Trophy win amid strong field
Pauline Salter and Leanne Hood scored 44 points to win Horsham Golf Club’s annual four-ball, best-ball Beth Officer Trophy.
They were among a field of 29 pairs of women golfers and won from runners-up Peg Muszkieta and Liz Mcdonald with a score of 42.
The competition is named after Beth Officer, who lived in the Mallee town of Torrito, before moving to Horsham.
She became a prominent
Horsham Golf Club member before moving to Queensland in 1981 with her husband Kevin and sons, Brett, Mark and Dale.
The family was involved with the golf club and Mrs Officer’s father was also greenkeeper.
Mrs Officer first joined the club committee in 1975, was vice-president in 1976-77 and captain in 1979 and was involved in coaching clinics for women alongside life members Maisie Phillips and Joyce Mills.
She donated a cup on her departure to be played annually as a foursomes knockout, which later became a foursomes event. This was changed later, with her approval, to a four-ball best-ball stableford.
The club lost the original cup in the Black Saturday fire in 2009 and Mrs Officer offered to replace the trophy.