BOORT’S Di Johnston has taken out the main title at the Kara Kara women’s Champion of Champions tournament held at Wedderburn Golf Club last week.
Johnston’s 79 was good enough to win the Silver Division title ahead of St Arnaud’s Brenda Proctor on 82. Donald’s Kerry Raven finished on 83 and Heather Hogan from Birchip scored 84 in a hard-fought contest.
Julie McLennan from Wycheproof won the Bronze Division with 91, with Wedderburn’s Karen Weston (103) and Eve Adams from Donald finishing on 104.
The day attracted 53 players, with a Wedderburn team of Suzie Lockhart, Carolyn McHugh, Glenda Bird, Sandra Steel and Jill Millie taking out the Scratch Shield on 453, and another Wedderburn combination (Carolyn McHugh, Jill Millie, Sandra Steel, Wendy Smith and Susie Lockhart) winning the Handicap Sheild on 368.
Association winners: Scratch A Grade: Di Johnston (Boort) 79, B Grade Carolyn McHugh (Wedderburn) 90, C Grade Vicki Orchard (Wycheproof) 101. Handicap A Grade: Brenda Proctor (St Arnaud) 70 nett, B Grade Kate Perryman (Boort) 73 nett, C Grade Di Roberts (Charlton) 74 nett.
Chic Morgan Memorial Teams Event: Jill Millie, Wendy Smith, Carolyn McHugh (Wedderburn), veteran winner
Carolyn McHugh (Wedderburn) 71 nett. NTPs: 5th  Wendy Laffin (Charlton),  7th Anne Kenny (Charlton), 13th Jenny Lanyon (St Arnaud), 17th Heather Hogan (Birchip)
Boort 
Boort golf club’s last-minute decision to swap from a Sunday event back to Saturday saw the season’s largest field of 16 players take to the course for a stableford competition.
In A Grade, Craig Allison returned to form to post 38 points to win by one from David Hellsten, while in B Grade, Grant Tooth had the best score of the day with 40 points to also claim July’s Privilege Cup. 
This left Damien Lanyon, Shayne Morris and Doug Couper as winners in the ball run, while nearest-the-pin prizes went to Karen Allison, Hamish Lanyon, Robert Johnston, Doug and Damien.
This week is Boort’s annual tournament, with Ladies Day kicking off today, followed by the Men’s four-ball on Friday, the 27-hole event in Saturday, and a three-person ambrose on Sunday. 
Results A Grade: Craig Allison (6) 38, David Hellsten (12) 37, Damian Lanyon (8) 33, Shayne Morris (10) 30, Robert Johnston (10) 30, Tim Lanyon (9) 28, Andrew Kane (-4) 27, Stuart Tweddle (3) 27. 
B Grade: Grant Tooth (23) 40, Doug Couper (16) 34, Hamish Lanyon (15) 30. Peter Eicher (20) 29, Jarrod Nuttall (16) 26, Karen Allison (13) 25, Jamie Sutton (16) 25, Scott Rollinson (30) 21. 
NTPs: !st Karen Allison, 8th Hamish Lanyon, 9th Robert Johnston, 15th Damien Lanyon, 18th Doug Couper.
Wedderburn
Saturday’s stableford event was taken out on a countback by Byron Bird ahead of fellow six-handicapper Owen Bailey after both finished on 36 points.  Bird also took out the nearest-the-pin prize on the 13th hole. Results: Byron Bird (6) 36, Keith Bird (12) 24, Jon Chandler (15) 30, Glenda Bird (10) 35, Tony Holt (11) 33, Owen Bailey (6) 36, John Donaldson (14) 29, Geoff Weston (28) 27, Graham Nesbit (8) 29. 
Mitiamo
The club’s A Grade winner for the weekend was Brad Duncan, who finished with a nett 68 off a 10 handicap. Runner up was Adam Gould (82-12-70). 
B Grade was taken out by Phil Harrison with a nett 66 on his 27 handicap. Ray Boyd finished as runner up (87-21-66. 
NTP No.2 was Noah Condliffe. Count the putts was Matt Miles with 21.