JAMBEROO Golf Club has bounced back from recent devastating flood damage to hold a highly successful 2011 Murray Tractors Jamberoo Open.
Club president Lance Fredericks was delighted to have attracted 72 golfers from 15 clubs to the rejuvenated course and to have so many visitors comment positively on the playing conditions.
“Since the distressing flood of March many, many club members have spent hours and hours in cleaning the mess which is now mostly gone,”Frederickssaid.
“When the warmer weather comes that recovery will be complete. We are very happy with the way it is coming on and many of the players mentioned they were very happy with the course. It is a tribute the efforts of our staff and to the many volunteers who have shown again what a great community this club has.”
Moss Vale golfer Christian Wood certainly found the course to his liking, shooting a four over par 71 on what was a soft course with little run to take the 2011 title.
“I was very happy to win,” the 35 year old scratch golfer said. “I hit the ball all right. I made a few mistakes but I steadied the ship and got over the line so I was happy.
Wood said he had been back playing and practicing golf regularly for five years and was just starting to travel to a few tournaments.
“A win under the belt will do,” Wood said. “It was a good little trip down the mountain. And a great pie shop. And a great tractor shop. We’re definitely going home to buy a tractor from Murray Tractors.”
Wood was joined by a number of fellow members and juniors from Moss Vale, and by visiting golfers from Cooma, St Georges Basin, Shoalhaven Heads, Port Kembla, Russell Vale, Kiama, Glenmore, Cabramatta, Queanbeyan,AntillPark, The Grange, Shellharbour Links, Nowra and Kareela.
The winner of the Nett Championship was Jamberoo member Warrick Miller with a nett 62.
