Month: January 2023

This year we had 81 ladies from 9 clubs nominate to play in the Championships.

Covid was still prevalent during club qualifying rounds and as we emerged from a wet winter, clashes with Club competitions, the opening of travel and even spouses surprise holidays greatly affected the number of ladies who had played sufficient qualifying games or could with any confidence commit to three consecutive Championship Sundays.  Despite these issues the Championship began with 30 qualifiers and only two walkovers.

Thank you to Mosman Park Golf Club for hosting the quarter finals on the 4^thSeptember and Pinjarra the semi-finals on the 11^thSeptember.

It was disappointing that no affiliated club courses were available free to WABLGA for the Championship Final on Sunday 18^th September.  Fortunately, Linda Silverlock was able to negotiate some timeslots at Royal Fremantle, albeit having to pay green fees.  Having two matches ie four players in each group was new and challenging to a few of the finalists.  Thank you to Maura Morrissey for volunteering to be our GolfWA Rules Official and for keeping the golf flowing as best it could under the circumstances.

Donna Parsons, after having been Division 1 runner up in 2008, 2017 and 2018 was able to snatch victory from Stacy Dhu in an exciting finish on the 18^th hole.  It looks good for the future with three of the four ladies who had not been finalist previously winning Division 2, 3 and 4.

2022 WABLGA Championships Results:

Division 1 Donna Parsons (Mosman Park) defeated Stacy Dhu (Pinjarra) (1up)

Division 2 Ava O’Brien (Bunbury) defeated Julie Rogers (Bunbury) (4/2)

Division 3 Martine Keenan (LKCC) defeated Linda Silverlock (Royal Fremantle)  (6/5)

Division 4 Pauline Joseph (Royal Perth) defeated Tracy Simpson (Pinjarra) (8/7)

2022 WABLGA Champion Perpetual Trophy (awarded to Div 1 Champion)

Winner: Donna Parsons – Mosman Park

Patsy Best and Maureen Thomas Perpetual Trophy (best gross over 2 qualifying rounds)

Winner: Leith Elliot – Royal Perth (25 above par)

Runner up: Stacy Dhu – Pinjarra (27 above par)

Betty Newman Perpetual Trophy (best nett over 2 qualifying rounds)

Winner: Kerry Sachse – Mandurah (-4) on a countback

Runner up Meredyth McLarty – Pinjarra (-4)

Eileen Dawson Perpetual Trophy  (5 best nett scores of 2^nd qualifying round)

Winner: Pinjarra Golf Club (370)

Corrina Rudler, Joanne Havelburg, Christine Matson, Tracy Simpson

and Meredyth McLarty.

Runner up: Royal Perth Golf Club (385)

Ola Hempseed, Penelope Radunovich, Sophie Williams, Jill Penter and

Leith Elliot.

Debra Renfrey – 2022 WABLGA Event Co-ordinator

17/11/22

 

This year four Clubs were not able to fulfill the requirement of scores from three of five nominated nett rounds resulting in only seven Clubs entering their best player for the prestigious WABLGA Silver Spoon. Those Clubs with entrants were Bunbury, Gosnells, Mandurah, Mosman Park, Pinjarra, Royal Perth and the West Australian Golf Club.

Congratulations to Meredyth McLarty from Pinjarra for winning the GolfWA sponsored Silver Spoon with a score of 5 under par over three rounds.

Runner up was Penelope Radunovich from Royal Perth with a score of 5 over par.

We thank GolfWA for providing over many years a silver spoon for this WABLGA Trophy.  Thanks to our persuasive President Linda, we were the only group this year to receive the silver spoon without incurring a cost of $100.  Disappointingly, this is the last year that GolfWA will waver the cost of providing a Silver Spoon to WABLGA.

Debra Renfrey – WABLGA Event Co-ordinator

17/11/22

On Closing Day at Royal Fremantle Golf Club on Sunday 13^th November we acknowledged the contribution of Maureen Thomas – co-founder and Life Member of WABLGA.  Maureen received a standing ovation upon her arrival at lunch and was presented with beautiful bunch of flowers and a large colourful card made by Leith Elliot on which members wrote their appreciation, congratulations and best wishes for her recent 90^th birthday.

Also in attendance was Pat Collins, Royal Fremantle Ladies Co-ordinator who spoke on her role which was developed to fill the gap left when a restructure of memberships meant that there was no longer a Ladies Captain at Royal Fremantle Golf Club.  A not unfamiliar happening at many clubs recently.

Hartfield Country Club’s Tui Pursell and Annie Kok were also guests of WABLGA, competing out on the course and enjoying the lovely buffet lunch afterwards in the clubhouse.  Hartfield had expressed an interest in re-joining WABLGA and Closing Day was an opportunity for the lady representatives to get the feel of how things were run.  The committee was delighted that Hartfield General Manager, Brian Close, has supported their interest with a formal application for Club affiliation in 2023.

Despite fixture clashes with other golf events, forty-two ladies from Bunbury, Lake Karrinyup, Mt Lawley, Mosman Park, Pinjarra, Royal Fremantle, Royal Perth, WAGC and our Hartfield guests attended.

The challenging course conditions of cored fairways and sanded greens surprisingly did produce some excellent individual scores on the day.

As in many previous Closing Days, the winning club was the host club.  Congratulations to Royal Fremantle Golf Club for winning the 2022 WABLGA Nora Watts Trophy, by just 2 points from WAGC.

The three ladies contributing to the combined winning total of 113 was Alison Adams (41 points), Gee Lightfoot (38 points) and Linda Silverlock (34 points).

Close runner ups were the Western Australian Golf Club with a total of 111 points.  The WAGC players were Debra Renfrey (39 points), Leah Sackville (36 points) and Sharon Clayton (36 points).

The individual best gross score was Leith Elliot (Royal Perth) with 84 and best individual stableford score was Allison Adams (Royal Fremantle) with 41 points.

Nearest to Pin winners – Tui Pursell (Hartfield), Leith Elliot (Royal Perth), Sharon Clayton (WAGC) and Georgie Wynne (Lake Karrinyup).

Both Longest Drive and Longest Putt prizes were won by Georgie Wynne.

Closing Day is the opportunity to present the seasons perpetual trophies including the GolfWA Silver Spoon.

2022 WABLGA Champion Perpetual Trophy (awarded to Div 1 Champion)

Donna Parsons – Mosman Park

Patsy Best and Maureen Thomas Perpetual Trophy (best gross over 2 qualifying rounds)

Leith Elliot – Royal Perth

Betty Newman Perpetual Trophy (best nett over 2 qualifying rounds)

Kerry Sachse – Mandurah on a countback

Eileen Dawson Perpetual Trophy  (5 best nett scores of 2^nd qualifying round)

Pinjarra Golf Club   – Corrina Rudler, Joanne Havelburg, Christine Matson, Tracy Simpson

  and Meredyth McLarty.

The WABLGA Silver Spoon – donated by GolfWA (best 3 of 5 nominated nett rounds)

Meredyth McLarty – Pinjarra 

Special thanks to Mara Pritchard and her ladies from Royal Fremantle for co-ordinating the display and raffling of the many items donated or made by Royal Fremantle, Mosman Park and Lake Karrinyup Clubs.

A wonderful amount of $1025 was raised on the day for our 2022 charity ‘Care Bags’.  Thank you everyone who donated and purchased tickets.

Finally thank you to Royal Fremantle’s Maura Morrissey, Linda Silverlock, Frazer Courts (Food and Beverage Manager), Pro-shop staff and Lucy Guppy (General Manager) for making it a great end of season!

Debra Renfrey – WABLGA Event Co-ordinator

17/11/22