Garfield

Perfect weather all week resulted in some big scores with the course drying right out and plenty of run.

Saturday was the club challenge against Drouin held at Garfield with the visitors keen to score their first victory as Garfield had won the first three years since its inception in 2015.

Despite Drouin bringing their best players in Leon Cook, Ryan Hammond, Mark Allen and Matt Long they came up short yet again with the home sides’ best performers being Rick Falcone with 41 points, Peter Fedorenko with 40, Shane Male with 39, and Harry Matthews and Matt Vander Horst both with 38 points as part of Garfield’s total score of 678 points resulting in an average score of 32.29 points per player.

Best players for Drouin were Leon Cook with 38 points, Paul Davie with 35, Shane Davidson with 34 and R Radford also with 34 all adding up to a total of 585 points resulting in an average score of 29.25 per player.

So it’s back to the drawing board for Drouin to work out a way to get the job done.

For everyone else not playing in the challenge it was a game of single stableford, which attracted a huge field of 110 in the perfect conditions.

A good score of 39 points was required to finish in the money with Paul Kaye being the best and taking out victory for the B grade event with a very nice 44 points playing off his mark of 18, the four points to the better of Peter Skinner and Peter Fedorenko.

Falcone won the A grade event with his 41 points, the two points better than Shane Male and Peter Black.

Veteran John Garner won the C grade event on a count back from Glenn Whelan with a score of 40 points.

A final score of 38 points was needed to win a ball down the line.

Thursday’s single stableford competition saw a nice size field of 55 players turn out for a round with Ken Sumsion the star with a brilliant score of 45 points playing of his mark of 36, finishing well in front of Glenn Whelan who was the next best with 39 points.

Having been a three peat runners up victim over the past five weeks, Grant McKay finally kicked down the door to victory with a top score of 44 points playing off his mark of 13, the five points in advance of a white hot Harry Matthews.

A final score of 37 points was needed to get a ball down the line.

All golfers that are interested in playing the West Gippsland veterans events are reminded that 2019 subscriptions are now due with the first event to be played at Traralgon on January 21 with an 8am to 8.45am tee off time.

Contact Garfield Golf Club organiser John Scale on 5997 7274 for enquiries. Next Saturday is a game of single par. Results: Monday, stableford (field of 30): A grade: Travis Jack (9) 41; Bgrade: Tom Griffiths (28) 43; Best nine out: John Cragg 23; Best nine in: Karli Vander Horst 21; DTL: S Barnes 41, Trevor Guille 39, John Garner 38.

Tuesday, women’s stableford: 1st Karli Vander Horst (40) 37, 2nd Hilary Hockley (34) 35; DTL: Deirdre Pilkington 35; NTP: 4th Karli Vander Horst, 8th Bernie Clark, 11th Chris Caig, 16th Deirdre Pilkington.

Thursday, stableford (field of 55): A grade: 1st Grant McKay (13) 44, 2nd Harry Matthews (6) 39, 3rd Rick Schenk (11) 37; B grade: 1st Peter Marquis (19) 39cb, 2nd Malcolm Hirt (20) 39, 3rd John O’Brien (20) 38; Cgrade: 1st Ken Sumsion (36) 45, 2nd Glenn Whelan (21) 39, 3rd George Vitiritti (33) 37; DTL: Nathan Leishout 38, Nigel Goldsworthy 37, Ross Martin 37, Peter Skinner 37, Mick Jusic 37; NTP: 4th Michael Whyte, 8th Peter Marquis, 9th Ross Martin, 11th Peter Marquis, 14th Matt Vander Horst, 16th Harry Matthews.

Saturday, Garfield v Drouin club challenge: Garfield 678 points, average 32.29 defeated Drouin 585 points, average 29.25.

Saturday, stableford (field of 110): A grade: 1st Rick Falcone (14) 41, 2nd Shane Male (5) 39cb, 3rd Peter Black (11) 39; B grade: 1st Paul Kaye (18) 44, 2nd Peter Skinner (18) 40cb, 3rd Peter Fedorenko (20) 40; C grade: 1st John Garner (31) 40cb, 2nd Glenn Whelan (21) 40cb, 3rd George Vitiritti (33) 40; DTL: Steve Dolan 39, Peter King 39, Matt Vander Horst 38, Craig Hunter 38, David Keysers 38, Harry Matthews 38, Leon Cook 38, Graham White 38, Mick Neylan 38, Ian Archer 37cb, David Thorp 37cb; NTP: 4th John Keys, 8th Jye Kruger, 9th Peter Medwin, 11th Sean Coombs, 14th Peter Skinner, 16th Leon Cook; NTP 2nd shot: A grade: Paul Davie; B grade: David Keysers; C grade: Craig Nevin; Women’s: Jill Gay (24) 37.

Sunday, stableford: 1st Bernie Flynn (20) 40, 2nd Pieter Vander Horst (4) 37. sizzling +5 to win C grade.

DTL: Michael Lithgow +3, Eddy Van Der Pligt +3, Phil Mason +3, Kel Belcher +2, Reg Dixon + 2, Rob Frederickson +2, David Hamilton +2.

NTP: 5th Peter Morris, 8th Greg Roberts, 10th Jim Defoe, 14th Joe Kirby.

Wednesday saw 102 players contest a stableford event.

David Wouters tallied up a fantastic 42 points to be the best in A grade.

B grades’ winner was Reg Dixon with 40 points, while C grade was won by Phillip Alleaume with a terrific 44 points.

DTL: Michael Roberts 43, Noel Brereton 41, Ray Fish 40, Zach Bambridge 40, David Low 40, Glenn Vandeligt 39, Bruce Salmon 39, Gary Burns 37, Michael Curoso 37, John Gidley 37.

NTP: 5th David Wouters, 8th Jurg Pulfer, 10th Ray Haley, 14th Mike Santo.

Wednesday will be stableford, with Saturday being the match play grand finals and a single stableford event.

Seniors

It was a lovely morning on Thursday for the Drouin seniors nine-hole event.

The winner in the women’s division was Ann Roberts with 18 points.

The runners up were Dagmar Forbes and Helen Moon with 17 points, followed by Megan Ford, Olive Reid, Di Baskett, Glenda Warren and Jan Stone with 16 points.

The winner in the men’s division with a lovely 24 points was Bob Gatecliff.

The runner up was Benny Wyatt with 23 points, followed by Graham Dorling with 22 points.

Then came Jurg Pulfer with 17 points, Graham Moon and Tex Devlin with 16 points, Graeme Alexander, Peter Downward, Reg Dixon and Richie Thomas with 15 points