Sunday, November 29, 2009

Walton Christmas Open Tournament


The tournament was on Sunday 29th November and was a great day for the club with over 165 starters for the open tournament. There were five divisions, four Mens and one Ladies. The Gross winners were Mens D Sharp 74, Ladies S Garrud 87. The Nett winners were Ladies C Mahon 60, Mens J Higgens 65, R Yates 62, D Cranson 68, B Clarkin 64. There were 26 twos an amazing number for a tournament. The course was in fantastic condition and a credit to the green keeper Terry Harris and his staff and volenteers. A sincer thank you to Brian Tunnicliffe Nissan for his sponsorship of the tournament.
Pictured from left to right: D Sharp, S Garrud, B Tunnicliffe, B Clarkin, C Mahon and D Cranson.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Mens Shootout 2009

There were 22 players that qualified for the inaugural shootout, however only 21 players were able to start. Three players would be eliminated on the first hole followed by one player on each hole after that until just one champion remained. Men were eliminated in the following order:
1st hole D Sharp, B Gordon and J Armstrong. T Woodmass, J Stevens, M King, I Jenkins, B Raynel, G Timms, B Wallace, P Darragh, B Snook, M Munro, R Coleman, B Matchett, R Luxton, G Watts, M Dearnley, G Pitcon, M Begovich. The 2009 Shootout Champion was Bill Lequesne!


Saturday, November 14, 2009

Saturday 14th November
There were a large number of starters that t
urned up for the Mens Closing Day this Saturday.


Even Ross Burling turned up on time.





There was an interesting dress
theme going on due to the Men playing off the Ladies tees.

Some of the stand out scores were I Upson with 50 points and almost as good was G Plant with 26 points. A great way to end the season thanks to the guys who did the BBQ the Ladies who made the salads and helped out in the kitchen. Hope everyone had an enjoyable season see you at the Open Christmas Tournament on Sunday 29th November.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Ladies Shootout

The Ladies had their annual Shoot out last Sunday 11th November. A great day for an interesting competition. There were 19 players that went down the first hole after a chip off for the last remaining spots. There were many chip offs along the way but the overall winner was Judy Osborne. Check out the photos on the Blogspot and the Golf albums by clinking the links above.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Saturday 7th November
There were a good number of starters this week. Golfer of the week with a great round was Graham Timms 64 nett. Graham wins the Redoubt Bar & Eatery Voucher.

Seniors B Gordon 42, A Dodd, M Munro 40, G Higgs 39, D Saunders 38, P Greer, D Sharp 37, A Cornes 36, J Adamson, M Dearnley, K Braybrook, B SMith 35.


Juniors G Timms 44, B Raynel 41, K Old, G Watts, D Harty 40, S Gordon 39, J Harris, S Osborne, B Oliver, A Pencavel 38, E Martinez-Sweeney, D Carter, B Lequesne, P Darragh 37.

Closest to the pin Number 12 Sponsored by Greg Waters Spraying was K Braybrook, Number 11 sponsored by Cheep Liquor was M
Dearnley. Longest Putt B Gordon, Whacker was P Coleman. There were ten twos this week BJ Adamson, A Cornes, M Cowlrick, M King, M Munro, K Old, B Raynel, G Timms, A Wiles and E Martinez-Sweeney. The winners of the Williams Fourball was M Garrud and B Gordon winning on the 17th hole.

Next week is the last saturday of the season Mens Closing Day
. The competition will be drawn partners, combined stableford off the Ladies Tees. Should be a great fun day assemble at 9.30am for a multi-tee start.

Starter M Garrud & B Snook, Bar M Munro.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Melbourne Cup

Melbourne Cup Tournament

A large turnout with over 130 starters and some great looking hats worn by the Ladies. With the sponsorship of COMAG and Reid & Harrison it was a well supported tournmament, with excellent prizes and an opportunity to win a whole ham.

There were five divisions, one Ladies and three Mens and a Non golfers.
The winners of the best netts for each
division were Ladies Carol Mahon 62, Todd Woodmass 66, Mike Simpson 67 and Elliott Andrew 62.
Stableford winners were J Harty 41, B Candy 41, M King 40 and N Dixon 42. Many other winners on the day and some close scores with the count back system being needed to determine the winners.

There were several twos, T Dewhurst, J Armstrong, G Bruce, M Dearnely, P Dewdney, C Firby, G Timms, G Bentham, G Pickett and R Plant.



The big race was watched on the several
big screen televisions kindly
sponsored by Heathcotes.