Gole-Wooster Duel Highlights Australian Mid-Amateur

Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia: Senior stars Nadene Gole and Sue Wooster are poised for an intriguing clash in this week’s Australian Mid-Amateur Championship.

Gole and Wooster were members of the Australian women’s team that triumphed in the inaugural Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation (APGC) Senior Championships in 2022.

In Gole’s absence last year due to injury, Wooster won the individual title and also led Australia to a successful title defence in the team event in Vietnam.

Teeing-off at Wollongong Golf Club and The Links Shell Cove today, the 54-hole Australian Mid-Amateur is for players 30 years and older with handicaps of 12.4 and under for men, or 20.4 for women.

Despite being among the eldest players in the field, Gole and Wooster will be able to call on years of top-level tournament golf experience.

A former professional, Gole became the number one rated senior amateur in the world last year. She made history by winning all six State senior championships in her home country, the national senior amateur and the New Zealand Senior Amateur in the one year.

Those successes are reflected in the fact that Gole is currently 153rd in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR).

As well as being the reigning APGC Women’s Senior Amateur champion, Wooster, 471st in the WAGR, is a three-time Australian Senior Amateur champion.

She has also been runner-up in the US Senior Women’s Amateur on three occasions.

Competitors in the Australian Mid-Amateur Championship play one round at each course on the opening two days. Following a 36-hole cut, the final round will take place at Wollongong Golf Club on Tuesday.