	{"id":13419,"date":"2025-04-15T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/mtgambiertimes\/?p=13419"},"modified":"2025-04-09T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T04:36:00","slug":"watson-blitzes-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/mtgambiertimes\/sport\/watson-blitzes-the-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson blitzes the field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ON April 2, 14 ladies competed at the Lucindale Country Club in the Monthly Medal stroke round sponsored by Ballogie and it was the 1st Qualifying round of Elders Club Championship.<\/p>\n<p>It was also the first round of the International Bowl competition which is open to all female golfers who hold a Golf Australia handicap and are affiliated with Golf Australia (SA).<\/p>\n<p>The competition is 18-hole stroke play (nett) in two divisions run and managed by the club and played over three rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Huge congratulations to Megan Watson who played incredibly good golf and blitzed the field. Her fantastic putting finesse (27) helped her score a sensational nett 69.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently,she was the April Monthly Medal winner, A Grade gross winner with 87, A Grade Nett as well as putting winner for that grade.<\/p>\n<p>A Grade nett runner up was Rachel Smith with a fine score of 73.<\/p>\n<p>The B Grade nett winner was Cath Macleod on 73 and runner up was the ladies golf captain Fionna McInnes on 74, winning on a countback from Angela Malpas.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry Gilkes was best with the putter in B Grade with 30 putts.<\/p>\n<p>NTP winner on the 3rd was Karen Gould, 12th &amp; 16th was Jacki Baker and Fionna McInnes was B Grade NTP on the 16th.<\/p>\n<p>It was great to see Sharon Menz back playing golf and thanks to Angela Malpas who rewarded the competing players with a magnificent lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ON April 2, 14 ladies competed at the Lucindale Country Club in the Monthly Medal stroke round sponsored by Ballogie and it was the 1st Qualifying round of Elders Club Championship. 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