Women’s Stableford Saturday November 4
A field of 14 ladies took to the course today with best score of the day going to Marilyn Williams on 34 points.
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Year: 2017
Star Medal Play-Off – Saturday 4/11/2017
The Star Medal Play Off is held each year between each Monthly Medal Winner from the season. In fine but blusterly conditions, Malcolm Legge produced a steady round of 91 off the stick, with a handicap of 21 finishing with a nett 70, taking the title of Star Medallist for 2017 by 10 shots from Ken McKenzie & Tom Williamson with nett 80.
Star Medallist Malcolm Legge (centre) with fellow Monthly Medal winners, Phillipe du Plessis, John Fedderson, Colin Moyle & Nicholas Hill.
BJS Insurance Top Gun Update 3/11/2017
With less than a week to go before qualifying for the BJS Insurance Top Gun Shootout closes, the cream is rising to the top, with the defending champion, Ian Murchie posting a leader high 40 points on Thursday.
Once the Top 19 Qualifiers are posted after Thursday’s Rainbow Stableford event, a Calcutta Auction will be held after Thursday presentations, for your only opportunity to bid on each of the Qualifying Players, as they are auctioned off.
Upon completion of the Shootout on Sunday 12th November, the Lucky buyer of the Top Gun will receive a voucher for 40% of the Calcutta Pool, the buyer of the runner up will receive a voucher for 30% of the prize pool as will the Lucky buyer of the Pop Gun (first Out).
The current Top 19 Qualifiers are listed below, together with the next three emergencies. Please, if your name is on this list and you know you will not be available to play in the Shoot Out, let me know ASAP.
Andy Bassett, Men’s Captain
| BJS Insurance Top Gun Update 3 November 2017 | |||||||
| Rank | Surname | First Name | Best Score | B9 | B6 | B3 | 18 |
| 1 | Murchie | Ian | 40 | ||||
| 2 | Roberts | Antony | 40 | ||||
| 3 | Castwood | Kevin | 39 | ||||
| 4 | Clemann | Doug | 39 | ||||
| 5 | Leaver | Chris | 39 | ||||
| 6 | Baker | Ian | 38 | ||||
| 7 | Wallace | Denis | 38 | ||||
| 8 | Adamson | Lianne | 37 | ||||
| 9 | Bassett | Andy | 37 | ||||
| 10 | Cathie | Bruce | 37 | ||||
| 11 | Smith | Andrew | 37 | ||||
| 12 | Smith | Jon | 37 | ||||
| 13 | McLennan | John | 36 | ||||
| 14 | Rotteveel | Garry | 36 | ||||
| 15 | Smirk | Ken | 36 | ||||
| 16 | Luck | Paul | 35 | 19 | 16 | 9 | 3 |
| 17 | Gill | Frank | 35 | 19 | 15 | 7 | 3 |
| 18 | Schache | Alan | 35 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 0 |
| 19 | Misson | George | 35 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 2 |
| 20 | Bowey | Matt | 35 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 2 |
| 21 | Maher | Geoff | 35 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 2 |
| 22 | Simon | John | 35 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 2 |
Thursday 2 November 2017 – Stableford
The Course was playing long today with a gentle breeze. Ian Murchie came home with a great 40 points to take Best Score of the Day, just ahead of B Grade winner Ian Trease on 39 points and C Grade winner Brian Wall on 38 points.
For a full wrap of winners click here;
Wednesday 1st November 2017 – Monthly Medal Stroke – Star Medallist Playoff
There were a total of 33 players in the Monthly Medal event today. The Medal winner was Wendy Parker with 76 nett c/b. A Grade winner – Wendy Parker 76 nett, B Grade winner – Trish Owen 79 nett and C Grade Scratch & Nett winner – Jan Brownlie 109-33-76.
The prizes were all sponsored by the Club and the raffle was donated by Marg Griffiths.
The first separate 18 hole Stableford event on Monthly Medal day had 6 entrants, with the winner being Maryanne Gartner with 25 points c/b.
The 9 hole comp had 10 entrants and the winner was once again the evergreen Marion Chalmers with 17 points c/b.
Also decided today was the Star Medallist. The Star Medal is played for by the individual monthly medal winners from Nov to Oct each year. Those vying for the Medal this year were Pat Pease, Fay Quilford, Toni West, Wendy Parker, Nancy Sperling, Barb Miller, Dot Stubbs, Glenys Day, Jill Steer and Louise Schache. The winner was Wendy Parker with 76 nett. This prize is presented on the Club Presentation Night and the winner’s name goes on the Honour Board.
Please click here for Monthly Medal results
Tuesday 31st October Stableford
Greg Ellt continued his good form taking out the overall best score today with 37 points. Congratulations to Grade Winners Mark Warby and Denis Wallace scoring 36 and 35 scores respectively. 53 players took to the course today in what were great conditions for golf with the course looking magnificent too.
