Season opens with a bang

THE 2026 golf season officially started last Wednesday at the Mount Gambier Golf Club with 51 lady golfers teeing off with a shotgun start, playing a 4-Person Ambrose.

The day was sponsored by Lizzie Clements.

The field included members and non-golfers with the winning foursome having a great score of 71 off the stick = Nett 59.5.

The winning team consisted of Helen Heaver, Jeannette Braun, Heather Teakle and Sharran Waters scoring a great front nine with two birdies on the 1st and 9th holes.

The team also registered 16 pars to take out first prize with ease.

In second placing was the team of Di Norman, Pauline Paterson Lizzie Clements and Jennifer Van Rijthoven pencilling in a 35/39=74=Nett 62.

The ladies scored one birdie on the 8th hole, 14 pars and 3 bogies in their score.

Eight balls were received by two teams, the third placed Heather Chapman, Lyndal McInerney, Mary Kentish and Ruth Main and and Maxine McGregor, Yvonne Shirley, Janine Reid and Bev Pedlar in fourth place.

New member Janine Reid played a great shot into the Par 3, 8th Hole to win the Pro Shot.

Nearest the Marker on the 18th Hole went to Deb Fowler (Golfer) and Tess Somerfield (Non-Golfer).

Long Drives on the 9th Hole were won by (Golfer) Ruth Main from Robe and Vanessa Pearson (Non-Golfer).

The Summer Salver Trophy was presented on the day and won by Heather Barry.

This prestigious event was conducted over three stableford rounds and Heather was declared the winner.

Heather’s rounds consisted of 38, 37, 39 – 114 points narrowly beating Mardi Goodes 113 point, Deb Fowler 112 points and Mary Kentish 111 points.FEBRUARY 21 RESULTS

Twenty-one lady golfers played the difficult Par Round last Saturday in perfect weather with fast greens and fairways which allowed good scoring.

Relatively new members took out the honours with first place going to Janine Reid (Handicap 38) playing three strokes under her handicap. Janine’s score consisted of 1up front nine/2up back nine = 3 Up.

She had a par on the Par 3, 6th Hole.

Sara McManus (Handicap 39) took out second place for the day’s event with 1 up.

Sara’s score consisted of 1 down front nine and 2 up on the difficult back nine = 1 up.

Sharran Waters came third with 1 up also, losing the countback due to the fact that Sara had a better back nine. Sharran’s split for the two nines was 3 up/2 Down = 1 up.