Silver Spoon

                                                

SILVER SPOON

2012 Entry Form

2011 Results

2011 Grass Green Winner: Heather Darley (WGC) with Runner-Up: Chelsea Babbe (RPGC

2011 Sand Green Winner: Kylie Tremlett (Latham) with Runner-Up: Marian Harwood (Augusta)

2011 State Nett Winner: Sue Earnshaw (Darkan)

State Gross Winner at Club Level: Chelsea Babbe (RPGC) on c/b Belinda Wilkinson (WAGC) 350

State Nett Winner at Club Level ? May Stillman Trophy: Sue Earnshaw (Darkan) on c/b Janine Green (Rosehill) -14.

Sand Green Winner: Kylie Tremlett (Latham) 75

Runner-Up: Marian Harwood (Augusta) 77

Grass Green Winner: Heather Darley (WGC) 70

Runner-Up: Chelsea Babbe (RPGC) 74

NTP 4: Kylie Tremlett (Latham)

NTP 7: Shirley Van Der Brugghen (MGGC)

NTP 11: Alison Lee (Pingelly)

NTP 9: MiCaddy Trophy (Helen Oliver (Waroona)

NTP 14: Chelsea Babbe (RPGC)

This event is open to all players who enter and play 5 Stroke Rounds at Club level. The best 4 rounds are calculated and the Gross and Nett winners are sent in to WGWA for processing.  

History

The WALGU was founded in 1914 and in 1915 because of the Great War it was proposed "the Union should strike War Medals to be played for over a certain period by clubs belonging to the Union and subject to their approval the competition was to be stroke play?.

Entrance was 6 pence a card and the proceeds were to go to any "Patriotic Fund?. For a few years it was the French Comforts Fund.

In 1927 it was decided to substitute medals for silver spoons. These were to be designed by a Mr. Holdsworth who had designed other Championship Trophies for the Union. Special Result Sheets were to be printed and club winners played in a final usually during one of the rounds of the State Championships. The winner received a case of spoons.

There have been many changes of the format and finals over the years, but the original idea of playing a number of stroke rounds and finding the "Champion Silver Spoon? in a final still persists.

When Linton?s first designed the spoons and why is open to conjecture. Certainly by 1939, they made them.

Medal Rounds in many clubs still are referred to when playing a stroke round but as far as I know only W.A. plays for the beaten silver spoons made by John Linton of Linton?s.

 

As quoted by Patsy Best