Sale Ladies Triumph in Annual Mersey Shield Battle at Chorlton Golf Club.
SALE were victorious in the annual Mersey Ladies Shield event at Chorlton.
The competition is played between the five Mersey clubs – Chorlton, Didsbury, Northenden, Sale and Withington each year.
The betterball Stableford event sees the top six scores added together for an aggregate team score.
Sale got off to a solid start with Margaret Lennon and Chris Conville opening their account with 41 points, which was soon matched by experienced colleagues Sue Barrett and Sophie Casey.
But after a slow start, Didsbury began to hunt them down with good scores from lady captain Margaret Lloyd and Louise Biddlecombe (41) and Sally Lamb and Adele McNeillie (39).
In the end Sale emerged with an aggregate score of 239 to finish three clear of Didsbury to take the Mersey Shield back to Sale.
Next up were Chorlton on 229, Withington on 226 and Northenden with 211.
The top individual pair on the day were Paula Gerrard and Sonja Garrity (Northenden) with 43, one more than Nicola Sinclair and Val George (Withington).
The prizes to the Sale team and individual winners were presented by Chorlton captain Peter Johnson to set up suitable celebrations for Sale.
Also celebrating was Didsbury’s Jenny White who had her first ace in 38 years of golf on the tricky par three 17th and she also received a prize in recognition of her success.
