Popular member and talented lefthander, Frank Smedley achieved every golfer’s dream by hole out on the 16th hole today.
Long time mate, Jim Arnott presented Frank with a dozen golf balls at today’s presentation and had to confess that Frank hit an excellent shot to achieve this mighty feat.
Frank is pictured above holding the well trained ball with Captain Colin Bear looking on enviously.
There were 12 players in today’s field with Coral Gray coming out on top with 36 points.
A perfect day to be on the golf course saw some hot players record very good scores.
Max Hyde, from C grade, was today’s winner with 40 points on a countback from Peter Brownlie.
Pete, however, took out A grade honours with Gerry Mooney leading the way in B grade.
One group of stars topped the field today.
A grade was won by Gordon Morrison with a mighty 41 points, knocking off playing partner Geoff McDonald who had 40 points.
A third member of that playing group, Peter Hobson, took out B grade with 39 points. An amazing set of numbers from one group. Well done gentlemen.
Congratulations to Tom Sorrell on winning becoming our 2018 Men’s Club Champion.
With a 3 round total of 234, Tom pipped Chris Leaver (239) in a tight battle. This is Tom’s second Club Championship victory following his 2016 success.
The leading six players were;
| 1 | THOMAS SORRELL | 77 | 79 | 78 | 234 |
| 2 | CHRISTOPHER LEAVER | 80 | 77 | 82 | 239 |
| 3 | MARK LAFFERTY | 84 | 91 | 78 | 253 |
| 4 | ROD MACKENZIE | 83 | 89 | 84 | 256 |
| 5 | MATTHEW BOWEY | 91 | 88 | 84 | 263 |
| 6 | BRUCE HUTTON | 82 | 89 | 92 | 263 |
B grade was won by Bruce Hutton with a three round total of 263 to beat Brendan Simon on 264. A clutch par on the last hole won the day for Bruce in an epic battle. Congratulations to Brendan Simon on a super effort to peg back four shots in the last round to almost get there. Jon Smith on 269 ran third.
C grade saw Bert Borg become the champion with 3 round total of 288. Bert came from outside of the seeded groups to win with a final round 89 and upstaged Patrick Bowd (290) and Geoff Maher(291).
Lachlan Thomas came from the clouds to win D grade shooting a final round 93 for a three round total of 306 to beat Peter Hobson by a shot. Bruce Cathie on 312 rounded out the top 3.
Click here to view the full leaderboard for each grade
Chris Leaver took out the Senior Championship again this year. His three round total of 239 was too hot for the rest of the seniors but Rod Mackenzie (256) showed strong form to take second place.
Ryan Thomas on 269 cruised to victory in the Junior Championship with brother Lachlan finishing second.
Rounding out a successful three weeks, Lachlan Thomas also won the RE Cameron award for the best nett score over the 3 rounds of Club Championship. Lachie’s 3 round nett score of 210 eclipsed the rest of the field with Ian Watson and Chris Leaver on 221 finishing equal second.
The rain couldn’t stop today’s tearaway winner, Kevin Michael. Kevin’s 40 points earned him today’s prize and the admiration of all who competed.
Bruce Hutton won the grade prize in A grade with 32 points.
64 players entered today’s G&P West Mixed Canadian, a Board event that has been sponsored by Pat and her late husband Gordon since 1982. Our thanks to Pat for putting this day on our golfing calendar. A top day was had by all of us who played.
Today’s popular winners were Alison Strong and Michael Thomas with a nett 72.625. Maryanne Gartner and Rod Mackenzie repeated their 2017 top performance to again be runners-up with nett 74.125.
G&P West winners and runners-up
(l to r) Michael Thomas, Alison Strong, Pat West (sponsor), Maryanne Gartner, Rod Mackenzie
Jan Brownlie hit a ripper on 16 to 1.25m to win the women’s nearest the pin. Rod Mackenzie stole the show among the men with a shot to 2.25m.
Scoring proved difficult today.
From A grade Nathan Wardle was the pick of the crop with a fine 36 points.
B grade was won on a countback by David Vorwerg with 33 points and C grade winner was Gary McGrath with 35 points
Tuesday 9th October Plus Par
55 players fronted the starter for today’s event.
Only four players could come up with “Plus Scores”
Winning Plus score with a fine 4 plus was Brad O’Brien also taking out “C” grade
A Grade Geoffery McDonald “Square”
B Grade Mitchell Elliot Plus 2
NTP”s 14th. Geoffrey Maher 1.5
16th Joe Lowell. 1.85
Click here for today’s results.
October’s Gordon West 9 Hole Competition
A beautiful Spring day greeted the 46 players from nine teams for round one of the 2018/19 Gordon West 9 Hole Competition.
Some really good scores created great excitement to the handicapper Trevor Seebeck who had his handicapper’s pen out, and was able to take handicaps of six of the players.
Gross Men’s Winner: Chris Leaver 40 Strokes …. Best Nett: Ted Bruinewood 33 Strokes
Gross Ladies Winners: Bec Thomas 39 Strokes ….. Best Nett: Jean Chaplin 33 Strokes
N.T.P. John Hassett 2.65mtrs
Winning Team: Rule 25 A: Coralie Baker.. Alison Strong… Lynda Bassett… Karen Oxford… Marianne Gartner… Karen Bear Total 139 Strokes.
The Ladder: 1: Rule 25 A 139 Strokes 2: 7Up. 143 Strokes 3: Top Dogs 144.5 Strokes
4: Rules 25 B 145 Strokes 5: Divots 147 Strokes 6: The Floggers 151 Strokes
7: Kitty 152 Strokes 8: Grass Hoppers 155 Strokes 9: Young Ones 169 Strokes
Handicap Changes for November’s event:
Doug Clemann 6 > 5 Andy Bassett 9.5 > 8.5
Ted Bruinewood 13 > 12 Jean Chaplin 17 > 16
Coralie Baker 15 > 14 Karen Bear 14.5 > 14.
Winners are Grinners with Gordon West Sponsor Kevin Scott from South Gippsland Kennels
Winning Team Smiles all Around.
Thanks to Our Sponsors Kevin & Deborah Scott
South Gippsland Kennels
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