.

Second was Helen Stratford 96/22/74 with pars on the 2nd and 5th in her outward 50 strokes and pars on the 12th and 16th in the inward 45 mixed with double bogeys.

Third on the podium was Jaynee Oberer 102/26/76 after a countback with Ronda Edwards 93/17/76.

Oberer had splits of 53/49 that included pars on the 14th and 15th holes.

Division Two participants did find the long course challenging with fairly high scores posted all with a bit too much red ink on their scorecards.

Trudy-Anne Doyle was first over the line signing for 121/37/84 with an outward 63 strokes and 58 on the inward.

A regular in the winner’s circle, Bev Pascoe took the second place voucher with 116/31/85 with splits of 57/59 followed by 3rd place Lee Anderson 124/38/86 after her splits of 63/61.

Nearest to the pin 2nd shot winners on the 14th were Josie Ashby (.87) and Pascoe (5mtrs) and the pro- shot winner on the 5th was Janine Dunn (2.57).

Chip-in ferret prizes were won by Cherryl Hill 6th/10th, Oberer 15th, Dianne Perryman 17th, Geraldine Scott 17th and Josie Ashby least putts 27.

JULY 26 RESULTS

Another day of good golf weather greeted the 12 women for a par round and as mentioned Panagopolous has returned to a purple patch with a very reasonable score of 2-down playing off her then 21 handicap going straight into scoring a par on the 1st hole, mixed with wipes and squared holes turning 3-down going to the 10th adding pars on the 14th and 18th, only one wipe on the 11th to be 1-up on the inward nine.

Dianne Perryman off 22 was second placed signing for 4-down after pars on the 7th and 17th holes finishing her round 4-down.

Third was Ronda Edwards after forcing a countback with Helen Stratford and Cherryl Hill all returning a score of 5-down Edwards’s card included pars on the 12th and 14th playing off a 17 handicap and also won nearest to the pin prize with the BB9 prize won by Panagopoulos.