Today’s event was generously sponsored by Maxine Eabry & Yvonne Gaunt and the raffle was donated by Jill Steer. Winners today were Lianne Adamson (33), Elizabeth Seebeck (37), Marg Berry (15) and Toni West (11) with 98 points.
We had 6 players in the 9 hole comp and the winner was Colin Bear (13) with 15 points.
Leongatha Golf Club hosted 21 young primary school children for a Stage 1 Primary Schools qualifying event. There are 3 stages to progress, local through to regional to be held at Warragul and then the State Final to be held at Kooringal. Two local Members progressed to the next stage in Beau Elkin and Louis Read. Two names for us to watch closely in the future. Well done boys!
Peter Hobson’s (from C grade) 40 points won today’s event beating playing partner, Geoff McDonald on a countback.
Geoff did, however, win B grade. Grant McRitchie’s 38 points took the honours in A grade.
Popular member and talented lefthander, Frank Smedley achieved every golfer’s dream by hole out on the 16th hole today.
Long time mate, Jim Arnott presented Frank with a dozen golf balls at today’s presentation and had to confess that Frank hit an excellent shot to achieve this mighty feat.
Frank is pictured above holding the well trained ball with Captain Colin Bear looking on enviously.
50 locals and visitors contested the 2018 edition of the Leongatha Open Amateur. Players were greeted with a golf course in tremendous condition and ideal weather. This golf course continues to test the abilities of some of the best young golfers in the state. Leongatha member Anthony Sparkes took out the AM nett event playing off 10 with a nett 70. Another local in Andrew Henley had the second best afternoon nett score with 71 playing off 14. This paved the way for Rik De Longville from Commonwealth Golf Club to win the 36 hole nett event with 149 playing off a handicap of 2. Rik stormed home with a scratch score of 71 in the afternoon.
The women’s field had just the 3 competitors this year, but 3 very good competitors in Keeley Marx (h’cap 2) from the Heritage, local member Rebecca Thomas (h’cap 5) & Kingston Heath member Ashleigh Hall (h’cap +1). Ashleigh proved too consistent over the 36 holes taking out the title with 156. The men’s 36 hole scratch event went to Victoria GC’s Lewis Schenk by 5 shots from his nearest competitors with a total of 147. Lewis had the best AM score with 72 and cruised home in front of Phillip Island’s Mark Boulton (152) and Royal Melbourne’s David Shimmin (152).
Thanks once again to all competitors and we look forward to welcoming you back to Leongatha Golf Club in the future.
64 men played in the comp with Colin Martin winning with a score of 38. Grade winners were Grant McRitchie with 34 and Colin Moyle with 37.
There were 12 players in today’s field with Coral Gray coming out on top with 36 points.
A perfect day to be on the golf course saw some hot players record very good scores.
Max Hyde, from C grade, was today’s winner with 40 points on a countback from Peter Brownlie.
Pete, however, took out A grade honours with Gerry Mooney leading the way in B grade.
Today’s event was generously sponsored by Lynda Basset. There were 32 players who vied to win the rescheduled September Monthly Medal, in beautiful (mostly) October weather. The winners were A Grade: Sue Wylie 96-21-75, B Grade and Medal: Kerry Hogan 101-29-72, C Grade: Jan Brownlie 113-33-80 and A Grade Scratch: Toni West 88 gross. Congratulations Kerry.
There were 10 players in the 9 hole comp and the winner was Danita Hall (19) with 19 points on c/b.
One group of stars topped the field today.
A grade was won by Gordon Morrison with a mighty 41 points, knocking off playing partner Geoff McDonald who had 40 points.
A third member of that playing group, Peter Hobson, took out B grade with 39 points. An amazing set of numbers from one group. Well done gentlemen.
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