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Long-driving Lauren is Randpark Ladies Club Champion

by | May 24, 2022

Lauren Clough, who has no trouble hitting booming 250-metre drives off the tee and won our ladies club championships at the weekend, has always been good at sport.

She went to Reddam House School in Bedfordview and excelled in a wide range of games, be it hockey, netball, soccer, touch rugby or whatever and she was a really talented athlete.

But from the start, there was a history of golf in the Clough family. “Years ago my dad, Mike, was the club pro at State Mines and he even caddied for John Bland on the European Tour,” says Lauren. “I played golf as a young girl but stopped when I was 13 so I could concentrate on all the other sports. I only took it up again when I was 22 and I joined Randpark in 2015.”

With all her sporting ability she was always destined to be a golfer to be reckoned with and, unsurprisingly, she improved rapidly. The lowest she has been, handicap-wise, is plus 0.9 which is pretty impressive.

Strongest point of her game? “I guess being able to hit it 250 or 260 off the tee and maybe 280 with the wind behind me does help!” exclaims Lauren who has started to play the odd amateur tournament and is a Gauteng squad member.
Her best round to date has been a sizzling 67. That was on Friday last week, the day before the club championships. “Scoring in the club champs though wasn’t nearly as good though,” she says. “On Firethorn on Saturday it was freezing cold and we had a few drops of rain. I was one-under-par through six holes but made a couple of double bogeys after that and ended up with a 77. I was a bit stressed the whole weekend because my closest challenger, Eugenie Wolmarans, was putting the pressure on.”

Lauren would then shoot 79 on Bushwillow on Sunday for a 156 aggregate to win by two from Eugenie.

“Overall the scoring maybe wasn’t that good but I felt I did play well in conditions that weren’t easy. And to win my first club champs after a couple of runner-up spots in the past was pretty satisfying.
”I’m a good ball-striker and with my ability to hit it a long way, and also shape the ball both ways, although I usually favour a fade, I sometimes think I should be giving pro golf a go,” says Lauren, now 29. “But I’ve got a full-time job in estate management and time for golf is limited. So we’ll just have to see. For the moment, though, I’m real happy to be Randpark Ladies Club Champion!”

Written by Randpark Club member Grant Winter.

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