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Kapunda Golf Club weekly report

More fine and sunny weather for golfers over the past week albeit with a couple of chilly starts. Any rain forthcoming would certainly be welcome across the general community and certainly all golf courses and sporting fields around the area.
The women had their largest field for sometime with 15 players teeing it up last Wednesday. Once again it was skipper Carolyn leading the way although she didn’t have it all quite her own way with a three way countback required to decide the winner on the day. Jan Owen and Judy Vandeleur both also carded 33 points at the top of the leaderboard. Jodie Hayward returned to Kidman Links for another hitout and she carded 32 points along with Sandy McInnes. Looking forward to seeing some more great fields for the ladies competitions in coming weeks.
The Thursday lads got to sleep in an extra half hour with the tee times put back to 8.30 for the month of May. A field of 44 players started in fairly chilly conditions with the greens still fairly damp from the overnight dew.
Mark Supple has moved up a grade since joining the Thursday crew and he equalled the best score of the day with 39 points and won the B grade and overall prize in the countback. Phil Koschella was at the pointy end of the leaderboard with the other 39 pointer and he collected the C grade quite comfortably. Once again the A graders were dragging the chain and it was left to Seds Jnr to claim the money with 36 points.
Mal Chomik was the only other player to play to their handicap with his very nice 38 points and the trio of Rob Hancock, Seagull and Boris all came close with 35 points apiece.
Seds also picked up the NTP on the 6th hole while Simon Marsden and Neil Edwards collected the 15th and 18th prizes respectively. Phil carded the best front nine with 21 points and Mal the back nine with 20 points.
On Saturday a fantastic group in excess of 90 players competed in the Total earthworks Monthly Medal stroke round. The day again started out a little on the cool side but soon warmed up.
Michael Day was one of the earlier starters and he brought his A game to par the course and win the day with a fantastic nett 69. When the short game is on the game becomes easy for the big hitting right hander. Great score Mick, well deserved. Good one to get in before the opening rains keep you out in the tractor!
The next best score of 71 was carded by four players with three of them each winning a grade. Kiwi is in great form at present and he won the A grade in a countback with the unlucky David King. Rob Hancock followed up his mid week form to claim the B grade and veteran Geoff Zerk claimed the C grade. I’m sure Geoff thanked his new playing partners for lifting him to such great heights.
Pete Edwards held third place in the A grade with 72 while Willow and Russell Minnett carded 74’s.
Tel Harris was just a shot behind Rob in the B grade followed by O’s on 73 and the pair of Dylan Russell and Adrian Harris on 74.
Dave Cochrane from Wanderers GC and Damien Howard both carded 75 in the C grade with Dave collecting the runners up cheque in the countback.
A tail wind on the long drive hole on Saturday would have excited the big hitters and no doubt some ran out of fairway on the 7th/16th hole. At the end of the day Rusty, Jayden Rowling, Trevor Day and Karen Farmer managed to keep it on the fairway in their respective grades.
Wade Trimper puts up his “Cuppa” prize on Monthly Medal days to reward the best gross score from each grade as it is not always the case that the winner of each grade has the lowest off the stick score on the day. However, last weekend that happened to be the case and Mick, Rob and Geoffrey also collected the Cuppa vouchers to make for a very profitable day out.
The NTP’s for the day went to Neil Morrison on the Prince of Wales 6th/15th, Tim Scheer on the Clare Castle 18th and Simon Marsden collected the Captain’s prize for the best second shot to the par four 2nd/11th.
On Friday the SA Aboriginal Championships were held at North Adelaide GC where our own Eugene Warrior won the Senior Men’s Championship with his score of 91. Well done Eugene, great effort. It’s probably not the first and definitely wont be the last.
The first round of the pennants was played at Royal Kapunda on Sunday when the locals took on the team from North Adelaide. Unfortunately, despite their best efforts, the lads didn’t quite get off to the start they would have liked with a 2/6 win loss result. All of the results have been posted on the Club’s Facebook page for people to catch up on.
It is coming up to that time of year again when we get our teams together for the Johnson’s Cup four ball ambrose event which is a great fundraiser for a worthy local community group. This event always fills quickly so book your spot early for the 25th May to avoid disappointment.
The fillies are out for a lovely par comp on Wednesday and Thursday will be a stableford multiplier, presumably calculated by One Golf.
Saturday will also be a stableford comp for the Second Round of the Diekmann Memorial Trophy kindly sponsored by Ian and Margie Watson.
Wishing all players the very best of luck in their endeavours on the course this coming week and look forward to reporting on the good, and possibly some not so good, results.
Go Crows!!!

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Make Mum smile on Sunday this Mother’s Day with a beautifully wrapped bottle of bubbly from our Sip’n Save bottle shop.

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