IT might not quite be a golden summer weatherwise just yet.
But for Lightcliffe GC's Christine Barnett, it's shaping up into a season of golden form and trophies galore.
She is in the form of her life at present, and after producing some brilliant golf to win the 96th Yorkshire Ladies Challenge Bowl at Mid
dlesbrough GC, a feat we reported on in last week's Courier, she is showing no signs of letting up by going on this week to shoot a scorching 67 in the Midsummer Ball competition at her own club to lower her handicap to just 16.
Barnett had travelled to Middlesbrough hoping to go one better than she did in 2004 when she reached the semi-final of the Ladies Challenge Bowl, one of the oldest and most prestigious competitions for ladies in the north of England.
And after sailing through the qualifying stroke play competition, she was able to keep her impressive form going into the last four where she dispatched home club member Paddy Marquis 3 & 2 in a game she controlled from the start against one of the pre-tournament favourites.
The final against Skipton's Sylvia Eastwood was played in ideal conditions at a club celebrating its centenary this year, and though it was a closer affair than the semi-final, the Lightcliffe member eventually won 2 & 1 to complete a memorable effort.
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