However, the date of the presentation - December 4 - is special for Tanya and her husband, Gary. It's their daughter, Kristylea's birthday. Kristylea would have been 33 this year. She died after a battle with a rare form of cancer in 2013, aged 27.

The Mavis Crealy Memorial is awarded to the player who recorded the best score in the second round of the club championships.

"I didn't know that I'd won it,'' Tanya said.

"I can't even remember what my score was.''

There was even more symmetry with the date when Tanya looked at the list of former winners on the trophy. On December 4 1999, it was won by Tanya's mum, Annie Ward.

"Mum didn't make it to the presentation this year. I told her that night that I'd won the trophy and she recalled that she had won it years ago. That's when I checked the date - and it was 20 years to the day,'' Tanya explained.

This caps off what has been a successful and somewhat meteoric year of golf for Tanya.

"I started playing golf two years ago when I had lessons with the pro on Saturday afternoons,'' she explained.

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"But I only started playing in the Wednesday competition with the women in August when our grandson, Loxley was born. Before then I would babysit our granddaughter, Aloka, on Wednesdays.''

So she'd only become a Wednesday regular for a couple of months when the club championships rolled around.

Tanya entered the C-grade championships played over three weeks in October with no great expectations.

"I just wanted to see how I'd go,'' she said.

As it turned out, Tanya went pretty well.

At the conclusion of the three weeks Tanya was the clear winner, carding 301, 14 shots clear of the runner up.

Her second round score was 66 and that clinched her the Mavis Crealy Memorial.

She's improved her handicap from 45 to 26 this year.

"I'd like to get down to around 20, I'm not good enough to get any lower than that,'' she said.

However, Tanya concedes there's a question mark about her game. She took up golf at a time when the course has been heavily impacted by the drought.

"It'll be different when there's grass on the course,'' she said.

Meanwhile at the women's club annual meeting last week Judy Fuller was elected president.

Other office bearers are vice president Jo Stinson; secretary Leanne Eakin; captain Cindy Gough; handicap manager Merle Wright; competition secretary Bronwyn Heagney, with Di Morley, Linda Sinclair and Jill Gosling on the committee.