Kennedy, Briers favoured for golf fours

Press, 3 October 1985, Page 40

Kennedy, Briers favoured for golf fours

PA Hamilton The experienced Australian representatives, Edwina Kennedy and Louise Briers, will be strong favourites to take out the foursomes when the national women’s amateur golf championships begin here today. The pair, along with the Australian junior champion Louise Mullard, aged 21, are in Hamilton at the invitation of the New Zealand Ladies’ Golf Union to play the Toshiba championships at the St Andrews course.

Kennedy, a member of Sydney’s Australian club, and Briers, a Melbourne housewife who plays at the Commonwealth club, have both been in Australian national teams since 1977. Both have had various tournament successes in Australia and overseas, but in the Australian national championship, Kennedy has had to settle for the runnerup spot in both 1979 and 1984, while Briers was runner-up in 1978.

This is Briers’ first visit to New Zealand, but Kennedy has played on St Andrews during visits here with the New South Wales junior team in 1976 and 1978.

Kennedy, whose first association with golf was at the age of two when her grandmother gave her a cut-down club and taught her to swing, contested the 1983 New Zealand championships in Christchurch.

She combined with Corrine Dibnah to win the Foursomes title, but was eventually beaten in the semi-finals of the matchplay championship by Dibnah