GARFIELD GOLF
‘Hang onto your hat’ became a common catch-phrase at Garfield Golf Club on Saturday with strong winds greeting the 138 players that faced the starter’s gun for a game of single stableford.
On a tough day for scoring, no A Grade player could better or match their handicap with Brian Seers taking out the top prize with 35 points.
Allan Milkins won the B Grade event with a round of 82/nett 38 points and Mick Jusic returned to the winners list also with 38 points to win the C Grade event.
Michael Banger defeated the in-form Jason Tivendale to win the D Grade event with 36 points on a countback.
A miserly score of 29 points to a countback was good enough to make the prizemoney cut.
Tivendale continued his great results this week after winning last Thursday’s twilight event.
He came out on Monday and won the C Grade event by a countback with 92/nett 39 points then turned out on Saturday; shooting 96 off the stick to finish runner up to Banger.
Last Monday a good size field of 90 punters presented for play with a final countback score of 35 points the number needed to finish in the money.
Ron Seamer won the A Grade event by a countback over Nick Gray with 39 points, with Gray being stiff to lose after shooting a great round of 70/nett 39 points.
Richard Perry, enjoying a good run, also had a nice round finishing third with his total of 72/nett 38 points.
Chris Kondarios won that day’s B Grade event in a three-way countback from Matt Yusof and Tony Mafodda with 37 points.
There was some good golf played on Thursday with a field of 106 turning out for the day’s single stableford event.
Kevan McMillan had one of his best rounds ever at Garfield winning the A Grade event with 71/nett 41 points, one point in advance of Peter Johnson, yet another player enjoying a form surge.
Michael Davey had the week’s best round winning the B Grade event with his score of 81/nett 43 points whilst David Thorp broke a long run of outs to win the C Grade event with 39 points.
Other good rounds were played by Darren Grayson 73/nett 37 points, Andrew Went 76/nett 37 points and Harry Elyasie who scored 74/nett 36 points.
However, all these results were put in the shade after Chris Thorn lit up the course with a brilliant 64 off the stick.
Playing off his mark of +5 he finished with a handicap round, if you don’t mind, of 36 points, which included an eagle on the par five 17th hole.
That night’s nine-hole twilight event was a three-way countback with Matt McCormick defeating Ashley Barrot and Cameron Reid all with 20 points.
Results
• Sunday/Single Stableford/Field Of 45
A Grade: Stephen Barrett (7) 39, second Dylan Skinner (11) 38 C/B, third David Manning (7) 38.
B Grade: JB Faustin (17) 40, second Kim Phillips (37) 39, third Cam May (45) 36.
Down the lines went down to a countback of 35 points (5).
Nearest the pins went to 4th Heath Barclay, 8th Greg Wasmund, 9th Michael Davey, 11th David Manning, 13th Ryan Morley and 16th Stephen Barrett.
• Monday/Single Stableford/Field Of 90
A Grade: Ron Seamer (15) 39 C/B, second Nick Gray (4) 39, third Richard Perry (5) 38.
B Grade: Chris Kondarios (16) 37 C/B, second Matt Yusof (18) 37 C/B, third Tony Mafodda (16) 37 C/B.
C Grade: Jason Tivendale (26) 39 C/B, second David Churchill (30) 39, third Peter Diss (24) 38.
Down the lines went down to a countback of 35 points (16).
Nearest the pins went to 4th Rich Paton, 8th Shane McNeill, 9th Mat Van Der Horst, 11th Trevor Male, 13th Mark Redley and 16th Jack Handley.
• Tuesday/Ladies/Single Stableford/Field Of 14
Winner: Bernie Clark (18) 40 C/B, second Yvonne Barrot (30) 40, third Deb Huyskens (21) 39.
Nearest the pins went to 4th Deb Huyskens, 8th Jill Gay, 11th and 16th Yvonne Barrot.
• Thursday/Single Stableford/Field Of 106
A Grade: Kevan McMillan (7) 41, second Peter Johnson (15) 40, third Andrew Rose (10) 39.
B Grade: Michael Davey (19) 43, second Harry Thomas (20) 40 C/B, third Marty Atkins (17) 40.
C Grade: David Thorp (23) 39, second Terry Tisdale (21) 38, third Alan Borch (26) 36 C/B.
Down the lines went down to a countback of 35 points (19).
Eagle: 17th Chris Thorn.
Nearest the pins went to 4th Darren Grayson, 8th Arti Koopman, 9th Jake Went, 11th Tony Power, 13th Ray Phillips and 16th Darren Grayson.
• Thursday/Twilight/Back 9 Stableford/Field Of 43
Winner: Matt McCormick (9) 20 C/B, second Ashley Barrot (23) 20 C/B, third Cameron Reid (5) 20 C/B.
Down the lines went down to 19 points.
Nearest the pins went to 11th Brent Heus, 13th Matt McCormick, 16th Lou Milner.
• Saturday/Single Stableford/Field Of 138
A Grade: Brian Seers (11) 35, second Grant McKay (12) 34 C/B, third Jeff Ingram (13) 34.
B Grade: Allen Milkins (15) 38, second Dean Shannon (14) 37, third Ryan Stark (15) 36.
C Grade; Mick Jusic (17) 38, second Greg Nicholls (20) 37, third Charles Vega (19) 33.
D Grade: Michael Banger (24) 36 C/B, second Jason Tivendale (27) 36 C/B, third Trevor Toward (26) 36.
Down the lines went down to a countback of 29 points (40).
Nearest the pins went to 4th Greg Hogben, 8th Ben Balfour, 9th Glenn Wells, 11th Jim Dimtsas, 13th Arti Koopman, 16th Terry Garratt.
Second Shots: A Grade: Chris Davies. C Grade: Stephen Bird.
-Terry Webster-
