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.
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 |
Today’s winner with a great score of 40 points was Peter Buttinger.
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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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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.
Congratulations to Ken Smirk with a day high 40 points to win today’s event.
Grade winners Geoff McDonald and Hans Hoefler also had a good day on the course with 38 points.
Today 27 players competed in the 18 hole Stableford event which was kindly sponsored by Dot Stubbs & Di Williams. A Grade winner was Marg Berry (16) 33 points. B Grade winner Maryanne Gartner (42) 34 points.
The Raffle also donated by Dot Stubbs & Di Williams was won by Karen Bear.
The 9 Hole competition had 10 players with the winner being Marg Raynor with 18 points.
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On a perfect day for golf, Ian Murchie pipped Frank Smedley on count back to win best Score of The Day, both with fine 38 points.
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After a very impressive 75 today Chris Leaver has a 5 shot lead after two rounds of the Club Championship. With a two round total of 157, Chris lead Mick McGrath on 162, with Matt Bowey, Rod Mackenzie, Malcolm Gin and Marcus Luscombe also within striking distance.. Next week’s final round is shaping up as a down-to-the-wire affair.
B grade is also looking like a tight contest with Doug Clemann holding a narrow lead over last year’s winner Kevin Castwood, with Andrew Smith, Peter Walsh, Ian Murchie and Alan Kuhne not too far behind.
C grade leader is Frank Gill. Ron Findlay is only two shots behind. Andy Bassett, John Eabry, Bert Borg and Nick Shaw round out the top 6 and are only one solid round away from glory.
D grade sees Ted Rudge holding onto to his round 1 lead with Ian Debenham, Fred Debono, Ted Bruinewood, Colin Moyle ans Don ald Smith rounding out the top 6.
All of these players are in the seeded draw for next week’s final round. Good luck to all.
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Another good field of 88 players competed in today’s stroke round with scoring proving difficult for most. Despite the tough conditions we had some fantastic scores returned. Best score of the day went to Kevin Castwood with a sublime Nett 67! A-Grade winner was the ever consistent Chris Leaver on 68 Nett. Bert Borg took out C-Grade with 72 Nett, and D-Grade was won by Andy Horvath on 72 Nett.
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