Parkes golf
By PETER BRISTOL
Saturday's results
Saturday was the 4th round of the BWR Summer Comp for 2025 and things are starting to heat up on the course and off.
Only one round to go until we crown the winner to be the BWR champion for ’25.
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Our thanks again go out to the team at BWR.
Sixty nine hardy souls went out to battle in the par event where scores are plus or minus against the players par score for the hole.
The scores were close all day, as is the usual case in this format.
One of the later players in the day Victor Gaidzionis swooped in to grab the goodies with a plus 5 score.
Victor was consistent all day scoring a plus 3 on the front and plus 2 on the back and playing just over his handicap.
There was a pack chasing with Rob Ehsman, Scott Winter and Dave Brown all recording plus 4 scores.
Rob had a very good finishing 42 off the stick to play 4 under his handicap and won the runner-up prize on a countback, whilst Scott was 3 under his stroke handicap and Dave sizzled with his 76 off the stick 4 shots under his handicap.
Only 5 other players managed to get into the positive side of the ledger with John Fowler +3, Ian Ward on +2 and Ken Keith, Cath Kelly and James Ward on +1.
The New Nearest The Pins winners were – Bridgestone Mining 1st by John Fowler at 126cm, Griffins Leading Edge by Rob Hey at 30cm, Parkes Ready Mixed Concrete 9th by Ian Hendry at 101cm, the Westlime 11th by Rob Hey at 321cm, the Gulf Western Oil 17th by David Hodges at 210cm. The lucrative money hole was won by David Hodges at 210cm.
David Hodges picked up the lucrative money hole.
Ball winners were Scott Winter, David Brown +4, John Fowler +3, Ian Ward, Ken Keith, Cath Kelly, James Ward +1.
The CWDGA Pennants season has kicked-off and once again Parkes and Forbes are participating as invitees.
Our champion No2 side kicked off proceedings last week with a hard-fought 3-2 win over the highly rated Forbes team.
John Green played a captains knock to get up and Michael Thomas came out firing against his home town, but the clincher was Wayne Powter who went to the 19 hole to claim his victory to set the boys on the pennant winning trail again.
This week the team played Cowra at the Wentworth layout and again the team didn’t have the full squad available for selection due to the change in draw.
But this didn’t stop Anthony Riach, Luke Clarke and Denis Howard all recording strong wins to get a 3-2 team win again.
The No1s had their first outing this week but due to a late change in the draw we struggled to get 5 players available this week.
Thanks to those who made themselves available.
They played Wentworth at Wentworth which was a big ask and went down narrowly 3-2.
Aaron Gaffey having a good 2-up win and Joe Van Opynen a great 9 and 8 win.
The No3s played the strong Bathurst club in the 1st round and unfortunately went down 5-0.
In the 2nd round they faired better with a win against the amalgamated small clubs by 3-2.
Matthew Spedding and Finne Latu had squared the match 2-2 and we were reliant on Ben Coultas to get the team home.
Just for a bit of drama Ben took it to the 26 hole to get the result.
The No4s had their first outing on Sunday at Wentworth against a strong Mudgee club but unfortunately went down 3-2.
Col Braeden and Justin Middleton had solid wins, but the team will have to redeem in the next round.
