68 Players
Winners: Rob Martin & Peter Buttinger 44 Pts
Super Comp Winners: Louise and Allan Schache 42 pts
NTP’s
DTL Balls
Still early, cold and wet days in the qualifying lead up to this year’s BJS Insurance Top Gun Shootout. Numbers have (swelled) to 26 including 4 of our ladies of whom, 50% are currently ranked in the Top 19.
Substantial results of 41, 40, 39, and a couple of 38’s have been scored by Club members, some of whom were past or present Shootout entrants, but alas, at the that time of shooting that big score, the player had not yet signed up for this year’s event. You never know when that great score is going to happen so get in early and sign on before your next super round happens.
Based on last year’s qualifying results, probably only the top six of todays rankings are likely to be in contention for the final, so let’s get out there and give it another round.
(I’d hate to see the reigning 2014 TopGun -no names -but curently 16th..miss out this on year’s final, running waaayyy behind the PopGun -currently 7th).
Current 19 Top Gun Rankings as of 1/8/2015
60 Players
Winners:
NTP:
DTLB:
22 players braved the inclement conditions
Andrew Smith (16) – 34 points
4th – Michael Thomas
7th – no result
14th – Quenton Wilton
16th – David Vorwerg
Dylan Clark – 33
Quentin Wilton – 32
Michael Thomas – 31
David Vorwerg – 31
Norm Hughes – 28 – (count back)
A Grade – Peter Rayson – (12) – 37 points
B Grade – Stu de Bondt – (18) – 37 points c/b
C Grade – Colin Moyle – (25) – 38 points
Super Comp winner – Colin Moyle
4th – no result
7th – Russell Williams
14th – Rod MacKenzie
16th – Allan Schache
R Findlay – 37
F Debono – 34
A Achache – 34
C Hams – 34
W Taberner – 34
A Sparkes – 34
B Attwood – 33
M Stubbs – 33
I Murchie – 33
D Vorwerg – 32
R Paice – 32
G Marsham – 32
P Hart – 32
G Maher – 31 c/b from 4 others
30 Players
Winner
NTP’s
DTL Balls
35 Players
Winner
NTP’s
DTL Balls
Nev Toms – 35
Daniel Ruffin – 32
Matthew hunter – 31
Al Adcock – 30
Tom Sorrell – 30
Fran O’Brien – 30
Trevor Rickard – 29 (c/b)
Peter Cannon – 29 (c/b)
Congratulations to the team of Guys & Dolls on winning the inaugural Super League premiership.
Guys & Dolls took on the might of the previously undefeated Tom Titts to power to a 137-129 victory. Geoff Sherman lead the way with 36 points and was well supported by his team mates Mark Anderson (34), David Forbes (34) and Colin Bear (33)
Trevor Steer lead the way for the Tom Titts with a Grand Final high of 37 points.
Thanks to all the participants from all 8 teams for making this new event a lot of fun and a big success for our Club.
| Tom Titts | Trevor Steer | 37 | || | 36 | Geoff Sherman | Guys & Dolls |
| Peter Walsh | 32 | || | 34 | David Forbes | ||
| Mick Thomas | 30 | || | 34 | Mark Anderson | ||
| John Eabry | 30 | || | 33 | Colin Bear | ||
| Joc Howson | 22 | || | 29 | Jim Arnott | ||
| Nan Meagher | 0 | || | 27 | Loris Clark | ||
| Peter Seth | 0 | || | 18 | Julie Howard | ||
| Will Norden | 0 | || | 0 | Pam Christensen | ||
| Best 4 | 129 | || | 137 | Best 4 |
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
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