NHILL golfer Carolyn Croke came agonisingly close to securing a position in the semi-finals of the Victorian Country Golf Championships yesterday.
Croke forced her match-play quarter final against Torquay's Mandy Buckley to a 19th hole play-off but wasn't quite good enough.
Women's Golf Victoria spokeswoman Suzie Ingle said Croke put up a good fight.
"She played really well," Ingle said.
"It was an extremely good match, it went to the 19th hole but she just lost."
Yarrawonga's Judy Langford and Moonah Links' Sue Wooster will contest the championship in an 18-hole match-play final today starting at 9am.
Langford overcame Calivil's Helen Leech and Cobden's Debbie Rix, while Wooster beat Portland's Sandy Stewart and Buckley in match-play finals yesterday.
Wooster and Langford were the top-ranked players heading into the finals after qualifying with scores of 152 and 158 respectively.
Rix was third in qualifying with 160, before Buckley 161, Croke 162, Murray Downs' Mary Anne Davis 162, Leech 163 and Stewart 165.
Ingle said it would be a classic final with both women having plenty to play for.
"They have both been runners- up in the past which should ensure some great golf," she said.
Wooster's round claimed the Betty Kernot Trophy for the best 36-holes gross, while she also claimed the 36-holes nett.
Leech claimed the best 18-holes nett.
The Glenelg Cup tournament for handicaps between 19 and 35 went to Anglesea's Dorothy Hermann on Wednesday with a nett score of 146.
Hermann, playing off a handicap of 22, just edged out Mornington's Helen Bowman who finished with a nett score of 148.
Hermann also took out the gross competition, while Anglesea's Sue Britnell claimed the best 18-holes nett score.