Upcoming Major Events
Ladies Club Championship – played over 54 holes the Championship commences next Tuesday 7th of May with the second round on Thursday and the concluding round the following Tuesday. Defending champions are Kay Brennan in A Grade, Cheryl Legge in B grade and Sue Paul in C Grade. It looks like it could go down to the wire in each grade with many players seemingly peaking at the right time. Good luck to one and all.
Men’s Veterans Championship – This is a one round event and will be played this Monday 6th of May. Defending champion Greg Seymour will take a lot of beating but their are several capable of causing an upset. Doug Perry is the defending Nett champion. Play well and enjoy your round.
Mens’ Foursomes Championship – is set to be played on Sunday 19th of May. The entry sheet is in the golf-shop. A new champion team will be crowned this year with only Tony Panecasio available to defend the title.
Men’s Match Play Championships – Both the Individual and Fourball Handicap Match play titles are due to commence in June. Entry forms are available in the Golf Shop.
Jamberoo Open Ambrose Championship – Oaks Automotive has kindly offered to support this new championship open to members of all Golf Illawarra clubs. It will be played on Saturday 29th of June and $2000 of prizes will be up for grabs. This will replace our usual Saturday comp and cost $20 per player. Teams of four are required and entries can be made on the sheet in the golf shop.
As you can see a busy time is approaching. Get involved.
Slice Training Days
Quite a few members are a little worried about entering their scores into the computer following their round. This is especially the case for ‘in conjunction’ events.
To provide support to members the Club Captain will be available to assist members enter their scores into the computer after their round this week. Once you get used to the method hopefully you will find the process quite easy.
This Week’s Results
All of our competitions were met by great weather during the week and the scores reflected this condition.
On Sunday under fine blue skies and wispy clouds the 2019 Foursomes Championship was contested. Several very strong teams had gotten together and close results were expected and so it turned out with only a handful of shots separating the teams after the 27 holes. In the end the defending champions Marie Farrant and Pat Paris were the champions for the second year running and for three out of the last 4 years. Well played Marie and Pat, deserved champions.
The Ladies Canadian Foursomes on Tuesday saw Judy Casey and Robyn Gregson get the honours with a good score of 74, 5/8 of a shot more than the runners up Pam Middlebrook and Judi O’Brien.
Wednesday saw the playing of the Drummond Golf Stableford and the winner of the Drummond voucher was Geoff King with 41 points. Well done Geoff. A grade winner was Alan Jones with 38, B grade winner was regular visitor Bruce Michie with 40 points with John Pringle a close 2nd, C Grade winner was Ron Chilby with 36 points one in front of a host of other players the closest being Norbert Beringer, and Geoff took out D grade.
Thursday was Ladies Veterans day and the irrepressible Shirley Walsh came home with 22 points on the back nine to win the day.
Saturday Monthly medalists were: Con Kiayias with 66 in A grade; Daryl Campbell, in a continuation of his good form, with a fine 64 in B grade on a countback from the unlucky Steve Oppert who lost his ball on 18 and then lost the countback; Pete Wheatley did well to win C grade with a 65 one better than Ian Martens, and Reece Martens winning his first medal in D grade with a 69. Louise Stoddart won the Ladies Saturday comp.
Last Saturday following advice from Golf NSW all scores of 42 points or more in the fourball were considered for handicapping. This is a compulsory thing to do and is not optional. There is a formula that is applied to determine how many points each player scored. The first criteria is that a player’s score must appear on the card at least 9 times. When these scores were sent to Golflink handicaps were adjusted and congratulations go to those players on fine rounds of golf. It appears Golflink put a red line around your score which normally says that you were disqualified. This was not the case. I am finding out from golflink why this occurred.
Saturday 4th May 2019 – Men’s Monthly Medal
A Grade Winner: Con Kiayias 66 nett 2nd: Ken Bradley 68 nett
B Grade Winner: Daryl Campbell 64 nett (c/b) 2nd: Steve Oppert 64 nett
C Grade Winner: Peter Wheatley 65 nett 2nd: Ian Martens 66 nett
D Grade Winner: Reece Martens 69 nett
Putting Winner: Dave Ransom 25 putts
Gross Winner: Steve Rippon 73
Ladies Stroke Winner: Louise Stoddart (PKGC) 72 nett
Thursday 2nd May 2019 Lady Veterans Stableford
Winner: Shirley Walsh 36 pts Runner Up: Marg Chaffey 34 pts 3rd: Suzanne Lang 33 pts
Wednesday 1st May 2019 Drummond Golf Stableford
A Grade Winner: Alan Jones 38 pts
B Grade Winner: Bruce Michie (Links Shell Cove) 40 pts 2nd: John Pringle 39 pts
C Grade Winner: Ron Chilby 36 pts 2nd: Norbert Beringer 35 pts (c/b)
D Grade Winner: Geoff King 41 pts 2nd: Ray Pearson 38 pts (c/b)
Tuesday 30th April 2019 Canadian Foursomes
Winners: Judy Casey & Robyn Gregson 74 Runners Up: Pam Middlebrook & Judi O’Brien 74.625 (c/b) 3rd: Margaret Cook & Jenelle Anderson 74.625
Sunday 28th April 2019 Mixed Foursomes Championship
Champions Marie Farrant & Patrick Paris 126
Nett winners Elizabeth Armstrong & Arthur Bosanquet 104.5