AN INVADER from a Greg Norman-designed new golf course near Ipswich in Queensland upset the Nambucca locals more than a stroke round by winning the A Grade Monthly Medal.
Malcolm Clark (10 handicap) carded a 68 nett in the Nambucca Liquor-sponsored slog where every shot counted on Saturday, 6 September at The Island course.
Clark came a duster on the 9th with a triple so expect he got a good whiff of NSW mangrove.
Runner-up in the can-play, can’t-smile division of whinging perfectionists was Ashton Herbert (3) who birdied 13, 14, 15 and went a shake on 16 in a withering homeward nine of one under.
Bryce McCarroll (4) took the gross with 77 off the stick.
Peter Ryan (18) had a very good 67 nett to win B Grade after the near fatal error of parring the first. He followed with triple, double, triple before steadying to head home Stephen McNeil (16) on 70.
Pennants gun Garry Johnstone (15) won the gross with 86.
Peter Klem-Goode had the best nett of the day with 66 to grab the C Grade medal by a shot from the in-form emerging talent Elijah Cooper (27).
Philip Woodgate took the gross with 89.
New member Christopher ‘George’ Marshall (4) has joined from Armidale and was eyeing the par three spot prizes like an abandoned bucket of dirty bird nuggets.
George took the nearest the pin on 5 (22cm), the $75 Pro Pin on 18 and the Pizza This Pizza That voucher on 13.
Dom Lambie broke the tonne in his round of 99 and drained the putt from afar for the Ecomist prize on the 1st. James McIlveen was closest on 7, Peter Moxon on 8 and Ross Donnelly on 15.
McCarroll was at the prize table again on Thursday, 4 September, with 40 points to win Div 1 of the Ecomist medley stableford, on countback from head greenkeeper Greg Jager (12).
Urpo Ylinen (21) went Defcon 5 with a blistering 42 points to smash Div 2 from Yamba’s Justin Henwood (15) who had an excellent 41 points.
McCarroll took the pins 5 and 8, Edward Beaton on 7, and Rodney Kinnear on 15. Andrew Donovan scored the Pro Pin on 18 and the popular Steve Frost has a pizza to look forward to after banging it close on 13.
Robyn Jones (34 – no more) whaled the women’s single stableford on Wednesday, 3 September, with a get-outta-here 48 points in Div 2.
That’s a tally often enough to win a fourball, with back-up, and Jones’ round included four pars and a bird on the last if you don’t mind.
Runner-up was Debra Gersbach (26) with an outstanding 40 points.
In Div 1, Glenys Thompson (16) had 37 stellar points to edge home Kerrie Eichorn (11) on 36.
Eichorn nailed the pins on 8 and 13, Jones also on 8, and Jenny Thorne has $26 in the purse to ponder after the Pro Pin on 18.
The Island Sunday fourball on 7 September saw the McGoldricks, Kay and Malcolm, combine for 44 points for the W, from Narelle Delaney and Urpo Ylinen on 42.
Catchya on The Island, where you’ll find great grub, cold tap beer and tables of experts on all things from golf and NRL through to horse racing.
By Ashton HERBERT
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