Northern District
THE Northern District Veteran Golfers annual two-day event held at the Barham Golf club on October 21 and 22 was attended by veterans from most parts of Victoria and Southern NSW.
Thanks to Tony and Sue and the Barham Golf Club, Graham Wyte our captain, and all sponsors, and a special thanks to Andrew Peace Wines for their annual donation.
Overall winners were:
Ladies A Grade – Irene Cocks 63 points; runner-up Nona Wilson 60 points.
B Grade – Lorraine Howard 70 points; runner-up Liz Jensen 68 points.
Men A Grade – David Wilkinson 78 points; runner-up Brad Guan 75 points.
B Grade – Les Dean 73 points; runner-up Garry Moore 70 points.
C Grade – Hank Hancock 75 points; runner-up Ian Gammon 74 points.
The next veterans event is at Tooleybuc on Tuesday, November 19, 9am assembly for 9.30am start.
Cohuna
PAR was the name of the game for the ladies last Wednesday at Cohuna Golf Club.
Judy Simmonds took out the day, finishing square from Joy Johnson and Ros Dunne both with -3.
Marian Smith claimed 3 nearest the pins on the day, with Ros Dunne and Wendy Woods also being accurate when it counted.
Thursday’s R&R was won by Don Magick, who seems fully recovered on countback from Geoff Miller and Joe Sidorow – all with 36 points, Don’s 24 points on the back nine proving the difference.
Nearest the pins went to Kevin Crane, Evan Meredith and Don Magick.
Saturday was the Medal of Medallists stroke event. This year’s prize went to Lee Lucas (72), proving best of the medallists.
Brenton Smyth had the best score of the day for the mortals with 71 and also claimed 2 nearest the pins.
Mal Appleby and Kevin Crane also scored well with 74 each.
Sunday was a three-person gentsome event.
The ladies winning team was Lois Stone, Linda Moloney and Sandra Hancock with 82 points.
Second place went to Leonie Heap, Robyn McGraw and Marlene Bird, with 80, followed by Marg Winship, Judy Simmonds and Barbera Barry with 79.
Nearest the pins went to Robyn McGraw, Linda Moloney (2) and Marg Winship.
Ladies straightest drive was stuck by Val Farrant.
The men’s winning team was Brett Dye, Andrew Freemantle and Grant Mooney with 93.
Martin Ellery, Steve Spring and Neil Bradley came in second with 90 from Paul Reid, Joel Woolhouse and Ray Heap along with Joe Sidorow, Garry Yates and Matty Heap – all on 88 points.
Nearest the pins went to Dennis McGlone, Geoff Miller, Daryl Archard and Grant Mooney.
The next round of the men’s knockout needs to be played by November 10, so please get those matches played.
Kerang
Thursday Golf
LAST Thursday saw our rich and retired golfers hit the greens for a good day of golf.
Mr Thursday, Geoff Williams, again had another mid-week win with a good score of 39 points.
Geoff has been a very consistent scorer on Thursdays and I bet he would like all days to be called Thursday. In the ballpool all four golfers had the same score of 36 points, those being Wayne O’Neill, John Ficken from Murrabit, Graham Wyte and Poddy Free.
Nearest the pins were Chris Gray on 3, John Ficken won on 5 and 13, Jarrad Walker on 9 and nobody could find the green in one shot on 16.
We also welcomed Glen Watson, a visitor from Waikerie (SA) to the field.
Saturday Golf
The first round of our club championships began on Saturday in winds that would have rivalled what Darwin copped in 1974.
Low scores were not to be had on this day and it shows, as our leader Andrew Spitty (0) had an 81 to have a 1-shot lead over Gary Thorne (6) on 82, as well as our B Grade leader Peter Hall (14) on 82.
In second place in B Grade is Gav Teasdale (14) with 83, so it is very close in both grades.
In C Grade, the old war horse in Casey Gillen (22) has a commanding 9 shot lead over evergreen Doug Ellwood (22) on 103.
The ladies had a small but quality filled field and the winner was Michelle Dillon (9) on a count back from Meryl Cameron (16) both on 32 pts.
Nearest the pins on the 3rd was Gary Thorne.
He also had the 9th, Gav Teasdale on the 5th into a howling head wind, the 13th went to Michelle Dillon and Phil Lloyd got 16.
Coming events
We have the 4-Person Ambrose on Sunday, with the RSL getting the proceeds, so please come and support this day.
Groove on the Green is November 10. This is a great day for the club, so come along and enjoy the music and the food.
Our Ian Westland 4b is still on and we had Ron Shultze/Geoff Williams defeat Tony Hall/John Murphy on Thursday, 4/3, so well done to those two.
We have our second round of club championships on Saturday, I hope to see you all there.
Kerang Ladies
How good was it to have a bubbly contingent of ladies from Lakeside with us for a stableford comp?
It doubled our numbers and proved very fruitful for them.
It was a magnificent day after the hurricane winds on Saturday, and some (unfortunately only some) of the players took advantage of our beautiful course to post some handy scores.
Our winner for the day was Mandy Ackland with a great score of 38.
Most importantly, she also won Lake Boga’s much sought after annual award – the prestigious peacock brooch.
The other ladies looked on very enviously as Mandy flashed her new bling around.
Lorraine Bray was runner up with 36 points.
She was excited to score her first birdie ever and Michelle taught her the required response of ‘Tweet, Tweet, Tweet’ and high-fiving.
In the ball pool was Meryl Cameron and Ruth McAlister, both on 35.
Nearest the pin on 9 to win the Chino’s coffee was Ruth. Michelle Dillan took home June’s ball on the 3rd. Deanne Free scored a shiny new pen.
The Les Jobling competition which was due to begin on Saturday has been postponed due to lack of numbers. Stay tuned for new dates for that.
Don’t forget to grab your tickets for Groove on the Green – always an awesome night.
Next week is a stroke round for our monthly medal, 9.30am for 10am hit off.
Kerang Golf
Round three of the Kerang Golf Bowls Twilight Triples was played on Wednesday night.
Winners were Budda Murray, Neil Paul and Jars with 32 points.
Runners-up were the AutoPro team of Rod Pascoe, B. Gladman and the Mouse with 31 points.
There were three draws.
The leaders on the ladder are Budda Murray team 88, The Miners 71, Mick Fowler team 69 and Niall’s Lions 68.
