SARAH STEDMAN is ladies Golfer of the Year at Meltham – and she’s only 15!

She beat off competition from over 90 other players to land the accolade, which is judged on performances over the season.

A points system is in place for winning or being placed in individual competitions, and also for reducing handicap.

Sarah – who lives at Longley and attends King James’s – went from 25 handicap to 18 over the summer while winning the Captain’s Prize, the Madam Captain’s (second day of competition) and a monthly medal, in addition to being placed in other competitions.

Playing with different partners from other clubs, Sarah has won her club’s mixed am-am, ladies am-am, mixed quad am-am and ladies fourball betterball, while her name will go on the honours board alongside Woodsome Hall’s James Goodall following their win in the Open Mixed Invitation Greensomes.

At the annual dinner, she also received the Redfern Rosebowl (she is pictured with the trophy) for the eclectic Bronze Division – for the lowest net score on all holes during the season.

In the Halifax-Huddersield Festival for Ladies at Bradley Hall, Sarah reached the last 16, when she was playing matchplay off scratch, and she played in six Yorkshire Junior Girls competitions.

Four of the courses she had never played before but on three, she managed to reduced her handicap.

Sarah, who hopes eventually to win a golf scholarship, lists Tiger Woods, Christie Kerr, Paula Creamer and Michelle Wie as her favourite players and is aiming to become a single-figure handicap player as quickly as possible.