The south-west sisters’ special connection might make it hard for one to gain an advantage when they go head-to-head in the Camperdown Golf Club A grade championships on Wednesday.

The pair, 43, will face-off in the matchplay decider after finishing as the top-two ranked players across a three-week stroke series.

“We do it a lot, twin telapathy,” Conheady said.

“We will use it to see what the other one is thinking on Wednesday.

“We pick up on each other’s emotions pretty quickly.

“I might be home and I think ‘I wonder what Mandy’s up to’ and I will ring and she’ll say ‘I was thinking the same thing’.

“We say things together at the same time and when we were young Mum would take us shopping and we’d go into the change rooms and come out with the same outfit on.

“We finish off each other’s sentences. People notice it but we don’t know we’re doing it. It freaks people out a bit.”

The siblings grew up in the small rural community of Talindert, just outside Camperdown, attending a primary school with 14 students.

They’ve played sport together, including hockey in Warrnambool and Camperdown for some 30 years.

But facing one another for a title is a new frontier for Camperdown-based Conheady and Nullawarre-based Dalton.

“We play with each other and not head to head so it will be interesting,” Conheady said.

“We are both pretty relaxed on the golf course so I think it will be fun.

“It’s going to be different. I remember we played against each other in schoolgirls tennis in Warrnambool – that was the last time we went head to head on something and we were about 14 years old. Mandy won.”

The sisters’ next sporting pursuit led them to the golf course.

Mother-of-two Conheady started six years ago and Dalton, who has three children including her own set of twins, followed suit 12 months later.

They’re both playing off a handicap of 15. 

Their rise to the championship decider has stunned them both.

“It is a bit surreal really,” Conheady said.

“The ladies at the club said that over the last few years players have been saying ‘it won’t be long and you will play against each other’.

“I didn’t think it would be this soon. Mandy has been playing well and her handicap has come down and my handicap went down and has come in so we meet in the middle.

“I think it will be emotional, which sounds a bit corny, but I can’t lose because if I don’t win Mandy wins.”