Weekly Golf Repot - 26/4/26

Saturday’s Girgarre RSL ANZAC Day Stableford event produced one of the more remarkable 4 Ball performances with Paul Dickens taking out the event with 47 points.

Playing one of his best ever rounds Dicko set up his victory with a massive 25 point back nine which included four three-point pars (on holes 12, 13, 14 & 17) and a tap in birdie two for four points as he also won the First Tea Nearest the Pin voucher on the 15th hole.

Paul’s scorecard also bore the name Alan Hausler who contributed two three-point holes on the front nine before he (we can only assume) had to leave the course. Fortunately, he was able to make it back in time to make a contribution at Presentations.

The unlikely pairing of Glenn Laity and Lindsay Tatterson took out the men’s runner’s up trophy with the excellent score of 45 points.

The ladies also put together some very good scores, the best coming from Von Morris and Wendy Cox with 44 points as they scored a one-point win in what was a jam-packed leaderboard with four pairs contesting a countback for runner up with 43 points.

After a lengthy countback process Jan McHale and Marlene Top emerged as the runner’s up from Helen Emery & Jenni Bauerle, Judy Greer & Bev Lyon and Denise Pappin & Marilyn Morrell.

The last three groups mentioned won balls in the ball which was dominated by the ladies with Helen Armstrong & Marg Smerdon and Sharon Harrison & Julie Neale also winning balls with 42 points.

Aside from Paul Dickens on the 15th the only other Nearest the Pin trophy winner was Kelly Cheong on the 3rd hole.

Kelly also won the nearest second shot ball on the 13th while Laurie Radley picked the Nearest second shot ball on the ninth leaving himself with a par putt of only a few centimetres.

The Callaway event was won by Cam Graham.

Tuesday’s winners were Brenton Sheppard in A grade with 38 points and Geoff Strachan in B grade with 36 points.

Strachannie’s B grade win came courtesy of a three-way count back in which he fended of runner up Geoff Squires and Paul Pappin.

Peter Mangan was the A grade runner up with 37 points in a countback from Kevin Bauerle.

Ball comp winners were the aforementioned Kevin Bauerle and Paul Pappin, Mick Pell (36), John Burrows (35) and Mick McAuliffe (35).

Colin Rangitonga took home the First Tea Nearest the Pin voucher on the 15th and the nearest second shot ball on the ninth.

Mick Pell had a profitable day winning a ball in the ball comp, the nearest second on the 13th as well as a further half a dozen balls from the Eagle’s Nest as he holed out with his second shot on that hole.

Valley View vs Parkland Challenge

Going back to Sunday week ago and Valley View regained the Challenge Cup against Parklands with an average player score of 32.2 to 28.8.

Peter Blackmore and Kyle Kydd led the Valley View charge as they finished first and second in A grade with 40 and 38 points respectively.

Parkland dominated B grade with Cameron Willis the winner with 38 points and Mark Hendy the runner up with 35 points in a countback from Noel Boyd.

Parkland’s Terri Griffen had the best round of the day with 43 points to take out the ladies’ comp with our own Wanda Hacon the runner up with 38 points.

Daryl Harrison won the Ed McQuienn Memorial Trophy for best gross score with a superb 79 off the stick.

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Ladies Golf Report:

High scores were the order of the day for last Wednesday’s Stableford round at Valley View.

Tracey Wade was a clear winner in A Grade with 40 points. Janice Johnstone was runner up with 36 points on a count back from Marilyn West.

Von Morris was nearest the pin on the 15th and also won the Firstea voucher for nearest the pin on the 3rd.

Marlene Topp saluted in B Grade with 38 points on a count back from runner up Bev Lyon.

The first round of Winter Pennant was played at Cobram on April 20th. Valley View’s Division2 team played Numurkah. Helen Armstrong and Wanda Hacon competed well before going down by one shot on the eighteenth. Strong wins by Von Morris 4/3, Leanne Busch 5/4 and Jenni Bauerle 3/2 gave Valley View a 3/2 result.

The next match will be played at Valley View on May 4th and Valley View will have the bye.

On Friday, Valley View will host Goulburn Murray golfers for the Joyce Broadbent teams event in conjunction with Valley View’s Menzies Bowl.