The Sands clinch women’s pennant win

THE Sands Torquay is celebrating a landmark season for its women’s golfers following their win in Division 3 Pennant competition.

The team of Kerry Bond, Danielle Walker, Linda Turner, Ro Hayden, Karen Lombardi and Andrea Harvey secured four wins, one draw and a loss across six matches this year.

They locked in the Pennant win with a final-round victory over Londale Links.

The Sands Torquay women’s club captain Danielle Walker said the team was thrilled with the victory

“It’s very exciting for the club and for women’s golf.

“We are a smaller group of women. We only have the one team whereas many other clubs have three or four.

“We’ve had some previous wins in Pennant, but one of our last was Division 6 in 2022. We have come up a few divisions.

“It goes off a promotion and relegation process. We will be up in division 2 next year.”

The Sands has roughly 100 women’s members, many of whom have expressed interest in playing competition.

Ms Walker said the club was hopeful of fielding another team in Pennant next year.

She said some of the newer ladies were keen to join in.

“We are definitely wanting to see more women playing it and participating in our ladies’ clinics. We are always keen to grow our women’s membership base.”