MURRAY DOWNS MEN’S
SOME esteemed Murray Downs members secured the Division 1 Winter Pennant title in the Western Riverine District Golf Association finals last weekend.
Luke Wilson, Noah Starrs, Lleyton McLean, Lucas Free, and Matt Quaife secured the title 3.5 to 1.5 over Deniliquin.
The majority of the team secured their matches with fine golf, congratulations all.
The other highlight from this week’s golf was another hole-in-one on the 11th.
I’m not sure if was is a case of ‘anything you can do, I can do better’ or ‘like father, like son’ when Graeme Mathiske holed out on Saturday just two weekends after his son Scott had a hole-in-one on the same hole.
Graeme pulled out his trusty nine iron from 127 metres and hit it perfectly to certainly brighten his day.
Thursday, August 14 – Stableford
ALONG with his hole-in-one, Graeme Mathiske (14) also played some impressive golf to take out the overall winners prize last Thursday, with 40 points to go with an ace being no small achievement.
The next best in A Grade was James McLean (3), our 2024 Club Champion, who must be in preparation for this year’s championship.
Jimmy had 37 points and is scoring consistently lately, while Steve Bulmer (13) placed third with 36 points.
In B Grade, Wayne Wisby (15) was the winner with Laurie Shipsides close behind on 35 points and Ross Kenyon (17) on 34 in third.
These three have been playing the Murray Downs fairways for many a year.
Rob West (26) finished on top in C Grade with 37 points, while Gregory Daniels (24) was second with 36 and Rob Merrett (23) rounded out the placegetters on 34.
Saturday, August 16 – Stableford
WE had visitors from Gerringong, Canberra, Sunbury, Coomealla, Echuca and Bendigo join us on Saturday in the sunny, but chilly conditions, but they couldn’t match the locals when it came to the leaderboard.
Brad Cockfield was the best of the 80 players who lined up, shooting 79 off the stick to score 39 points from his handicap of 10.
One of our beloved greenskeepers Graeme Cox (7) was the next best in A Grade with 36 points, with Luke Merritt (1) turning up after not having played for a couple of months and played well, with 36 points also.
Brett Farlie (16), Laurie Shipsides (15) and Justin Thompson (36) were on the podium in B Grade, with Brett taking out the top honours on 38 points ahead of the other two on 38 and 36 points respectively.
In C Grade, Juandre Kapp (29) featured with 39 points ahead of the familiar names of Paul Raudino (18) on 38 points and captain Mick Kiley (26) on 36 points.
Unfortunately, Ross Hendy hit it close on the 11th to collect the jackpot two days after a hole-in-one, so bragging rights were the main reward.
Sunday, August 17 – Par
THERE was a smaller field on the Sunday for the par competition, with visitors almost making up a quarter of the field.
Rob Merrett (23) reigned supreme with +4 at the end of the day and was followed by Ricky Wilkins (26) on +3 and Jorgen Leschke (8), who finished third overall with the lowest of the low markers with +2.
Jimmy McLean (2) had another good round collecting second prize in A Grade (0) and our old golf pro Matt Docking (+1) played well to also finish even.
Tuesday, August 19 – Stableford
ANOTHER strong troupe of visitors were out on Tuesday, with golfers from Ballina, Adelaide and Geelong travelling to join.
Well done to Noah Starrs (2) who finished in the clear at the top of the table to make sure the visitors didn’t take our money.
Noah had 40 points in first place with visitors taking out second and third places.
MURRAY DOWNS LADIES
CAMERON’S Fine Jewellers are great supporters of women’s golf at Murray Downs Golf & Country Club and have sponsored the annual Gold Links tournament for at least 18 years.
Twenty-eight pairs teed off in the aggregate par fourball tournament on Wednesday, with Jenny Lynas and her daughter, Tamika Hogan, winning the event for the second consecutive year, with a score of 2-up.
For Jenny, it was her third win in a row after she teamed up with Di Atkin in 2023.
Second placegetters were sisters-in-law, Heather Evans and Kaye McAlpine, with 1-up, while third place went to Jan McEwan and Bianca Brasser with a score of 2-down.
Barb Clark and Elaine Brown, along with Kathy Parkinson and Noni Domaille, led the ball pool with scores of 5 and 6-down respectively.
Jenny Monahan collected the jackpot on the par 3 11th hole, with the other nearest the pins going to Georgina Douglas, Belinda Gardner, Val Hedwards and Bianca Brasser.
On Saturday, Carol Wiseman (29) scored 35 points and Maralyn Morrison and Jenice Krahnert both scored 32 points, with Sarah Clark taking out a nearest the pin prizes.
MURRAY DOWNS DAD’S ARMY
ON Monday, August 18, members of Dad’s army played the back-nine, with Ross Cox returning the best score of 19 points, ahead of Ian Dickson on 16 points.
Following them was Andrew Millar on 15 points, Colin Hayward on 14 points and Barry Ingram, John Brereton and Barry Bishop on 13 points, with the rest of the field finishing on 12 points and below.
On Wednesday, August 20, members played the front-nine, with Barry Ingram and Robert Smith leading the field on 17 points.
Ian Dickson and Barry Bishop followed on 15 points, with John Brereton on 14 points and the rest all 12 points and below.
The weekly winner was Ian Dickson with 31 points, while the runner up was Barry Ingram on 30 points.
They were followed by Robert Smith on 29 points, Barry Bishop on 28 points, John Brereton on 27 points, Colin Hayward on 26 points and Kevin Maddy on 17 points.
LALBERT
THE Lalbert Golf Club will hold its North West Ag Day, three person Ambrose any combination event on Sunday, August 31.
The event will begin with an 11am assembly, for a 12pm tee-off, with a barbecue lunch and afternoon tea.
NYAH WEST
UNFAVOURABLE weather and a district club tournament saw only a small field venture out last Sunday, however play was short lived when the rain turned to hail.
A bigger contingent of players is expected this Sunday.
The junior golf development program resumes on Sunday morning at 9.30am for all the aspiring Australian champions of the future.
TOOLEYBUC LADIES
Par – Wednesday, August 20
Winner – Tracey Burge (-2)
Runner up – Bev Beasy
Nearest the pin 9/18 – Tracey Burge
Nearest the pin 1/10 – Lisa Zanker
Balls down the line – Jill Coburn, Deb Neilson
