Parkes and Forbes veteran golfers made a welcome return to their weekly twin-town competition following an enforced COVID shutdown.
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43 players contested last week's 12 hole event at the Parkes Golf Club course.
Playing off an 11 handicap, Forbes' Barry Shine showed the way with a well compiled 29 points in one of the better rounds he has played for some time.
On a day where there was some good scoring, Shine had two points to spare over the Parkes pair of John Fowler and Gordon Pritchard with Fowler winning the runner-up prize on a count back.
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Parkes players were dominant in the nearest-the-pins, with Nym Dziuba and Sunna Bell winning the A-grade on the fourth and 11th holes, while Vince Kelly was the B-grade winner on the fourth.
Forbes' Alan Rees picked up a couple of balls when he was the closest B-grader at the 11th hole.
In the Parkes-Forbes Shield, Parkes took the honors 155 points to 149.
Ball winners
- 27 - Gordon Pritchard (Parkes)
- 26 - Ian Phipps, Graham Cooke (P) and Peter Grayson (Forbes)
- 25 - Bill Warren (P) and Peter Grayson (F)
- 24 - Roy Bell, Richard Hamilton, Cath Kelly and Nym Dziuba (P) and Steve Edwards and Frank Hanns (F)
The encouragement award won the by Sunna Bell.
Another 18 hole competition will be played in Parkes next Thursday.
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