By Ron Hottes
Wednesday 3 January, Stroke and M. McGrann Bag Day qualifier:
Another Bag Day has finished and the first qualifier for 2024 is Geoffrey Fall, who came in with a super impressive Nett 64. This also earned Geoff the A-Grade voucher,a good day’s work, wouldn’t you say, Fallsy? The runner-up in this Grade was Sean Kennedy, who posted a solid Nett 67. Good job, Bruno. In B-Grade, scores were nearly as impressive, because Dale Horrobin recorded his best score since coming to the Club – a Nett 66 – good enough for the top prize. The runner-up voucher went to Matthew-Maloney, who continued his hot form posting a Nett 68. Balls overall only extended to Nett 70. NTPs were taken home by Sean Kennedy (3rd), Pete Whitehead (9th), Gary Vollmer (12th) and Paul Kennedy (15th). But the highlight of the day saw newish member Geoff Sharp ace the very challenging 5th hole, meaning the Warburton Golf Club has seen two holes-in-one within one week, a very rare event indeed. Well done, Geoffrey.
Twilight:
With perfect conditions ensuing for this week’s Twilight competition, there were always going to be some near-perfect scores. And nearly perfect was Pacey Luttgens, who posted an impressive 25 points. The unfortunate runner-up ,unfortunate because 20 points would win on many weeks, was Steuart Hawke. Still a very solid result Hawkey. Balls, therefore, only extended down to 18. NTPs went to Shane Campbell (1st), Chris Leighton (3rd), Clint Toohey (5th) and Danny Fox (9th).
Saturday 6 January, Stableford:
This week’s bragging rights are clearly with Gary Vollmer, who amassed a Nett 65 round to be rewarded with the Monthly Medal and the A-Grade top voucher. Great round, Gary. Ken White is fast taking over the ‘Mr. Consistent’ tag, as evidenced here, as the runner-up with a very neat Nett 69. In B-Grade, there was more solid evidence that the girls are coming as Merilyn McDonald took home the B-Grade voucher, by posting a very solid Nett 70. It was a tight finish here though, as Merilyn just claimed that prize after a tight countback over the in-form Pacey Luttgens, who recorded a Nett 70 also. In A-grade the ball rundown reached 69, but only 72 in B-Grade. Winning NTP players were as follows: Perry O’Connor (3rd—a regular Lang-Lang visitor), Ryan Wilson (5th), Hatty (9th), Neil Leckenby (12th) and Dale Horrobin (15th).
