Coomealla
IN men’s competition last Wednesday, Troy Neville took out A Grade with 37 points, ahead of Jacob Slimmon and Justin McPhee, both on 34.
George Poriazis also came up with an eagle on the eighth hole.
Paul Modica took out B Grade with 33 points from John Gray and Neil Bryant on 32, while Aaron Duck claimed C Grade with 36 points from Mac Warchow and Graeme Burrows, both one point behind.
NTPs were: Glenn Marr (third, 251), Ken Forster (seventh, 82), Brendan Bower (11th, 258) and Troy Neville (18th,330).
Kaylene Geddes won the Wednesday women’s comp with 72 net from Sue Laird (76).
NTPs were: Cath Eddie (13th, 68), Jackie Horkings (11th, 61) and Janice Walker (18th, 225).
Friday’s nine-hold medley Stableford was won by Wayne Demery on 21 points from Sue Laird (19).
NTPs were: Alan Scorer (11th, 154) and David Waters (18th, 310).
George Poriazis won Saturday’s A Grade with 41 points from Ben Doherty (38). Paul Hewitt (37) took B Grade ahead of Paul Wright (36), and Russ Collyer won C Grade on countback from David Porter on 39 points.
NTPs were: Graeme Burrows (third, 432), Adam Martin (seventh, 85), Peter Shadwick (11th, 55) and Clinton Leavold (18th, 56).
Vicki Wilson won the women’s competition with with 38 points from Kylie Walters (37).
NTPs were: Linda Jakubans and Sharon Morrell (third, 0cm – second shot), Jakubans (seventh, 213), Morrell (11th, 97 – second shot) and Jodene Tuau (18th, 28 – second shot).
Sunday’s four-person Ambrose was won by the team of Zachari Martin, Aaron St. Leon, Dan Golitschenko and Ivan McKenzie on 53.12, ahead of Jayden Brooks, Jordan McKinnon, Nicholas Cottrell and Aaron Duck (53.62).
NTPs were: James Daly (third, 61), Tim Knight (seventh, 44), Phil Matotek (14th, 344) and Jai Hudson (18th, 229).
The teams challenge winners were James Orpwood, Sue Laird, Sonya Golitshenko and David Hancock on 44.75 from Paul Wright, Stan Prymke, Mark McDonald and Matt Pascoe (44.13).
Coming events: Today: International Stableford for men and women. Friday: Nine-hole medley. Saturday and Sunday: Stableford.
Mildura
THE Mildura men played a social game of single stroke on Saturday with good scores recorded.
Veteran Frank Tippett led the way with 68 net. Greg Toma (69) was second and Jason Hartley (70) third.
On Monday, the 4BBB Stableford medley was won by Neville Hodgetts and Rick Foster (46) with Rob Toms and John Williams (45) second.
NTPs were: Marilyn Warn (second, 153), Will Hodgetts (10th, 218) and Maurice Warn (12th, 208).
Coming events: Today: Men’s stroke for the monthly mug. Tomorrow: Social play. Friday: Ladies’ 18-hole par. Saturday and Sunday: Medley Stableford.
All golfers are required to book in for social play and competitions and need to supply their details with a QR code to the golf shop. Bookings can be made to the Mildura Golf Shop on 50228089.
Merbein
IT is great to be back and playing comps again after a week or two making sure we were doing our part in complying with the current pandemic rules.
A fun Saturday Stableford was a nice way to get going again. An amazing round by Merbein regular Ken Matulick (40) saw him easily account for the rest field with the next closest being Frank Zambito (36).
NTPs were: G. Kerr (second, 675), J. Bell (third, 210), F. Zambito (sixth, 230), P. Gourlay (eighth, 520, and 18th, 117) and J. Barber (16th, 350).
Coming events: Today: Stableford. Saturday: June monthly medal. We look forward to seeing you at all the Royal.
Red Cliffs
IT was great to get back into our competition golf last Saturday, with 91 in the field we played a Medley Stableford sponsored by Sunraysia Daily. Scores were pretty hot.
