Lorne breaks 71-year Rose Bowl drought

A DAY out having a swing with fellow golfers has ended a 71-year drought for a trio of Lorne Country Club women.

At the Inverleigh Rose Bowl last month, Bronwyn Halpin, Jenni Miller and Lorne CC Ladies’ captain Chris Angus produced a combined nett score of 220 to beat out Barwon Heads’ 13th Beach by one point for Lorne’s first win at the Bowl.

“The Inverleigh Rose Bowl has been running for 71 years, so we were pretty excited to get our names on the trophy,” Angus said.

“This year we took one of our newer players, Bronwyn, and she has only played for less than two years. She came in with a marvelous nett score of 70 that got us over the line.”

Halpin’s 70 was enough for her to take out the C Grade overall win in the process.

Angus said the team of three had to wait a while for scores to be compiled, but the wait was certainly worthwhile.

“We were very surprised when we found out we had won, pretty thrilled but also very excited,” Angus said.

“It was a really nice moment because we had played at Inverleigh quite a few times and there are sandscrapes out there, which made it even more special because it was something that we were not used to.”

Lorne Country Club’s Ladies players try to play as often as possible, bouncing around the 26 registered courses in the South West Golf Association.

However, Angus said Lorne’s golfers were getting excited to host a major tournament in their own backyard later this year.

“We have our Lorne Open coming up on Friday, November 25th for the ladies, Saturday, November 26th for the men and Sunday, November 27th for mixed,” Angus said.

“We’d be rapt if we could get as many women as possible down to the event, it should be an awesome day of competition.”