GARFIELD GOLF
Garfield has often been described as a pretty golf course – and that was exactly the case on Saturday with Graeme Pretty producing a fantastic round of golf to win the A Grade stableford competition with 40 points.
A total of 87 players crunched one off the first tee, with Pretty and B Grade winner Peter Johnson signing off on the best rounds of the day.
Pretty had a two-shot margin over Stephen Murray and Peter Glasscock in A Grade, while Johnson also scored 40 points to win by two shots over Martin Spurway in B Grade.
The C Grade competition was extremely hard fought, with Michael Anthony scoring 37 points to claim a countback win over Michael Carrigan and Harry Huyskens.
Jillian Gay was the big winner in the ladies competition, winning the day with 33 points and also claiming two nearest to the pins!
Saturday Results
A Grade: Winner: Graeme Pretty 40, runner up Stephen Murray 38, third Peter Glasscock 38.
B Grade: Winner: Peter Johnson 40, runner up Martin Spurway 38, Peter Marquis 37.
C Grade: Winner: Michael Anthony 37, Michael Carrigan 37, Harry Huyskens 37.
Down the Lines: G Polson 37, B Dwyer, J Hoare, T Sallali, P Smith, R Fielding, J Tonso, D Shannon 36, M Cousin 35.
Closest Second Shots: 2nd Stephen Bird, 5th Dean Shannon, 12th Clint Williams.
Nearest the Pins:8th Peter Glasscock, 9th Glenn Whelan, 11th Mark Cousin, 14th Michael Carrigan, 16th Connor Steel.
Eagles: 2nd John Hoare, 1st Shane Male, 2nd Shane Male.
Birdies: 9th Stephen Murray, 8th Peter Glasscock, 9th Dean Shannon, 16th Connor Steel, 4th Ian Scott, 14th Damien Hammond.
Ladies: Winner: Jillian Gay 33. Nearest the Pins: 4th Tina Cowie, 11th Jillian Gay, 14th Jillian Gay, 16th Tina Cowie.
Monday
Raymond Phillips scored 40 points to win Monday’s A Grade competition.
Tuesday
The Ladies Summer Cup was played on Tuesday with Karli Van Der Horst continuing her impressive recent run of form, scoring 37 points to take out the day’s top prize.
Nearest the Pins: 8th Debbie Huyskens, 9th Jeanette Mitchell, 14th Karli Van Der Horst, 4th Tina Cowie, 11th Yvonne Smith and 16th Yvonne Smith.
Thursday
Peter Johnson kick-started a very impressive week of golf by scoring 38 points to be the best of the 44 players to take to the course for Thursday’s Stableford competition.
Just two days later, Johnson would score 40 points to Saturday’s B Grade event!
Well done to Peter who was a star footballer for Pakenham who played in multiple senior premierships.
A Grade: Winner: Peter Johnson 38, runner up Terrence Webster 37, third Keith Edwards 36.
B Grade: Michael Howsin 36, runner up Clinton Smith 35, third William Low 34.
Down the Lines: L Scholes, K McMillan 36, A Koopman, F Hyett 34.
Nearest the Pins: 14th Clinton Smith, 9th Robert Calderara, 8th Kevin Whitmore, 4th Rob Coates, 11th Keith Edwards, 16th Frank Hyett.
Birdies: 9th Kevan McMillan, 16th Frank Hyett, 9th Robert Calderara.
The Mirboo North Challenge was played this week with Garfield just falling short in a very even competition…Mirboo North (32.3) defeated Garfield (29.6).
The David Bull Open Mixed American event was also held this week with Peter Kane and Jeanette Mitchell shooting the best scratch round of 82.
Steve and Yvonne Smith won A Grade and are now proud owners of the shield, while Tom Traill and Mary Beruldsen won B Grade and the best visitors were Richard Snare and Fran Renahan.
Down the lines went to K and M Van Der Horst and S and B Clark.
