Wowing the golfers in Warwick

Michelle Wright

Contributed

Wow… what a great week it has been around the greens for the Warwick golfing ladies. We have had excellent scores here, and also many of our Ladies have had success at tournaments away from home as well

We’ll start with the home games. Wednesday June 7, we played a Single stableford sponsored by Our Pro Shop. Kath Devereux came in with an impressive 37 points to take the line honours from the rest of the field. Kath had an impressive 22 points on the back 9, which is awesome golf. Gwen Mills was the runner up on a countback from Liz Cockram both with 35 points. A comprehensive countback was needed, as these ladies cards were near identical. The rest of the field scored as follows- Jill Barnes 34 CB, Mary Young 34, Tub Ingall 32 CB, Carole Brandon 32, Janine Stewart 31 CB, Yvonne Pinington 31, Michelle Wright 30 CB, Sharron Cooper 30, Annice Payne 29 CB, Dian Macdonald 29 CB, Helen Olsen 29, Vicki Bennett 28 CB, Patti Hemmings 28 CB, Maria Carey 28, Majella Kahler 27, Jan Aspinall 27, Lyn McKillop 25. Balls in the rundown went to Liz, Jill, Mary, Tub, Carole and Janine. The pro pin was shared amongst Kath, Sharron, Jill, and Liz.

Saturday June 10, we played in the Style Shoes White Marker Stableford. Thankyou to Melanie and the team at Style Shoes for your continued sponsorship, this is another one of the hotly contested events. Janine Stewart took the trophy of the day, with a fantastic 39 points, on a countback from Annice Payne. Next was Gwen Mills 36 CB, Helen Olsen 36, Tub Ingall 34 CB, Kath Devereux 34 CB, Joely singleton 34, Melanie McLennan 32 CB, Anna Cox 32 , Majella Kahler 31, Anne Lyons 30 CB, Molly Scotney 30, Danielle Seibel 29 CB, Dianne Evans 29 CB, Donna Keogh 29, Michelle Wright 28, Jill Barnes 26, Maria Carey 25 CB, Ann Tomkins 25, Janet Aspinall 24 CB, Mary Young 24, Di Johnston 23, Carole Brandon 19. Balls in the rundown went to Annice, Gwen, Helen, Tub, Kath and Joely. The pro pin was shared amongst Molly, Anna & Melanie. Annice took out the Best front 9 and Gwen the back 9.

While we were busy playing at home, we had a contingent of Ladies travel to Dalby to play in their Annual Open Day.

Congratulations to Anne Lyons who took out the overall winner in the Nett competition with 70 nett. Trish Bell won the best nett for division 2 with 71 nett, and Melanie went home with Cash in her pocket from the Money Board Raffle. A great day was had by all these Ladies.

This week we also had three of our Lady golfers travel to St George to compete in the Qld Sandgreen Championships. Always a little challenging for those of us that play on Grass Greens. The Ladies from the Clubs with sandgreens always love to see us struggle on them, as they travel from near and far to play with us on the grass greens, and generally have trouble with the turf. Wendy Rhea was at home, as her golfing addiction started in St George, so it was home to play with friends old and new for her. Narelle Norris has played many of these events, but Roslyn Darton’s first, and managed to make it a very successful one. Roslyn and her partner Sally, a fellow golfer from Mungindi, came first in the 4BBB Nett event, with a fantastic 64 nett. Wendy Rhea and Narelle placed 4th in the Gross event, with Ros and Sally coming in 6th.

Wendy must have felt at home, as she played beautiful steady golf on both days scoring 95 gross, which was 69 nett, which gave her runner up Gross in Division 3.

Obviously once you learn on sandgreens, one never forgets. Congratulations to Roslyn and Narelle for improving on their first round scores, that must have been very satisfying. Thank you for representing us in such fine style Ladies.

This coming week, Wednesday June 14, we will be playing a single Stableford, sponsored by Lara Farrell. Thursday a contingent of Women will be playing at Toowoomba Golf club in their Annual Open Day. Hopefully you will have some of the beautiful weather that Mother Nature has been bestowing on us lately. Safe travels girls!

Saturday June 17, another of our Honour Boards will commence. The qualifying round of the Presidents Foursomes. This event will be held over 4 days, and the conditions of play are on the board. So if you haven’t already secured yourself a playing partner, do so without delay, as there’s some gold letting on an honour board to be won. Sunday June 18 will be the 2nd round of the Presidents foursomes. The competition will then continue on next weekend.

So there ends the busy week that has been had around the Greens, congratulations to all the winners, and to those of us that didn’t win, our turn is coming. Just keep fronting up, enjoying the great company, and the golf will improve itself.