HISTORY:

Miss Betty Kernot was elected President of SWDGA in 1962 and Patron in 1963 in recognition of her valuable contribution to our District. In 1971 she suggested a Scratch Foursome event, which would be a prestigious competition for our District Players only. The Executive in her honour named this event the Betty Kernot Scratch Foursomes
            The two essential conditions were:
1         A minimum and maximum handicap, and,
2         Exclusion of members who played Pennant in another District or Metropolitan Pennant.

Miss Kernot won the Australian Championship twice, and as a member of three golf clubs she won many Club Championships and six SWDGA titles; She captained Victorian Interstate Teams and won a VLGU Laurel Wreath Brooch.

CONDITIONS FOR BETTY KERNOT SCRATCH FOURSOMES 2011

1.     The competition is open to Lady Members of Affiliated Clubs, each Club is entitled to enter two (2) pairs, combined handicaps to be not less than twenty (20) and not more than fifty (50) on the day entries close, and who must have been bona fide members of the Club from which they are entered for at least three months prior to the commencement of the competition. Handicaps of players to be held permanently in a SWDLGA Inc. affiliated Club.

2.      Clubs must nominate their pairs when entering, and must have at least two (2) substitutes (eligible under Rule 1) to replace a player or players in the case of illness or exceptional circumstances. After entries close, a walkover MAY NOT be given; a club, which infringes this rule, will not be eligible to enter the same number of teams in the following year. A Player may be substituted for one match; if, of necessity, she plays in two successive matches, she shall remain the Player. A defeated player may not be used as a substitute.

3.       A Player may not play Pennant in another District or GV Pennant and in the same season play in the Betty Kernot Scratch Foursomes.

4.          Refer to SWDLGA Inc. Standard Conditions of Play