Craig Douglass won A Grade on 37 pts from Daryl Morgan on 36 and in third place Tim Pain on 35.
B Grade winner was Keryn Neindorf on 39 points on a count back from Steve Forrest closely followed by Buddy Coad on 38 points on a count back.
In C Grade the winner by the length of the Murray was Karen Bulman on 46 points from Liz Leach on 38 points on a count back from Denise Morgan.
Balls went to Chris Chase David Spencer Julie Warne Noel Douglass Elaine Gray and Patsy-Anne Kentwell.
NTPs: Third – Faye Englefield and Tom Minns; Fifth – Peter Manno; Eighth – Robert Chase and Patsy-Anne Kentwell; Ninth – Seve Forrest; 12th – Jill Gleeson; 15th – Michael Hogan and Sheryl Blagus; 17th – Peter Manno and Deanne Davis; 18th Ben Tallent.
Coming up this week we have Stroke for all, with the ladies playing for the June Monthly Medal and fourth round of putting. On Saturday the men will play Stableford while the ladies have Stroke for the first round of their Club Championships.
Riverside
AFTER a break from competition due to COVID-19 restrictions, golf lovers were bursting at the seams to get back on to the fairways.
Friday was the starting point and the nine-hole Medley Stableford certainly brought back the golf and social connections.
Gary Van Steenis played very well to come away with a win on a fine 23 points. A group of four were all on 21 points, vying for runner-up. Trevor Williams took that title, followed by Matt Anderson, James Taylor and Jamie Donaldson.
It was a 4BBB Stableford on Saturday for the men and the ladies.
The pair with the best score in the ladies’ comp was Teresa Hagen and Lyn Delmenico, with a ripper round of 48. There were two on 46 and Lyn Thompson and Wendy Dawson took second place over Selma Mayne and Jen Stephenson.
There were some exceptional scores in the men’s round also, with an amazing 50 being smashed out by Jake Keil and Nic Cairns to grab the win from Rob Garioch and Gary Van Steenis, who finished on a terrific 48.
Ben Henkel came away with an eagle after playing the par-five 14th perfectly.
NTPs were: Lee Anthony (fourth, 270), David Lloyd (seventh, 330), Kendall Marchment (12th, 440) and Jarrad Stokker (17th, 220, and 18th, 110).
Sunday brought with it another good field, this time to contest the medley Stableford.
Ian Davis and Wayne Sievewright both had excellent rounds, finishing on 39 points. After a countback, Ian came out the better with Wayne settling for second.
NTPs were: Marchment (fourth, 84), Bruce Liddell (seventh, 520), Jon Saltter (12th, 180) and Nicholas George (18th, 490).
Veterans
THE district veteran golfers were expecting to travel down the Calder Highway to enjoy a visit to the Ouyen Golf Club on Monday.
It is a annual event that we look forward to because we always receive a warm welcome from the locals and have the unique and challenging experience of playing sand scrapes.
In the Mallee we enjoy mild winters with many sunny days and often have the weather bureau’s highest temperatures forecast in the state.
However, there has been be a downside. Unfortunately, we won’t be making that trip this year and it’s not due to any COVID-19 restrictions. It’s the lack of consistent rainfall that has meant that the 18 holes on the course are not in use.
Hopefully, it is only a postponement and that the vets have an opportunity to play later in the year – weather permitting.
We will keep in contact with the club and will make an announcement about this day in the near future.
Therefore we have to wait until Monday, July 5, before our next district game. It’s 4BBB Stableford at the Red Cliffs Golf Club. The expectation is that we will have a regular event rather than the social game imposed on us last month because of the COVID requirements. That means prizes and NTP competitions. There will be a lunch supplied as usual. Remember we have changed the venue for July so don’t rely on your syllabus for accurate information.
Wentworth
SUNDAY’s stroke competition went to the wire with Garry Bourke (74) winning from Tom Clark on countback.
NTP was: Howard Hankinson (17th, 550cm). Howard also took home the coveted Mr Risky for his 85 net.
