Age is just a number.<\/p>\n
You can find Carol Dalton and Joanna Ke walking the fairways and posting their birdies at Balmacewen most weekends.<\/p>\n
But the duo will go head to head when they contest the Otago Golf Club women’s championship title today.<\/p>\n
It makes for an intriguing match-up \u2014 considering Ke is just 10, while Dalton is 70.<\/p>\n
Dalton has played off for the club title once before in her 39-year career at the club.<\/p>\n
But Ke is bidding to become the youngest winner in the club\u2019s history, surpassing her coach, and Otago golfing stalwart, Shelley Duncan, who won the title at 15.<\/p>\n
Dalton is relatively relaxed about the task at hand but preparing for a battle after she scored a victory over the youngster in the first round of the club championships last year.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018She\u2019s maturing very quickly. She\u2019s a different opponent this year,\u2019\u2019 Dalton said.<\/p>\n
Ke made headlines last year when she blitzed her way through the field to win the under-9 title at the Champion of Champions event in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n
The rising star, who celebrated her 10th birthday during that tournament, beat seven golfers in her division at the competition, considered the biggest junior invitational golf tournament in the world.<\/p>\n
Dalton wished her young opponent all the best, saying Ke was maturing into a lovely golfer and had a great career ahead of her.<\/p>\n