Thursday Club:
The Great Dane came out firing last Thursday, shooting a solid 31 net to take out the 9 hole event by one shot in a tightly contested affair. Dave did well to hold out ex-pro Les Bradford on 32 with Don Moore and Phil Glindeman all sharing the same score. Dave Gates showed a return to form to win the 18 hole event with a personal best of 90 shots resulting in a 62 net. Les Bradford was at it again, just behind on 63 while James Carman showed his talents on 66. Pin Shots went to Bill Foot, Nigel Ralph, Rod Wecker and George Gnezdiloff.
Saturday:
A reasonable field showed up to play the single stroke event last Saturday. The weather was perfect and the scoring reflected that with 2 players shooting fantastic scores of 60 net. Stuart Win and Kelvin Stephens tied at the top but Stuart got the nod on a countback of the last 9 holes, to win overall. Both players lost a couple of shots from their handicap and look to continue that trend to get into next year’s pennant teams. Ron Jamieson played well also with a great 62 net, two shots ahead of Neil Taylor on 64 and Rod Wecker another shot back on 65. Peter Lewis and Gus Ogilvie were solid on 66. Caroline Awdry was the best for the ladies with a great 67 net.
Pin Shots were won by Caroline Awdry, Dave Forrest, Pascal Neunreuther, Adam Stroud and Peter Lewis.
This Weekend:
This Saturday will be the October Metropole Monthly Medal. Registrations from 11 for an 11:30 tee off. See you there.
Dawnbusters:
The winner of the Dawnie’s competition played on Sunday was Peter Skelton with a 32 nett, runnerup was George Stevenson with 34 nett, third was Paul skeleton with 35 nett. Al Greedy had the lest number of putts, the snake putter this week was Brad Albertson and the Bradman’s was won by Jack Spruce. The nearest to the pins were won by George Stevenson on number 9 and Brad Albertson on number 2
Friday Chook Run:
There was a field of 23 players for last week’s Chook Run and the winner was Rod Wecker with 23 stableford points, runnerup was Stephen Fahey with 22 stableford points. Lloyd Kingston, Rob Stanley, Chris Chengody, Stuart Win, Herb Hamilton and Ron Jamieson all won balls in the rundown. The card draw was won at last by the lucky Stuart Win who was only just present for the draw.
Juniors
The 9 hole pennant team contenders are being trained every Wednesday afternoon at 3.30pm, a team will be picked from these juniors based on their attendance to training and their past year’s performance. The pennant competition will be played in Proserpine on Saturday 28 October.
Ladies
The ladies played for Bernice and Shirley’s trophies on Wednesday and they went to Elspeth Scotford and Reh Hull who combined beautifully to win and to Margaret Cunningham and Marlene Gray who were runners up. The single event was won by Elspeth, Bernice Petersen was runner up and Reh Hull came third. Reh had a good day, taking the nearest to pin shots on number 2, 9 and 18 as well. Elsepth won the pinshot on number 13 and Mae Secomb on number 7.
Whitsunday Golf Club:
There were 36 players turned up to play a 9-hole stroke event on a glorious Sunday morning this week.Winner of A-grade with a net score of 32 was Tony Rees on a count-back from Mal Carter. Rob Mcfarlane won B-grade with 27 net., also on a count-back from Matt Benny. Longest drives were won by Steve Fahey and Lau Keating (who is back from PNG for a visit). As both A & B grade ‘nearest the pins’ were written on by players from the wrong grades [Ernie Holstein & Rob McFarlane], the only prize given was to Billy O’Shea for B-grade.The winner of the 3-putt snake this week was won with a putt-off by Adam Stralow from Sam Benny who both had 3 each. A new award has been introduced this week called the ‘Dummy Spit’ and this week it was won by Ian Giles.Shot of the week goes to Bec McPherson who nearly wiped out Phantom by hitting a ball around a tree and through his golf buggy.
Club Championships will run over the next 2 weeks. Tee-off at 7am for 18 holes and there will be 3 grades.