GARFIELD GOLF
Severe high and damaging winds last Sunday through Monday caused widespread community damage and for most locals that meant two days without power resulting in our club being closed on Monday.
It has become apparent that these types of weather events are becoming the norm and more frequent. It was all a distant memory on Saturday with the September Monthly Medal being played in fantastic sunny weather attracting a field of 138 players.
Harry Elyasie’s brilliant round of 73/nett 67 was the benchmark, finishing one shot to the better of Stephen Barrett and a further shot away to Bob Collins.
A final score of nett 76 was the number required to finish in the money.
Elyasie’s 73 also was the best A Grade scratch result whilst Peter Glasscock had the best B Grade scratch round with his 84.
John Curtin took out the C Grade scratch by a countback with his total of 88 and Stephen Pimm did likewise for the D Grade field with his 92.
Just eight birdies were scored for the day on the par threes with the 11th giving up the three of those. Kerrie Davey won the ladies monthly medal with a score of nett 74, on the back of achieving a double for the week by winning Saturday’s stroke event with a round of nett 76.
Well played Kerrie.
Van Der Horst finished with the excellent result of three nearest the pins for her round on Tuesday. Thursday’s event was played in cool and overcast conditions for a game of single par with a field of 72 turning out where a countback round of -3 was required to finish in the money.
A final score of +1 was the day’s best result and was achieved by some four players.
James Grant returned to the winner’s list with that score good enough to win the B Grade event and Cody Fry won the A Grade event by a countback from Brian Webster with that score of +1.
Kevan McMillan had a great round for his result of +1 playing off his mark of nine.
Darren Grayson, another consistent performer, finished square with the card playing off his mark of just seven.
The rainfall for the month of August was just 33mm compared to 55mm last August and a wet July this year of 111mm.
This Saturday is a game of single stableford whilst on Thursday we contest the first round of the midweek 54-hole championship.
RESULTS
• Sunday/Single Stableford/Field of 28
Winner: Graeme Coates (29) 38, second Rob Coates (14) 36, third Mark Delaney (16) 34.
Down the lines went down to countback rounds of 30 points (5).
Nearest the pins went to 4th Steely Mateariki, 8th Karli Van Der Horst, 9th Stephen Eddy, 11th Russell Kerr, 13th Stephen Eddy, 16th Gary Bassett.
• Tuesday/Ladies/Monthly Medal
Winner: Kerrie Davey (10) 74 C/B.
Nearest the pins went to 4th, 13th and 16th Karli Van Der Horst.
• Thursday/Single Par/Field of 72
A Grade: Cody Fry (14) +1 C/B, second Brian Webster (13) +1 C/B, third Kevan McMillan (9) +1.
B Grade: James Grant (22) +1, second Ian Nicholson (19) Square, third Bob McKenzie (23) -1.
Down the lines went down to all countback rounds of minus 3 (13).
Nearest the pins went to 4th Bob Calderara, 8th Bob Collins, 9th Trevor Male, 11th Warren Arnott, 13th Brian Webster, 16th Richard Perry.
• Saturday/Ladies/Stroke
Winner: Kerrie Davey (10) 76.
Nearest the pins went to 4th Amanda McLure, 8th Leesa Mathews, 16th Kim Pellatt.
• Saturday/September Monthly Medal/Field of 138
Winner: Harry Elyasie (6) 67.
A Grade: Harry Elyasie (6) 67, second Stephen Barrett (9) 68. Scratch: Harry Elyasie 73 C/B.
B Grade: Grant McKay (14) 71 C/B, second Peter Glasscock (13) 71. Scratch: Peter Glasscock 84.
C Grade: Bob Collins (18) 70, second John Curtin (17) 71 C/B. Scratch: John Curtin 88 C/B.
D Grade: Dan Makepeace (26) 71, second Stephen Pimm (20) 72 C/B. Scratch: Stephen Pimm 92.
Down the lines went down to and including scores of nett 76 (37).
Nearest the pins went to 4th Doug Amos, 8th Russ Loughridge, 9th Kevan McMillan, 11th Dave Pateman, 13th Kevan McMillan, 16th Tony Quinn.
Second Shots: A Grade: Darren Grayson. B Grade: Mick Jusic. C Grade: Pat McDonagh.
-Terry Webster-
