38 Players
Winner:
NTP’s
DTL Balls
54 Players
Winners
• “A” Grade (0-14): Russell Williams (8) 36 pts
• “B” Grade (15-20) : Ron Findlay (19) 35pts
• “C” Grade (21-36): Bryan Sword (21) 38 pts
Super Competition: Bryan Sword 38 pts ($29)
NTP
• 4th Rod Mackenzie 7.4m
• 7th Russell Williams 7.6m
• 14th Bruce Hutton 2.2m
• 16th Andy Bassett 2.6m
D.L.Balls
• Barry Stevens 35
• Ryan Thomas 34
• Kevin Castwood 34
• Rod Mackenzie 34
• Glenn Marsham 33
• Andrew Westaway 33
• Steve Fisher 33
• Tom Sorrell 32
• Peter Hartigan 32
• Ian Watson 32
• Mark Anderson 32
• Ian Murchie 31
• Craig Hams 31
An enjoyable combined Italian Theme Night and inaugural Presentation Night for the recently concluded Super League competition was held at the clubhouse on Friday 29th May.
The members of the winning 2015 Super League team, Guys and Dolls were presented with their vouchers as were the members of the runners up, Tom Titts.
Premiers: Guys and Dolls ($50 Vouchers)
Runners Up: Tom Titts ($25 Vouchers)
Noreen Webster Award
In addition to the awards to the premiers and runners up, a presentation was also made to Trevor Steer ($50 voucher) for winning the Noreen Webster award for the best player in the Grand Final. Trevor’s 37 points was enough to narrowly beat Geoff Sherman’s 36 points.
Trevor Steer Award
A Brownlow Medal-type ceremony to determine the best player in the regular season matches was also conducted. An exciting finish loomed with 5 players in contention for the award going into the final 7th round. However, with a best on ground performance in the final round, the inaugural Trevor Steer award for the best player in the competition went to John Eabry (Tom Titts) who polled an impressive 20 votes. The final leading vote getters were:
John was an exceptionally consistent player throughout the 7 regular-season rounds, polling votes in 6 of the 7 rounds with scores of 34, 38, 34, 27, 35, 35 and 37. Congratulations John! He thoroughly deserved to win the $100 voucher which was presented to him by Trevor Steer.
Thanks for the support of all who entered the competition; it was a lot of fun! Special thanks to Colin Bear who did the lion’s share of the behind-the-scenes work to run the competition. We look forward to running the competition again next year.
Raffle drawn Friday 29th May 2015
Congratulations to the following winners:
Thanks you to all who purchased a ticket and supported the Club in this fundraising endeavour.
62 Players
Event generously sponsored by the Dandenong Club and the Esplanade Hotel, Inverloch
Winners
NTP’s
DTL Balls
42 Players
Winners
Eagle 2 on 2nd hole by Geoff Maher. Congratulations Geoff!
NTP’s
DTL Balls
59 Players
Winners
Super Comp.: Peter Jaspers (36points) on count-back
NTP’s
DTL Balls
Sponsored by Café Tsunami, Inverloch
43 Players
Winners
NTP
DTL Balls
The Leongatha Golf Club Men’s Pennant teams are sponsored by:
Match Report by Captain: Andy Bassett
On Sunday 17th May the LGC Div 4 Pennant Team played the Meeniyan Golf Club team in the final. In beautiful weather and on the soggy but otherwise picturesque Korumburra Course the Team went down 3-4 in a close encounter.
Our core players of Mark Boler, Mark Anderson and Peter Jaspers again performed well winning tight matches, Mark Boler going through the season undefeated which is a mighty effort. Our two juniors Tim Boler and Ryan (Rock) Thomas met seasoned opponents and unfortunately went down 3&2 whilst our number one player Gary Peters also went down 4&2.
