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Kapunda Golf Club weekly report
Every weeks seems to get busier with golf at Kidman links.
The women hosted the annual Breast Cancer Fundraising day on Wednesday and although the field was less than expected those in attendance had a great day with perfect weather, great lunch and also raised in excess of $850- for the cause. Thanks to all involved in running the day and to those men who played to support the cause and make up some numbers. There was talk of including the prostrate cancer cause next year to include both sexes.
Pete Edwards came home with a wet sail, scoring 11 points on his last three holes, including two birdies, to blow the field away and win the A grade quite comfortably. Playing partner Pegs was within touch with three to go but had to settle for A grade 2nd place on 36. Barry Partridge won the B grade on a countback from Richard “Fleet” Mosey after both carded 35 points. Fleet can be seen wandering around with his sticks on a Tuesday getting in a bit of practice and it was great to see him join the comp. The C grade also was decided by a countback between a couple of the fillies. Both Sue Byrnes and Marg Browne ended up with 32 points but Sue had the better back nine.
Long drives on the day, into the wind I might add, were Seddon, Barry and Keithy Alexander for their respective grades. Sue Byrnes collected a couple of NTP’s along with Mick Menzel and Fleet.
Twilight later in the afternoon was again well attended and young Flynn Moten continues to smash his handicap around. He won the day with 25 points. Mark Launer knocked off early (you can when you are the boss) to card an impressive 24 points. Young Kobi Menzel made it back to back junior wins with 23 points.
Thursday was again a tad breezy but the course conditions were very conducive to good golf with a bit of run on the fairways and greens playing perfectly.
John Dicke was the best of some good scores with a very nice 41 points. He collected the B grade ahead of rejuvenated Alex Nicholson on 39. A countback was required to separate the top A graders with a score of 39 points. Ryan Allen had a successful return to the track to just pip “holidaying” Willow. Pegs was a further shot back with the quartet of Simon Marsden, Howie, Rob Hancock and Steve Watson on 37.
Veteran John Semmler carded 33 points but still won himself a voucher for the C grade win. NTP’s were collected by Dean Butler, Willow and Ryan. David King got off to a flyer on the front nine with 21 points while Steve McInnes took a while to wake up with 22 on the back ahead of another 5 players who carded 21!
Saturday’s 2nd round of the Club Championships had more than 100 registered prior to the day and a fantastic number of 95 ended up putting in a card.
More proof of it being a left hander’s course when Jenny Menzel fired off a fantastic (and possibly a PB) 89/64 to claim the Vice captain’s trophy. A fantastic effort in anyone’s language.
Another south paw, Mingy, put it all together to claim the A grade ahead of reborn youngster Jayden Higgins on 70. Cougar, Simon and the younger Watto father and son pair all carded very nice 71’s with Mick coming in one under the card.
Mick Sheehan continued to dominate the B grade and he also carded a 68. Brad Moore also has backed up his rise into B grade with a second place 72.
Karen Farmer shrugged off her sea legs and ship virus to clean up in the C grade with one of her better scores of 91/69. It was a comfortable win over Damien Howard on 71 and Bo Lambert on 72. In all, 25 players played to their handicaps or better.
Mick McCarthy picked up the Clare Castle NTP on the 18th while O’s was the closest on the 6th/15th to grab the Prince of Wales prize. Cougar was the closest 2nd shot for the Captains NTP.
“Big Show” Burrows finally got a booming drive on the right fairway to beat the other A graders. Ben Prior and Matthew Williams were the best of the B and C graders respectively and Karen blasted one past the other women.
On Sunday Smoo Hinderwell hosted another Damien Hinderwell Memorial golf day supporting “Movember” with another full field participating. The team of Tim Scheer, Jaimie Lindeblad, Damien Howard and Sam Warden won the day with an impressive nett 56.
After the 2nd round of the Champs Dan Law holds a comfortable lead for the main trophy ahead of Cougar and Kiwi.
Barring harvest getting in the way, Mick Sheehan will be a hard man to catch in the B grade with daylight between him and second place.
The C grade is a different matter, as is generally the case, with the top three players having just a shot between each of the top three places. Veteran Bo Lambert is hot on the heels of Mick Woods and Graham Rigney. Looking forward to more great golf over the next couple of rounds.
