GOLF Weekly Report 9/2/25
Saturday’s Stableford round produced some mixed results with a handful or so of very good scores at the top of the leaderboard.
In A grade a countback was required to separate Daryl Harrison and Peter Blackmore who both registered scores of 38 points.
A brilliant back nine of one over 37 which yielded 23 points got Daryl across the line with those numbers including two four-point birdies along with four pars. The only blemish on his card for the round came on the par four sixth which he failed to score on. Playing off a handicap of 7 that is not bad going.
Blackers was very stiff as he had 20 points on the back nine which would win a lot of count backs.
In B grade Jeff “Cobba” Carnie posted the best Stableford score for the day of 39 points and was the B grade winner by three shots from Des Partington with 36 points. He was also the big mover in the Summer Cup chase almost climbing to the top of the table. Almost.
Nat McAuliffe took out the ladies’ event with 38 points and she was a two-shot winner from Julie Neale with 36 points.
A VERY generous ball comp saw balls go to Paul Kuiper with 37 points, David Collins (36 points), Nigel Dow (34), Ian Scurrah (34), John Burrows (34), along with Ron Dixon, John McHale (some relation to Pooch), Tracey Wade, Bud Thorsen and Gavon Armstrong all with 33 points.
Paul Kuiper (A grade 12th), Ricky Walsh (B grade 12th), Lyn Canavan (3rd) and Von Morris (12th) all won nearest the pin trophies while the voucher on the 15th was unclaimed hence the generous ball numbers in the ball comp.
That concluded the Summer Cup fixture played over four Saturdays with each player’s best three rounds making up their final Summer Cup tally and while Jeff Carnie’s round of 39 points gave him a ten-point boost in the rankings, ultimately it was not quite good enough for him to overtake Nigel Dow.
Nigel finished with a three-round tally of 110 points holding “Cobba” at bay by two shots as he finished as the runner up with 108 points.
Peter Blackmore’s round of 38 saw him finish third with 106 points while Gavon Armstrong filled fourth place with 105 points.
Summer Cup 2025 Winner Nigel Dow (left) is congratulated by runner up Jeff Carnie
Tuesday’s scores were on the low side with the exception of Peter Sherman who won B grade with 38 points from Alan Hausler with 34 points.
Mick McAuliffe won A grade with 35 points in a countback from a luckless Peter Blackmore, also with 35 points.
Ball comp winners were Kelly Cheong, Kevin Humbert, John Burrows and Daryl Harrison all with 33 points while Mick Gallivan (A grade) and Tony Williams (B grade) picked up nearest the pin balls on the third. The voucher on the 15th again stayed with the club.
On Sunday our Pennant Team’s Summer campaign came to an end in a tightly contested match against Hill Top at Kialla with the outcome coming down to the very last hole of the last match.
With the overall match square at two wins each all attention turned to our last pair of Miles Gould and Jonty Sefton who were involved in a tightly contested match of their own going to the last hole one down. Unfortunately, they could not quite get the match to a 19th hole halving the last for a one down result.
The other match results on the day were as follows:
David Collins & Paul Kuiper Won 3&2
Daryl & Wil Harrison Won 2&1
Lawrie Casey & Peter Blackmore Lost 3&2
Laurie Radley & Mick Gallivan Lost 2 Down
A big thanks to the players that made themselves available to represent the club during the Pennant season.
Scoop 694.
LADIES WEDNESDAY GOLF: Last Wednesday’s Stroke event saw Janice Johnstone continue her good form. Johnstone finished two shots clear with a score of 98-22-76 to win from Marlene Topp, 113-35-78.
Last week it was Marie Watt’s putting that was a highlight of the day’s play. This week it was Topp’s play around the greens which earned her high fives for chipping in on several holes.