As Captain I didn’t have the stamina to complete a revival in the back nine and finished with a 4&3 loss. I’m sure we all rue some of the shot making and missed puts that we later mulled over at the post mortem. Not to forget Ian Barlow, Fred Debont and Barry Stevens who also played games which got us to the final.
Overall we had a great season with four players who had never experienced senior pennant golf and none of us had played finals before. We are mightily encouraged by the quality of our two juniors. We all learnt some lessons about golf and in particular, pennant golf & match play. I encourage more of you to consider engaging in pennant next year.
Last but not least many thanks to Pennant Coordinator Dan Poynton and our coach John Payne for their support and programmed lessons each week which made a difference on most occassions when the chips were down. It was great to see our supporters at the final today and it does make a difference knowing you have the support of the Club you are representing. It was just a pity we couldn’t drag one more win over the line today….but wait for next year…we’ll be back.
Results:
Well another pennant season has been run & won. Huge congratulations to our Division 4 side for making the final, and to come so close to bringing home the pennant & shield. They were almost undefeated, but unfortunately suffered losses in the last round of the season and the final. A tough way to complete a really positive season.
This season saw our club field sides in all 4 divisions of the South Gippsland District Golf Association pennant competition. A huge thank you goes out to all the guys that committed to the season to play, particularly those who played out of position week in week out in Div 1 & 2. We had a total of 40 members play at least one pennant match which is a great thing for our club, and we had many who committed to the whole season which is even better!
The pennant competition is a really important one for the district and is something that I am committed to reviving a bit of energy about throughout our club. Whilst we didn’t see success in Div 1 or 2, we were highly competitive and when we lost it was very close with most weeks being 3-4 losses having had matches finish on the 17th, 18th or 19th hole – these matches could have gone either way. Our Division 3 side were in it up to their eyeballs until the last round where unfortunately our guys needed to rely on results falling our way to make the final – it didn’t quite happen for us.
Our weekly practice sessions were a huge success, many thanks goes to John for his tireless commitment to helping out our sides. I think its evident that they make a difference, the Div 4 side each week had the most participants at practice, and interestingly… made the final! Hopefully this will set the example for other teams next season. We will continue to make this as accessible as possible to fit with peoples work commitments.
My sincere thanks to the team captains – Div 1: Peter Rayson, Div 2: Bruce Hutton, Div 3: Chris Indian & Div 4: Andy Bassett. Its been great to have you guys as sounding boards throughout the season.
As per last year I’ve been keeping a tally & recording the scores to decide our player of the year. It gives me great pleasure, and its probably no surprise given this player’s results throughout the year:
Congratulations Mark.
Please click here for the full results table & the rules of how the results were calculated.
Thanks again to everyone, and we look forward to a more successful season next in 2016. It was pleasing to hear on the weekend that the SGDGA will be asking for feedback from the clubs as to the structure of the pennant competition going forward. Our club will be asking for feedback from the pennant players – this can be given to your team captain, and then we’ll call a short meeting of the team captains, myself & our club captain to formulate our club response.
Happy hitting, I look forward to seeing you all out on the course.
Dan Poynton
Pennant Coordinator
60 Players
Winners
• “A” Grade: (0-14) Thomas Williamson + 1`
• “B” Grade: (15-22) Nick Lafferty -1
• “C” Grade: (23-36) Mark Kavanagh -1
Super Competition:
NTP
• 4th Rod Hopcraft 8.87
• 7th Ian Barlow 2.57
• 14th Bruce Hutton .810
• 16th Craig Hams 4.11
D.L.Balls
• Peter Rayson -1
• Chris Leaver -1
• Merv Stubbs -1
• Trevor Rickard _2
• Tom Sorrell -2
• Doug Clemann -2
• Bryan Sword -2
• T Buitinger -2
• Andrew Henley -2
• Mark Anderson -3
• Barry Stevens -3
• Steve Fisher -3
• Peter Brownlie -3
• John Eabry -3
• Craig Hams -3
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