An excellent field of some 80 men contested last Saturday’s Droughtbusters Tour Personnel’s sponsored 18 Hole Par event which also acted as the first round of the Frank Donnelly Perpetual Trophy.
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With the excellent field some solid scoring was also achieved despite the course only receiving a very restricted preparation due to extremely wet conditions of the past week as B Grade golfer Rod Kiley lead the way with a brilliant plus 5 score to be a convincing 4 shot winner in his grade while junior golfer Lachlan Buesnell led the way in A Grade with an equally impressive plus 4 score line to edge out Matt Lawryk by a mere shot while in C Grade visiting Cowra golfer Paul Smith cleaned up with a plus 1 score.
Prior to the presentations Club Captain Paul Thomas welcomed all the visiting golfers especially the 12 members from Cowra and Bathurst Golf Clubs who are on a Tour of Western Area courses.
Ball Winners from Saturday’s round were +3 Matthew Lawryk, + 1 Cameron McMillan & Ron Hetherington, Sqr Michael Smith, -1 John Pearce, Wayne Powter, Tim Burke & Richard Hamilton, -2 Finne Latu, Mitch McGlashan, Michael Wood, Dub Rodgers, Phil Bishop, Robert Hey, Tony Evans, David Fagan, Ray Collison, Dave Harwood & Steve Edmonds and surviving golfs countback system were Ken Sanderson, Wayne Tucker & Tim Lasserre.
In the Nearest the Pin awards Michael Smith lead the charge as his Tee Shot to the Idlerite Tyrepower 1st Hole finished some 228cms from the pin.
Mitch McGlashan got the first of a double after he recorded an easy birdie two when he finished 237cms away on the Griffins Leading Edge sponsored 4th Hole and the shot proved beneficial as it allowed him to take home the Money Hole award as well.
Matthew Lawryk’s short game was to the fore on the Dirt Doctor Landscaping 6th Hole as his 7 iron finished some 187cms from the pin while Wayne Powter hit a solid 7 iron to finish just 250cms away on the Harvey Norman sponsored 11th Hole.
On the final Par 3 the difficult Westlime sponsored 15th Hole saw Bathurst John Murphy triumphant at 337cms.
The day’s final two award the Nearest the Pins in two shots on the Parkes Ready Mixed Concrete 9th Hole and the PJL Groups 18th holes saw Dub Rodgers victorious at 790cms on the 9th Hole while Mitch McGlashan made it three awards as his chip shot finished just 174cms away on the course’s 18th Hole.
LADIES RESULTS
On Wednesday insufficient women braved the weather conditions in the Frankie Cock sponsored 18 Hole Stableford competition and this event will be reprogrammed while on Saturday the ladies contested an 18 Hole Stableford for Sue Holman’s trophy that saw Lynne Guise triumphant with 31 Stableford points while Ball Winners went to Margaret Hogan on 25 points, Leone Stevenson 24 points and Cathy Kelly survived the countback on 23 points.
The Ladies are also reminded that several Time Slots are ear marked for them on the Saturday Timesheet with these slots being shaded in Grey and it would be appreciated that ladies use these slots where possible.
Failure to use the Shaded Slots could ultimately see the slots removed from the Starters Sheets and
then the ladies would have to take pot luck in finding slots on a Saturday.
JUNIOR GOLF TUITION
The club conducted a highly successful “Come and Try Day” for Juniors last Saturday and within excess of 80 juniors turning up officials of the Parkes Junior Golf and members of the visiting Professional golfers headed by Certified PGA Member Ken Trimble and his team including Norm Buckley, Vince Curran, Ron Copper, John Clifford and Sharon Nott where thrilled with the large attendance.
All juniors were given sets of Golf Clubs and Bags and they can now use the clubs to take advantage of the knowledge gained from the day.
Parkes Junior Golfs Development Officer Justin Sutton and his team of hard working helpers now have the nuclease of some promising juniors to tutor especially the good contingent of girls who thoroughly loved the experience.
Big thanks must go to the visiting Professionals headed by Ken Trimble and to the wonderful bunch of locals who assisted on the day especially Debbie Fay for her organisation.
Regular junior clinics will be held on Sunday mornings from 8.30am.
LVDGA PENNANTS AND CHAMPIONSHIPS
Nominations are now being sought from players to contest the annual Lachlan Valley District Golf Associations Championships and Pennants which will now be played at the Forbes Golf Club on Sunday 23rd April after the Forbes Club had to re-programme the event due localised flooding which would have resulted in some holes being out of play on its original date of this Sunday 2nd April.
The Pennants will be played by teams of 6 players with the A Pennant for teams whose handicaps for the six player’s totals less than 70 while the B Pennant teams are for teams on combined handicaps of 71 and above.
The Nomination Sheet is located on the Members Noticeboard.
WESTLIME / ROTARY CHARITY GOLF DAY
The annual Westlime / Rotary sponsored Charity Golf day will be held at the Parkes Golf Club on Sunday 9th April.
The day which is always regarded as a day not to be missed has once again been blessed by excellent sponsorship with Westlime the Best Lime once again throwing its weight behind the day as the naming rights sponsor and with this sponsorship along with sponsorship from a variety of Parkes business houses the day seems assured of being a great success.
THIS WEEK’S GOLF
This Saturday members will contest the Scott & Kath Mann April Monthly Medal for trophies generously provided in the Handicap section by Ron Dun fords Pharmacy in A, B and C Grades whilst Griffins Leading Edge will sponsor the Putting competition.
The Round will act as the 2nd Qualifying Round of the Cunningham’s IGA Supermarket Scratch Shootout.
Meanwhile it’s a busy schedule for the Ladies as tomorrow Wednesday they contest a Club sponsored 18 Hole 4Ball Best Ball Stableford event with an Individual competition in conjunction as part of the Norman Parker Salver.
Then on Saturday it’s an 18 Hole Stroke round with the 1st Golf NSW Medal and Club Medal and a Putting competition in conjunction and the event’s sponsor is the Parkes Services Club.
Finishing the busy week for the Ladies will be the 27 Hole Stableford for the Medlyn Bowl on Sunday and the Ladies are requested to be at the Club by 9.30am so that a draw and shotgun start can be organised.
Resident Professional Daniel Newton will also conduct an 18 hole Stableford event through the week with the winner to receive a trophy from the Pro Shop and as well there will be a Ball competition in conjunction and players can play any day from Sunday thru to Friday with scorecards to be handed in by 6pm on a Friday.