THE ladies of Came Down held a very successful Open Meeting, when the course was in almost perfect condition and bathed in sunshine.

Seventy-eight teams of ladies participated from 17 different clubs.

The format was a four-ball betterball competing for a great table of prizes.

The winners on the day were Helen Takhar and Julie Linley from Wincanton Golf Club who scored an impressive 46 points.

In second place were Lorraine Rawlins and Angela Brook from Parkstone with 41 points and in third, Dilys Grant and Sue Stroudley from Weymouth with 40.

Among great excitement, June Hamon from the Dorset Golf & Country Club, celebrated a hole-in-one.

She was presented with a bottle of champagne by the ladies’ captain Sue Davies.

Junior member Molly Kington won the Palmer Trophy after taking part in a junior county event held at the Ashley Wood Golf Club.

Kington returned the best nett score of 69 to land the prize.

The winner of the gross, the Ashley Wood Trophy, was won by Louise Burke of Broadstone.