Late November already, how is that possible? Time to remember some highlights from our golf season to warm up the chilly nights. The Bowen Island Ladies League wound up another great year of fun and games. Rain or shine, off we played from a shotgun start every Thursday morning at 9, April through September. We welcome players of all stripes and organize a wide range of games – from serious to silly. The morning round finishes with a fabulous lunch thanks to Frank and Glenn in the clubhouse. This year we gained five new members. If you want to improve your game, meet new and old friends or just get yourself out regularly for a convivial game one day a week, we welcome you, whatever your skill level. Come on down when the season starts up next spring.
A big congratulations to the talented women in the photograph. Our interclub team is made up of the best players in our league and this year they won first place in our zone. That is first place in a field of fourteen teams from well-established clubs in the lower mainland. As team member Colleen O’Neil says, this is quite an achievement given that many women in our league only started golfing when we built our golf course and it is a testament to how the challenges of our little course hones our skills. Kudos to our fine competitors!
Christine Roocroft and Margo Anthony both did the island proud winning a BC-wide and Canada-wide Pin sheet competition respectively.
The winning streak continued and we retained our trophy from our annual high-handicap tournament with Gleneagles. Now this is a truly friendly home-and-away interclub competition with the nine-hole club across the water. In fact, it is so friendly that one year, no one could remember who won!!
Here at home, many of us played league match play and the winning two person team was Kim Nattress and Carol Correll, with Ruth Openshaw and Kathy Bellringer in second place.
Finally, the winners of our in house championship were Gitte Kristensen in first place, Colleen O’Neil, second and Kim Nattress, third.
Thanks to all of you who worked and played hard to make it a great season, especially to our outgoing captain, Kathy Clarke.
