New Foursomes Champions Crowned.
Congratulations to Bernie McGlinchey and Ron Chilby for their victory last Saturday in the Mens Foursomes.
It was a close thing with several teams shooting scratch scores in the low 80’s to give themselves a chance. These included defending champions Peter Francis and Noel Laman, Bill Reid and Joe Neilson with 81’s; Chris Leckey and Anthony Smith, John Anthony and Joel McIntosh with 80’s.
In the end Ron and Bernie fired a 79 to take the title.
Well played.
The nett results were also quite close. Having won the gross Ron and Bernie were unable to claim the nett prizes even though they fired an incredible nett 60.5.
This left it to Bill Reid and Joe Neilson with a 68; Ken Holt and Les Skarratts with 68 too; Brian Aboozaid and Kevin O’Rourke, and Steve Oppert and Chris Goodwin both teams also on 68.
Phil Gosling and Craig Foster fired a 67.5 for third place. This left Scott Lacey and Matt Ross second on 67.
The nett winners were Pete Wheatley and Allan Wight with 65.
Congratulations.
Pancreatic Cancer Charity Day.
What a wonderful day – the weather was great, some great scores were returned and what a financial windfall for Pankind, the Pancreatic Cancer Charity we were raising funds for. At last count the tally was $3,800+ what a success!!
Thanks to all who supported the day.
Didn’t the purple look great!!
‘Win News’ will be showing Jamberoo Wednesday at 5.30pm in the local news.
The winner of the Major Prize in the raffle – The Golf Bag – Ken Holt.
Shirley Dixon had her family present to support the day and were very thankful for the efforts made to make it such a success.
The Winners : Kris Morrison, Melissa Liebrand, and Belinda Wall (nett 63),
2nd : Trish Swan, Noni O’Donnell, and Dot Swan (nett 64.1),
3rd : Kathy Adrian, Kathleen Amaru, and Bonita Bruce (nett 65).
Gold Medal Playoffs.
This Saturday sees the playoff for the 2024 Gold Medals. Players who won a monthly medal from November 2023 to October 2024 are eligible to win a Gold Medal. Players complete in the division they won their monthly medal but on their current handicap.
The following members have a chance to win :
In A Grade : Chris Leckey, Anthony Smith, Craig Foster, Tom Zimmermann, Noel Laman, Joe Neilson, Les Skarratts, and Joel McIntosh.
In B Grade : Colin Van Woerkom, Bill Reid, Brett Fielding, Matthew Ross, Rod Poidevin, Peter Francis, and Alan Jones.
In C Grade: Phil Adams, Matthew Rodgers, Josh Vazzoler, Rod Hodkinson, Matthew Harrison, Mitchell Smee, Garry Hemus, Gary Brickell, Cameron Bartkowiak, Allan Wight and Stephen Young.
Good luck to all and play well.
New Handicap Divisions for the New Golf Season 2024-2025.
From the November monthly medal until the October 2025 medal round handicap grades will change slightly to even up the numbers in each grade.
A Grade will now be for players with handicaps 16 or less, B Grade 17-22; C Grade 23 or more.
Golden Putter Playoff.
In every monthly medal round the number of putts taken by each player is counted and recorded on your their card by their marker. The player with the least amount of putts (ie those strokes taken on the greens) wins a small monthly prize of 2 balls.
The winners of each month’s putting contest then have a chance to become the ‘Golden Putter’ of the year and have their name placed on a plaque and receive a special trophy. This is contested in conjunction with the Gold Medal day.
Here are this year’s entrants :
David Garcia, Chris Leckey, Steve Oppert, Peter Hughes, Jake Henderson, Pat Paris, Ray Sheehan, Dan Adams, Andrew Ransom, and Jim Henry.
I hope they all drop on the day!