Bob Smith was today’s best performer with 37 stableford points. Congratulations Bob.
Alan Kuhne’s 36 points was the winning A grade score and Brad O’Brien took the honours in B grade, also with 36 points.
Kevin Michael hit a beauty on 16 to win nearest the pin at 1.53 metres. Wayne Keen won ntp on 14 after his playing partners convinced him that his shot to 3.77metres was worth measuring.
On a busy Sunday we have three new entries to make on our Honour Boards.
Lachlan Thomas put in a top notch performance to defeat Chris Indian in the final of the Hyland Cup. Lachie was hitting them long, chipping in and putting like a single figure marker. Congratulations Lachie, it is great to see one of out younger members prevail in this prestigious event. Congratulations, too, to Chris for winning six matches to get to the final and coming within an whisker of winning this event.
The popular 36 hole event, the W McCaughan 4BBB Par Championship, was completed today too. The scratch event was won by the hot duo of Michael McGrath and Terry Lund with gross 138 (69/69). One under par on both days was great going. They had to play hard to nudge ahead of Michael Thomas and Ryan Thomas on 144. The handicap eent was won by overnight leaders, Stuart Harry and Daniel Jolley, with +13. They added a cool +7 to yesterday’s +6. Champion effort to post +7 when the rest of the field was trying to chase them down.
Last night the 2019 Pennant break-up was held at the Inlet Hotel. Chris Indian was announced as the Pennant Player of the Year after winning 6 of his 7 matches and leading his Division 3 team to the final. Scott Blencowe also won 6 of his 7 matches to come agonisingly close to winning this prize. Special mention to Andy Bassett in 3rd place and Tim McCarthy 4th. Bryan McCorkell and Mark Lafferty also rated a special mention for winning all of the matches they played during the year.
Scott found another way to the winners dais when he teamed with Ian Blencowe, Tony Gedye and Richard Comerford to win the Moe Plate event. This is the first win in the event for Leongatha GC, so thanks to these gentlemen for doing it for the ‘Gath.
Pics below of the happy winners from all of today’s events, excuse the sideways photo of the Moe champs but the author has no idea how to rotate it.
This past week has been THANK A SUPERINTENDENT WEEK, where we get to thank our course staff and volunteers for maintaining our course in such wonderful condition. Unfortunately, due to the Clubhouse roof works entering their final stages and us just getting back inside the Clubhouse, it was not possible for us to thank our fabulous course staff of Dylan, Tom, Dennis and the team of volunteers as we would have wished. However, take it as read guys that we very much appreciate your efforts in maintaining our course to such a consistently high standard. I’m sure that I speak on behalf of all LGC golfers when I say that despite the many poor rounds we have played throughout the year, it has been an absolute joy to be out and about on such a great course maintained in such terrific condition.
It is only when you go to other courses that you realise just how good we have got it here. I was lucky enough to recently play a round at Yarra Yarra, and while their clubhouse was pretty swish, their course was, in my unbiased opinion, no better than ours. Similarly, upon wandering around while attending the recent men’s pennant final at Phillip Island, again I was thankful I was a member here at LGC.
Peter Waters,
President
In view of the fact that contestants in the 2019 Invy Espy Super League Final were unable to post a score that counted today due to the McCaughan 4BBB event, the Final has been run and won. The Possums have prevailed in a closely fought battle with the Rosellas, 145 to 143. For the Possums, best performers included Dave Forbes (39), Trevor Seebeck (36) and Wendy Parker and Trevor Steer with 35 each. For the unlucky Rosellas, David Child chimed in with 38, while Peter Waters (36), Max Hyde (35) and Geoff Maher (34) all posted useful contributions. Dave Forbes picked up the Espy voucher for being best performer of the Final, congratulations Dave. Presentations will be made to the winning team, the runners up and the male and female winners of the Rod Brown B&F awards at the club in a couple of weeks when George gets back on deck.
Once again, we would like to thank Dylan Clark from the Esplanade Hotel Inverloch for his generous sponsorship of this event. Our thanks also go to all who entered the competition this year, we had a great response with 8 teams of 8 players contesting the regular season rounds. Interestingly, the winning Possums team, and the 4th-placed Wombats both had 3 female players, while the remaining 6 teams only had 2. Well done girls, you carried your teams well all season and especially in the finals. Special thanks to George Misson who rallied the troops before the season kickoff.
| ROSELLAS | Brendan Simon | || | 39 | David Forbes | Possums | |
| Liz Hodge | || | 35 | Wendy Parker | |||
| David Child | 38 | || | 35 | Trevor Steer | ||
| Karen C-Briggs | || | 31 | Anne Gibson | |||
| Peter Waters | 36 | || | Bruce Cathie | |||
| Nan Meagher | 21 | || | Lianne Adamson | |||
| Geoff Maher | 34 | || | 33 | Neil Mackenzie | ||
| Max Hyde | 35 | || | 36 | Trevor Seebeck | ||
| Best 4 Total | 143 | || | 145 | Best 4 Total |
Bryan McCorkell had a day to remember with a blistering 41 points to win today’s event.
Geoff McDonald and Tim Hogan posted good scores to win A and C grade respectively.
Ron Findlay had the hot hand on course with a fine 42 points amongst the 64 competitors today.
The formidable combination of Marilyn Williams, Daniel Ruffin, Barry Attwood and Leroy Sharrock won today’s Ambrose event with a nett 55.625. A fine 63off the stick was the standout score of the day.
David Child took the honours today with a very nice 38 stableford points, knocking off David Forbes on a countback.
Dave took comfort knowing that he took out A grade and Jim Arnott was a winner in C grade to the cheers of everyone who are elated that he is back in good shape.
Click here to check the DTL and NTP winners.
The rub of the green just didn’t go our way today.
Division 3 lost 4 matches to 3 after Nathan Wardle’s opponent chipped in from 20 metres off the green for a birdie on the 18th hole. Nathan looked to have the match (and the Pennant) won when he chipped it dead but a classy chip-in from his opponent meant the Lang Lang team was doing all the cheering.
Division 5 also lost 4 matches to 3 with Garry Rotteveel carrying all the pressure as he went down the 20th hole with 20 people watching every shot. His opponent stood up under the intense pressure and the Welshpool team celebrated their first pennant win since 2009. Being the great club that we are, we were happy for them and toasted their success.
On a personal level, I would like to thank everyone who played this year in Divvy 1, 3 & 5 for representing the Club proudly and admirably. We presented ourselves as excellent citizens of South Gippsland golf and helped create a great spirit of competitiveness and friendship with our South Gippsland mates.
Special thanks to the team captains – Tom Sorrell, Chris Indian and John McLennan. Their love of Pennant is brilliant, their organisation of their teams was spot on and their leadership was top notch.
No pennants but a great year, thanks to every one of you.
Colin Bear
Men’s Captain
Congratulations to Tim McCarthy on winning the May Monthly Medal with a very good 67 nett. Hot golf TMac.
Glenn Marsham and Daniel Yeap were the grade winners and played some excellent golf along the way.
Nearest the Pin – 14th – Malcolm Legge – 5.05m
Nearest the Pin – 16th – Craig Hams – 1.32m
Down the Line balls were awarded to all scores of 74 nett and better.
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