Men’s Club Championship -Final Round. 28/10/2017
On a perfect day for golf, and on a course as good as they come, the final round of the Men’s Club Championships was played out at Leongatha, with a number of come from behind wins to bring an exciting conclusion to the day.
A good crowd turned out to see Michael McGrath score a good win against the 2nd round leader, Chris Leaver by two strokes, to take out the titles of A Grade Champion and Club Champion with a three round total of 236.
Chris Leaver won Senior Champion with a three round total of 238 strokes.
B Grade Champion was claimed by Doug Clemann with a three rnd total of 263 over Peter Walsh who had 266 strokes.
C Grade Champion is Ron Findlay who had a three rnd total of 279 to overhaul Frank Gill who finished with a total of 284.
D Grade Champion is Colin Moyle who finished the 3 rnd total of 92 stableford points finishing well clear of a fast finishing Don Smith on 83 points.
Peter Walsh won the R E Cameron Trophy for best three round nett score with a total of 218 strokes on countback from an unlucky Rod Mackenzie also on 218, Ron Findlay on 219 and Chris Leaver on 220.
Matt Bowey, Mick McGrath and Chris Leaver finishing off the Championship on the 18th green in front of a good crowd of spectators.
B Grade Champ- Doug Clemann, Senior Champ- Chris Leaver; C Grade Champ -Ron Findlay & A Grade & Club Champion Michael McGrath.
Final Results were:
| Club Championship A Grade | |||||
| 1 | MICHAEL McGRATH | 83 | 79 | 74 | 236 |
| 2 | CHRISTOPHER LEAVER | 82 | 75 | 81 | 238 |
| 3 | MATTHEW BOWEY | 83 | 83 | 80 | 246 |
| 4 | ROD MACKENZIE | 83 | 85 | 83 | 251 |
| 5 | BRUCE HUTTON | 91 | 86 | 79 | 256 |
| 6 | MALCOLM GIN | 85 | 86 | 88 | 259 |
| 7 | MARCUS LUSCOMBE | 86 | 86 | 89 | 261 |
| 8 | GEOFFREY McDONALD | 88 | 90 | 86 | 264 |
| 9 | ANDREW HENLEY | 94 | 90 | 84 | 268 |
| 10 | RYAN THOMAS | 89 | 90 | 92 | 271 |
| B Grade | |||||
| 1 | DOUG CLEMANN | 88 | 87 | 88 | 263 |
| 2 | PETER WALSH | 92 | 89 | 85 | 266 |
| 3 | IAN MURCHIE | 90 | 92 | 91 | 273 |
| 4 | ANDREW SMITH | 92 | 89 | 94 | 275 |
| 5 | KEVIN CASTWOOD | 97 | 83 | 96 | 276 |
| 6 | PHILIPPE du PLESSIS | 89 | 101 | 91 | 281 |
| 7 | ALAN KUHNE | 92 | 91 | 103 | 286 |
| 8 | COLIN BEAR | 99 | 95 | 93 | 287 |
| C Grade | |||||
| 1 | RON FINDLAY | 93 | 95 | 91 | 279 |
| 2 | FRANK GILL | 92 | 94 | 98 | 284 |
| 3 | ANDY BASSETT | 95 | 102 | 96 | 293 |
| 4 | JOHN EABRY | 96 | 99 | 100 | 295 |
| 5 | NICK LAFFERTY SNR | 108 | 98 | 90 | 296 |
| 6 | Nicholas Perrin | 98 | 104 | 97 | 299 |
| 7 | BERT BORG | 104 | 93 | 103 | 300 |
| 8 | MERV STUBBS | 106 | 99 | 105 | 310 |
| D Grade- Stableford | |||||
| 1 | COLIN MOYLE | 30 | 25 | 37 | 92 |
| 2 | DONALD SMITH | 29 | 24 | 30 | 83 |
| 3 | JOHN BELLI | 30 | 21 | 26 | 77 |
| 4 | FRED DEBONO | 26 | 32 | 16 | 74 |
| 5 | STUART HARRY | 19 | 25 | 24 | 68 |
October 28 Saturday Stableford PM
Today’s winner with a great score of 40 points was Peter Buttinger.
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Saturday Stroke Event- 28 October 2017
Today’s event was also the last round of the Men’s Club Championship and that is reported on in a separate post. The Best nett score of the Day went to Bruce Hutton with a nett 67.
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Saturday 28th October 2017 – Women’s Saturday Championship – Stableford
There were a total of 10 players today and the winner was Jan Brownlie with 35 points. Marilyn Williams won the 16th NTP.
The final result of the Women’s Saturday Championship Stableford event (aggregate of best 2 scores) was Toni West with a 2 round score of 65 points. Thank you to the sponsors of this event, being Wendy Brown and Rebecca Thomas. Hopefully next year we can get more playing with a possibly change of date.
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