Ladies Golf Report week ending 16th May

Marsden wins Ladies Championships

This week saw the ladies playing the final round of their 3 week Championships and the day started with only 2 shots between leader Donna Sedgman and second placed Andrea Marsden. The third in the group was Sheryl Sargent just another 3 shots behind. So the Championship was anyone’s to win and Sheryl Sargent in particular, hit her straps early, playing beautiful golf to bring herself well into contention. But it was Andrea Marsden who held her nerve and played very consistent golf, while Sheryl had a couple of difficult holes and Donna just couldn’t quite maintain her great form of the previous week. The end result was the Championship was Marsden’s by 5 shots with 265 off the stick over the 3 rounds, to Sargent on 270 and Sedgman on 271.  B Grade went to Marg Knapp who kept her round 2 lead to win with 284, 5 shots ahead of second placed Linda Brook. Shirley Nolan played 3 fabulous rounds to lead C Grade from start to finish, winning by 18 shots with 287 from Marion Mitchell. Shirley also won the Nett Championship with nett 209. D Grade was won by Wendy Hunt by 15 shots from Jackie Smithwick. Huge apology but this writer incorrectly announced at our dinner, the winner of the Vet’s Championship based on nett results, not gross. The winner of the Vets was in fact Sue Crow with a gross score of 283. Well done Sue and apologies to Shirley for getting you more excited than you already were!

The ladies wrapped up their Championships with a lovely dinner in The Ranges and there were some very innovative and fun outfits meeting the requirement of “something beginning with M”!

Sue Parsons … a Martyr!

Gayle Wells – a miner and Linda Brook – a mummy!

Lesley Anderson – a Mountainman!

Donna Sedgman – a Maori

Sue Crow (Morticia), Marg Knapp (Mousie) and Marion Mitchell (Mountaineer)

For the daily comp on Wednesday the winner of Div 1 was Sam Bailey with a very nice nett 70 to runner up Andrea Marsden nett 72. In Div 2 it was Shirley Nolan taking the win with Nett 71 over Lorraine Cullen Nett 75. Line Balls went to Sheryl Sargent 72, Christine Fraser, Sue Crow, Robyn Baker and Jackie Smithwick nett 75, Wendy Hunt and Nicki Cooper 76 and Gayle Wells 77. Nearest the pins went to Lyn Poulson on the 3^rd and Lorraine Cullen on the 16^th. The nearest 2^nd shot on the 9^th was Wendy Hunt and on the 10^th Andrea Marsden. The best score on the front 9 was shared between Sheryl Sargent and Jackie Smithwick. Sue Crow had a great round with her putting to win with 25 putts.

On Tuesday the 9 hole comp was won by Robyn Baker with 20 points. No players on Saturday

It will be a quieter week at home this week with quite a lot of our girls heading to Mildura for some sunshine and lots of golf in the Tri-State championships. We hope they bring home some of the trophies!