GARFIELD GOLF
The shortest day of the year provided a freezing cold start for golfers at Garfield Golf Club on Saturday with a stableford event attracting a great field for this time of the year of 141 punters.
Shivering through the early part of the morning was certainly worth it with the weather developing into a sunny day for the players who took to the course.
Coming out on top of the table was Glen Attwood who won the C Grade event with a nice round of 81/nett 40 points.
Mat Van Der Horst, who scored a round of 72/nett 39 points last Sunday – which included a great eagle on the first – came out on Saturday and won the A Grade event with another great round of 74/nett 37 points.
Troy Wilson had the best result for the B Grade field with a winning performance of 78/nett 38 points, while Mitchell Young got the D Grade result with his round of 37 points.
Just a total of nine players either played to or bettered their handicap for the day where a final score of 30 points was good enough to finish in the money.
Just the 13 birdies were scored for the day on the par threes with the fourth giving up six of those.
Daryl White enjoyed the par threes scoring a pair of nearest the pins on the fourth, just 430mm from the cup, and also on the 16th.
Nick Pellatt left the club smiling after winning Saturday’s Huge Monster Meat raffle.
Thursday was another brisk and cold day but never-the-less a good-size field of 108 turned out for the day’s stableford event.
Once again, the overall scoring was of an ordinary showing with just four players beating their mark. Mick Matthews certainly enjoyed the conditions, coming right away from the field winning the C Grade event with 39 points.
Darren Stanton had a good round winning the A Grade event with a round of 78/nett 37 points.
Steve Wallace, having a consistent run, had the day’s best B Grade round and accepted the victory in a three-way countback from Rob Coates and Chris Fowler; who all scored 33 points.
Speaking of Coates, Rob had a brilliant day last Sunday winning the A Grade event with the week’s best round of 77/nett 41 points…well played to you sir.
Heath Barclay, one of the club’s most consistent low marker golfers, had a pair of nearest the pins on Thursday on the eighth and 11th holes; converting one of those into a birdie.
Curtis Duffy captured a pair of birdies on the par threes for his round.
This Thursday is a game of single par whilst Saturday is once again a game of single stableford.
RESULTS
• Sunday/Single Stableford/Field of 53
A Grade: Rob Coates (13) 41, second Tom Blackwood (21) 40, third Mat Van Der Horst (6) 39.
B Grade: Aaron McQualter (25) 36, second Philip Morley (31) 30 C/B, third Brendan Williams (29) 29 C/B.
Down the lines went down to countback scores of 33 points (9).
Eagle: 1st hole – Mat Van Der Horst.
Nearest the pins went to 4th Matt Worthington, 8th David Manning, 9th Philip Morley, 11th Andrew Hale, 13th Aaron McQualter and 16th Tony Grayson.
• Monday/Single Stableford/Field of 62
A Grade: Dek Bell (18) 39, second Jason Hoghton (12) 38, third Trevor Male (10) 36.
B Grade: Daryl O’Grady (20) 39, second Bob McKenzie (19) 38, third David Churchill (28) 37.
Down the lines went down to countback scores of 33 points (11).
Nearest the pins went to 4th John Roberts, 8th Kylie Hoghton, 9th Kevin Sutton, 11th Daryl O’Grady, 13th Dek Bell and 16th Jason Hoghton.
• Thursday/Single Stableford/Field of 108
A Grade; Darren Stanton (10) 37, second Heath Barclay (10) 36, third Harry Matthews (5) 35.
B Grade: Steve Wallace (14) 33 C/B, second Rob Coates (14) 33 C/B, third Chris Fowler (14) 33.
C Grade: Mick Matthews (21) 39, second Gary Kelly (25) 36, third John Kingman (25) 34.
Down the lines went down to 31 points (19).
Nearest the pins went to 4th Tim Pratt, 8th Heath Barclay, 9th Steve Wallace, 11th Heath Barclay, 13th Chris Thorn and 16th John Kingman.
• Saturday/Single Stableford/Field of 141
A Grade: Mat Van Der Horst (6) 37, second Stephen Barrett (7) 35, third Leon Mateariki (7) 34.
B Grade: Troy Wilson (11) 38, second Steve Humphrys (13) 37 C/B, third Anton Varadi (14) 37.
C Grade: Glen Attwood (16) 40, second Peter Johnson (16) 37, third Bob Collins (19) 32 C/B.
D Grade: Mitchell Young (36) 37, second Simon Fay (23) 36 C/B, third Shane McNeill (23) 36.
Down the lines went down to 30 points (34).
Nearest the pins went to 4th Daryl White, 8th David Manning, 9th Tim Sallai, 11th Nick Gray, 13th Andre Van Gent and 16th Daryl White.
Second Shot: A Grade; Chris Thorn. C Grade: Simon Fay.
Monster Meat Raffle: Nick Pellatt.
• Saturday/Ladies/Single Stableford
Winner: Kim Pellatt (28) 29 C/B.
Nearest the pins went to 4th Amanda McLure, 8th Leesa Matthews, 9th Karli Van Der Horst, 11th Kim Pellatt and 16th Leesa Matthews.
-Terry Webster-
