Great conditions for Mount Gambier golfers

January 19 Stableford

Thursday’s fine weather saw another field in excess of 100 players and some fine scoring. Long-time member and club stalwart Michael Rees posted the round of the day with 41 points. After a double on the first he dropped only three more shots for the round and picked up a birdie on the 15th to post nines of 18 and then 23 points to snaffle the $100 winners cheque, piping Jack Peacock by the smallest of margins on 40 points.

Barry Brook and Setio PS3 were tied on 39 points with Gary Wilson, Peter Waters, Bob Dalgarno, Bryce Cutting, Graham Patterson and Mike Griffiths all posting 37 points.

Mike Griffiths and Peter Collie took the nearest the pins on the 8th and 16th holes respectively with only Griffiths able to take advantage and roll in his birdie putt. Club legend Neil Richardson was in excellent form as well posting a very tidy 36 points including a birdie on the 5th. The ball rundown extended to 35 points with Bob Tonkin taking the last ball.

January 21 Par

Beautiful weather again on Saturday and the course in excellent condition saw over 120 players in the men’s field for a Par event. Brayden Pople had the round of the day with 7 up to claim C grade three from Nick Seager on 4 up with Stephen Herbert on 3 up.

David Anderson took the A grade win with 5 up with Joe Clements and Andrew Stark both on 4 up. Countback giving 2nd place to Clements.

In B grade it was Ian Ritter on top posting 5 up to win by 3 from Darryl Squizzy Taylor and Michael Foran both on 2 up with Taylor thanking the countback gods for his 2nd place result.

The ball rundown extended to minus two due to the large field with Chris Gabriel taking the last one. Nearest the pins belonged to Kent Comely on the 8th and Gary Wilson on the 16th with both players managing to roll in their putts for twos.