Lyn O’Brien, Kaye Wraith, Rose Tonissen and Irene MacDonald combined to win Terang Golf Club’s annual Rose Bowl tournament.

The quartet, a team thrown together for the 18-hole Irish four-ball best ball stableford competition, finished with 87 points to claim the prize by a point.

MacDonald said she and her Hamilton Golf Club members were delighted to win but their aim was to enjoy each other’s company.

“The golf is not very serious but the fun is very serious,” she said.

“It’s a social activity for us.

“The sun will come up tomorrow if we play good or bad.”

MacDonald said the four had never played as a team before but they formed friendships through golf.

They are vowing to return to the event next year after their success with Tonissen playing it for the first time yesterday.

“The course was challenging but in excellent condition,” MacDonald said.

“The Terang Golf Club should be very proud of the day they have put on.”

Terang Golf Club committee member Janet Saunders said 120 players from across the Western District played in the event. They included two sets of sisters, Terang’s Michelle Beasley and Sharee Scanlon and Camperdown’s Mandy Dalton and Donna Conheady, who finished second, a point behind the winners.

A Terang side of Mardie O’Sullivan, Betty Healey, Sue Morrison and Bernadette McKinnon won the best nine-hole-in score with 45 points while the best nine out effort was 45 points from the combination of Val Moloney and Norma Attrill from Terang and Warrnambool’s Judy Kerr and Bessie McGrath. Moloney, Attrill, Kerr and McGrath were celebrating their 25th Rose Bowl together yesterday.

Saunders said the club was delighted with the success of the event, despite a thunderstorm hitting with a couple of groups still on the course.

Saunders said the efforts of sole greenkeeper Tim O’Keeffe and his band of volunteers had paid off.