THE 2024 GEM Easter tournament was played recently at the Blue Lake Golf Club in perfect weather and the course well presented.
The event attracted 17 women in the stroke competition on the Saturday, with a smaller field of nine on the Sunday.
Best net scores Saturday: Lesley McPherson 107/34/73 c/b; Ronda Edwards 87/14/73; Helen Myers 94/19/75.
Best gross scores: Ronda Edwards 87; Helen Myers 94; Sue Agars 96.
Nearest the pin, fifth hole: Vivienne Wilson.
Long drives: Ronda Edwards, fourth hole; Rosemary Martland, 18th.
Best net scores Sunday: Rosemary Martland 73 (15/88); Joanne Beehag 74 (41/105); Dianne Perryman 75 (15/95).
Best gross scores: Rosemary Martland 88 c/b; Vicki Hall 88; Ronda Edwards 93.
Long drives: Rosemary Martland, fourth hole; Cherryl Hill, 18th.
Aggregate overall
Best net: Dianne Perryman c/b 152; Ronda Edwards 152.
Best gross: Ronda Edwards 180; Rosemary Martland 184.
Due to the running of the quarter finals of the Cafe Belgiorno’s sponsored Handicap Championships, a par competition was played for those not involved in quarters on Wednesday.
With the change in weather conditions and a few cheeky pin placements, playing to handicaps seemed unattainable.
Blue Lake Golf vouchers were on offer and it was a three-way count-back to determine a winner in Division 1 from Cherryl Hill, Helen Myers and Dianne Perryman all signing for 3-down.
Hill (25 handicap) was declared the winner after splits of -4/+1 that included pars on the second, 14th and 16th holes.
Myers (19) had splits of -1/-2 with a par on the second hole, four wipes and the rest all squared.
Perryman (20) had splits of +1/-4 that included pars on the fifth and seventh holes.
A count-back was also required in Division 2 between the winner Dianne Allen and runner-up Lucy Richards (33), after both signed for 7-down.
Allen (41) had splits of -4/-3, followed by Richards, signing for the same score.
Her scorecard did show pluses on the 11th and 15th holes.
Nearest the pin second shot on the 16th hole went to Sue Agars (.22cm) and Lynda Nannings won the pro-shot on the fifth (4.20cm).
Quarter finals results
Dision 1 – K. Panagopoulos bye, L. Medhurst d K. Hommelhoff 5/3, D. Perryman bye, R. Edwards d H. Stratford 6/5.
Division 2 – T. Herbert bye, B. Pedlar d L. Gill 5/3, J. Oberer d B. Pascoe 4/2, J. Gogan d L. McPherson 4/2.
Semi-finals draw
Division 1 – K. Panagopoulos v L. Medhurst, D. Perryman v R. Edwards.
Division 2 – T. Herbert v B. Pedlar, J. Oberer v J. Gogan.
Meanwhile, Saturday winner was Karen Panagopoulos, 2-down off a 19 handicap after pars on the third and ninth holes to turn 1-down, then a par on the 14th with a mixture of wipes and halved holes.
Trudy Herbert went to a count-back with Helen Stratford both 3-down, the former taking the second place voucher.
Herbert (29) had pluses on the fourth and sixth holes, was all square going to the back-nine and added a par plus on the 14th.
Stratford (22) had pars on the fifth and ninth holes, a plus on the seventh (+2), five wipes and four halved holes (-5) on the back- nine.