The AGM was run and won last Thursday with the new committee for 2025 voted in. Hollis has stepped into the Vice Presidents shoes to support boss Joe while other positions remain the same. The remaining committee is made up of Pam May, Adrian Harris, Wayne Russell, Sal Hambour, Simon Marsden and Stephen McInnes. There is still a vacancy for the Men’s Captains position if someone out there is interested in helping out VC Jaimie. Thanks extended to Sutho for a long and successful contribution as Men’s Captain.
This week the mid week comps are both stablefords with Saturday the continuation of the Club Chasmpionships with the 3rd round, also the “Captain’s” trophy.
Happy golfing 😊
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Another big week of golf at Kidman Links, culminating with the first round of the 2024 Club Championships. Great fields fronted for all competitions which is a great sign for our “little” Club with a good number making use of the excellent course conditions.
The women had a round dozen turn up for their stableford round on Wednesday with scores a bit below par overall. The best score came from Helen Day with 33 points. Pam May was just a shot back on 32 while Kathy Stubing and Marie Vater carded 31 and 30 respectively. This Wednesday is the annual Breast Cancer day with a mixed field registered on the day.
Twilight again saw a field in excess of 40 players with Shaun Kowald having a fantastic round carding 24 points. The handicapper will sort that out for this week! Stephen McInnes and James Kowald also had great rounds of 21 points each. The best junior was Kobi Menzel.
Thursday attracted a field of 50 for the first time in a while and good conditions prevailed. Brad Moore again figured well and won his first B grade prize after being elevated with some good consistent results. His score of nett 71 was the best of the day as well. Geoff Forrest also continues to play some consistent golf and he was just a shot behind in the B grade. Sal Hambour had the driver working pretty well and carded a couple of birdies to also end up with a 72 to win the A grade, just one shot ahead of Neil Edwards. The C grade winner was Alan Hartwell who carded a 72 despite losing a ball into thin air around the corner of the 7th. Mick Evan’s surprised even himself to finish with a 73. Jim Smyth won a very busy countback for the front 9 honours with 19 points. Steve Jones just pipped Sal for the best back nine score with 22 apiece.
The jackpot had jumped to about $140 which David King gladly accepted for his birdie on the 1st hole.
Not too often we see three generations of the same family having a hit together but the Butler Trio got together last week. It is easy to see the apple didn’t fall too far from the tree with golfing ability with the younger two following in Dean’s footsteps.
Saturday was the first round of the Club Championships and also the Total Earthworx Monthly medal. The registrations topped 100 as players attempted to get off to a good start in the Champs. Unfortunately for most of us things didn’t go quite to plan. Conditions were a little windy which made scoring tricky at times although you would wonder if Mick Sheehan was playing as different course, coming in with a nett 68 to claim the Medal by a comfortable two shots. Mick managed an eagle on the 7th on his way around. A great score under difficult conditions.
Arch McAuliffe was the best of the A graders with a very good 72, one up on the trio of Mick O’Brien, Kiwi and Derek Baird. Tim Richardson had the days second best score of 70 to claim the B grade. Stephen McInnes backed up his twilight form for a 72.
A three-way countback was required to separate the C grade winner after Geezer, Wayne Whiting and Mick Woods all carded 73. On this occasion it was the little pommy who took the chocolates.
Mick O’Brien had a very successful return to the course after several weeks over at the BV to claim the NTP on both the 18th and the 3rd/12th. Dan Law picked up the POW NTP on the 6th/15th.
Tommy Smith was back out to try his luck in the Champs and he won the A grade long drive. Another couple of big hitters in Troy Sires and Froggy Ryan picked up the B and C grades respectively. Left hander Glennis Warrior was the best of the women.
Wade Trimper’s CUPPA award for the best gross score in each grade went to Dan with 75, Mick Sheehan (82) and Mick Woods (95).
After round 1 Dan Law has a handy five shot lead over Kiwi and Wade for the Championships with another 3 players just a further shot back.
The B grade is a similar story after the great start by Mick Sheehan with a bunch of very handy golfers within 9 shots of the lead. Round 2 will be an interesting test.
The C grade is a much tighter affair with Woodsy just a shot ahead of “Seagull” Jones and only two up on Wayne Whiting and Graham Rigney. With the “Ace” man only a couple further back look for a close contest in this grade.
Round two this week should determine who is up for the chase with another great field booked in. It is also the Vice Captain’s trophy for the day’s best score.
All the best to all leading the way and those hoping to make up some ground.
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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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