Royal flush with success

ROYAL Hobart Golf Club’s Joey Bower, Josh Hill, Richard Kube and Paul Read fired to win a ninth Claremont Shield title last weekend.

The tournament was keenly contested at Devonport with one stroke separating the host club and Kingston Beach following Saturday afternoon’s foursomes round.

Both of Devonport’s pairings of Peter Nielsen and Grady Boxhall, and Joel Lunson and Greg Leedham combined for one-over-par rounds of 71. However, as tournament conditions dictate, only one of the rounds counted to the team’s overall final total.

Royal Hobart was too strong on Sunday in the singles event with three of the four team members figuring in the top 10 on the final individual leader board. Read was the best of the quartet with rounds of 70 and 70.

Wynyard Golf

2007 champions,

Club, were the runRookie ners-up on the final leader board at 23-over-par.

Best for Wynyard was Craig Hancock who placed equal seventh on the final individual leader board on four-over-par after rounds of 70 and 74.

The Devonport, Launceston and Ulverstone golf clubs all placed equal third with Kingston Beach sixth.

There was some consolation for the host club with Devonport collecting the Eric Bourke Memorial Shield with a handicap total of 490½.

Launceston Golf Club’s Greg Longmore took out the individual 36-hole gross prize with rounds of 70 and 69, a one-under-par total of 139.

new faces have been added to Golf Australia’s 2020 Squad with two new women and two new men added to the 11-strong group.

NSW’s Steph Kyriacou and Queensland’s Becky Kay will join Robyn Choi and Karis Davidson among Golf Australia’s female rookies.

On the men’s side, Blake Windred from NSW and Maverick Antcliff of Queensland join the returning Brett Coletta, Zach Murray, Jake McLeod, Travis Smyth and Dylan Perry as the male rookies.

Tasmania has seven athletes who have been named in the third tier which helps young athletes make sense of the pathways through their state and territory high performance programs. Our tierthree athletes are Dylan Backhouse (Tasmania), Joey Bower (Royal Hobart), Oscar Burrell (North West Bay), Ronan Filgate (Prospect Vale), Jack Lakin (Wynyard), Hallie Meaburn (Royal Hobart) and Mackenzie Wilson (Tasmania).