ANOTHER beautiful week of golf and there was no excuse to not see improvement in all our scores, as the fairways allowed so much more run.

Twelve enthusiastic ladies lined up for nine holes on Tuesday – some with the intent of honing the skills now that extra run was up for grabs.

Playing off a handicap of 40, Kerri Nicol certainly found the conditions to her liking and with 20 points and the B Grade win, that handicap will soon be decreasing.

Linda Brook took the money for A Grade, also with 20 points as well as picking up the nearest the pin on the 3rd as a bonus. Also in the prize money was Jennie Rennie, 18 points, Jenny Koraus 17 and Pam Abbott 16.

On Wednesday, numbers were actually down a bit with only 24 playing – no doubt due to the silly season nearing and clashes in the diaries starting to pop up.

It did mean there were a couple of walk–overs for the Mansfield Golf League, more on that shortly.

Firstly for the daily 18 hole comp, there certainly were some great scores starting to appear.

This writer in particular was very happy with her new set of clubs, to top the day, and A Grade, with 38 points.

Following closely behind was Sheryl Sargent with 37 and Gayle Wells 3rd on a countback also with 37.

For B Grade, Marion Mitchell was in form with 35, just pipping Louise Calvert–Jones 2nd and Lorraine Cullen 3rd, both also with 35. Line balls went to Shelly Comerford 36, Linda Brook 35 and Kylie Egan 34.

So, the team League results for Wednesday were: The Nug Nugs defeated the Spring Chicks 71 to 62; The Out of Towners had a walkover to the Tee Party, rendering the winning scores of Linda Terry and Louise Calvert–Jones a bit of a waste in some minds.

The Happy Hookers comfortably dealt with the Ball Busters 72 to 56; The KLS Sloggers beat the Underdogs 69 to 60 and the Wedgies also had a walkover to the Long Putters.

The moral of this story ladies, is you need to be in it, to win it – best two scores count, so it's all about showing up.

Summer Pennant this week on Friday was against Jubilee at their course, but we were delighted to wrestle the home ground advantage away from them, to come away with the win (our first for the season).

Shelly Comerford and Susan Kinloch paired well to score a 2/1 win, and the same result for Lorraine Cullen and Kylie Egan.

Meanwhile Linda Terry and Marion Mitchell had a battle royale on their hands in the 3rd match, with the lead changing a number of times before the final outcome of a draw, giving Mansfield the 2½ : ½ win.

Next week is the last of the round robins with Mansfield playing at home against Bright.

The temperatures kept climbing all week and it was a real touch of summer for Saturday's golf, so maybe the heat scared a few off with just 8 playing.

Lyn Poulson had a cracker of a day however, winning with 39 points, while Pauline Ahola took second and Millie Cumming 3rd, each with 37 points. Pauline also picked up the nearest the pin.

Everyone is reminded that Wednesday 14th December is our Xmas Fun Day, which will be a three–person "Gentsomes", 8:30 for 9am shotgun.

Golf will be followed by Xmas lunch and all the usual fun of dressing up, kris kringles etc will apply.

This is always a fun day where we really encourage all our ladies, regardless of skill or handicap (or even no handicap), to just come along for a laugh, good company and a great social get–together.