The pinnacle of the golfing year, the 2024 club championships for the women, were played last Wednesday at the Blue Lake Golf Club.<\/p>\n
The weather was a bit of a dampener at times but the scores were not.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s way.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
In Division Two the battle was definitely on between Trudy Herbert and Jaynee Oberer going to the 27th hole as required.<\/p>\n
Both have match play finals experience and didn\u2019t disappoint going down to the wire.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
A stableford competition was organised for those not involved in the finals and at the presentations women\u2019s captain Annette Ford thanked those that caddied and refereed in the finals.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Runner up was Carol Melhuish (36) signing for 32 points from splits of 18\/14 that included six three-pointers.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
NOVEMBER 9 RESULTS<\/p>\n
As it turned out it was a prelude to a championship win for the winner Rosemary Martland.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
She then added a birdie on the 11th to finish with 43 off the stick on the back nine.<\/p>\n
Martland did have to wait on a countback from Geraldine Scott before taking the top honours.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
In the back nine 49 strokes there was a par on the dog- leg 15th<\/p>\n
Third went to Helen Stratford 92\/22\/70, also going to a countback with Ronda Edwards 87\/17\/70.<\/p>\n
Stratford had pars on the 5th, 11th, 14th and 16th holes in her 50\/42 splits.<\/p>\n
In the rundown were Annette Ford nett 72 countback Dianne Perryman and Vivienne Wilson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 […]<\/p>\n