Thursday Club:
The 9 hole competition was all one way traffic for John Catling. He shot an awesome 25 points, winning by 4 points from Bill Foot, Bruce Munro and Stefan Kovacik all on 21. The 18 hole event was also a white-wash with Lance Lloyd blitzing the course with a sizzling 46 points. His nearest rival, Pascal Neunreuther was some 5 points back on 41. Stefan Kovacik and Nigel Ralph were in the rundown on 39. Pascal picked up a pin shot, as did Lance Lloyd, Luchie Gardel and Peter Lewis.
Saturday:
The October Monthly medal was played last Saturday with Dave Danes continuing his great recent form to win the overall mug and C Grade medal with a great 61 net. C Grade Runner-up was Don Hope with a solid score of 64 net. The B Grade Medal went to Chris Connors on 65 net, while Matt Goldman was next best on 68 net. Steve Abel picked up the A Grade Medal with a 66 net and Rob Stanley picked up second place with a 68 net.
Pin Shots went to Gary Clotz, Don Stafford, Steve Mitchell, Michael Leo and Stuart Win.
This weekend:
This coming Saturday will be the annual Ugly Ducklings Day. The event will be a 3 way team event to be explained on the day.
Dawnbusters
The winner of Sunday's competition was Bob Stirling with 29 nett, runnerup was Brad Albertson with 31 nett. Beryl Nosworthy came in third place with 34 nett Garry Flannery and Pascal Neunreuther won the pinshots, Pascal also had the least number of putts for the competition The snake putter was allan Greedy and Lisa Schuring was thew Bradman's winner.
Whitsunday golf club
This week the final round of the Club Championships were played.
The results for the 2 weeks of competitions were;
Week 1; A-grade winner Jimmy McGaffin on 65 from Al Duncan on 69. B-grade
winner Danny York on 50 from Buck Little on 57. C-grade winner Billy O'Shea
on 52 from Adam Stralow on 60.
Week 2; A-grade winner Jimmy McGaffin on 66 from Terry Roach on 72.
B-grade winner Danny York on 53 from Mick Cooper on 59. C-grade winner Gay
Bowden on 48 from Rick Jackson on 56.
Longest drives were won by Tony Rees and Anita Benny last week and Chris
Bailey and Tess Aitken this week. Nearest the pin shots were won by Al
Duncan for A-grade; Kerry Hall and Mick Cooper for B-grade and Joel Garner
and Adam Stralow for C-grade last week, while this weeks winners were Chris
Bailey and Terry Roach for A-grade; Peter Browning won both pins for
B-grade; and Billy O'Shea and Steve Ellis for C-grade.
As the 3-putt winner from last week, Anita Benny, was still getting over the
Bowen Races and did not show up, she will still have the snake for next
week. Last week's winner of the 'Dummy Spit' award, Ron Chant, was happy to
hand over the "bigger & better" dummy this week to Scotty Wardroper who won
it easily by throwing several clubs.
CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS;
Club Champion - Jimmy McGaffen on 157 gross
A-Grade Champion - Chris Bailey on 169 gross
A-Grade Net -Steve Fahey on 149 net
B-Grade Champion - Danny York on 171 gross
B-Grade Net -Mick Cooper on 121 net
C-Grade Champion - Billy O'Shea on 205 gross
C-Grade Net -Adam Stralow on 124 net
Next week will be a 3-ball ambrose challenge between Reef Gateway and
Jubilee Tavern. Bus leaves the Tavern at 7.15am and the Gateway at 7.30am
for tee-off at 8am..
Friday chook run
Mick Dibben was the winner of the 9 hole stroke competition played last Friday, runnerup was Bill Foot with 26 nett. Elspeth Scotford, Lloyd Kingston, Ray Plant, Stuart Win, Ron Jamieson and Richard Todd all won balls in the rundown. The very lucky Stuart Win won the card draw two weeks in a row.
Ladies
The ladies played the October monthly medal stroke and putts on Wednesday resulting in Alison Day winning on a countback from Bernice Petersen with 72 nett. Elspeth Scotford was third with 73 nett followed by Di Dobbins and Marlene Gray with 74 nett. The putting competition was tied also by di and Bernice who each had 30 putts. Di made a victorious return and took out the pinshots on 2,9 and 13. Alison won the shot on 16 , Bernice on 5 and Lyn Muller on 18. The ladies also welcomed visitors Lynda Stephens and Coral Wilson and welcomed back Sally McCallum and Alison Day.
Juniors
Juniors commence back this week after the school holiday period. Some of the pennants squad have been hard at work over the period with Frank Goodfellow, Rod Wecker and even big Skello helping out and there are some improving results coming through. All players who have been training will be given a game on the pennants weekend with either a second team being entered or the other visiting teams reserve players playing our second team. Brad Riley's good form over the break has seen him included in the 9-hole pennants team squad.
This Sunday will be a fun day with friends and family invited to participate with the kids in a team's event starting at 9.30. There will be a sausage sizzle afterwards and a discussion on the upcoming pennants weekend.
Karen, Justin and Simon head off to the willows for the PGA masters event on Tuesday where they get to play with one of the Masters professionals in a 4 Ball Ambrose event. We wish them well.
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