RIVERSIDE
WHAT crazy weather we have been receiving of late. It’s a toss up as to what season we are approaching.
Monday was a winner for Anthony Harmes, after he completed a round of 25 points in the Veterans and Friends comp.
The nine-hole stableford for the ladies on Tuesday saw Chitra Rankin continue her consistent form to coming away with a win on 19 points. Jan Lloyd grabbed second place after a countback against Marg McIntyre, both on 18.
NTPs: 12 and 18th – Marg McIntyre (birdie, 250cm).
Wednesday’s play was also Stableford for the men in two grades.
Michael Holcroft took out A Grade on a super 40 points from curator Tim Peterson, with a fine 38.
B Grade went to John Fraser when he put together a very nice 39 points, from Aaron Baynes, one behind on 38.
NTPs: 4th – Bob Wagner (204cm), 7th – Michael Holcroft (460cm), 12th – Lucas Byron (310cm), 17th – Gary Sharman (102cm), 18th – Bodan Bishop (105cm).
On Thursday the ladies were invited to venture over to Coomealla for the day, which many accepted and totally enjoyed their day.
Some ladies decided to play nine holes at Riverside and the winner of the day was Jill Shalders, with a nice 16 points. Jill also won the NTP on the 12th (150cm).
Friday’s nine-hole medley Stableford was won by Korey Loechel on 23 points after a countback with John Fraser.
The Shane Doherty Day was held on Saturday and Josh Fleming had 37 points to win in front of Josh Lee, who picked up second place after a countback with Oscar Manix on 36.
NTPs: 4th – Justin Lowe (315cm), 7th – Korey Loechel (200cm), 12th – Ian Riley (300cm), 17th – Gary McNally (440cm), 18th – Damen Southgate (242cm).
Sunday’s medley Stableford was won by Paul Danenberg with his 39 points, in front of a three-way countback on 36 points. Nic Cairns was runner-up, followed by Andrew Thomas and Brad Monaghan.
Andrew Woodcock played the 11th hole perfectly, coming away with an eagle on the par five.
NTPs: 4th – Ian Fleming (170cm), 7th – Andrew Thomas (269cm), 12th – Kendall Marchment (650cm), 18th – Ian Fleming (213cm).
A reminder to all members that the annual general meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 30 at 7pm.
COOMEALLA
Coming Events: Today: Men, stableford; women, stableford. Friday: Medley 9-hole stableford. Saturday: Medley Canadian Foursomes. Sunday: Medley stableford.
Last Wednesday the men played American stableford.
A Grade winner: Jack Budd 57 points; runner-up: Kym Mack 55 points; 3rd: Craig Tung 55 points.
B Grade winner: Bernie Sprague 56 points; runner-up: Ron Moore 55 points; 3rd: Simon Kelly 54 points.
C Grade winner: Noel Thomas 55 points; runner-up: Paul Scott 54 points; 3rd: Robert Armstrong 54 points.
Balls: 20 balls were handed out with scores from 57 to 53 points.
NTP’S: 3rd Zilzie Wine – Aaron Blake 220cm; 7th McGuigan Wines – Tony Finn 105cm; 11th Walkers IGA – Justin McPhee 215cm; 18th Trentham Estate – Glenn Marr 123cm.
Last Wednesday the women played a stableford event.
Winner: Maureen Bailey 39 points; runner-up: Lee Bottomley 38 points; 3rd: Jodene Tuau 38 points.
Balls: Six balls were handed out with scores from 39 to 37 points.
NTP’s: 3rd Zilzie Wine – Glenys Anderson 128cm; 7th Terry White Chemist – Janet Fumberger 302cm; 11th Buronga Bake – Suellen Nunan 55cm; 18th Trentham Estate – Nia Whittle 0cm.
Friday was a medley 9-hole stableford.
Winner: Kym James 20 points; runner-up: Terry Albion 20 points.
Balls: Five balls were handed out with scores from 19 to 18 points.
NTP’s: 11th – Troy Neville 1310cm; 18th – Gary Thomas 320cm.
Saturday was a men’s stroke event.
A Grade winner: Stan Prymke 69 net; runner-up: Dennis Williams 70 net; 3rd: Phil Matotek 70 net.
B Grade winner: Brett Laird 67 net; runner-up: Greg Carson 70 net; 3rd: Ben Camilleri 70 net.
Balls: 16 balls were handed out with scores from 67 to 73 points.
NTP’s: 7th McGuigan Wines – Dylan Bottoms 250cm; 11th Walkers IGA – Phil Matotek 333cm; 18th Treatham Estate – David McDonnell 180cm.
Saturday the women played stableford.
Winner: Robyn Hand 38 points; runner-up: Jackie Horkings 35 points; 3rd: Susan Mills 34 points.
Balls: Three balls from 38 to 34 points.
