A wet and humid day didn’t prevent some good scores being recorded which is an indictment as to how good the Course is recovering from winter.
Brian Wall claimed Best Score of the Day on countback with +2. For a full list of prize winners click here:
With the course in great condition and the sun shining, the scores are sky rocketing but unfortunately some good scorers are missing out on the coming BJS Insurance Top Gun shootout because they haven’t joined in…yet. Still time as the Qualifying period doesn’t end until Thursday November 9th…. 3 weeks to go.
The Ladies are still represented by Lianne Adamson who is solidly entrenched for the final with 37 points and it’s not too late for her mates to join her.
The top 19 qualifiers as of Tuesday 17 October are:
| 1 | Roberts | Antony | 40 |
| 2 | Clemann | Doug | 39 |
| 3 | Leaver | Chris | 39 |
| 4 | Marotti | Tyler | 39 |
| 5 | Baker | Ian | 38 |
| 6 | Wallace | Denis | 38 |
| 7 | Adamson | Lianne | 37 |
| 8 | Cathie | Bruce | 37 |
| 9 | Murchie | Ian | 37 |
| 10 | Smith | Andrew | 37 |
| 11 | Smith | Jon | 37 |
| 12 | Rotteveel | Garry | 36 |
| 13 | Smirk | Ken | 36 |
| 14 | Bassett | Andy | 35 |
| 15 | Bear | Colin | 35 |
| 16 | Bowey | Matt | 35 |
| 17 | Castwood | Kevin | 35 |
| 18 | Simon | John | 35 |
| 19 | Gill | Frank | 34 |
The sun was shining on the Leongatha field who took part in the 35th annual G & P West Mixed Canadian Foursomes event sponsored by Mrs Pat West. The winners on the day were the Women’s Captain Trish Owen and her partner Doug Clemann. For full results of prize winners click here:
Winners Doug Clemann and Trish Owen with sponsor Mrs Pat West (centre).
A good field of 73 turned out today to try and grab the Thursday Championship title for 2017 from the 2nd round leader, Al Sperling, who had a two round total of 69 points. The Course is in terrific shape as fairway and rough cutting has commenced, so apart from the slick greens, there was no real excuse for ordinary golf.
However most of us were able to produce some run of the mill scores today, apart from Peter Hobson who produced Best Score of the Day with a blistering 39 points.
Al Sperling sadly didn’t better either of his previous two rounds score and was hanging onto the lead at 69 points. Peter Hobson had a best 2nd round of 30, and with today’s 39, joined Al on 69 points.
Greg Ellt was joint 1st round leader with 36 points, but faded out of contention as did local plumber Stuart Harry who played with Jessica during the school holidays, and had Won the day with Best 2nd round score of 36 points, but was back at work today and missed out.
With a 36 points in the first round, and 34 points in today’s round, one the Club’s best lefties, finished with a total of 70 points and much to his surprise, Doug Clemann was crowned Thursday Champion.
Full Prize results from today’s round were:
Overall & C Grade winner:
C Grade- PETER HOBSON 39 $50.00
A Grade- 1 ANDREW SMITH 36 C/B $30.00
B Grade- 1 RAY BURTON 36 C/B $30.00
DTLB
4 MICHAEL THOMAS 36 C/B 1 Ball
5 JOE LOWELL 36 C/B 1 Ball
6 JOHN DUMONT 36 1 Ball
7 HANS HOEFLER 35 1 Ball
8 ALLAN EDNEY 34 C/B 1 Ball
9 RON FINDLAY 34 1 Ball
10 Bob SMITH 34 C/B 1 Ball
11 PETER WALSH 34 C/B 1 Ball
12 TERRY GRACE 34 C/B 1 Ball
13 DOUG CLEMANN 34 1 Ball
14 ANTONY ROBERTS 33 C/B 1 Ball
15 FRED DEBONO 33 C/B 1 Ball
16 CHRISTOPHER LEAVER 33 C/B 1 Ball
17 JOHN SIMON 33 C/B 1 Ball
18 ALLAN SCHACHE 33 1 Ball
19 BRUCE CLARK 32 C/B 1 Ball
20 IAN MURCHIE 32 C/B 1 Ball
21 JOHN McLENNAN 32 C/B 1 Ball
22 ANDY BASSETT 32 C/B 1 Ball
23 FRANK GILL 32 C/B 1 Ball
Nearest to Pin
14 DUMONT, JOHN 3 Balls 3.22M
16 BURTON, RAY 3 Balls 1.2M
On a beautiful day for golf, Jim Arnott showed as all how to play Par with a great round of +3. Say bye bye to the yellow tees Jim.
