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Kapunda Golf Report.
What a great week of golf at Kidman Links. It had a bit of everything! Exceptional scoring, lots of PB’s, player grade jumping, every golfers dream hole in one and some dumb decisions with ball watching!
I will start with the women’s stableford round on Wednesday where it appears to be a pretty standard day (unless there are stories I haven’t heard about) with 11 players enjoying the perfect conditions. Jenny Menzel and Kathy Stubing both posted 34 points to win the Div1 and Div2 prizes respectively. Sue Byrnes carded 32 points and the trio of Carolyn Koch, Marie Vater and Jan Owen 30 apiece.
Twilight later in the afternoon again attracted a great field of 43 players. Bazz Kalleske is getting right into his golf and he posted a very nice 22 points to win overall. Graham Rigney and Jimmy Hayward were just a shot back. Tonia Higgins was the best of the “non golfers” with 17 points. It is great to see so many new faces out having a bit of a hit for twilight. Maybe it is the attraction of the good feed after the game!
Thursday provided a few very good scores and a fantastic (for some not involved) story. Alex Nicholson, buoyed by a new battery in his bike, was full of energy on his way to collecting 39 points to win the overall and B grade prize. Willow is enjoying his new job which allows him to get out for some extra practice every second Thursday and he won the A grade with 38 points. C grade was won by Brad Moore to get his week off to a good start with 37 points. Phill Paynter also had 37 points and Trevor Bateman 36. NTP’s went to veteran Dean Butler, Willow and Phill. Trevor had the best front nine score of 22 points (not sure what happened on the back!) and Rob Tonkin 21 on the back (not sure what happened on the front!).
Now the story of the week, maybe the year. 😊 We all know we put distinctive markings on our (golf) balls so we play the correct ball. Well Franky found out the hard way on Thursday for not looking for his distinctive FS on his ball before playing it. In his defence, Collingwood played first after both of their balls finished reasonably close together on the 5th fairway after their drives. Nontheless, German played his second shot and when he chipped his third into the hole from about 40 metres, he was pretty chuffed. The problem began when Collingwood couldn’t find HIS ball to play his third shot. Surprise, surprise it was in the hole resulting in a wiped hole for both of them! There was more to come when the story was related in the clubhouse and a further two players also confessed to playing a wrong ball on the day as well. A lesson learned for all of us.
Saturday brought some great individual scoring and a personal highlight for a likeable loudmouth. Fids, Howie, Boris and Johnny were the joint sponsors of the par comp which was played in near perfect conditions.
The winner of the day, following up on his great form of the previous week, was youngster Sam Watson. Another south paw taking advantage of the left handers course, Sam carded a magnificent +7 with a personal best round of 79 off the stick. Had it not been for a three stab on the last, he would have beaten dad off the stick for the first time. Well played Sam, both for the great score on the day and for cracking it into the A grade.
Boris “threw” a couple of holes knowing he couldn’t win the overall prize but managed a very good +4 to claim the B grade ahead of Chris Doyle on +3. Chris may not have done himself any favours for the upcoming championships either with it looking like he may have also stepped up into the A grade. Another great effort for one who tees off in the dark, sometimes with very little sleep, and has the usually tough dewy greens to deal with.
Warren Mills also finished three up to win the A grade ahead of Riley Graham on +2.
Terry “Fids” Fidler had a good day with a special highlight I will get to later and he won a five way countback to win the C grade with +1. Max McLaren, Reggie Staehr, Bazz Kalleske and Brad Moore were among the 13 players to finish up in the black.
Back to the story. Fids, another left hander, made his way around to the par 3 6th with little fanfare. After playing his tee shot over the water he turned around in disgust after he hit it poorly and had given up on it. After it missed all of the ducks, bounced hard left, rolled onto the green and into the hole, he took a bit of convincing by his playing partner Matt Cotton that he had actually had a hole in one. He didn’t even have the privilege of taking it out of the hole as little ferret Johnny beat him to it. Anyway Fids, congratulations on realising every golfers dream of having an ace, more than a lot of us others can say we have achieved.
Back to other prizes, the long drives went to Brett Woodards, Mick Sheehan, Bazz Kalleske and Jan Owen for the women.
NTP’s were taken by Fids (tough one to beat on the 6th), Mick on the 18th and Hollis Hayward for his second shot into the par 4 2nd and 11th.
Craig Gogoll’s highlight of the day was a very nice eagle on the 17th.
The week concluded with a near full field of 66 players, including three players with a better than scratch handicap, for the Laucke’s Kapunda Men’s Open on Sunday. Local maestro Dan Law shot a very impressive 3 under 107 for the 27 holes to claim the main prize. City pennants player, Harry Coote, also played well to finish runner up on 110. I will endeavour to include other grade results from the Open next week.
Thanks to all who made the day a huge success including those proving the meals, helping the skipper with the cards and those presenting the course in such a playable condition. Everyone’s efforts are truly appreciated.
A big thank you is also extended to major sponsor of the Open for many years, Laucke Mills for their continued support.
I am not sure whether the coming week will provide as many highlight, or low lights, but the women have a stableford round, the Thursday lads are back to their monthly stroke round and Saturday will be the Total Earthworx Monthly Medal.
I trust you all have a great week and I am looking forward to more great stories to report on.

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