DROUIN GOLF
Club Championships
The final round of the 2022 Men’s Club Championships were played at Drouin on Saturday.
With the leading two players, Ryan Hammond and Lachie Bambridge, tied after the first two rounds a thrilling contest was waiting.
It wasn’t long before Ryan shot out to a two-shot lead, birdieing four of the first five holes.
After nine holes Ryan held that two-shot lead, playing the front nine in five under par to Lachie’s three under. The back nine started similar to the front except that it was Lachie’s turn to go on a birdie run and by the 13th hole both players were equal on six-under.
The next two holes saw separation in the scores again with two bogeys to Lachie and a birdie to Ryan. Lachie rallied over the last three holes with three birdies, and a bogey on the last to Ryan left both players tied on seven-under for the day and on 206 each for the 54 holes.
A sudden death playoff was then needed to crown the winner.
Both players headed back to the first hole and were both on the green for two. Lachie was away first and missed his putt just outside the left edge.
Ryan was able to hole his putt and was crowned Club Champion for 2022 in what was probably one of the most enthralling rounds of golf played at Drouin.
The other results from the Championships saw Lachie Bambridge claim the Junior Championship and A Grade Handicap with 215.
Phil Adams made a clean sweep of B Grade with a scratch score of 247 and handicap of 214 but not to be done with yet, he also claimed the Senior Championship. C Grade Scratch was won by James Wagner on 276 and the handicap by Connor Jeffries on 223. The D Grade Scratch winner was David Axford on 292 while Rob Fredrickson won the handicap with 225.
Saturday
The daily event for Saturday was Stroke, with the best score for the day a nett 67 carded by A Grade winner Ben Jeffrey. Connor Jeffries won B Grade with a nett 71 and C Grade went to Rob Fredrickson with a nett 70.
Down the line balls went to Matt Guy, Ian Good and Lachie Bambridge 68, Ryan Hammond 69, Glenn Vandelight and Kevin Thorpe 70, and Phil Adams, Maurice Papettas, Stephen Bethune and Jack Jared with 71.
Wednesday
The mid-week competition was a stableford event competed by 79 players.
Zach Bambridge shot the best score for the day with an amazing 44 points on his way to claiming C Grade. B Grade saw Phillip Beruldsen win with 40 points and it was 37 points to Darren Arnott in A Grade.
Down the lines went to Con Norris 40, Robert Woodward, Peter Newton, Phillippe Alleaume, Richard Ford and Neil Wyatt 38 and Michael Smith 37.
Next weeks’ events are Stableford on both Wednesday and Saturday
Drouin Ladies
Last Tuesday Drouin welcomed the Garfield ladies for the annual Drouin/Garfield Challenge kindly sponsored by Pauline Soutar from Harcourts.
This event was postponed last year due to Covid so it was exciting to be able to hold this event again. Drouin was the winners of the team event with the best overall team score on the day.
Individual winners:
A Grade: Sharon Rippon (19) 40 points, runner-up Karli Vander Horst (19) 37 points.
B Grade: Mary Tymensen (30) 40 points, runner-up Meagan Ford (24) 38 points
C Grade: Robyn Carville (45) 40 points, runner-up Sue Hatfield (31) 38.
Best nine in was Susie Menzel (32) with 20 points and best nine out was Marion Devlin (34) with 20 points in a three-way countback.
Down the line balls went to Susie Menzel (32), Di Baskett (24) and Judy Dixon (19) with 37 points.
Nearest the pins: 5th Sharon Rippon, 8th Marion Devlin, 10th Sue Hatfield and the 14th Pro pin will Jackpot again this week.
On Saturday 19 February, the ladies played a stableford event and the winner was Judy Dixon (19) with 36 points from Wendy Hitchins (20) 33 points and Valerie Crow (29) on 32 points.
Tuesday is round-one of the Club Championships, kindly sponsored by the Drouin Family Hotel.
This Friday is the Drouin Silver Salver where we welcome teams from clubs around the region. Entries are now open for our Open Day on 18 March which is a 4BBB event.
