Five above par

Press, 21 October 1987, Page 52

Five above par

Alison Munt (Australia), Audrey Bendick (Canada), Cathy Burton (Canada), Judy Medllcott (Canada) and Jan Cooke (New Zealand) are all assessed on handicaps of one or two, remarkably low ratings, Yet they provide the exceptions to the rule at the Commonwealth championship this week.

The other IS players in the three-day round* robin tournament at Shir* ley are on scratch or have plus handicaps. In the star-studded women's field, Vicki Thomas, from the Pen* nard club In Swansea, Wales, heads the handl* caps with a plus four. It must be quite depreslng for her knowing that she had to play a course in four under par just to match her handicap. All of the Great Britain team are plus handicappers, while four of the Australians have plus marks. Erlcka Maxwell, of Perth, and Edwina Kennedy, of Sydney, play off plus two, their team-mates, Louise Briers, of Melbourne, and Lindy Goggln, of Hobart, off plus one, The plus players In the Canadian team are the British Columbia pair, Gall Anderson and Jennifer Wyatt. Both are assessed at one shot below par. Brenda Ormsby, three times the winner of the New Zealand stroke-play championship and a party to success In the Canadian championship foursomes In 1181, Is the lone golfer on a scratch handlcp. Liz Douglas, of the Christchurch club, plays oil a plus three, while the pair on a plus one are the Motueka representative, Debbie Smith, and Tracey Hanson, of Lower Hutt,