• Ladies Golf Report week ending 17th March 24

  • Another Bowl Win for Lady Golfers

    The weather must have been a bit hot this week as only 3 ladies turned up on Tuesday for 9 holes, but Sharon Gysberts was certainly in hot form, to beat her handicap with a +1 par score to win. More on Sharon later…

    On Wednesday, it was a qualifier for the Golf Australia event the Silver Spoon. A great field of 30 turned out and a couple of white hot scores came in! None better than Lesley Anderson who won the day, B Grade, and the Silver Spoon qualifier spot, with a ripping nett 65. Linda Brook was also in fine form to win A Grade with nett 68. Runners up were Kylie Egan and Margie Franke-Williams, both with nett 69 and 3rd place-getters were Sue Crow 74 for A Grade and Marion Foster with 70 in B Grade. Nearest the pins went to Kerri Nicol, Nicki Cooper, Marion Sargeant and Linda Brook while Lesley was the in-form player with the putter, equalled by Sue Crow.

    On Thursday it was a day out for our ladies, with 3 teams heading to Wangaratta to play in their bowl and another 2 teams off to Marysville. The Marysville lot had a lovely day on their beautiful course as always and no doubt diverted on the way home to the Buxton Trout farm to at least bring home some spoils of the day, but it was the teams at Wangaratta who had something to crow about. Last minute fill in, Sharon Gysberts, playing off a handicap of 45, had a fantastic day to come in with 39 points and be the runner up in C Grade. Meanwhile, Kerri Nicol who has had a meteoric reduction in her handicap lately (if that is not a contradiction in terms!), to play off 24 and come in with 37 points, to be runner up in B Grade.  They boith deserve to be winners – but put the two of them together in the one team, along with Susan Kinloch and Lorraine Wilson and hey presto, we have got the winners of the Wangaratta Bowl!   What an achievement – especially for Sharon who was playing in a Bowl for the first time ever and Kerri is pretty new to it all too. There’s a photo for the locker room wall!

    Proving you don’t have to have ridiculously low handicaps to be winners – Wangaratta Bowl winners, Susan Kinloch, Sharon Gysberts, Lorraine Wilson and Kerri Nicol.

    After all that excitement it was time to get serious for Friday pennant. Div 2 were victorious over the Beechworth/Yackandandah team at Bright with a 3/2 win. Unfortunately our Div 3 and Div 4 teams both went down – and both against Commercial Albury at different venues. Better luck next week ladies.

    On Saturday it was time for the Parsons Family Day, sponsored by our wonderful life members Bill and Sue Parsons. With categories for Father and Son or Family it ended up being the men who triumphed in both. Winners of the father and son were Geoff and Ross Brown with 47 points, while taking a feather out of their parents golfing caps, brothers Aaron and Justin Sargent were the winners of the Family event with 46 points with Sheryl and Justin combining to be runners up. In the daily stableford comp, Millie Cumming played beautifully to win with 39 points from Kylie Egan and Sue Parsons, both with 38 points. Great scores ladies! Shirely Nolan, Kylie Egan and Millie Cumming had nearest the pins, while Marion Foster was best with the putter.

    In great form this week was Millie Cumming

    Coming up soon for the Ladies, is our Open Day on 3rd April and we’d love to see all our regular ladies bring along a guest who might be a new golfer, or who have done clinics but not yet got onto playing regularly etc, so please start thinking about who to invite. Or if you are reading this new to golf or the area and would like to take part, do contact our Captain, Sheryl at mansfieldladiesgolf@gmail.com.