Hannah Ralph beats Tara

Watters in EWGA South

Region final at Liphook

By CAROLINE SCALLON

Hannah Ralph from Sussex won the EWGA South Region Championship held at Liphook Golf Club, Hampshire. Hannah, handicap +1, from Cowdray Park Golf Club, qualified second on day one with a 36-hole total of 148 on a countback from Hampshire player Olivia Jordan-Higgins (also +1) from Royal Jersey Golf Club also on 148.
In the match-play stages Hannah beat Sian Evans from Faversham, Kent 5 & 4; Hannah Lovelock from Hindhead, Surrey 2 & 1; Katie Mundy from Dunwood Manor, Hampshire 2 hole; and in the final had a decisive win 7 & 5 over Tara Watters (+1) from Muswell Hill, Middlesex.
Fifty four players from the five south region counties (Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Middlesex) entered the championship.

Hannah Ralph is on the left and Tara Watters the right in the image supplied by Caroline Scallon.
Handicaps ranged from +1 to 14 and competitors' ages from 11 to 51. The course was in perfect condition with the greens running at 12.3. The weather remained good for the week with a couple of showers on day one and a light breeze over all three days.
Other trophies awarded were the Intermediate Cup for those players under 25 which went to Olivia Jordan-Higgins with the best scratch score in qualifying; and the County Shield (three scores to count) went to a strong Hampshire trio of Tracey Boyes from Meon Valley, Olivia Jordan-Higgins, and Raffi Dyer from Hayling Island with a total of 456.

The best net score was returned by Chelsea Masters from Highwoods Golf Club in Sussex on 146.

LEADING QUALIFYING ROUNDS

SSS 75. CSS 76 (am), 75 (pm)

148 Olivia Jordan Higgins (Royal Jersey) 74 74, Hannah Ralph (Cowdray Park) 70 78.

151 Katie Mundy (Dunwood Manor) 79 72, Ellis Keenan (Sunningdale) 74 77.

152 Tara Watters (Muswell Hill) 77 65, Tracey Boyes (Meon Valley) 76 76.

154 Hannah Lovelock (Hindhead) 78 76.

155 Stacey Rodger (West hove) 74 81.

156 Chlsea Masters (Highwoods) 77 79, Lauren Blease (Coombe Hill) 77 79, Raffi Dywer (Hayling) 76 80.

159 Andrea Downer (Bramley) 79 80.

160 Kirsty Raqnds (Burhill) 84 76, Roz Adams (Addington Court) 78 82.

161 Sian Evans (Faversham) 83 78, Katherine Russell (Royal Ashdown Forest) 81 80, Maggie Lowe (Woking) 80 81, Tana Churchill (Surrey Downs) 78 83.

163 Georgina Mundy (Dunwood Manor) 85 78.

164 Lauren Davis (Meon Valley) 77 87, Charlotte Hope (Wrotham Heath) 84 80.

165 Felicity Coulter (Banstead Downs) 86 79.