IT is great to finally have some golfing results to report on, with both the Saturday, Tuesday and Wednesday competitions going ahead at Hamilton Golf Club last week.

Saturday

THE men’s monthly medal was played on Saturday, carts weren’t allowed on the course, but we had a field of 25 men and one woman playing. 

Nathan Caruana had the standout round, claiming the medal with nett 69, finishing two shots ahead of runner-up, Andrew Bowman.

Balls down the line went to Mark Brown 72 nett, Steven Coate 76 nett, Terry Dunn, John Sharrock, Jamie Caruana, and Bruce Luhrs all 77 nett, and Robbie Cunningham 78 nett.

Nearest the pins went to Michael Holcombe on the third, John Sharrock on the 16th, and Steven Coate took both honours on the sixth and 13th.

Chuck Raymond was nearest the pin with his second shot on the 15th.

Molly O’Brien was the only female golfer playing on Saturday and finished with 81 nett.

Tuesday

OUR beginner and emerging golfers had a beautiful sunny day for golf with 12 players lining up to participate in a modified nine-hole event.

Karyn Dyson had a day out, winning with an incredible 34 points, closely followed by Bec Small with 32, and Nicki Martin with 25, while Lucy Cameron returned with 24 points.

Wednesday

THE women’s competition was a stroke event and final of the monthly medal winners.

21 women played in the 18-hole stroke event, and 12 women played in nine-hole stableford event.

Gerri Griffin was the winner with a 76 nett, ahead of Robyn Holcombe who finished one shot further back.

Ball run down went to Deb Pinniger 78 nett, and Nettie Purvis and Helen Holcombe both finishing with 80 nett.

Helen Holcombe was the winner of the monthly medal of medallists.

Nearest the pins went to Robyn Holcombe on the third, Helen Holcombe on the sixth, and Di Raymond on the 16th hole.

The longest putt on 13th went to Venita Mibus and the putting competition was won by Dawn Cay with 31.

The nine-hole stableford event was won by Wendy Wathen with 16 points.

Out and about

HAMILTON had a women’s representative team playing in the Morton Shield which is a matchplay event that has been running for 50 years between Ballarat, Midlands, Buninyong, Chalambar (Ararat), Warrnambool, Portland, Colac and Hamilton Golf Clubs.

The event was played at Warrnambool and possibly with the home ground advantage Warrnambool won the event, with Colac second and Hamilton third. 

Hamilton was represented by their pennant players Alma Fonda, Jo Forsyth, Robyn Holcombe, Gerri Griffin, Jenni Pike and Debbie Milne, and won four out of their six matches, and only went down by one shot in the two matches they lost. Next year this event will be played at Colac.

Updates

THE club held its AGM on Tuesday evening and there were two new directors nominated and accepted onto the Board, Anne Cass and Tim Lloyd.

They will join with ongoing Board Director’s Adam Manson, John Hill, Robert Vecchiet, Lyn O'Brien and Stephen Giles.

Retiring board members, Elizabeth Nichol, Malcolm Groves and Di Raymond, were acknowledged and thanked for their contribution.

Trevor Wathen was appointed as the new men's captain and will replace Malcolm Groves, who has been captain for the past 12 years.

Di Raymond will remain as women’s captain.

Another special milestone was the awarding of a life membership to Ian Ferguson. Ian has been an active member of the club for over 40 years, regularly contributing to working bees and maintenance jobs.

He has also been club president and a board member.

A reminder to get your entries in for our annual tournament which will run from November 23-27; for further details contact the club.

Hit them long and straight and enjoy the 19th hole.