AT ladies golf on Wednesday, the 10 payers found the course heavy going. We started in fog and finished with a rather warm day.
However, Angela Morton was able to handle the conditions to win the Stableford event with a score of 33 points. Runner-up was Michelle Dillon with 32 points and Jan Harry was in the ball pool with 29 points. There were several contenders for the pen, but Chrissy Chamberlain had the honour. Jan Harry was nearest the pin on the 9th.
Next week’s assemble at 9am for a 9.30am hit off.
Thursday R&R Stableford had a small field for a Thursday but I suppose the wind kept people away, but it was no problem for Rob Fabry (20) who ended the day on 42 points to be a clear winner. Runner-up was Doug Meehan (7) on 37 and the last ball went to Wayne O’Neill (21) on 36. Nearest the pins went to Joe Tartaglia on the 3rd, Graham Wyte 5th and 9th, Brendan Shields 13th and Terry Turvey on the 16th. We also had a visitor, Robert Barker from Portarlington, join us for the day.
At Saturday golf, again, a small field of golfers, probably saving themselves for the Par 3 day, and the winner on 39 points on a countback was Chris Waterson (4) with a very fine 72 off the stick from Barry Gladman (27). Chris had a bad start going par, bogie, bogie, bogie but birdies on 5, 6, 8 and 10 certainly made up for his bad holes.
Ladies’ winner, also with 39 points, was our youngest golfer Mabel Spitty (19) who had her best score off the stick of 86. The ball pool for the day was Barry Gladman 39, Jenny Waterson (15), Gavin Teasdale (10), Michelle Dillon (9) and Jan Harry (11) all those players on 35 points and Chris Gray got the last ball on countback from Olive Spitty (0), Allan Free (19) and David Gray (14), all them being on 34. Nearest the pins were Olive Spitty 3rd, Chris Waterson 5th, Jason Williams 9th, Blake Shay with a near hole-in-one got the money on the 13th and Peter Sharp, a visitor from Stawell, got the 16th.
Our Sunday Par 3 day again was a good day, numbers were down a little but everyone enjoyed the day and those that got a nearest the pin obviously went home with a smile on their face and $100 prize in their pocket.
Men’s stroke winner for the day was Andrew Spitty with a 2 over 56 off the stick and the ladies winner was Kerrie James from Barham with 60 off the stick.
Handicap winners were Cody Tuohey with 71 – 29 = 42 net and the ladies was for the second year in a row Karyl Hewitt 76 – 39 = 37. The team with the best net score of 190 was made up of Joyce Boyd, Geraldine Kennedy, Nola Robinson and Wayne Mildred.
The prize winners on each hole were Shaun Ritchie 1st and 13th, Gary Pay 2nd, Chris Waterson 3rd, Kade Spenser 4th, Jack Hewitt 5th, Paul Jackson 6th, Kerrie James 7th, John Dee 8th, Casey Wilson 9th, Cody Tuohey 10th, Daryl Fullerton 11th, Phil Lloyd 12th and 18th, Logan Keighran 14th, Team Spitty 15th, Sam Sperling 16th and Dale Hall 17th.
A big thank you from the club to our sponsors and also the workers around the club for the success of the day.
This coming weekend, we are sending two teams to Avoca GC to compete in the Waverly Shield. So, all the best to those in the teams and could they please meet at the clubhouse 9am Sunday to organise rides to Avoca. Winter Pennant starts soon so get your name into Captain Jack if you want to play.