NTP’S: 3rd Zilzie Wine – Jodene Tuau 62cm; 7th McGuigan Wines – Robyn Hand 477cm; 11th Buronga Bake – Susan Mills 236cm; 18th Treatham Estate – Susan Mills 550cm;
Sunday was a medley stableford.
Winner: Robyn Rohrlach 39 points; runner-up: David McDonnell 39 points; 3rd: Serfet Kuzu 38 points; 4th: Allison Thompson 37 points.
Balls: 15 balls from 39 to 34 points.
NTP’s: 3rd – Robyn Rohrlach 332cm; 7th – Geoff Sayers 243cm; 11th – James Daley 640cm; 18th: Andrew Barnes 285cm.
WENTWORTH
THURSDAY’S golf was played in poor conditions but that didn’t matter because the golf was also poor.
Bill Slee continued his good form to scrape home with a win with 34 points from runner-up was Bill Murray on 33 points who had every chance of winning.
Ball winner was Col Stewart with 30 points.
NTP: Bill Slee with 1250cm on the 17th.
Mr Risky went to club champion Howard Hankinson with 29 points.
Sunday’s stroke was yet again played in poor weather conditions with Bill Murray having 76 net taking first prize. Runner-up was Bill Slee with 80 net.
Ball winner was Howard Hankinson with 81 net.
The bug has caught up with Col Stewart who finally missed a fairway and found the levee bank with his 86 net earning him the Mr Risky award.
On New Year’s Day there will be a general fun recovery golf day, please contact Bill Slee on 0402 570 500 for bookings.
MERBEIN
LAST Wednesday was a stableford event.
Winner: Greg Marshall 38 pts; runner-up: Frank Crouch 36 pts.
NTP’s: 3rd – Frank Crouch 480cm.
Last Saturday was the final round of the club championships and monthly medal.
The monthly medal was won by Peter Shadwick on 69 net from runner-up Ant Lee one stroke back on 70 net
Balls: Ken Matulic 72 net, Shane Trinick 75 net, Glen Wallace 75 net.
NTP’s: 2nd – Shane Trinick 350cm; 3rd – Shane Trinick 810cm; 3rd – Shane Trinick 810cm; 6th – Glen Wallace 200cm; 12th – Graham Kerr 67cm; 14th – Shane Trinick 205cm; 16th – Graeme
Dunne 620cm; 18th – Glen Wallace 82cm.
The meat raffle was won by Robert Redman.
A Grade scratch club champion is Anthony Lee with 231 net from runner-up Shane Trinick with 243 net.
A Grade handicap: Winner: Shane Trinick 216 on a countback from runner-up Ant Lee 216.
B Grade scratch winner is Ken Matulic 256 net who won on the second play-off hole from runner-up Glenn Wallace 256 net.
B Grade handicap winner is Peter Shadwick 217 net from runner-up Glen Wallace 220 net.
C Grade scratch winner is Graeme Dunne 290 net from runner-up Graeme Kerr 292 net.
C Grade handicap winner is Jason Binding 221 net from runner-up Graeme Dunne 233 net.
Martin Cup (best handicap score over all rounds): Winner was Shane Trinick 216 net on a countback from runner-up Ant Lee 216 net.
Firstly congratulations to Ant Lee for becoming 2021 club champion, fantastic speech from Ant on how much it meant to him to win with memories of past great champions of this great club, from all committee and club members, well done Ant.
For those who stayed around on Saturday they were witness to a great battle for the B Grade scratch winner, club stalwart Kenny Matulic sinking an incredible putt on the second sudden death playoff hole to become B Grade champion.
Congratulations to all grade champions and handicap winners.
Many thanks to all the volunteers at this magnificent club that helped out. A special mention to caretaker Gavin, Steve Russell for setting all the pin placements (huge job and many thanks from all members), Mick Thomson for cooking the barbecue, stalwarts Bev and Frank for helping out behind the bar, committee and members as a whole. We have a great club, the new clubrooms are coming and all current committee members can see a huge bright future for this club, so please get involved and be part of these exciting times.
The 2022 club championships will see the reintroduction of it being played over four rounds, over three weekends.
Today will be a par event with Saturday being stableford.
VETERANS
THE annual general meeting was conducted at the last event. There were some expected changes to our leadership group.
Our president Ron Leamon didn’t seek re-election because of personal reasons. I want to thank Ron for his work and support during his period as president and to pass on our best wishes to him and his family.
Our new president is John Denman. Congratulations John for your willingness to join the leadership team and we look forward to you bringing your skills, ideas and experience to the role.
Our captain John Green(Greenie) has served the association well for many years but understands the benefit of leadership changes.
As a result to help transition a new captain the association adopted a new position of vice captain. Ned Klemm was elected in this role and with John’s help will ‘learn the ropes’ over the next year.
Ned does have extensive experience in golf club leadership and should find the transition a relatively easy process.
Our treasurer Tony Dal Corobbo was re-elected treasurer and Brian Young retained his role as secretary.
