Weekly Golf Report - 27/9/26
The excellent field that turned out for the Grand Final Eve 4BBB Stableford event produced some very good scores with 44 ultimately proving to be the magic number at the top of the Jack Bond Leaderboard.
That number was posted by both the men and ladies’ winners in Paul Kuiper and Mick Gallivan and Von Morris & Wanda Hacon.
Paul and Mick did some good work on the par three holes with Paul birdying the 3rd for four points and between them they managed to par the other three short holes while Mick finished with 25 of their 44-point score.
For Von and Wanda, the decisive holes on an otherwise even card came on the 16th and 17th which Wanda made par on for three and four points respectively.
Peter Blackmore and Lawrie Casey finished as the men’s runner’s up with 43 points in a three-way countback from Kelly Cheong and Bomber Rathjen and Graeme Harrison & David Collins while Merryn Anderson and Trudy Denham were the ladies’ runners up with the same score.
Kelly and Bomber and David and Harro took home balls from the ball comp as did Helen Emery and Jenni Bauerle who finished with 42 points.
Nearest the Pin trophy winners were the previously mentioned Paul Kuiper (B grade 3rd), Glenn Laity (A grade 12th), Tom Mangan (B grade 12th), Jenni Bauerle (12th) and Peter Mangan (15th) took home the First Tea voucher.
Tom Pyke (9th) and Pooch McHale (13th) won the second shot balls.
On Tuesday Paul Pappin was a runaway winner in B grade with the day’s best score of 41 points finishing five points clear of runner up David Collins with 36 points. Paul had a very consistent round scoring on every hole and finishing with a 20-21 point front nine back nine split.
Meanwhile A grade was dominated by the Harrison family with Wil posting a winning score of 39 points as he knocked his handicap down another shot to six while Daryl (playing off five) finished as the runner up with 36 points.
Wil set up his win with three consecutive birdies on holes three, four and five picking up the NTP ball on the 3rd along the way.
Ball winners were Gordon Mackay with 36 points, Peter Blackmore (35), Peter Lyon (34), Jeff Carnie (34) and Bud Thorsen (33).
Kevin Baurle won the A grade NTP on the 12th, Graeme Harrison the second shot ball on the ninth while Daryl made it a good day for the Harrisons scooping up the second shot ball on the 13th and the First Tea voucher on the 15th.
This week’s event is the October Monthly Medal while our eleven Monthly Medalists from the past twelve months will also fight it out for the Medalist of Medalists trophy.
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Ladies Golf Report:
Valley View women played the Doris Chambers Stableford Foursomes event last Wednesday, with the winners progressing to the State final in Melbourne. We thank our generous sponsor for the day, I Want, I Need.
Clear winners with 39 points were Tracey Wade and Helen Emery. Runners up Margaret Smerdon and Judy Sutton finished with 34 points.
Leanne Busch was nearest the pin on the 12th and Janice Johnstone was nearest on the 15th.
Results from our Kyabram Showcase Jewellers sponsored Jewellery Day held on Monday, will be in next week’s report.