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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Janet Melville repeats regional seniors'

title win - and same margin

Action replay! Nottinghamshire’s Janet Melville successfully defended a regional seniors title – and by exactly the same winning margin of nine shots. Janet, from Sherwood Forest, scored her back-to-back win in the 36-hole senior English women’s midlands regional stroke-play tournament at Erewash Valley in Derbyshire.
She was three-over par for the two rounds and scored seven birdies during the 36 holes.
The runner-up was Gabi Heuchel of East Berkshire, followed on countback by Vivien Saunders of Cambridge National.
Janet is in only her second season of seniors’ golf and has shot straight to the top. The former British champion is a seniors’ international and last year won the English seniors’ stroke-play title. This year she was runner-up in the event.
The regional Division B title was won by Mila Spray of Harleyford, Buckinghamshire. Her scores included an eagle 3 on the second hole of her first round.
She finished three shots clear of last year’s winner, Elaine James of Aspley Guise and Woburn Sands in Bedfordshire.
Leading scores
Par 146 (2x73) CSS 74, 74
Division A
149 Janet Melville (Sherwood Forest) 75 74.
158 Gabi Heuchel (East Berkshire) 82 76, Vivien Saunders (Cambridge National) 79 79.
159 Ruth Lindley (Hartlepool) 78 81.
162 Gill Snelson (Branston) 81 81, Laraine Hague (Rotherham) 79 83.
164 Janet Doleman (Rushcliffe) 83 81.
166 Andrea Stockdale (Mapperley Ladies’) 83 83.
167 Carol Wild (Notts Ladies’) 82 85, Sue Pidgeon (Wrekin) 81 86.
Division B
175 Mila Spray (Harleyford) 84 91.
178 Elaine James (Aspley Guise & Woburn Sands) 89 89.
181 Pauline Olliver (Burnham Beeches) 94 87.
182 Joan Somerville (Burnham Beeches) 94 88, Elizabeth Holbrook (Spalding) 92 90, Marie Watson (Chesterfield) 89 93.
183 Olive Marchant (Woburn) 92 91.
184 Helen Cole (The Chase) 95 89.
187 Pauline Cameron (East Berkshire) 93 94.
190 Eleanor Walford (Copt Heath) 97 93.
Full details: visit the Tournament Information Centre on www.englishwomensgolf.org
Lyndsey Hewison
Press & PR Officer

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