RGC was represented by Beryl Cole, Wendy Gosden and Darlene Baker at the 2018 Yea Bowl.  On a beautifully, sunny day a  field of 68 players tackled the race track intertwined course. The greens were in very good condition and were generally true and straight.   At the end f the round, during an enjoyable lunch of soup, savouries and splendid desserts Norma Tobias, a 92 year old Yea Life Member, presented the trophies and regaled the players with some local golfing history and reminisces.  There were some very good scores returned with the A Grade winner determined by a countback as two players had scored 40 points. Gail Leigh (9) was the eventual winner there.
The winners of the Bowl were the team from RACV Healesville with a combined score of 104 pts.

Yet another late autumn day that was virtually perfect for golf.  Just a gentle breeze and the sun shining through.  Well, if it is not going to rain it had may as well be sunny.  With no autumn break and the late onset of winter there was still plenty of run on the fairways with preferred lies allowed to one club length. Driving down the centre was, as always, a considerable advantage and any player who found the middle was well rewarded. The greens were somewhat slower than over the weekend but were in great condition; well grassed and putting very true.  Competition was fierce during the 1st round of the club champs and count backs needed to separate the days top three handicap results.  On another beautiful morning for golf the results were;

Winner; Wendy Gosden – 102/30/72, c/b from Jenny Hartley – 97/25/72, c/b from  Elaine Scanlon – 104/32/72.

Stroke scores after Rd 1; Darlene Baker – 91, Jenny Hartley – 97, Beryl Cole – 98 & Wendy Gosden – 102.

Lancefield G. C. hosted the second round of pennant for section 3.  A perfect day for golf, jumpers off and no breeze.  The course was in good condition with fast greens. The green keeper had been busy and double cutting Saturday and again on Sunday prior to the men’s pennant and again on Monday morning for the women’s pennant.  Romsey played Avenel and the match was squared at 2.5 a piece. With the result in the balance there were many nervous golfers as we all looked on from the clubroom balcony to watch Jenny square her match on the 18th. RGC results were; Darlene Baker – W6/5,  Beryl Cole – W 5/4, Wendy Gosden – L2Down, Pam Drummond – L5/4 & Jenny Hartley – Square. Next week Romsey play Trentham at Trentham

The day’s results were;

Lancefield D  Trentham – 4/1.

Romsey Vs Avenel – Square 2.5/2.5

The fine weather, a sunny and fairly still day, continued as the teams assembled at Kilmore G. C. for round 4 of the 2018 pennant season.  Romsey was taking on leaders Woodend and it was always going to be a hard battle as Woodend has one of its strongest teams in years and is still undefeated. Kilmore golf course showed serious damage from birds with several greens having roped off sections that were regrowing and two temporary greens. It was a challenge for all players and even with several changes to the team Woodend just proved too strong.  RGC results were; Shannon Wright –L8/7, Mal Mottram – L2Down, Michael McCarten – L3/1, Mick Nicholls Jnr – L2/1, Chris vanDerVliet- L2Down, Rob Rea – W1Up & John Freestone – W3/2

Overall results were;

Woodend D Romsey – 5/2

Lancefield D Trentham – 4/3

Hidden Valley D Mt Macedon – 6/1

A field of 46 women competed in Broadford Golf Club’s 2018 Women’s Tournament. Players were divided into three grades; A Grade who played stroke and B + C Grades who played Stableford.  The course was in very good condition with reward for staying on the well grassed fairways, any who wandered off the fairway paid the price among the many trees usually being forced to chip out sideways. The greens were generally good and quite slick with bold putts running well through when missing the cup.  RGC was well represented by Denise O’Meara, Beryl Cole, Lorraine Robb, Jenny Hartley and Darlene Baker.
The day’s Scratch Winner; Kerry Peterson ( 12)83 from Cheryl Anderson (8) 84.
Other winners on the day were
A Grade Nett; Adrienne Anglin  16/88/72
B Grade; Bev Bellman (26) 36 points
C Grade; Lorraine Robb (33) 38 points A great score by Lorraine which also saw her receive 5 points in the DDGA PoTY award.

Members played the Romsey round of the 2018 Royal Women’s Hospital 4BBB.  These events are played at participating clubs throughout the year with the winner and runners-up playing off in their districts for a chance to play in the state finals later in the season.  There was an excellent field with five groups of women playing the 4BBB.  The men played a Stableford round with another pairing of men recording scores for handicap purposes. Results for the RWH 4BBB were extremely close with two points separating all five teams so there were count backs aplenty.  The day’s results were;
RWH 4BBB Winners; Pam Drummond (31)/Jenny Hartley (25) –  39 points from Beryl Cole(24)/Denise O’Meara (45) – 38 points  C/B Lorraine Robb (34)/Jan Harver (45) – 38 points  C/B Elaine Scanlon (32)/Wendy Gosden(30) – 38 points, Darlene Baker (17)/Leila Beasley(41) – 37 points
Men’ Results; Bruce Robb (30) – 33 points from Hugh Williams(22) – 29 points

On Monday 16 April the DDGA Women’s pennant competition commenced.  Romsey were hosting  Section 3 and were drawn to play Lancefield.  After RGC not having a pennant side for several years it was a big thrill to start with a convincing 4/1 win. When you are playing at home local knowledge certainly helps.

Individual scores were; Darlene Baker; W-4/3, Beryl Cole; W-2up, Jenny Hartley; W– 6/5 and Lorraine Robb; W– 3/2.