Caroline Marron has won the Northern Counties Senior Ladies Championship for a record third year in succession

Jun 8 2011 by Our Correspondent, Birkenhead News

CHESHIRE’S Caroline Marron has won the Northern Counties Senior Ladies Championship for a record third year in succession, her fifth tournament win in only her third season in the senior ranks.

In addition to the Northern Vets, this year she won the Cheshire Seniors for the first time, beating her friend and great rival Sue Dye of Delamere Forest in the final. Her list of honours in the seniors includes also the English Senior Women’s Championship last year , helped with a superb short game – and a few words of help from her coach Geoff Berry, professional at Bromborough where she is a member.

He helped her then with some key points, such as checking her line-up position to the target and with her putting.

She the putted the best for a long time and as she had recalled in her winner’s speech there is the familiar saying: “You drive for show, putt for dough.”

And once again Berry gave her a few words of advice in the closing stages of the three-day Northern Counties championship at West Lancashire too.

She was the second top qualifier, behind Ann Lowe of Royal Birkdale. The in the matchplay stages and following the battle with the wind the previous day she sensed problems with her swing and she went to the practice ground. When Berry arrived he watched her hit some balls and told her all she needed was to trust her swing. She followed that advice and went out to beat Karen Lee from Durham 4&3 in the final.

She knows about the winds of West Lancashire. As she says: “I played there in Northern Counties Match week (the regional counties regional qualifier for the England championship) some years ago and I think I had a bit of an advantage.

“You have to have an eye on the wind and I knew to plot my way around the course, know when to drive over the bunker and when to lay-up short.”

She is thrilled to win, not just because of another trophy and indeed a place in the record books but because she loves playing golf as part of a team and the championship win gives her another opportunity.