PITTED against leading junior golfers from across the state, top Jamberoo junior Jordan Widdicombe performed very creditably at the Jack Newton Junior Champions Trophy at the Mount Broughton Country Club last week.
Jordon, who equalled the Jamberoo course record playing in the club’s junior championship in September, was the scratch runner up on count back in the Boys 14 to15 age group.
The 14 year old, playing off six on the very demanding Mount Broughton course, finished two under his handicap after three rounds in two days.
Well done on your performance Jordan, and for flying the Jamberoo Golf Club flag amongst others representing golf clubs the likes of The Australian, NSW, Bonnie Doon, The Lakes, Muirfield and Concord.
Jordan after finishing on the 18th with his record equalling score card
THE club’s 14 year old whizz Jordan Widdicombe has equalled the course record playing in the first round of the Jamberoo Golf Club Junior Championships.
Jordan’s sizzling two under par 65 was the best championship score by anyone at the Jamberoo course since the record was set in April 2007.
The record was set and is still held by multiple club champion Adrian Gehrmann.
Jordan’s score was posted last Saturday (September 5) during a round that was also played as the club’s Golf Mart Monthly Medal and was the third round of the Men’s Championship.
In the A Grade Monthly Medal, Jordan’s nett score of 57 beat his nearest adult rival by six strokes. (What a shame. Tony Rodriguez was feeling so confident on 63 nett.)
The course record is required to be posted when the course is set in championship mode and played off the back tees.
Jordan has only been playing golf for a little over two years but his dedication to the sport has been obvious and the diminutive Jamberoo teenager is often seen practicing before and after school and at weekends.
“I am just so happy,” Jordan said after sinking his putt on the 18th hole to equal the record.
His round included six birdies, a lot of straight hitting and some quite exemplary putting.
“Even I can’t believe this,” he exclaimed after holing a long downhill sliding putt for birdie on the sloping 13th green. Lining up on the 18th tee, Jordan was three under and knew he just needed to par the hole to take the record.
A somewhat wayward tee shot and an unlucky bounce saw his ball in a hazard and balanced unplayable on the lip of Hyam’s Creek. Jordan, who has taken part in junior golf development programs, managed to keep his composure and coolly salvaged a bogey.
