A fine, if somewhat breezy day saw Colleen Touzel win the A grade 18 hole competition with a score of 44 points. Coral Gray won the B Grade with 48 points and Barb Miller won C Grade with 43 points.
The winner of today’s 9 hole competition was Shirley Welsford with a score of 20 point
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On a blustery day, Mick Oliver handled the conditions well and was a clear winner with a great score of +5. Wayne Keen played well to take out A Grade with a +3 and Ian Barlow scored +2 to be the winner in B Grade.
Today we had one of our Junior Members James Patullo play his first 18 Hole competition. Congratulations James your smiling face will be great to see around the club on a regular basis.
Today we had 52 players in our men’s event. With cored greens, the scoring was extremely high.
Overall Winner: Bryan Roylance (23) 43 points
A-Grade Winner: Ken Wardle (13) 36points c/b
B-Grade Winner: Rob Martin (20) 42 points
14th NTP: Rob Martin 1.83m
16th NTP: Fred deBondt .75cm
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Today we had 11 players in our women’s event
Winner: Maryanne Gartner (29) 39 points
16th NTP: Marg Griffiths 5.20m
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Following completion of coring of the greens, a more modest field of 36 players experienced very warm and windy conditions for today’s stableford competition.
Taking the opportunity of a golfing experience elsewhere, Captain Colin Bear spirited a happy bunch of caravaners north to Euroa for a few days, while Joker Poker Chairman, Paul Luck, led a busload of members to Mirboo North for the day.
Winton Knop handled the challenging conditions best to win A-grade and overall with 39 points, while Mick Oliver also played very good golf to take out B-grade honours with 38 points.
Saturday stableford – the weather was perfect, the course was in great condition, the greens were quick and a few players were surprised and elated to win a prize.
The women’s competition saw Victoria GC visitor, Virginia Andrews, triumph in A grade with 35 points. Dot Stubbs was runner-up with 30 points. B grade was won by a very surprised Julie Keeble from Warragul GC with a mighty 26 points. Anne Gibson was even more surprised when her 24 points won the B grade runner-up prize. Fay Quilford hit the green on 16 to win NTP.
The men’s competition was a similar story with winners and runners-up as follows;
A grade – Winner, Kevin Halpin from Victoria GC with 33 points pipping Beaconhills member Aaron Le Dan on a countback.
B grade – Winner, Barry Attwood with 36 points. Runner-up, Phillippe du Plessis.
C grade – Wayne Davey won to the cheer of the strong Beaconhills contingent. His 36 points taking the honours over runner-up John McLennan with 33 points.
D grade – Gary Sharrock posted a very nice 36 points to pip our 2028 Club Champion, Thomas Simon, who had 35 points.
Glenn Schaper from Sale GC won NTP on 14 with a shot to just 167 centimetres and tapped in the birdie putt. Paul Dell’s shot to 5.46 metres was the best of the field on 16.
A group of happy winners is pictured below;
150 players competed in our popular Ambrose events today.
The morning field teed off at 8:00 am in the day’s first shotgun start with the following groups taking the honours;
Women’s event – Marea Maher, Melina Wilder, Susan Wylie and Liz Hodge with 66 nett. Karen Bear, Jan Brownlie, Marg Griffiths and Maryanne Gartner were one-eighth of of a shot behind to collect the runner up prize
Men & Mixed groups – Jon Tetau, Adrian Grinham, Michael McGrath and Paul Mason with a nett 54.625, with Alex Geyer, John Belli, Rod Mackenzie and Craig Harvey winning the runners-up prize after being pipped on a countback by the winning quartet.
Scratch event – Marilyn Williams, Ron Findlay, Dean Kellett and Russell Williams with 63 off the stick
NTP – 14 Graeme Watkins and 16 Dean Kellett.
The afternoon field teed off in the rain at 1:00 pm but finished the day in sunshine. The winners were;
Scratch event – David Ayton, Tracey Ayton, Roland Rees and Chris Hurwood with 63 of the stick
Handicap event – Bill Howson, David Hull, Tony Gedye and Ross McRobert with a nett 55.625. Russ Hodgson, Gary Couling, Chris Couling and Ricky Kennedy with nett 59 took out the runners-up prize.
NTP- Tony Gedye on 14 and Colin Bear on 16.
A capacity field of 132 golfers enjoyed pleasant conditions in a contest for honours on the first day of Leongatha’s Annual Tournament. Strong scoring in both of the men’s and women’s fields was a feature of the excellent overall results.
In the women’s field, Alison Strong and Patricia Miller shot an impressive 44 points to take the honours; from Susan Bowler and Fay Quilford on 41 points; with Colleen Touzel and Anne Gibson rounding out the placegetters in third place with 35 points.
In the men’s competition, Martin Edney and Stephen Travena top scored with 43 points. John Renwick and Arthur Nilsson teamed well to take out second place on countback with 42 points; ahead of Patrick Bowd and Bryan McCorkell, also on 42 points; ahead of Michael Mansour and Christopher Mansour on countback. who also shot 42 points.
A good field of 60 golfers battled the blustery conditions in today’s 4BBB competition. Stephen Lacy & Jeff White handled the conditions best to score an overall win with 43 points. Ian Barlow & David Child played some good golf to take out second prize on a countback with 42 points.
Doug Clemann is our 2019 Top Gun after winning Sunday’s shoot out in convincing style.
Doug won after defeating Tony Roberts in a chip off on the 18th hole. Tony putted like a champion to make it to the 18the hole and was a deserved winner on the day.
Geoff Maher, ever consistent, won third prize playing 17 holes of very solid golf.
Ian Murchie is our new Pop Gun and we hope you will all congratulate him on this fine feat every time you see him.
Jill Steer won the new 18th hole Chip Off with a perfect shot over the bunker to within a few centimetres of the hole.
Here’s how the day played out
| Hole Eliminated | |
| Ian Murchie | 1st hole – Pop Gun |
| Tony Gedye | 2 |
| Greg Ellt | 3 |
| Andrew Smith | 4 |
| Bruce Cathie | 5 |
| Karen Bear | 6 |
| Frank Gill | 7 |
| Derek Jury | 8 |
| Ross McRobert | 9 |
| Rod Hopcraft | 10 |
| Donald Smith | 11 |
| Garry Friend | 12 |
| Chris Leaver | 13 |
| Colin Bear | 14 |
| Peter Waters | 15 |
| Ken Smirk | 16 |
| Geoff Maher | 17 – Third prize |
| Tony Roberts | 18 – Runner up |
| Doug Clemann | Top Gun |
The winner and runner up are shown below smiling all the way.
Today we had 73 players in our men’s Monthly November Medal Event
Fantastic scores considering the weather with NEW member Michael Rowe taking out the November Monthly Medal with a fantastic 66nett.
Overall Winner: Michael Rowe (24) 66nett
A-Grade Winner: Andrew Henley (15) 70nett c/b
B-Grade Winner: Patrick Bowd (21) 74 nett
14th NTP: Brendan Simon 6.10m
16th NTP: Andrew Henley 7.45m
Star Medallist 2019 was Matt Bowey (7) 70 nett
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Today we had 11 players in our women’s Stableford event
Winner: Marea Maher (28) 30points
16th NTP: Maryanne Gartner 16.0m
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