The club delegates were re-elected. Thank you to George Poriazis (Coomealla), Cliff Ferguson (Mildura), Roy Latta, Keith Rogers (Red Cliffs), Keith Willis (Riverside) and Steve Clarke (Robinvale) for their continued support.
The schedule for 2022 was adopted with single stableford events as the preferred game. John will finalise and distribute that before our December event.
The final 2021 game is our Christmas event to be held at Riverside on December 6.
MILDURA
A COUNTBACK on net 76 in Tuesday’s Division 1 ladies’ stroke competition resulted in Margaret Morrison winning the Medallist of the Year award from runner-up Bev Mathews.
In Division 2, Val Whitelaw won the playoff with net 72 and second place went to Janet Stanbrook (74).
The nine-hole event winner was Amy Plush with a fine 20 Stableford points, followed by Mavis Clinch on 19.
NTPs: 2nd – Kathy Cameron (164cm), 10th – Glenys Anderson, 12th – Glenda Hiskins (795cm).
A par event for the men on Wednesday resulted in a win for Rod Ford with +4 in A Grade from Rob Toms (+3), while Dennis Grigg won the B Grade prize on a countback from Eric Bruton, both on +4.
NTPs: 1st – Rob Toms (121cm), 2nd – Geoff Hazeldene (128cm), 12th – James Hancock on 12th (102cm). Rob Toms also won the daily pig pin prize. Ball rundown went to -1 for the competition.
Friday’s nine-hole twilight round was won by Bev Stone from Aaron Duck, both on 18 points.
Saturday was stroke and day the of club championships, where morning player Steve Crawford emerged from the rain with the best net score to eventually win A Grade (66) from Tom Crouch (70) and Greg Rhodes (71).
Lachlan Crouch enjoyed a comfortable win in B Grade with net 66 from Gavin Harrington (71) and Grant Beggs (72).
NTPs: 1st – Tom Crouch (180cm), 2nd – Steve Phair on pig pin (202cm), 10th – Steve Crawford (145cm). Nigel Ingram won the TWW prize for his eagle on the par-five 18th. Ball rundown was to net 75.
In Sunday’s stroke event the best net score on the day came from A Grade winner Geoff Hazeldene (68), who finished ahead of Neville Hodgetts (70) and Andrew Keogh (72).
David Coombes won B Grade with net 70 from Grant Beggs (73) and Newton Morrison (75).
NTPs: 1st – Tim Mitchell (165cm), 2nd – Frank Crouch (436cm), 12th – Jeremy Hester on 12th (430cm). Steve Fumberger won the pig pin prize on the day.
Final results for the four-day Mildura Club Championships are:
A Grade scratch: Greg Rhodes (297), Rob Pallot (315).
A Grade handicap: Daniel Tung (net 289), Rob Toms (303)
B Grade scratch: Geoff Hazeldene (341), Tim Mitchell (248)
B Grade handicap: Geoff Hazeldene (293), Tim Mitchell (296)
C Grade scratch: Nigel Ingram (379), John Green (384).
C Grade handicap: John Green (308), Nigel Ingram (311).
Veterans’ scratch: Greg Rhodes (297)
Veterans’ Handicap: Geoff Hazeldene (293).
The Medallists of the Year were awarded at the presentations to John Hardie (A Grade), Tim Mitchell (B Grade) and Robin Hubble (C Grade).
In this week’s veterans’ competition, Ross Bowen won with 38 points from Tony Dal Corobbo (36).
NTPs: 2nd – John Edwards, 12th – Bill Forrester.
Today’s play is men’s Stableford, on a Friday nine-hole event and ladies’ 18, Saturday will medley stableford, Sunday will be Diehards Day over 27 holes, Monday vets and Tuesday the ladies break-up a with competition on the back nine.
RED CLIFFS
IN medley Stableford last Wednesday the ladies were the winners.
Kay Hart took out A Grade on 41 points from Neville Birch on 39, while B Grade was won by Sharyn Campbell on 41 points from Lea Walmsley on 40.
NTPs: 8th – Robert Wood and Sharyn Campbell, 12th – Phil Shaw, 15th – Jill Gleeson, 17th – Bobbie Ramsay, 18th – Michael Hogan.
Saturday’s play was medley stroke and the summer Monthly Medal.
Thirty-five brave souls ventured out in the wet conditions with Matt Forward on 70 net winning A Grade from Chris Merlin on 73 net on a countback.
In B Grade, Bobbie Ramsay on 72 net was the winner from Brad Morgan on 73 net on a countback.
NTPs: 3rd – Andrew Bateman, 5th – Bob Merlin, 8th – Mal Blagus, 9th – Daryl Morgan, 12th – Deb Hassell and Peter Wright, 15th – Deb and Mal Blagus, 17th – Tom Minns, 18th – Jeffrey Scott.
Today is medley Stableford, while Saturday’s game is a multiplication Stableford.
