On a rain-affected morning, 32 players finished today’s round as the sun broke through.
Five excellent players finished on square with Rob Martin coming out on top after a countback.
A grade was won by Doug Clemann on a countback knocking off the unlucky trio of Allan Kuhne, Panu Kuhne and Colin Bear
On a beautiful sunny first Sunday of the month of October, a good field were welcomed to the 37th annual Gordon West competition by life member Mrs Pat West. All players play off the yellow tees on the back 9 of our Leongatha Course. Players of any level are welcome to come along and join in on this event, on the first Sunday of the summer months. Players not already in a team will be allocated to a team for the day, no need to book, just turn up between 7.30-9.00am. Members and visitors alike are welcome to join in on this event for the day, for a $5.00 comp. fee. Photo shows Pat West, Trevor Seebeck and Ian Danks hard at work tallying up the scores on the opening day.
Please check the following links to see who’s leading and who’s struggling after today’s first round of our Men’s Club Championships.
RE Cameron Trophy (best nett score over 3 rounds of Championship)
Senior Club Championship for players over 60 years old
Junior Club Championship for players under 21 years old
Today was also the 8th and final round of the Owen McMicking Plate where players best five scores from the 8 medals held from March to October. This event rewards the player who has consistently performed best when the course is at its toughest.
Congratulations to Chris Leaver on a very fine win with a string of excellent scores.
The greens were slick and the early heatwave took the filed by surprise today.
Brad Hines had a great day out though posting the day’s best score of 38 stableford points to easily win today’s event. Brad added to his prize pool when he won nearest the pin on the 14th with a shot to 0.38m to win a sleeve of golf balls and a fabulous Nishent Driver. Brad will be smacking ’em even longer and straighter from now on.
Ross McRobert won A grade with 35 points pipping Martin Edney on a countback.
Bruce Christison won B grade with an impressive 36 points and
The elder Nick Lafferty bobbed up in C grade with 32 points to head off Ian Blencowe on a countback.
Wendy Parker hit a beauty to 1.45m on 16 to claim nearest the pin there.
With conditions drying out, the scores are on the improve. Mark Lafferty was a clear overall winner with a great score of 39 points. Donald Smith took out B Grade with 36 points and Arthur Nilsson won C Grade with 35 points.
A field of 24 golfers braved a wintry start to today’s stableford competition. Craig Hutchinson continued his very good recent form to take out overall honours with 37 points. Trevor Steer also enjoyed the challenging conditions to take out B-grade with 34 points and Stephen Lacy rounded out the winners, with 35 points to win C-grade.
Today’s stableford event was won by Alan Briggs with 37 points, knocking off Thursday Championship winner Rob Martin on acountback.
Rob did, however, take out C Grade and Craig Hutchinson won A grade with a fin 35 points.
The final round of the Thursday championship was completed today. Rob Martin came home strong to win the event with a two-round total of 71 stableford points.
Peter Hartigan (68), and Bruce Cathie (67) rounded out the top three
Fred Debono was today’s hero with 37 points winning our daily stableford competition.
Andrew McFarlane played some hot shots to win A grade with 36 points and Marilyn Williams showed the way in B grade with 33 points just pipping Peter Waters on a countback.
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