Weekly Golf Report 26/10/2025
Maybe it’s the improved weather, maybe it’s the extra run on the course, but our members appear to be awakening from their winter slumbers with a drastic improvement in scoring in the last couple of weeks.
We will start with Tuesday’s round which provided some incredibly good scores with Daryl Harrison and Geoff Strachan the pace setters.
Playing off a handicap of eight Daryl put together his best ever round at Valley View with 74 off the stick, a score that netted him 42 Stableford points and three shot win from a very unlucky runner up in Peter Mangan with 39 points.
Harro did his best work on the front nine where he had 33 off the stick notching four birdies on that side of the course.
That is some kind of form to be in with the club championships just around the corner.
Meanwhile Geoff Strachan had an even better day posting the massive score of 45 points to take out B grade by four shots. I’m told Strachannie’s score included one wipe and two one-point holes which prompted wily veteran, Les Hall, to catch up with Geoff with an autographed copy of his book Hall’s Hand Brake Handicapping.
Never the Less, if he’s available for the three rounds the ultra-consistent Strachan will start the clear favorite for the B grade Championship title next month.
Paul Pappin was the seriously unlucky B grade runner up with a super round of 41 points of his own.
On a high scoring day balls went to Laurie Radley with another (normally) winning score of 40 points, Peter Lyon with 38 points, Mick Gallivan (38) and Pooch McHale (37).
Mick Coyne (3rd) and Kelly Cheong (12th) won the A grade Nearest the Pin balls; Fred West won the voucher on the 15th while Strachannie completed his domination of B grade picking up both of the B grade NTP balls.
While scoring in Saturday’s Stableford event was not quite as impressive as Tuesday, it was still very good with John Canavan taking out B grade with what I think would be his best Valley View round of 40 points. Geoff Squires finished three shots back, taking out the runner’s up trophy with 37 points.
In A grade Pooch McHale, playing off 12, finished top of the table with 39 points and recorded a two shot win from Gordon Mackay with 37 points.
Not to be outdone the ladies also put together some excellent scores with Sharon Harrison posting the best score of the day of 42 points finishing just one shot clear of Trudy Denham with 41 points.
What’s more, in what is thought to be a Saturday first, the ball comp was dominated entirely by the ladies with balls going to Bev Lyon with 40 points, Nat McAuliffe (39), Judy Greer (38), Marlene Topp (37), Tracey Wade (37), Helen Emery (37) and Julie Neale (37).
Nearest the Pin trophy winners were Kev Humbert (A grade 3rd), Rob Geisler (B grade 3rd), Lawrie Casey (A grade 12th) and Brad Edwards (voucher on 15tH) while John Canavan also picked up the ball for nearest second shot on nine.
This week’s event is a Stableford with the November Medal round and Club Championships set down for November 8, 15 & 22.
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