Club Champs..............

With two rounds of matchplay over the weekend there was some exciting golf played through all the grades.

It is often said the Intermediate Grade can almost be more competitive than Seniors because of the players ability to shoot the lights out at anytime. On Saturday Kim Sanders proved that hitting 70 off the stick for a net 60. His playing opponent Andrew Topp played well with a 78 but was obviously well beaten. But fickle is the nature of golf - on Sunday Kim could not back up and was beaten by Mike Ambrose in the second round. The semi-finalists for the Intermediates along with Mike are Warren Glass, Martin Toon & Dodge Healy. It must have been really cold on Sunday because Dodge was for the first time this year wearing long pants!!

Paul Dunn has been our Senior Club Champ in 2007 & 2008 but unfortunately a three-peat eluded him as he fell to Nic Fry in the first round - a reversal of their International Day result. On Sunday Nic took Peter McDougall to extra holes but on the 20th Peter was successful with a birdie to move through the top half of the draw. Peter is joined in the Senior semis by Brendon Follows who squeaked a win on 18 over Liam Cumberpatch, Bruce Taylor (a past winner) who proved too consistent for Glenn Bongartz and Ian McDonald who secured a couple of good wins. Both these matches will be watched with interest as the finalists for Sunday's 36 holes are selected.

Evergreen Don Forbes continues to set the pace in the Junior ranks but he will face a stiff match when he plays Kevin McSoriley. In the bottom half of the draw we see potentially a huge battle with David Isaac facing off against Andre Kotzikas to secure the second finals spot. As you may know David's wife has been ill and in hospital so his performance to date has been all the more meritorious.

Both the Senior and Junior Plate divisions have been sparsely competed for to date but they crank up against on Saturday for some interesting match ups! The Intermediates see Alan Day take on Takahiro Koyama while Peter Hollister will fight it out with Jim McBryde who went to the 21st on Sunday after being 3 up with 3 to play.

All the best for those who are still in the running for the Championships play well and enjoy yourselves!