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Teachers claim local Masters

Andrew Rogers

THE winners of the men’s 2014 Murray Downs Masters were former St Mary’s Primary School Swan Hill teachers Tim Vagg and Chris Mitchell.

Vagg is now a member of the Clifton Springs Golf Club on the Bellarine Peninsula, while his partner Mitchell is a member of the Lalbert Golf Club.

Vagg (5) and Mitchell (12) had scores of plus-five on Saturday and plus-10 on Sunday to finish with plus-15 overall to take out the coveted award. 

The runner-up pairing from the Horsham Golf club was Howard Schier (6) and Ian Ryan (18) with an overall total of plus-13 (plus-two and plus-11). 

In third position overall was another visiting pairing in Roy Hodges (14) from Gisborne and David Jackson (23) from Commonwealth Golf Club with scores of plus-10 and plus-two. 

Steve Banks (11) and Tony Fleming (12) was the next best pair overall with a final total of plus-11.

In the daily events, Saturday was taken out by Horsham Golf Club pairing of Wayne Whelan (14) and Bill Stewart (18) with plus-nine, from the Spring Valley Golf Club pairing of Mal Sosbey and Greg Ebinger who finished the day with plus-seven. 

For all of this week’s Murray Downs golf column, see Friday’s edition of The Guardian (August 29, 2014).

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