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It was a stableford round for both men and ladies on Wednesday with a total of 37 golfers on the course. Out of 25 men playing, Jim Brock (12) had the best score of the day to win A-grade with 39 points. Bill Keating was the nearest the pin on both the fourth and 12th holes and John Boruch was the nearest on the 17th. You needed 31 points for a ball in the men’s competition.

There was only one grade on Wednesday for the eight ladies in the 18-hole competition with Maree Rickman (19) the best score of the day with 30 points. She also won the only ball on offer. Sue McCall won the extra competition. A further four ladies took part in the nine-hole competition with Ann Wilson the winner with 15 points.

Saturday was a field of 56 players with 44 men and 12 ladies both competing in stroke rounds. The conditions were near perfect although slightly windy and the course is recovering well after welcome rain. It was monthly medal for the men, sponsored this month by Phil and Judy Block.

The winner of the medal was also the winner of B- grade; Frank Fillipi, with the best score of the day 93-22=71. Tony Nachtigal was the A-grade winner with 81-9=72. Craig Zotti was on target and won the nearest the pin on the 12th as well as both the drive and pitches on the eighth and 15th. Other nearest the pins went to Gary Wright on the fourth, Nachtigal on the sixth and Gerard Hard on the 17th. The ball pool went to net 76.

The ladies were playing the first round of the silver spoon event. The A-grade winner and also the winner of the first round of the silver spoon was Paula Britton with 85-15=70. The B-grade winner, who is continuing to play steady golf, was Connie Grace with 97-25=72. Nearest the pin on the 17th was Dale Stuart and the balls went to Britton, Grace and Tania Zentveld.

Saturday is a mixed or men’s pinehurst and the public holiday on Monday will be the Golden Putter which is a four ball better ball for both ladies and men. The hit off for Monday will be from 11.30am.

— pitch ‘n’ putt

NAGAMBIE MENS

Sunday saw a smaller field contest the monthly medal/stroke round. Winner for the day was T. Baldwin with 83-15-68, runner-up was D. Baldwin with 90-21-69, next best scores were M. Waldon nett 72 and A. Seenan nett 73.

Nearest the pin on the eighth was D. Brown and on the 13th was D. Baldwin, third and 16th went back to the club.

The novelty award was a NAGA and that went to J. Lodding.

This week’s comp is a stableford event with D. Brown in the office and D. Love in the bar.

Some changes have been made to the up-coming syllabus with the first being the lamb on a spit scheduled for April 7 moving to the last round of the club championships on April 21. Secondly, qualifiers for the singles match play this year will be the top two finishers in each grade of the club championships (six players); and the qualifiers for the 4BBB match play will be the top four pairs in the Finnigan 4BBB and not the top eight pairs as has been in the past. There will be one month to play the matches so it does not drag on too long; if you cannot play your match you must forfeit.

Finally, the course is looking great after 50mm of rain and we hope to get more. Many thanks to members who have been maintaining and watering the course and a reminder there will be working bees coming up soon. Much has been achieved recently and the more members who can help, the more we can do.

NAGAMBIE LADIES

Wednesday saw just four ladies out playing a nine-hole stroke round in between the showers. The rest of the ladies were scared off by the rain but it was just perfect golf weather. The rain was quite timely and the course has had a drink which is just what we wanted for our Elloura Day tournament on March 21.

The winner of the day was Ronda Richards with 48-11.5-36.5 nett. Today is a par round with Saturday stableford and March 13 a four ball aggregate stableford. Jeanette Richardson and Bonnie Purbrick are on duty.

A reminder to all members, the pub raffle is on March 15 and 16 and helpers are needed for selling tickets.

There were 17 players in the chicken run on Thursday with Michael Kleinig hitting a purple patch for another chook with 19 points. No nearest-the-pin was achieved. Tomorrow will be a par round on the front nine.

It is great to see the course improving each week — it was great to have 5cm of rain. Many thanks to those members who have been watering the course.

Could all members make a special effort to pay memberships which are now overdue.