For full results click here:
On a great day for golf Antony Roberts pulled out the big guns to blast 40 points and win Best score of the Day eclipsing unlucky fellow C Grader Francis Thomas on 38 points.
This was a great round for Tony as he is entered into the BJS Insurance Top Gun event and 40 points will take him straight to the top of the Qualifiers Board.
For full results click here:
Qualifying for this year’s BJS Insurance Top Gun event is hotting up with some new faces in the field. Top qualifiers at the moment are Chris Leaver and Tyler Marotti on 39 points and 19th qualifier is Marea Maher (one of two Women shining amongst the Men) on 33 points.
The Men’s Captain has gone and I’m not sure if he can do a “Dusty” and rise to the top.
The Top Qualifiers as of the 23 Sept 2017 are:
| Rank | Surname | First Name | Best Score |
| 1 | Leaver | Chris | 39 |
| 2 | Marotti | Tyler | 39 |
| 3 | Baker | Ian | 38 |
| 4 | Wallace | Denis | 38 |
| 5 | Adamson | Lianne | 37 |
| 6 | Cathie | Bruce | 37 |
| 7 | Murchie | Ian | 37 |
| 8 | Smith | Andrew | 37 |
| 9 | Smith | Jon | 37 |
| 10 | Clemann | Doug | 36 |
| 11 | Roberts | Antony | 36 |
| 12 | Rotteveel | Garry | 36 |
| 13 | Bowey | Matt | 35 |
| 14 | Castwood | Kevin | 35 |
| 15 | Simon | John | 35 |
| 16 | Bear | Colin | 34 |
| 17 | Gill | Frank | 34 |
| 18 | McLennan | John | 33 |
| 19 | Maher | Marea | 33 |
A good field of 80 golfers enjoyed what turned out to be a pretty tough windy day at Leongatha today, with the Best score of the Day being decided on countback and going to Greg Ellt on 36 points.
Sharing that score was Doug Clemann, who took out A Grade. A score of 36 points also gives Greg and Doug equal lead in the Thursday Championships which is decided upon by the best two, of three possible rounds.
On a windy wet day a small field challenged the Course with Ian Murchie the only one to better it with +1 which was Best Score of the Day.
For full results:
Today Thursday the 14th September was supposed to be the first Round of the Thursday Championship however this stableford event was postponed due to the wet conditions of the Course which also prevented cart use.
What that means is another lost opportunity to improve on your best stableford score, to qualify for the BJS Insurance Top Gun Shootout in November.
Despite the recent wintery conditions there have been some big moves since my last update and they were from Tyler Marotti (39) closely followed by Denis Wallace (38).
The Top Qualifier’s at the moment are Chris Leaver and Tyler Marotti, both on 39 and the Men’s Captain is desperately hanging on to the 19th qualifying position with 32 points. So now’s as good as time as any to get in and knock off the Men’s Captain, all you need is a lazy 33 points.
See you on the Course and don’t forget to let me know when I’m out of the top 19. This weather doesn’t affect my play, I’m terrible all the time… but I have this saying which I repeat to myself and share with you for next it’s raining ;
In any weather you will see us with a grin
Risking head and shin
If we’re behind then never mind
We’ll fight and fight and win
Many thanks again to BJS Insurance for their continuing support of this event.
| BJS INSURANCE TOP GUN UPDATE as of 14/9/2017 | |||
| Position | Surname | First Name | Best Score |
| 1 | Leaver | Chris | 39 |
| 2 | Marotti | Tyler | 39 |
| 3 | Baker | Ian | 38 |
| 4 | Wallace | Denis | 38 |
| 5 | Adamson | Lianne | 37 |
| 6 | Cathie | Bruce | 37 |
| 7 | Smith | Andrew | 37 |
| 8 | Smith | Jon | 37 |
| 9 | Roberts | Antony | 36 |
| 10 | Bowey | Matt | 35 |
| 11 | Castwood | Kevin | 35 |
| 12 | Murchie | Ian | 35 |
| 13 | Simon | John | 35 |
| 14 | Bear | Colin | 34 |
| 15 | Clemann | Doug | 33 |
| 16 | Gill | Frank | 33 |
| 17 | Maher | Marea | 33 |
| 18 | McLennan | John | 33 |
| 19 | Bassett | Andy | 32 |
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